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001	1 Jan	Carol Concert	Comments on Christmas carols by Damon Runyon, or possibly someone else
002	3 Jan	Anthology	Explains the title of this blog
003	8 Jan	Beethoven, Mozart and Tchaikovsky	What they have in common, and the difference
004	9 Jan	Answer	To the question posed HERE
005	10 Jan	In the very first row of the second-raters	A poem about Somerset Maugham
006	13 Jan	Actors and actresses	Should we use both terms?
007	14 Jan	Screen name	Not often is a screen name funnier than the original
008	15 Jan	Mrs C	A little known fact about Dr Crippen's wife
009	16 Jan	World class nosework	The decline of a really extreme sport
010	26 Jan	Sheep and computers	A review of The Graduate, translated from the Spanish
011	29 Jan	Try the new pachyderm size	Large and small are dead

	8 Feb	Forgotten poet	A note on the well-deserved oblivion of E. Crowsely
013	9 Feb	Slow man at the keyboard	25 years with computers achieving not very much
014	10 Feb	Urban potholing	The latest recreational activity
015	14 Feb	Character reference	He won't get the job
016	16 Feb	An exercise in futility	Analysis of an utterly pointless play
017	17 Feb	I was so young, and so terribly. terribly talented	Noël Coward speaks
018	18 Feb	Style guide	How to avoid writing good English
019	19 Feb	Sayings of the week	Three world leaders speak their minds, if that's the right word
020	21 Feb	Yes, it's from Tannhäuser	Years of searching to identify a tune
021	24 Feb	Grinding small	Re-published July 4th 2006
022	28 Feb	Art for the inartistic	If you can't paint, here's someone else who can't either

023	5 Mar	Never before in the history of motion pictures	The greatest film that never was
024	10 Mar	Pedant's corner (1)	If everybody gets it wrong, does that make it right?
025	11 Mar	Bread	That's not how we use our loaf
026	14 Mar	The Horsecroft controversy	Re-printed correspondence from the 1960s about the work of Godfrey Horsecroft, who may have been a great artist but almost certainly wasn't
027	15 Mar	Spit	Americans do it in four syllables
028	18 Mar	Warm beer	A common libel on English taste
029	21 Mar	Father's "negative" stage	Dr Spock's advice to concerned children
030	25 Mar	Sphairistike, Gossima and Whiff-Whaff	The origins of two games
031	27 Mar	More blessed to receive	How to make sure that you are corrupted in proper style
032	29 Mar	Staple diet	Detailed instructions for preparing a classic English dish

033	10 Apr	Pointless but funny	A small joke
034	14 Apr	Born 14th April 1904	Homage to Gielgud
035	19 Apr	Probably apocryphal	Which have come furthest—cars or computers?
036	22 Apr	Easy money	The inventor of Visa was aptly named
037	24 Apr	Book review	The technical aspects of Lady Chatterley
038	25 Apr	I did it à ma façon	My Way is a French tune
039	26 Apr	Before we gang awa!	These Lauders were not married to each other
040	27 Apr	30 St Mary Axe	A gherkin? Rubbish! It's a...
041	28 Apr	Concealed weapon	A hint on hi-jacking.

042	1 May	Ich Dien	Who does he think he is?
043	2 May	Si viellesse pouvait...	My life in computers, and how I have gone backwards
044	3 May	Poor Orientalism	Film critic misunderstands ancient samurai practice.
045	5 May	A lump of red leather	Not many can say this one
046	8 May	So many cheeses	Possibly the only French limerick, nothing at all to do with cheese.
047	12 May	Halloo!	The Estonians are OK, really
048	15 May	Et son copain Grosses-Oreilles	I thought the French had better taste
049	16 May	Rhymes	Some contorted ones
050	18 May	The Stag at eBay	My net auction career, and one man's bright idea
051	19 May	Our Fish Tastes Quite Nice	Styles of advertising.
052	20 May	Harper's and A&L	Two estimable American websites, one based on a magazine and one online only.
053	21 May	No poster in the window	They actually suggested that I join the Labour Party!
054	22 May	Ernest	The teenager's mother isn't worried about her.
055	23 May	Calling Ashgabat...	In the former Soviet central Asia they don't read OMF
056	24 May	Sport for nearly all	Sport and politics, and how one sport handled them
057	26 May	Audrey	A life of sin and Morse code keeps you young
058	28 May	Chirac never says "gosses"	Disappearing children
059	29 May	No, I'm Kevin	Fancy a new face?
060	30 May	Never take yes for an answer	How to be really disagreeable.

