Apparently March 2 is Old Stuff Day, when bloggers must recycle old posts to reduce greenhouse emissions. So without further ado, here are my favourite posts from 2008, one from each calendar month:
- The one in which I learn some guy real good using only an aeroplane seat.
- The one in which I have a personality clash with a used-car salesman.
- The one in which I carry on at length about fruit, science, politics and children's books.
- The one in which I get creative and write some poetry, or maybe not.
- The one in which I declare war on innumeracy.
- The one in which I fondly reminisce about after-dinner mints.
- The one in which I pass my first set of exams at medical school.
- The one in which I am the victim of fiendish piece of deception.
- The one in which I decry and condemn modern dining trends.
- The one in which I explore the nexus between morality and confectionery.
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4 comments:
what about all the ones where I left completely unnecessary comments that were usually quite off topic. You sadden me.
PTR,
I like the way that you digitally remastered the 2008 blogs and crushed out all the quirky analogue Art Neuvo mono VHS charm that made them so quirkly endearing in the first place.
Winston Smith would be proud of you!
In 1567, Ambroise Paré described an experiment to test the properties of the Bezoar Stone. At the time, the bezoar stone was commonly believed to be able to cure the effects of any poison, but Paré believed this to be impossible. It happened that a cook at Paré's court was caught stealing fine silver cutlery, and was condemned to be hanged. The cook agreed to be poisoned, on the conditions that he would be given some bezoar straight after the poison and go free in case he survived. The stone did not cure him, and he died in agony seven hours after being poisoned. Thus Paré had proved that the bezoar stone could not cure all poisons.
I feel like I've had some ineffective bezoaring when I read comments like that.
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