LinksTLC - "Waterfalls" (Wikipedia) Alex was four.No Such Thing as a Fish QI researchers' podcast; Merlin's been listening for yearsKen Burns' Jazz (Wikipedia) Episode 9 "The Adventure."Dead Drop (Wikipedia) Spycraft term for passing info without meetingKen Burns' Baseball (Wikipedia) Source of the Lincoln "tiredest" quoteA Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (Wikipedia) New Game of Thrones spinoffWhy Are Icelandic Horses Not Called Ponies? (Iceland Mag) Pony-sized but Iceland said it's a...
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- TLC - "Waterfalls" (Wikipedia)
Alex was four. - No Such Thing as a Fish
QI researchers' podcast; Merlin's been listening for years - Ken Burns' Jazz (Wikipedia)
Episode 9 "The Adventure." - Dead Drop (Wikipedia)
Spycraft term for passing info without meeting - Ken Burns' Baseball (Wikipedia)
Source of the Lincoln "tiredest" quote - A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (Wikipedia)
New Game of Thrones spinoff - Why Are Icelandic Horses Not Called Ponies? (Iceland Mag)
Pony-sized but Iceland said it's a horse - Ship of Theseus (Khan Academy video)
The philosophical paradox behind "Thesean Horse" - Saint John Coltrane Church (KQED)
Yes, there's literally a church for this album - "Is he quare?"
Comedy repetition reference - Harry Enfield (Wikipedia)
British comedian; "Is he queer?" sketch - Paul Whitehouse (Wikipedia)
The other half of the old men in the club - The Best of Rik Mayall (Salon)
2014 BBC tribute documentary; narrated by Simon Callow - The Young Ones (IMDb)
Where Rik Mayall made his name - The Young Ones - "Bambi" / University Challenge (YouTube)
Fry, Laurie, Thompson vs. the lads - Nell (1994) (Wikipedia)
Merlin's first memory of Liam Neeson as a lead - Scotiabank Saddledome: Building Design
Say it soft, and it's almost like praying. - Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (Wikipedia)
Bob and Paul's fishing show - Game of Thrones - "Fire and Blood" (Wikipedia)
Season 1 finale; Daenerys and the dragon eggs - The Butterfield Diet Plan (YouTube)
"The results have been increbidle" - Claude Code (Anthropic)
The AI tool Merlin won't shut up about - The Night Left Eye Burned Down Andre Rison's Mansion (Investigation Discovery)
It started with sneakers in a fiberglass bathtub - Memento Mori (Wikipedia)
"Remember you will die" - Anterograde Amnesia (Wikipedia)
The condition from Memento — can't form new memories - One Hundred Years of Solitude (Wikipedia)
García Márquez's masterpiece - Kieran's very good post
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father was discovered and taken by ICE." - Cottaging: History of the Term (Idiom Origins)
How they got John Gielgud, Wilfrid Brambell, and poor Brian Epstein. - Brian Epstein (Beatles Bible)
Beatles manager; arrested 1957, blackmailed for years, died a month before decriminalization - Hammer (Wikipedia)
A tool so durable it works across time - Clarke's Three Laws (Wikipedia)
"Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Ducking Stool (Wikipedia)
Chair on a stick for dunking witches and scolds - Roget's Thesaurus (Project Gutenberg)
Category 1: Existence - 12 Facts About Taking of Pelham 123 (Mental Floss)
They fictionalized the dead man's switch to foil copycats - The 36-Hour Day (Johns Hopkins Press)
Read it before someone you love has dementia