	1 Jun	And what about the Chastity Belt?	Five American belts explained for non-Americans
062	2 Jun	How's that again?	This MP thinks his leader doesn't support Bush
063	3 Jun	Loud noises at a wedding	What do you think Punch's subtitle meant?
064	4 Jun	George II meets John Paul II	But neither of them appeared to be on top form
065	7 Jun	...But I know it when I see it	How can you tell if it's art?
066	9 Jun	If he doesn't fall over first	The EU calls in an expert
067	11 Jun	Our Great and Respected Leader: Part 1	I've been there but didn't meet him
068	13 Jun	Maybe if they squeeze up a bit..	China comes to the Isle of Wight
069	14 Jun	Verbal economy	An aristocrat's romantic proposal and the response, both the briefest ever.
070	15 Jun	Boo-hoo like Beckham	Trauma passed on.
071	16 Jun	Take me to your elfin grot	Some parodies
072	17 Jun	From a great height	Relief on Mont Blanc
073	18 Jun	Yetzirah	Well, somebody liked OMF
074	19 Jun	No more cheap sneers	In which I cast aside the veneer of cynicism and reveal my true kindliness. Lavishly illustrated.
075	20 Jun	Eavesdropping	Alan Bennett overhears some gems
076	22 Jun	Irregular verbs	Three that they don't teach language students
077	23 Jun	Cheap and precise	Why buy a Rolex except to show off?
078	24 Jun	Aluminum	The reason, not universally accepted as true, why North Americans spell aluminium in a funny way.
079	25 Jun	Chacun à son Google	There are more pages on the internet about Buddha than about George W Bush, which is reassuring.
080	26 Jun	Aw, shucks, fellas	If people say nice things they deserve to be recorded
082	28 Jun	No holds bard	Anyone can write like Shakespeare
083	29 Jun	Rough-hew them how we will	What do you call your bottom? Depends where you live.
084	30 Jun	You couldn't make it up	Ready to go? Singapore Airlines has a place for you

085	1 Jul	Spell-wrecker	Better to spell things wrong sometimes
086	2 Jul	What have they got against marchionesses?	Nearly every rank is catered for at the National
087	4 Jul	Design fault	Computer screens are the wrong side up.
088	5 Jul	DIANA: the Pursuit of Love	About her appalling friends
089	6 Jul	Jayyid Jiddan!	An English translation of a mediaeval Arabic poem called On A Little Man With A Very Large Beard.
090	7 Jul	Together at last!	Windsors and Spencers playing at the fountain.
091	10 Jul	Elementary	Lehrer's Periodic Table. But see also HERE
092	13 Jul	Our Great and Respected Leader: Part 2	Kim (senior) didn't turn up but was everywhere
093	15 Jul	Pedant's Corner (2)	Some things that would annoy me if I wasn't so tolerant
095	18 Jul	Mugshot	A photo of Thatcher and her friend
096	19 Jul	Away with Gallicisms	French is OK, but not when you're speaking English
097	21 Jul	Semper Fidelis	The US Marines and Jacques Offenbach
098	23 Jul	Old Men Singing and Dancing	To persuade is not the same as to convince.
099	25 Jul	Six Mugs	"Mug" means a lot of different things
100	27 Jul	Familiar Face	A photo to identify (answer provided)
101	29 Jul	Pick 10 from 100	Links to the best ten out of the first hundred post
102	31 Jul	Citius, Altius, Nummatius	The unsavoury Olympic "movement"

103	4 Aug	Quiet, please	A very small and totally useless guitar
104	7 Aug	Dear Sir, Our client Mr Arthur Cladgebind...	Authors have to be very careful when choosing names for their characters
105	10 Aug	Cool of the evening	An delightful open-air concert, and the awfulness of opera in English
106	11 Aug	Plan well ahead	Personal relief at major cultural events
107	13 Aug	A fountain troubled	An appropriately embarrassing memorial
108	15 Aug	Ta ever so	Thank you round the world
109	17 Aug	Wear My Hat	If you have a Flash plug-in, you can hear Phil Collins and watch an accompanying animation
110	19 Aug	Away, slight man	The inadequacy of modern insults
111	21 Aug	El momento de la verdad	My dalmatian faces Death in the Afternoon
112	23 Aug	...and only one limerick	Offering an English version of the only really good French limerick, but you have to send an email
113	25 Aug	Jehovah and all that	Talking to his Witnesses
114	27 Aug	Good news	Some Americans trust our news media more than theirs
115	29 Aug	Elementary, again	Tom Lehrer's brilliant song of the elements, with an animation.

