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Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.

Ben Aaronovitch

The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop
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Clever Doctors People
The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn’t set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the pepper.
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Cooking Fire West
This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there’s someone else to do the housework.
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Children Facts Reason
The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with and ology tacked on the end.
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Sound Study Victim
The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an officer class.
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Character Educational Thinking
The worst part is staying in the room after you’ve broken the news, so that you’re forced to be there when someone’s life disintegrates around them. Some people say it doesn’t bother them – such people are not to be trusted.
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Broken Disintegrate News People Stay Worst
It’s a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.
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Guilty Member Police
The media are doing this, not because they have a sinister motive, but because they love to feel that they are influencing events. That’s why they hate politicians so much, because politicians have direct power and they do not.
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Events Hate Media
Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale – to the Jag mobile.
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Holy Nightingale Paranormal
Are they really gods?” “I never worry about theological questions,” said Nightingale. “They exist, they have power and they can breach the Queen’s peace – that makes them a police matter.
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Police Queen Worry
In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.
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Book Dream Winter
Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It’s not your garden, it’s not a park – it’s a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer’s plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness.
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Garden Park Tree
If you just warn people, they often simply ignore you. But if you ask them a question, then they have to think about it.
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Drunk People Thinking
Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.
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Coffee Espresso Excellent
What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway up a mountain, must have developed a magic kata.
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Expression Magic Tree Years
I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police “first greeting”. “Oi!” I said “What do you think you’re doing?
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First Police Thinking

Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.

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