Recent content by General_Tangent

I just use Calibre to hold everything. I'd love an AI like assistant to help me organise and sort through my documents.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/hulk-hogan-pro-wrestling-superstar-155436658.html?guccounter=1

Rex the Wonder Dog has entered the chat :-)

I saw it today and was certainly impressed by it. From the start the use of John WIlliam's theme on the big screen stirred something deep within. I know films are a bit different in terms of continuity but wasn't Krypto Superman's pet and Supergirl owned Streaky?

Well there was this Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/enworld/rebuilding-en-world/posts/389105 Crumbs was it really 10 years ago now.....

Guitar Legend Dave Cousins of Strawbs Dies at 85 https://www.musicalinstrumentworld.com/archives/31593

Flight Lieutenant Alan Pollock, theHawker Hunter Tower Bridge incident pilot has passed https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Hunter_Tower_Bridge_incident

I only burned one book and that was in the name of performance art. Years ago I had a ticket to Dismaland the Banksy "bemusement park"; where for one exhibit, the books of Jeffrey Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare, a British novelist and former politician who served a prison sentence...

Looks like it's receiving an upgrade.

It's also a missed opportunity that the song was never used on the soundtrack. Apparently John Landis was unaware of the song.

Perhaps I was thrown by definition 3 that said Briton referred to a single person. As you know its really hot here and I don't do well in the heat.

I was just consulting Collins dictionary: https://grammar.collinsdictionary.com/english-usage/what-is-the-difference-between-britain-british-and-briton I would refer to the OED but I no longer have a paid subscription to that service.

Tom? I was referring to what Barnabas was telling me :-)

Didn't Bram Stoker write Dracula despite never having visited Transylvania?

A small linguistic point, British is plural and Briton is singular. At least that what Collin's tells me :-)