117	2 Sep	Leaders in endless love	The Bush and Blair love duet.
118	3 Sep	Italian abroad	Misunderstandings causing bad feelings
119	4 Sep	Ate mais tarde	Nasty things you might get in the Algarve
120	17 Sep	And only UHT milk	Sorry, Northern Portugal, but we didn't like your food
121	19 Sep	Words of wisdom	Heading your blog with something clever is not easy
122	21 Sep	A life of crime	Wendy Kweh of The Bill goes straight.
123	23 Sep	Thou'll hae to corn thy sheep	A recording of a beautiful Lancashire accent in a link to a website with many others
124	25 Sep	United Kingdom	Four nations with one unquestionably the finest
125	27 Sep	Our Great and Respected Leader: Part 3	North Korean theatre: a brief note
126	29 Sep	Guest for breakfast	A Swiss girl handles a nasty situation with aplomb

	1 Oct	A cliché gone mad	Political correctness is a right wing sneer
128	5 Oct	As I was saying to Tom Cruise	Two examples of name-dropping
129	8 Oct	Not on your Nellie	Your first name dates you
130	10 Oct	L'esprit de l'escalier	The occasion when I very nearly said something witty
131	12 Oct	Wild Cards	A political rogues' gallery
132	14 Oct	Check up on it	Washing up: an overview
133	15 Oct	Ninety-six today	Greetings to J K Galbraith
134	18 Oct	Very faint praise indeed	What would you like to be remembered for?
135	27 Oct	Lies, damn lies and websites	Four sites that you know are lying
136	29 Oct	Treason and plot	Silly Halloween
137	30 Oct	Every picture tells a story	...You'll see some bible pictures like you never saw before

138	1 Nov	An Evening of Love Songs	Comments on twenty of the best love songs of all time, and how they were sung by seven talented singers and one other
139	2 Nov	Big day for His Imperial Majesty	Crowning Haile
140	3 Nov	Brief Encounter	But this one was in a different film
141	4 Nov	The morning after	Three comments after Bush's election
142	7 Nov	Writers' limitations	The difficulties of being an author, and James Thurber explains why he can't write plays
143	8 Nov	Phone company launches foolish and illegal war	An extraordinarily stupid campaign
144	9 Nov	First lines	The opening lines of twenty-five novels or short stories. If you can name more than fifteen and their authors, you're a reader (answers provided).
145	12 Nov	Bad guy, good guy	Fonda and Ryan were not what they seemed
146	14 Nov	Lunching aloft	The chef wore a white hat and you wore a cloche as you flew to Paris at 100mph in 1927.
147	14 Nov	Sorry, World	Americans express their regrets for allowing Bush to win
148	17 Nov	Sorry, Everybody	...and some more
149	18 Nov	Our lives in their hands	A depressing picture made joyful by Grumio's brilliant comment
150	19 Nov	Dear old Tony	Former radical toff becomes lovable old geezer
151	20 Nov	Opinion poll	Survey shows most people scorn silly job titles
152	22 Nov	More brief encounters	Chattanooga and the great Eartha Kitt
153	24 Nov	Watch out, Columbia SC	A lunatic plan for a mass migration of fruitcakes
154	25 Nov	Which one is he, then?	Ukrainian politics explained
155	28 Nov	Banning the "sport"	An ancient amusement under threat
156	29 Nov	State of the nation	George W Bush's speech to Congress (edited to make his meaning clear)
157	30 Nov	Shock-headed Peter	A handbook of blood, sadism and terror for children

	2 Dec	The ultimate question	A philosopher stumped
159	4 Dec	Shock-headed Führer	A marvellous parody of a Victorian children's book
160	6 Dec	No they don't, and never did	English warm beer is a silly lie spread by John Major
161	8 Dec	Keeping our spirits up	A war-time note on the deficiencies of the Nazi leaders.
162	10 Dec	Not Very Interesting Facts	Can you get your toes in your mouth?
163	12 Dec	God can harm your moral health	Generally, the godly sin the most
164	12 Dec	Sixty years at the movies	A selection of fifty memorable films, with links to reviews
165	16 Dec	You don't have to be pregnant	Christmas offer at the inn
166	18 Dec	Musical family	Farewell then, the final Goossens
167	20 Dec	If you're called Arthur Wilkins I've no interest in you	But funny names turn me on
168	22 Dec	But it was the way they said it	Some lesser-known lines from films, who spoke them, and in what circumstances.
169	24 Dec	A Gladsome Yuletide to One and All	Anagrammatic greetings
170	26 Dec	The Man With No Name	Much admired film is tedious rubbish
171	27 Dec	Richter 9	The Tsunami noted, with no comment

2005 Go to 2004 Go to 2006 Go To 2007
172	1 Jan	A Dictionary of Slang	1400 fascinating pages
173	6 Jan	Star-Spangled Hastings	How a small town in Sussex was once part of the United States, sort of
174	8 Jan	The family Phasianidae	The sporting way to kill grouse
175	9 Jan	Many happy returns to a vicious killer	The curious link between a Czech aristocrat and a French cutie.
176	11 Jan	No infangentheof for Bill Clinton	Instead, an admiral got the non-job
177	13 Jan	An ill wind	The trouble with Jerusalem artichokes
178	14 Jan	Harry again	No surprise he's an idiot
179	16 Jan	In a range of glamorous fashion shades	Is your loo properly embossed?
180	18 Jan	Our Great and Respected Leader: Part 4	Haircuts in Pyongyang
181	20 Jan	What they really think of you	Link to an automatic flatterer
182	22 Jan	Northern Lights	World cruise disaster a good deal for passengers
183	24 Jan	Dipping them in their Earl Grey	A supermodel's childhood overshadowed by glamorous biscuits
184	26 Jan	Taxidriver, Mosul, January 2005	A photograph
185	28 Jan	Doing good	A link to ideas for making the world a better place and a note on America’s liberal arts colleges
186	31 Jan	It won't be Moscow, either	When this was written London 2012 seemed unlikely, but here's an interesting picture of beach volleyball

