Richard Sales
theblueacorn.bsky.social
Richard Sales
@theblueacorn.bsky.social
Still hiding in the library.
ho/hum
Dub a dub a dum dum
Dub a dub a dum dum
December 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Imagine if the Republicans had the balls to Some of them are already fingering their collars.
December 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I can only hear ‘montelimar’ the way G Harrison says it.
December 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
So you keep telling me
December 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Was it that new version of Gaslight?
December 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
He was actually christened Gordon but when the poetry took hold he thought the whole name lacked gravitas.
He nicked Wystan from EL Wisty, and Hugh from Hugh Cornwell out of some Stranglers.
December 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
More straightforward and guessable than the W in WH Auden, which you could take 60 goes at and still fail.
December 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Very smart
December 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Can re-confirm. Here’s this librarian enjoying my favourite drink. A cardie and Coke.
November 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
We were watching Against All Odds once in Canterbury, and there’s a bit where Rachel Ward calls after Jeff Bridges “Terry, wait!”
This was while the archbishop’s tallest hostage negotiator was jetting round the front pages. Whole crowd laughed out loud.
November 25, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Still can’t get used to there being another Vincent H.
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
He popped up on a podcast earlier in the year and I thought yes, let’s return to Carl. Didn’t yet, AND I’ve forgotten which podcast it was. I’ll buy it for the library.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
If That Sinking Feeling’s not on there, I’m throwing my chaise longue right out the gazebo.
November 25, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I suspect you of deliberately tossing the sausage to allow you to make this admittedly admirable joke. Rather as I suspect Dorothy Parker went to all that trouble of buying and housing a parrot, and naming him Onan cos she just couldn’t wait to do her ‘Because he spills his seed on the ground’ joke.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Most of ‘em wouldn’t even pass a foreground check.
November 23, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Deer, deer, deer.
November 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM