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Margaret Brown

@magstheobscure.bsky.social

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Absolute nuisance. MA History. Online quizzer. Opera lover. Scottish in Ireland.

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · Mar 19

Pinned Post about my research.

The Tyrant of the Bar: The 1902 Glasgow Licensing Courts and the Barmaid Question

In 1902 Glasgow tried to prohibit barmaids. Read about the panic behind it, the legal realities and the working class women affected.

oro.open.ac.uk/100192/

A newspaper cartoon of a 1902 barmaid pouring a glass of beer while two men look on with consternation

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 1h

And yer first man who's gone for looking like a guy in a murder mystery who's alibi turns out to be that he was dogging at the time.

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 1h

Just sitting back with the rest of the @drinkingstudies.bsky.social people on here watching you all debate public houses, opening hours and costs.

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 15h

On the downside, I'm followed by all you dirty old bollocks.

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 15h

Don't think so, what about you @archivedelver.bsky.social?

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 15h

Flashlight, red light, neon light, stop light

Everybody's got a little light under the sun

Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 15h

Of course, there is absolutely no such thing as a best lyricist for myriad reasons, not least because what qualifies as a "good lyric" depends very much on the whole song.

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 15h

It's Happy Hour again, I think I might be happy if I wasn't out with them.

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 15h

Mainly because writing "In Xanadu did Kubla Kahn a pleasuredome erect" doesn't have the same impact as its performance

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 15h

You guys don't get splash back on the inside of your labia. Triggering UTI terrors. So... you know.

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 15h

Shame they didn't put on A Woman of No Importance - the proto Talking Head. Which is beautifully sad

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 15h

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 16h

If I was in a puckish mood I'd pick Lieber and Stoller.

Eff it. Lieber and Stoller. Who else is going to write about watching 50s TV, having to do chores or catching the clap

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 16h

Willie Nelson has to be in there.

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 16h

At least it's not the mix-up between influentional theatre practitioner and the horror writer Clive Barker. Both getting invited to each others events

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 16h

I know I recognise it if I heard it but when ever I hear the words Mr Brightside my mind plays Mr Blue Sky

youtu.be/iRNl0iWE490?...

The Muppets Sing Mr. Blue Sky | Dear Earth

YouTube video by The Muppets

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 16h

However that brings on shades of this

bsky.app/profile/thed...

The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 8d

“It’s been terrible. I’ve been smiled at, people have walked right up to me and said ‘nice hat’ and at least one peacock has tried to mate with me.”

Help fund our work & keep us in eccentric hats by reading the full article on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/139178...

Argh! Autistic woman’s hat mistaken for conversation piece

Image of young woman in dramatic makeup wearing elaborate peacock hat

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 17h

It already attracting attention

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 1d

Finally completed

A rainbow striped Hexi cardigan cardigan with rainbow ombre back and trim hanging in front of a white door

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 17h

We were still finding boxes of biscuits that were bought for 'Christmas' years after. I suspect there is still a box lurking somewhere in the house.

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 18h

Watching an adaptation of Oedipus at the Abbey Theatre, really hard not to shout "jeeso, yer about to pump yer maw, ye daft cunt" at the stage

Can someone please translate said phrase into appropriate colliqual Irish-English?

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 1d

Finally completed

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 1d

And wandering about Barnard Castle saying "well you've never read Nate Silver's book on Superforecasting, have you?"

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 1d

Who has time to read Who Moved My Cheese? or whatever the latest bestseller by Malcolm Gladwell is?

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 1d

Sitcom Irony? Like when a character says you won't catch them on a plane and then suddenly Mr T is on a plane, fool

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 1d

'Can Blue Men Sing The Whites?' by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

YouTube video by yamualpeckinpah

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 1d

He goes to modern opera and when he says modern opera he means Phillip Glass, he doesn't bother with anything else

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 1d

I wouldn't put it passed a certain amount of Irish people to vote him in for the craic.

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