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		<title>Children Of “Brian”</title>
		<link>http://hootingyard.org/archives/11627</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Things I Have Learned]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is really important, so please read it very carefully and make every attempt to memorise it:
(COLONY)=(ANT+YES)
(FLOWERS)=(LADYBUG+GOD)
(SHIP&#8217;S OUIJA BOARD)=(AIRCRAFT CARRIERS)
(SUBMARINES)=(SOLAR WEB+GOD)
(PLANET MARS+X)=(MAGNETIC BOOTS)
(I&#8217;M A GENIUS)=(SELENIUM)
(CHILDREN OF &#8220;BRIAN&#8221;)=(666 CODE)
You will also need to familiarise yourself with what we call the “series of headings”:
COMPUTER/CYBERNETICS AND COMMUNICATIONS
INFLATION
SOCIAL SECURITY
FEAST OF TABERNACLES
EGYPTIAN ARTEFACTS
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
DOLPHINS
CARIBOU FUR
INSECTS
MEDICINAL
INDOOR BBQ GRILL
MENTHOL PIES
WISDOM TEETH
PSYCHIC DATA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dobson Archive</title>
		<link>http://hootingyard.org/archives/11620</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An exceedingly rare snap of august Dobsonist Aloysius Nestingbird trying to locate a particular title among the crammed shelves of the out of print pamphleteer&#8217;s teeming archive.

Or possibly the old Cincinnati Library.
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		<title>In Vegetation And In Awe</title>
		<link>http://hootingyard.org/archives/11617</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met my antagonist in vegetation and in awe. The vegetation was a patch of scrub and gorse and bracken and furze and phlox and lupins and stunted hollyhocks, behind the towpath that goes along beside the canal, leading to the sea, which in turn leads on to all the major oceans, Indian, Atlantic, Pacific, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birds And Fish</title>
		<link>http://hootingyard.org/archives/11613</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter plops on to the mat from Tim Thurn:
Oi, Mr Key! You seem to know an immense amount about birds, yet virtually nothing about fish. Is there any reason for this disparity? If so, I am agog to know, agog I tell you!
Passionately yours,
Tim Thurn
Often with Tim&#8217;s letters, I find the best thing to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eric, The Finicky Cat</title>
		<link>http://hootingyard.org/archives/11608</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to OutaSpaceman for alerting me to this old magazine advert. Clearly the world o&#8217; catfood advertising has been deprived of Brian&#8217;s presence for far too long. He really ought to get back to doing what he does best.

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		<title>Further Juvenilia</title>
		<link>http://hootingyard.org/archives/11603</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Speak, Memory!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I hesitate to post this, but what the hell. A second extract from my teenage notebook, this time a terrible poem. Contains owls.

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		<title>Dabbling With Oranges</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Dabbler]]></category>
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Over at The Dabbler this week I round up some amusements of the learned, including Baruch Spinoza&#8217;s pastime of setting spiders to fight each other and then laughing immoderately at the result.
There is mention of James Boswell too, which inspired Jonathan Law in the comments to note this intriguing passage from The Life Of Samuel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloak And Dagger</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 06:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a dark and stormy night. I wrapped myself in my cloak and took my dagger, and I crept through the dark insalubrious alleyways until I came to a doorway. I pushed it open and entered a room full of smoke and mirrors. Through a glass darkly, I hatched a plot.
It was a complicated, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On A Placard</title>
		<link>http://hootingyard.org/archives/11590</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I very rarely engage in social or political comment at Hooting Yard, partly because that is not what you lot come here for and partly because there are teeming thousands of other bloggers, of all shades of opinion, who engage in that sort of thing. On occasion, however, I am minded to comment on current [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections On Poles And Holes And Moles</title>
		<link>http://hootingyard.org/archives/11587</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clearly the contemplation of my juvenilia has discombobulated me. Since reading, then posting, the opening paragraph of “-En” on Sunday, I have found myself unable to write a word. With last year&#8217;s experiment of bashing out a thousand words a day, I thought I had proved, at least in my own case, that “writer&#8217;s block” [...]]]></description>
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