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One of many interesting furry animals in Sweden.

A moose once bit my sister.

Now that is metal!

Looks absolutely wonderful! A while ago my group played a Forgotten Realms module that had the party cover something like 50 miles in one day - on foot. I wondered at the time whether the fact that Americans drive everywhere gives them a distorted sense of how long it takes to walk any great...

You know that chlorine smell you get if you pour bleach down your toilet? Ever notice that you don't smell it until you start peeing? That's right, it's the combination of pee and bleach that causes the smell. Remember that next time you go to a public swimming pool.

Recent rereads have been disappointing, but I remember back in the mid-1980s, and how eager I was to get my hands on them - the small town in rural Holland where I lived was largely cut off from popular culture of the day - and how much I loved them when I finally did. I wanted to be Tanis. I...

Quite probably because he was one man writing it, so it's internally consistent. Real-world mythologies develop over centuries, evolving as cultures come into contact with new peoples and incorporate their myths into their own. Which god is preeminent changes over time, and in place. Stories are...

And the Mabinogion is fairly tame compared with some of the Irish myths. The description of Cuchulainn, with his hair and eyes and joints? Balor of the Evil Eye? Whichever hero it was who went into a frenzy and chopped the tops of eight (three? six? too long ago for me to remember precisely)...

Some years ago, I heard a German radio station advertising their next big Christmas event. This was in the second week of January. I told my wife, "I know Christmas advertising is starting earlier and earlier, but this is ridiculous. They're going to jinx it!" The year was 2020. There was no...

The only thing scarier than a real dragon!* * You know what I mean.

A pole vaulting joke would be entirely inappropriate here.

Here's one my mum told me, from when she travelled to work by train. She was sitting opposite a woman with a very small boy. After they exchanged the usual awkward smiles, my mother got out a book and her reading glasses. Boy: "Mummy?" Mother: "Yes dear?" Boy: "Why did that lady put on...

He'd probably prefer to pay their salaries in Amazon store credit.

Oh no! They're becoming human!

People sometimes seem to be completely oblivious to the fact that everyone around them can hear their side of the conversation, and sometimes the other side too, if the volume is loud enough. Once I was sitting in the bus through a posh suburb, and the man behind me - apparently a member of the...

Also, the backing harmonies are provided by Flo & Eddie, who used to work with Frank Zappa.

TIL I don't have to be jealous of friends going on holiday. Particularly if they're flying today...

Given that Zoroastrianism revolves around the difference between Law and Chaos, I'd be surprised if it doesn't feature at least one chaotic dragon.

Rowan Atkinson as Blackadder, in all his incarnations. Miranda Richardson as Queenie in Blackadder II. Hugh Laurie as Prince George in Blackadder the Third. The rest of the main cast throughout the series as well, but these three in particular.

I could have sworn I read about this, but then being tied up underneath the horse. Or maybe that was from one of those gritty western novels that were popular for a while in the 1980s and 1990s.