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Somebody doesn’t know they’re not in Kansas anymore,’ said Stephanopoulos.

Ben Aaronovitch

The fact that it was entirely possible for someone to be all three simultaneously is why good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport – like BASE jumping or crocodile wrestling.
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Country Jumping Possible Sport Wrestling
He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn’t know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.
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Giving Important Name
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
Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.
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Coffee Espresso Excellent
When you’re a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don’t want to know.
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Adults Boys Effort
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
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
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
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
For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.
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Call Close Hug Moments
If you ask any police officer what the worst part of the job is, they will always say breaking bad news to relatives, but this is not the truth.
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Broken Jobs People
You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.
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Deception Self Trying
The first rule about a black woman’s hair is you don’t talk about a black woman’s hair. And the second rule is you don’t ever touch a black woman’s hair without getting written permission first.
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Black Firsts Hair
A physical expression of formae. Or at least have got close enough to explain all those legendary swordsmen and their inexplicable desire to roost on the tops of bamboo trees.
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Bamboo Close Enough Explain Expression Legendary Top
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
What do you think you’re doing?
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Lucky Charm Psycho Thinking

Somebody doesn’t know they’re not in Kansas anymore,’ said Stephanopoulos.

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