Humour

Have you ever found yourself in the midst of a soiree, regaling the captive audience with one of your classic, spontaneous anecdotes only to find it’s as deflated as the tyres on an abandoned bicycle? Your audience is captive merely because they already like you, perhaps for your kind nature or punctuality; they are not engaged with your impotent narrative. Well, you are not alone. Believe it or not, I used to suffer from the damp anecdote on a regular basis, but with the following tips, I will take you from delivering dull monologues to keeping your peers on tenterhooks at the ebbs and flows of your Shakespearean soliloquy. ...

The Astonishing Life’s Work of John Buchanan. My dear friend and mentor, the late John Buchanan, devoted his life to discovering and translating the lost languages and dialects of the mediæval inhabitants of this island. He held the esteemed position of Professor Emeritus and Chair of Philological Studies at the University of Edinburgh, and he had an unparalleled understanding of how to interpret arcane, ancient, and archaic texts. In the last three years of his life, unburdened by political or monetary motivations, he could devote himself to a project that he had begun in 1959 while completing his PhD. ...