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Mike Rampton

@mikerampton.bsky.social

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Author, journalist, hero, dad, sleepy etc. He/him. Cambridge, UK. Please buy my books There's No Such Thing As A Silly Question and Become A Genius In A Year, both out now and great. Go on. mikerampton.com / interestingskull.substack.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

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Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 1d

My excellent monthly newsletter Interesting Skull goes out tomorrow. I spend ages on it and it has very few followers. I really think it's good. Please subscribe! interestingskull.beehiiv.com/subscribe

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 2d

A great article from Rachel, who really understands the heart and soul of Dad’s work.

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Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 1d

What’s the difference between a Franco-English author specialising in cautionary tales and a mound Carlton Banks might dance on?
One’s a Bel-Air hillock…

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 1d

The Specials' song Too Much Too Young is the sequel to The Much And The Young.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 1d

Ah imagine if I'd made that joke in 1996 or so though, it would have been great.

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 1d

If you don't like the leaves changing colour for autumn, wash them in Treecian 2000.

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 2d

"I told a type of surgeon who the writer of A Scanner Darkly was."
"Author P. Dick?"
"No, cardiothoracic."

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 2d

That's the one, yeah

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 2d

My OXO cubes have got really used to being in their box, and don’t want to come out. They’ve developed etc etc

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Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 2d

I went into a bicycle repair shop because I was having trouble with my gears. The repairman said, "Your derailleur's whiffed." I said, "No. While I am also famous, talented and beautiful, so I understand you mistaking me for her, I am actually children's non-fiction author Mike Rampton."

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 3d

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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Comedy Club 4 Kids @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social · 3d

Families of Finsbury Park! Join us at @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social this Sunday to hoot at Rich @sandling.bsky.social (MC), musical comic David Hoare, @mikerampton.bsky.social and CITVs @bechillcomedian.bsky.social!

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💻 #finsburypark #familyshow #standup #comedy

See Rich Sandling, David Hoare, Mike Rampton and Bec Hill on October 12th, then e.g. Rob Kemp, Sam Eley's Basil Crumbwick, and Mandeep Singh on November 9th.

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Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 3d

Ah, thank you! I think driving to the airport cost more than the flights. Appalling.

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Paul Eggleston @pauleggleston.bsky.social · 3d

I'll never admit that I'm still the one who keeps stopping my wife's 'Man, I Feel Like a Woman' CD, because I've got pausable Shaniability.

#LunchPun

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Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 3d

Tickets: parktheatre.co.uk/events/comed...

Comedy Club 4 Kids - Park Theatre

Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups, sketch acts and cabaret stars from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and their f...

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Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 3d

If you're near Finsbury Park this weekend and have/are a kid, come to this. I'm a small part of it, but the rest will be amazing. Bec Hill is both incredibly funny and the only comedian in the world named after the second bit of two Tube stations.

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 7d

Because my life makes minimal sense, I am performing at a children's comedy show with actual real amazing comedians next week. Anything you don't understand about how this has happened, I also don't understand about how this has happened.

A flyer for Comedy Club 4 Kids, taking place in Finsbury Park's Park Theatre on October 12th featuring Michael Legge, David Hoare, Bec Hill and somehow me. (And also on November 9th with Rob Kemp, Basil Crumbwick and Mandeep Singh, but I'm mainly interested in the "Mike Rampton" bit.)

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 3d

So, happy 362nd anniversary to this entry from the Diary of Samuel Pepys – who had gone to bed the three previous nights “in some pain”, “in great pain”, and “beginning to be troubled with wind as I used to be”

Diary of Samuel Pepys, 7 October 1663: I did keep my bed; and my pain continued on me mightily, that I keeped within all day in great pain, and could break no wind nor have any stool after my physic had done working. So in the evening I took coach and to Mr Hollyards, but he was not at home; and so home again. And whether the coach did me good or no I know not, but having a good fire in my chamber, I begun to break six or seven small and great farts; and so to bed and lay in good ease all night, and pissed pretty well in the morning, but no more wind came as it used to do plentifully, after it once begun, nor any inclination to stool.

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Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 3d

Amazon are clearly baddies and nobody should use them. That said, my wonderful book There's No Such Thing As A Silly Question is just a tenner on there today (RRP £18.99) and makes a great Christmas present, so you might want to buy thirty or so. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/183994739X/