Buck

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I’m just an old man having a slice of fun pie.

Yuzi didn't want to do a first dance cos somehow that makes her more nervous than karaoke, which is what we did instead. So here's a clip of our very traditional First Belter, adapted from Disney's Mulan.

Buzz Aldrin forgot a sixer of Coors on the moon and though Alan Bean and Pete Conrad of Apollo 12 claim they found only empties, Buzz contends they drank them on the way back, as he'd hoped to do. When Bean offered in 1970 to grab more at 7-11 Aldrin barked "I want MOON beer!" They never spoke again

i was really disappointed that Nolan didn’t include anything about the Soggy Bottom Boys or the Mississippi gubernatorial race in his version of The Odyssey. those are really important parts of the original text

On holiday on an idyllic Greek island so of course we’re having an intense discussion about whether “it was only a kiss” in Mr Brightside refers to him seeing the girl he likes kissing the other guy, or him kissing her and acknowledging he shouldn’t be this upset when they only got as far as kissing

My four favourite facts about the cockchafer beetle: 1. It's called a cockchafer beetle. 2. It’s also sometimes known as a “billywitch”. 3. It’s unusually loud and clumsy by beetle standards and bangs into lots of things when it flies into your house by mistake. 4. It looks like this, close up.

A cockchafer beetle, demonstrating its talent for multitasking by showing us its pad while also listening with great sympathy to our problems.