“The Good Guy With A Gun” or “Statin’ The Bleedin’ Obvious”

The bad guy fires and fires where ere he might.
It's horrible; he's killing left and right!
But the good guy with a gat—he doesn't fire back!
Too many innocents are in his line of sight.
—Daz

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2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 17,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 4 Film Festivals

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A Short Message From His Primateness, The Archbishop Of Westminster

A reasonably accurate* transcript of the Christmas sermon by the UK's leading Roman Catholic.

Hi there! Vincent Nichols here, Arch-bish of Westminster. I know the Pope, you know, and he speaks for the Invisible Man In The Sky. He even let me kiss his Popical ring, once! That makes me important! Bow down and listen unto me, oh uncouth and unlettered sheep!

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If I Had To Pick An Imaginary Friend…

Santa doesn't care 'bout your beliefs.
Santa only cares about your deeds.
When he's working out how you should be rewarded,
Santa doesn't ask for prayers or instruct that he be lauded.

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Piltdown Rides Again

After reading this, well I just had to…
—Daz

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Here’s A Thought…

In light of recent discussions, why not go with…

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HTML And Alt+ Codes For Macrons

This one's for Rustiguzzi, who asked about macrons in a comment.

Symbol	Name	html Code	Alt+
Ā	Macron A	Ā	256
ā	Macron a	ā	257
Ē	Macron E	Ē	274
ē	Macron e	ē	275
Ī	Macron I	Ī	298
ī	Macron i	ī	299
Ō	Macron O	Ō	332
ō	Macron o	ō	333
Ū	Macron U	Ū	362
ū	Macron u	ū	363

There ya go, mate!

I've also added them to my HTML symbols list.
—Daz

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“It’s ‘Christ’mas…!”

Well, checking through a week's worth of email, I find I've had the now traditional "it's Christmas" email, not once but three times. You know the one. It's in multiple colours and multiple fonts, with some text centred, some left-aligned, and some lines broken into multiple parts by the various mail programs that have been used to forward it over the last several years. Basically, it's a much-forwarded mess. You'd think someone would at least clean it up and reformat it before sending it on, but nope; they just hit the forward button and send it to their entire address book, complete with already-embedded faults plus any more that their own mail program might add. And it's all about how important the Christ part of the name is, and how it's a celebration of his birth, yada yada.

Well I find this somewhat confusing.

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The Church of England; Having Their Governmental Cake And Eating It

Six months or so ago the BBC showed a three-part series by Diarmaid MacCulloch, called How God Made The English. In this series, according to the short blurb on the Beeb website, MacCulloch, "explore[d] both what it means to be English and what has shaped English identity, from the Dark Ages, through the Reformation to modern times." Which is a rather wide-sounding description of what seemed to me to be a rather narrower perspective. Having watched it, I'd say it would be better described as a history of the English Church, and latterly the Church of England, and its impact on, and interactions with, English society and government.

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