187	2 Feb	Might as well give up	The Olympic Games 2012, the Académie française and sado-masochism.
188	3 Feb	Mixed bag for breakfast	Bad news, a terrifying picture and Green Tea Kit-Kat
189	5 Feb	Max Schmeling	One of the good guys
190	7 Feb	Diamonds in the dross	A link to the page you are looking at
191	8 Feb	Writer's block and other problems	A link to some advice for dealing with enquiries
192	11 Feb	Cold, wet and miserable	Why I cannot swim; a traumatic incident in 1932.
193	13 Feb	Short and sour	Uncharitable comment on the wedding of the year
194	15 Feb	Hove Constituency Party...	Don't throw bo-kays at me...
195	17 Feb	Vespers	Not all nannies are wise and kind
196	19 Feb	Don't bother with this blog	How to discourage visitors
197	22 Feb	Etre ou ne pas être	Shakespeare and film subtitles in French
198	24 Feb	The Gendarmes again	The full lyrics
199	26 Feb	A bit nippy	It's never really cold in England
200	28 Feb	Scamming the scammers	How to get back at them, but be careful

	3 Mar	How to post (or mail) a letter	The way P G Wodehouse used to.
202	6 Mar	The big chill	Sleeping on a train with Emmanuel Lasker
203	11 Mar	Malicious joy	Newsreader uses a good word
204	13 Mar	Up with which	Who cares if it ends with a preposition?
205	15 Mar	Hobbits and Daleks	Christie, Tolkien and Terry Nation
206	16 Mar	There could be more snow...	Jeeves knows all about Tennyson
207	18 Mar	A generous bequest	Something we would all like to inherit
208	19 Mar	Not Very Interesting Facts	When will the swallows come back?
209	21 Mar	Trilingual sign	One of my most treasured possessions is this beautiful artefact which I stole
210	23 Mar	The whole range, in ten chapters	Sexual orientation: an 11 years old's wise decision
211	25 Mar	And We're Open 9 Thru Mid-Nite	We have a better offer than Jesus
212	26 Mar	Paschal ambiguity	Bunnies and the chocolate crucifix
213	27 Mar	More about Easter	It's more fun in Russia
214	28 Mar	Easter Egg Hunt	...which was a bit of a flop
215	29 Mar	How to spiel Halma	A classic German translation (für 2 Personen).
216	31 Mar	Worth a knighthood	Shy man who has sold 48 million of his books

	3 Apr	Kirgistan	An update on this country, including how to spell it
218	8 Apr	A sea view	Kipper AND black pudding? Sensational!
219	9 Apr	If you want to get ahead	Dressing up to bid farewell to Wojtyla
220	10 Apr	Wedding of the week	A selection of commentators' comments
221	12 Apr	Films as history	Some get it right, some don't
222	14 Apr	Nuts and bolts	How to fail at your chosen career
223	15 Apr	Back on form	The Onion and Private Eye on current excitements
224	17 Apr	The Great Cham	Dr Johnson was surly but may have been lovable
225	18 Apr	Looking forward to a smoke	115 cardinals hang about
226	19 Apr	Habemus papam	Now we know, but how shall we dub him?
227	20 Apr	Doing it badly (1)	The worst poet in the world....
228	21 Apr	Spectacle in St Peter's Basilica	Just shows what God could do if he had the money
229	23 Apr	Doing it badly (2)	....and the worst soprano
230	24 Apr	Farewell Sir John	Just once John Mills was a baddie
231	24 Apr	No Sale	eBay behave badly over the papal robes
232	25 Apr	Meme	There's more to contagious information patterns than you might think
233	27 Apr	Throdkins, throdkins, throdkins	An old word makes its first appearance on the internet
234	28 Apr	The pithy French	Even in English, the French have a way with words
235	29 Apr	Cutting the crap	A vital service if you have a dog and a garden

236	1 May	A sound approach, if outspoken	A crisp message from the North to the South
237	3 May	Meeting on the net	The sort of people you encounter
238	4 May	He be silly prat	An anagram of personal significance, and some political ones (and a program for finding others)
239	5 May	Ave atque vale to all throdkins	Enough about these. What about other delicacies?
240	6 May	The nation speaks	After the election: the nation yawns
241	9 May	Eulogy	For a friend
242	11 May	A good send-off	Funerals really swing up Barnsley way
243	13 May	Mr Toad	Rubbish from China.
244	15 May	There was a young lady....	Another French limerick (that makes two they've got)
245	18 May	Boring for England	A series on bores: 1 A classic bore
246	22 May	Boree	2 An auto-bore: Hedda Gabler
247	25 May	Flower Power	3 A common-or-garden bore
248	29 May	A chat with Samuel Taylor Coleridge	4 An old bore

