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The editor of The Observer said, 'I'd put one on every page if I thought it would increase circulation.' When Sudoku exploded in America, people who were lifelong readers of newspapers changed allegiance just for the Sudoku.
from 399: No Such Thing As Larry Grayson's Shut That Cock, 2021-11-12 at 00:05:21 · read transcript
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For instance, the little bits of burnt notes that they found, they were found by a farmer, but it turned out that the farm, Mama's son had gone to school with one of the band. It's quite a nice coincidence that they found it. I read an interview with the journalist who first wrote it up. He was called Michael Pilgrim, who's working for The Observer magazine. He says that he still doesn't know for sure whether it was true or whether it wasn't true. I think that was the journalist who received the story, but he wasn't there.
No Such Thing As Squid Playing Games, 2022-02-11 · listen
It doesn't, do they have some pages where there are chapter openings? I haven't actually seen the book. Yeah, I'm not sure if it's just one long story. It was set by an Observer's crossword compiler called Edward Pals Mather. Yeah, so it was bound out of order. Only two people back in the day managed to do it, who I think did it in collaboration.
No Such Thing As An Ancient Persian Badger, 2021-09-24 · listen
It's quite a nice coincidence that they found it. I read an interview with the journalist who first wrote it up. He was called Michael Pilgrim who's working for the Observer magazine and he says that he still doesn't know for sure whether it was true or whether it wasn't true. I think that was the journalist who received the story but he wasn't there. It was Jim Reid who was there.
413: No Such Thing As Squid Playing Games, 2022-02-11 · listen
He insisted that he would have the family crest clipped out of his black poodles back and walk around with it all the time. It seems that he probably had syphilis. Then he died and as soon as he died, Rachel got really distraught, but also started to succumb from syphilis. She started writing articles in The Observer and the Sunday Times about how great cannibalism is and stuff like that. Oh, really? Then she wrote one article in the Observer, which rambled on, rambled on.
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