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The man who wore scarecrow’s clothes
Thursday, May 6th, 2010Miserly Robert Farries, schoolmaster of New Abbey near Dumfries in Scotland, decided that he would only wear clothes that he could take from scarecrows. Between 1792 and 1806, he wore nothing else!
Like a complete unknown…
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009Maybe we here at IF are getting on a bit, but we find the following account reported in The Telegraph to be nothing short of incredible. After reports of a scruffy looking old man wandering the neighbourhood acting suspiciously were made to police, Bob Dylan, the veteran rock star and global icon, was picked up [...]
PC Facts
Monday, June 15th, 2009In recent years there has arisen a trend for organisations to be so fearful of litigation that previously sociologically acceptable behaviour is amended to what they consider will be less offensive to any theoretical thin-skinned minority which may or may not actually exist. This trend has become labelled, “Political Correctness”, or PC. Originally, PC served [...]
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