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Or an infinite number of monkeys

The infinite monkey cage is a science radio programme. It's interesting at first but either never gets beneath the surface of anything or becomes a bit self indulgent with its success.

On YouTube I have been watching 8 out of 10 cats does Countdown. It is funny but I also like the anagrams and number puzzles.

The host of that show did a stand up routine to determine what subjects the audience found to be offensive. By framing the routine in this way he neatly avoided anyone being "outraged"

I like Jimmy Carr but he has an odd and annoying laugh. Watching some of the clips made me aware that he had some tax problems.

Tax avoidance schemes that have to be announced by newspapers with owners of varying domicile statuses for just that reason.

Denounced by politicians who frequently have rather shady business and accountancy practices to their names, again to reduce tax. The PM who criticed Carr has tax haven links. Not to mention taxpayer funded troughs such as MP expenses.

All enforced by authorities that are woefully slow on the uptake, and have their hands tied by the very same people who denounce people like Carr for using the legal loopholes.

What do we want?: Change!
When do we want it?: When we've navigated the deliberately obscure legislation and found people to elect that won't line their own pockets!

Tell us how you really feel.

I'm all for changing the system to eliminate such loopholes. There's no reason at all why it can't be done and why it hasn't already. Except greed. And that's where the species falls flat on its butt. Hypocrisy along with it...grrrrrr...

Joke:-
What do you get...
Nothing. Blame the government.

Always makes me laugh anyway.

So yeah, Jimmy Carr's laugh is annoying. Like a hyena all the other hyenas are about to kill for being really irritating. And for over scavenging in the finely balanced hyena scavenging economy.

I have never been on a scavenger hunt. They used to have some for teams of two. I will have to check to see if they still have them.

A mudlark is someone who scavenges for items in river mud, and is particularly associated with persons who did so in London during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

That is old school.

I learned that a very old school, where I am, once entertained students from an old university due to problems with their buildings.
One of our prestigious residents also had strong links with the university, as he was implicated in supplying bodies to them, taken from the graveyard.
It's handy if the big, walled property you rent is adjacent to the graveyard. See also Herbert West.

Mudlarkers and resurrection men! We're assembling a regular nineteenth century career fair in this thread!

'Cor Blimey! It's a rum do 'an no mistake Gov!

'An through the peasouper a faint glow appears! Let's hope it's not the glint from a ripper's blade! Why it's Young Annie the Match Girl!
Is that her candle giving us safe passage in these dark times? No Sir! It's the faint glow from her phosphorous plagued bones, porous and deformed from her long hours in the match factory!

Legion World 1888 Roll Call:-
Mudlark
The Resurrectionist
Match Girl

Trapper Boy is only an honorary member, since spending twelve hours a day in the coal mine doesn't leave him a lot of time for adventuring.

Coal mining was, as faithful readers of Boy's Own Legion World Adventures know, also in the blood of the Entwhistle family. Generations of their menfolk had worked themselves to death in the pits*.

But there was an escape from such back breaking, lung crippling, eye damaging labours! That was to be treated as an indentured servant by your betters as a professional cricketer! A life of fresh air, if not riches, awaited in a sport that despised the move from amateur, and gentlemanly, status.

Blessed with the near preternatural speed that could only be gained by escaping numerous tunnel collapses, Bert Entwhistle was talent spotted by mine foreman Phlegmy McGee.

While his seam bowling won him many accolades, his lower class was his inevitable undoing. He was dropped from the team for speaking out of turn to a drunken selector.

Out of work, with a family of five to feed and fearful of The Black Lung disease that would claim him as surely as all his ancestors, Entwhistle struggled to make ends meet in a game that now shunned him. He found employment as a professional crimefighter in an era of basic policing as... Bouncer Boy! His Beamers and Leg Cutters are the scourge of the ne'er do well of the place well to do people call...The North!


*See volume 23 issue11: "Entwhistle's End"; volume 34 issue 30: "The Creature From The Pit"; volume 37 issue 42: "Cave In!"


Legion World 1888 Roll Call:-
Mudlark
The Resurrectionist
Match Girl
Trapper Boy
Bouncer Boy

Canaries were used to test for poisonous gases in coal mines.

The Canaries is the nickname for Norwich football club.

Black Canary ironically wore a blonde wig to hide her black hair

Beyond my first read as a kid, I've seen her as much too good a character to be so attached to Green Arrow's arm.

Her husband had to die to get her onto Earth-1 as a Wonder Woman replacement in JLA. Her very occasional involvement in a back up in Detective took her out of the JL Detroit.
Her appearance in Longbow Hunters was really to be assaulted as some sort of motivation for Oliver. The planning of that was enough to take her out of JLI.
Even later, I think she was included in a story just to have an affair with Ted Knight in a Starman flashback.
I've not read Birds of Prey, so that could only have been better.

Black Canary, at one point, could summon a flock of black canaries to assist her. She and Larry Lance were thrown from a tall building. Black Canary recited a poem and the birds came and saved them.

I've wondered, though I've never taken the time to investigate, whether Black Canary was at least in part inspired by Harvey's Black Cat.

Bad Luck Blackie is a Tex Avery cartoon from 1949. It is about a black cat providing a bad luck service. In 1994 it was voted the 15th greatest cartoon.

The Cooler is a film about a man providing a bad luck service to a casino to which he is indebted. Things begin to go wrong, when things start going right for his personal life.

Some Chinese traditions believe that luck comes in cycles. If you have plenty of good luck now, watch out as it might run out.