249	1 Jun	Boring professionally	5 An intentional bore
250	3 Jun	Telling it like it is	Fair comment gracefully received.
251	5 Jun	Not even for the crossword	The Daily Telegraph was always a rotten newspaper, but now...
252	7 Jun	The Olympic dream	At this time things looked good for London—it was likely the Games would go to Paris
253	9 Jun	OMF	In Google, this blog beats Wavell and Montaigne
254	11 Jun	Rant	The word is overused by bloggers: there are much better words available
255	15 Jun	OED	This wonderful resource tells you everything about bonking but has no pork scratchings before 1982
256	17 Jun	No Orchids for Miss Farnsbarns	Every picture tells a story; this one's a lulu
257	19 Jun	Taking people apart	Dubya lays it on the line
258	20 Jun	Pass the sick-bag	People have been vomiting since 1386
259	22 Jun	Split personality	Tony Blair has five wives, while Moslems are allowed only four
260	24 Jun	Keepynge fytt	No easy task in the eighteenth century
261	26 Jun	Calling me names	The most honorific of all my titles
262	30 Jun	Another sensational hat	God bless her, and all who sail in her

263	6 Jul	Absolutely secure	Looking after the money men
264	11 Jul	Skipping the exposition	A parting in Manchester
265	15 Jul	London, 14th July 2005	An eloquent description of the atmosphere in London, a week after the bombs
266	18 Jul	For once, a helpful response	...from a software manufacturer! Hold the front page!
267	20 Jul	Kasant's 30p each	Carelessness in the OED
268	23 Jul	Poll dancing	Answer surveys only if they pay
269	25 Jul	Sacred worker	Nice picture of an Indian cow
270	27 Jul	It's all Tim's fault	Bad decision by Berners-Lee
271	29 Jul	Get you're free druggs at our pharmercy	Supermarkets don't stock literacy
272	31 Jul	Watcher of the skies	Picture editors sometimes get desperate

273	2 Aug	Versatility in the Ice Age	A very old tool
274	4 Aug	Hold the mung beans with fenugreek	The horrors of vegetarianism
275	6 Aug	Another damned thick, square book	Some prolific writers (and a priapic one)
276	8 Aug	Role model	Two great Scouts and their hats
277	9 Aug	After-Christmas party	A terrible misunderstanding happily resolved
278	12 Aug	Pining for the fjords	And preparing for the worst
279	28 Aug	Afloat	What Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens and I thought about life at sea. A lot of photos if you want them.
280	30 Aug	Shall we dance?	Gigolos, Cunard style

281	1 Sep	Shaving gel	Nasty stuff
282	3 Sep	How to co-ordinate an emergency	No need, just pray, says baton Rouge top co-ordinator
283	5 Sep	Cha-la-la, cha-la-la, etc	Here's something for lovers of Wolfgang Amadeus
284	7 Sep	You couldn't make them up	Ridiculous prizewinning book titles
285	8 Sep	Bat of Burning Gold	Must it always be Jerusalem?
286	10 Dec	Well, I declare!	Why American courts use Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
288	14 Sep	Goodbye to 2½ million quotes	How much does a batman weigh? The answer
289	17 Sep	This Sporting Life	A sport-hater's apologia
290	19 Sep	I don't even know what I like	I envy artists
291	21 Sep	It's the rich what gets the pleasure...	All sorts of people have blogs
292	23 Sep	Wrapping it up	Michael Moore looking lovely
293	25 Sep	Dropping a hint	An alternative to blogging
294	27 Sep	Keeping up appearances	Looking like a tramp at great expense
295	29 Sep	Nothing to add	Posts which inspire comment

296	1 Oct	Le Roi des Eplucheurs	An expert's guide to peeling vegetables
298	4 Oct	A name I remembered	An old acquaintance is ill-treated
299	5 Oct	One of the Ronnies	Farewell then Ronnie Barker
300	7 Oct	Hyperbole rules	Overstated headline
301	8 Oct	Clear instructions	Advice from the top for Bush
302	10 Oct	A cool word	The origin of def
303	12 Oct	Isn't that Donald and Melania Trump over there?	Valencia lures the millionaires
304	14 Oct	How can I get down to Sidcup in these shoes?	Thirty years of Pinter's The Caretaker
305	16 Oct	Brainwashing: how it's done	Link to a comprehensive explanation
306	18 Oct	Another gullible idiot	The uselessness of Homeopathy
307	20 Oct	The Monstrous Regiment	Women writers and composers
308	22 Oct	On a higher plane	Poetry for intellectuals
309	24 Oct	An old trick	What to do at state funerals
310	26 Oct	Wogs down under	A bad word here but not in the Antipodes
311	26 Oct	A picture to chill the blood	Blair drops in
312	28 Oct	Not as harmless as you might think	Halloween: A quick way to eternal damnation
313	30 Oct	Eggs? Coming in tomorrow	How, and how not, to run a shop

