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The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with and ology tacked on the end.

Ben Aaronovitch

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.
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Book Dream Winter
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
If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it’s your safest bet.
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Advice Police Talking
Being a seasoned Londoner, Martin gave the body the “London once-over” – a quick glance to determine whether this was a drunk, a crazy or a human being in distress.
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Crazy Sports Wrestling
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
This is your brain on magic.
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Brain Innovation Magic
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
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
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 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
Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.
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Coffee Espresso Excellent
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
It’s a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.
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London Long Modern Life
Somebody doesn’t know they’re not in Kansas anymore,’ said Stephanopoulos.
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Kansas Knows Said
Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored.
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Answers Ignored Question
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

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