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GoneOffShore
GoneOffShore's Journal
GoneOffShore's Journal
December 12, 2022
Origin of My Country Tis of Thee
Fascinating origin of the tune "God Save the King/Queen", which is also "My Country Tis of Thee"..... it was originally composed by Lully for Louis XIV, so it's French in origin!!!
Particularly weird that it was written to celebrate the king's recovery from surgery ....for an anal fistula.
December 10, 2022
England vs France - Live on TFI - at 20:30 hours CET - SPOILERS
Just started watching at 34 minutes in - France 1 - England 0
December 9, 2022
It was a near thing, but no sanctions on a BBC weather presenter.
https://newsthump.com/2016/01/16/no-sanction-for-bbcs-carol-kirkwood-over-cold-as-fck-weather-forecast/
November 30, 2022
www.bbc.com
Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter, dies aged 79
Christine McVie, who played with Fleetwood Mac and wrote some of their most famous songs, has died aged 79, her family has said.www.bbc.com
The British singer-songwriter was behind hits including Little Lies, Everywhere, Don't Stop, Say You Love Me, and Songbird.
She died peacefully at a hospital in the company of her family, a statement said.
McVie left Fleetwood Mac after 28 years in 1998 but returned in 2014.
She died peacefully at a hospital in the company of her family, a statement said.
McVie left Fleetwood Mac after 28 years in 1998 but returned in 2014.
November 27, 2022
What cities don't have songs written about them?
There are multiple songs about New York, San Francisco, Paris, London, Chicago, even Detroit.
But some cities get no love.
I mean, has anyone really written a song about how wonderful Philadelphia is? Or Baltimore? Or Seattle?
November 20, 2022
No women, no booze, and cant be gay. No wonder its not a tourist hotspot.
Not watching the opening of the World Cup, but someone described it thusly:
Trying to watch the World Cup opening ceremonies from Catarrh.
Question...are there ANY women in that country?
At all?
And the dance routines look like the siege of Gondor staged by Bob Fosse.
No women, no booze, and cant be gay. No wonder its not a tourist hotspot.
November 13, 2022
Dinosaur Vagabonds
Sweating Urea
Bands that don't exist, but should - add your own
Dinosaur Vagabonds
Sweating Urea
November 7, 2022
Three words for you - Sunk Cost Fallacy. Here's a little story about someone with 80K followers
Jeph Jacques does a fun webcomic entitled Questionable Content (Which I highly recommend) And he has been on Twitter - Here's what he posted last night:
November 6, 2022 8:14pm
Gosh, how long has it been since I wrote an actual newspost? Feels like...fifty years...
Anyway! Here's how I've been doing lately.
I stopped posting all the time on twitter a couple months back, but over this weekend I did a bunch of satirical tweets impersonating Elon Musk and they went fairly viral and he got so mad he (personally, I like to think) deleted my account. Nothing of value was lost, a good time was had by all, etc etc. If you google around I'm sure you can find screenshots.
I find myself in the privileged position of being able to walk away from a social media account with 80,000+ followers (it had ballooned to over 100k before it was suspended, lol) with no significant penalties to my life or income (as far as I can tell). I should probably, like, promote my work on other social media, but honestly I'm pretty burned out on the whole concept. I'm lucky to be able to draw my comics and put them on this website and have enough of you folks reading to pay my bills and buy food for my dog (Ollie's doing good, btw), and that's good enough for me.
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