314	1 Nov	Noam Chomsky—the greatest intellectual?	Maybe, or maybe not. But his nose needs attention
315	1 Nov	Lest we forget	Remembrance in advance
316	2 Nov	Foeniculum vulgare	Cooking fennel
317	4 Nov	The simplest explanation	Why terrible things happen
318	6 Nov	Time for a decision	How to describe Blair's position?
319	8 Nov	Thinking ahead	How to lay down wine if you're a lush
320	10 Nov	Trounced	Blair is wrong again
321	10 Nov	Confession	How to write an unacceptable blog
322	12 Nov	Adeste laetis animis	Incomprehensible anthem for a fairly godless school
323	13 Nov	Remembrance Sunday	In bright sunshine
324	14 Nov	Properly attributed quote	One of Galbraith's gems
325	16 Nov	Domo arigato gozaimashita	Polite variants in the East
326	18 Nov	Delphiniums, eschscholtzia and blogs	Two kinds of exercise
327	20 Nov	Above the 49th	For once, something of interest to Canadians
328	22 Nov	The Plains of Abraham	Both sides in a Canadian battle commemorated in Kent
329	24 Nov	Manners maketh man	People are not always what they seem
330	26 Nov	A brilliant idea	An invention which can improve the lives of millions
331	28 Nov	They sang every Sunday night	A youth organisation of the 1930s which had a much better song than the Horst Wessel lied
332	30 Nov	My career in opera	Brief but memorable

333	2 Dec	A fondly remembered name	..of a totally unmemorable man
334	4 Dec	Must 'ave civil words, Bill	Link to a source of swearwords you can use anywhere
335	6 Dec	The height of sybaritism	A comfort in the toilet
336	8 Dec	Stand by for combat	Prime Minister's Questions: hardly a Homeric battle
337	10 Dec	Paper chase	There's an awful lot to read in the Sunday papers
338	12 Dec	I meant "generous"	A word I had wrong, and a brief note on fuck
339	14 Dec	Gastro-porn	Over-the-top writing about food
340	16 Dec	419 Eater	Another note on scamming the scammers
341	18 Dec	Goodwill to all men, for four weeks only	Back to indifference on Boxing Day
342	19 Dec	Who the hell are Betty and Fred?	Forgotten friends
343	20 Dec	Naming the relatives	We've got few names for complicated relationships
344	22 Dec	Ho ho ho, indeed	A spammer conned
345	24 Dec	Season's Greetings	From two victims of Christmas, and His Holiness
346	26 Dec	Following her around	Tracking a turtle by satellite
347	28 Dec	Joke	A ten-year query on a website finally finds the joke to fit the punch line
348	31 Dec	Happy Nouvelle Année!	Bilingual good wishes

2006 Go to 2004 Go to 2005 Go To 2007
349	1 Jan	Happy Birthday!	Two years of bloggery
350	3 Jan	Bouquets and brickbats	As they see Other Men's Flowers in Elk City, Idaho
351	5 Jan	Ginette, Yad Vashem and the House of Lords	Wartime bravery recognised
352	7 Jan	Hardship on the South Coast	England has feeble winters
353	9 Jan	Look who's turned up in Las Vegas	As Mark Antony said to Julius Caesar...
354	11 Jan	Comments that aren't	A despicable kind of spam
355	13 Jan	Delayed responses	Too busy to reply
356	15 Jan	Signals for the highway	Indicating your intention on the road
357	17 Jan	Yes, I meant Bored of Fitzrovia in the Tunbridge Wells sense	Poor English and a loin of pork
358	19 Jan	That sounds good	Disappointing web pages
359	21 Jan	UCE	Spam today: what are they trying to tempt us with?
360	23 Jan	Confucius and Crackling	How the Chinese discovered a great delicacy
361	25 Jan	The Uzzards	Absolute sweeties living in the North
362	27 Jan	Freshening up the Taliban	The British army attacks bad smells in Afghanistan
363	29 Jan	Absolutely all things	God made hemorrhoids too
364	31 Jan	Royal titfers	Two funny hats on Heads of State

365	2 Feb	Shaggy dog story	Never appear on stage with animals
366	4 Feb	GSOH can be a handicap	Seeing the funny side may ruin your career
367	6 Feb	Neologism needed	For once the French word is better than ours
368	8 Feb	Holy hats	Senior cleric wears a suggestive hat
369	10 Feb	In Scotland they can say Not Proven	Murder acquittal aborts acting career
370	12 Feb	Posh Nosh	What actresses used to eat
371	14 Feb	Be my love	Thoughts on Valentine's Day
372	16 Feb	Not Very Interesting Facts No 275	All about Kashi
373	18 Feb	Introduction	A charming Nicolas Bentley cartoon
374	20 Feb	Bonking in Turin	The word dates from 1931
375	22 Feb	Nora Batty and the poets	The comedy's title is not a quotation
376	24 Feb	No need for thermals	The hell with Turin, Kila Raipur is the place to be
377	26 Feb	Private journal	Prince Charles makes his feelings known
378	28 Feb	Oxymoron	Military precision?

379	2 Mar	Famous people	The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography..free!
380	4 Mar	Tony Coeur de Lion	For Saddam read Saladin
381	4 Mar	More women	Famous women, very long-dead
382	6 Mar	Ode to a Moose	The proposal to re-introduce moose, etc., to Britain
383	8 Mar	Introduction (2)	Another nun drawing
384	10 Mar	Diamond in the dross	An enjoyable car commercial, for once
385	12 Mar	Grimm with Axel and Lutz	Snow White on ice
386	14 Mar	On a personal note	A 75th birthday surprise
387	16 Mar	How to get really comfortable, Italian style	Just lie awkwardly on granite blocks
388	18 Mar	Here they come again	Late celebration in Capistrano
389	20 Mar	A final nun from Nicolas	the last nun drawing
390	22 Mar	Pavilion'd in splendour	An appalling restaurant
391	24 Mar	Early celebrities	Which of them had their biographies in the ODNB?
392	26 Mar	How now, you secret, black and midnight hags? What is't you do?	A picture of two women
393	28 Mar	Much ruder in Finnish	Why John Donne stuck to English
394	30 Mar	Observing things	A series of books about all sorts of things

395	1 Apr	Cherie Blair arrested on assault charge	April Fools hoaxes
396	3 Apr	STATEMENT	Alleged corruption is denied
397	5 Apr	Frog poetry	My extensive knowledge of French poetry
398	7 Apr	Words and music	My profound ignorance of French poetry. Also Anna Russell
399	9 Apr	Omelette	Madame Poulard's recipe
400	11 Apr	The cliché is still going strong	"PC gone mad", again
401	13 Apr	Home alone	How I coped for a week
402	15 Apr	Thought for Today	A New Yorker cartoon
403	17 Apr	I bet it makes the corgis sick	Easter, the Queen and false insurance claims
404	19 Apr	Limited sphere of operations	Not the man I used to be
405	21 Apr	Do not read on	How to put people off reading your blog
406	23 Apr	Tough on crime	Death penalty for stealing 15 shillings
407	25 Apr	If you can fake that...	Tony Blair can't even sound sincere
408	27 Apr	The OED, etc.	Marvellous reference books now on line, FREE
409	29 Apr	A Journey Up the Amazon	A web retailer messes up

410	1 May	JKG	Farewell to Galbraith
411	3 May	White collars	A fascinating book on non-violent crime
412	5 May	Time for a clear statement	Charles Clarke seems undecided
413	7 May	Badly designed	ID means Incompetent Design
414	9 May	Without words	Saying goodnight non-verbally
415	11 May	Where is Rover now?	Do animals go to Heaven?
416	13 May	We English	Orwell's thoughts on the English character
417	15 May	Good job, bad job, McJob	What a McJob is, and how they started
418	17 May	Hair of the dog	The Observer promotes astrology and homeopathy
419	19 May	Taste that tangy, zestful sodium benzoate!	Chilled or frozen food?
420	21 May	Could it be dry rot?	What is it that I've got?
421	23 May	Sex with everything	Sexy is an all-purpose word
422	25 May	Has Congress fallen out with Blair?	The Prime Minister's son quits internship
423	27 May	Keeping attuned to the zeitgeist	A vague personal connection with Big Brother contestant
424	29 May	Lies, damned lies and fiction	The Da Vinci Code
425	31 May	Three words, two meanings	Loathe and lo(a)th

426	2 Jun	Worth a thousand words	Thurber in words and one picture
427	4 Jun	Phoebe and Nathan are both at No 35	First names nowadays
428	6 Jun	And now for something...	Nothing to say so here's a Breugel
429	8 Jun	Something interesting	Finding something you might like in Other Men's Flowers
430	10 Jun	Sweet Saviour, Bless Us Ere We Go	Taking an interest in football
431	12 Jun	Don't give it to me	A nice song and a rotten ice cream
432	14 Jun	HRT	An irritating intonation is widely adopted
433	16 Jun	Hello!	Or Hallo, etc,
434	18 Jun	Ladyfingers and Nun's Tummies	Names for things to eat
435	20 Jun	Urban wild life	Creatures in the garden
436	22 Jun	Keeping it loose in midfield	Do shut up about football
437	24 Jun	Industrial news	A shattering announcement and a puzzling picture
438	26 Jun	Oh bother!	That's the end of that car
439	28 Jun	Talking proper	Foreigners speak better English than many of us
440	30 Jun	Pongs on tap	A new invention: synthetic smells

441	2 Jul	Ock and och	Words that end like this are usually not nice
442	4 Jul	Grinding small	Who wrote that thing about the Mills of God?
443	6 Jul	How's the weather in Bangalore this morning?	I like speaking to Indian call centres
444	8 Jul	Gunsmoke	Guns don't smoke until after they've been fired
445	10 Jul	Book Review	Would you let your gamekeeper read this book?
446	12 Jul	A blank, my lord	I can't do anything when it's hot
447	14 Jul	Men's and women's sana in corpore sano	Thoughts on the generic masculine
448	16 Jul	Nothing to laugh about	An Uzbek model in a mysterious hat
449	18 Jul	Roast lamb	Charles Lamb, amiable misanthrope
450	20 Jul	Then as now	Another Thurber cartoon
451	22 Jul	The Royals As I Knew Them	Most awfully amusing they were, and very friendly
452	24 Jul	Sad news from Nepal	Poor old Gyanendra has a new hat
453	26 Jul	Incentivise	An unnecessary word
454	28 Jul	Awful old grub	Traditional dishes better forgotten
455	30 Jul	Abroad is bloody	Don't go there

456	10 Aug	Sonata, Partita and Cicada	A distracting noise
457	12 Aug	Feet and parcels	Provençal delicacy
458	14 Aug	Anything they can do...	What's the word for excessively female?
459	16 Aug	On sale at top pharmacies	Advertisement
460	18 Aug	A choice of viewing...	All on TV last Saturday
461	20 Aug	The Feminist Geological Association	What a lot of societies there are in England
462	25 Aug	Just simmer down, will you?	Apology for having taken a couple of days off
463	27 Aug	How he would have enjoyed this!	Funeral striptease
464	29 Aug	Now Thank We All Our God	How lucky we are to have a strong faith!
465	31 Aug	Anyone fancy a bit of franchemyle?	Using rare words

466	2 Sep	Who's your fat friend, Thomas?	Does Thomas the Tank Engine need a dietician?
467	4 Sep	Don't go south of the river	Fashion for delinquents
468	6 Sep	Look at this...	Three ways of saying it
469	8 Sep	And our Gold Service demolishes your windscreen!	What to do if a carwash damages your car
470	10 Sep	Not yet, dear God, not yet...	The real reason why Blair clings on
471	12 Sep	Possibly the evillest man in East Sussex	Not 666. more 32½
472	14 Sep	What happened to my friend?	A worrying disappearance
473	16 Sep	A brace of Thesigers	Mostly about Ernest
474	18 Sep	Environmentally responsible warfare	Killing people the Green way
475	20 Sep	A disappointment	Hungarian PM owns up, but not Tony
476	22 Sep	In the ranks that were led by the Tsar	Ivan Skivar was a Mongol
477	24 Sep	Keeping out the tourists	Bad translation wipes out Jerusalem and S. African tourism
478	26 Sep	Endtimers	Stand by for Armageddon, Rapture, Tribulation, etc.
479	28 Sep	Spyder, spyder, burning bright	This kind of web is beautiful
480	30 Sep	Amazingly Alliterative Amanda	The worst writer ever

481	2 Oct	An apology, maybe	Did I offend a royalist Nepali? Also, a beautiful smile
482	4 Oct	Well done, for once	Phoning BT wasn't a nightmare this time
483	6 Oct	God, etc	Some cherished beliefs and how to examine your own
484	8 Oct	Why didn't I think of these?	Two patented inventions of very little interest
485	10 Oct	Ramanujan's interesting number	A taxi numbered 1729, and the greatest mathematical prodigy
486	12 Oct	Verzada	A recipe with cabbage, sausages and vinegar
487	14 Oct	Bush and the Apocalypse	Dubya speaks
488	16 Oct	My horoscope (1)	Are women more superstitious than men?
489	18 Oct	My horoscope (2)	Conflicting recommendations
490	20 Oct	Friends adding value	Using other peoples' letters to fill the space
491	22 Oct	On gravy	Possibly a French word but a very English thing
492	24 Oct	La Lollo is 79	Bless her
493	26 Oct	Great composers	What about these three?
494	28 Oct	Cinderella shall go to the ball	And she will, too
495	30 Oct	One for the diary	Growing a beard is also a sport

496	1 Nov	The chance of a lifetime	I am offered a million dollars a year.
497	3 Nov	Scratching your head	All about nits
498	5 Nov	Blue men	Fashion in Ancient Britain
499	7 Nov	Saddam not pleased with verdict	A headline to make you gasp
500	9 Nov	Steadily and blade by blade...	An old soldier remembers.
501	11 Nov	Cutting a cake	The mathematical way
502	13 Nov