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Reminds me of Lord Timothy Dexter's book 'Pickle for the knowing ones'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pickle_for_the_Knowing_Ones


Amazing: After receiving complaints about the lack of punctuation, Dexter published a second edition in 1805, this time containing pages full of punctuation in the appendix. He tells the readers to "peper and solt it as they plese."

Amusing though these are, they illustrate why spelling reform is hard in English: spelling correctly has become a status marker, and any changed spelling looks not merely wrong, but also stupid and deserving of contempt.


I like this. No goal, no score, no timer. You can just play around and see stuff happen. Reminds me a bit of the game "Liquid War" where you try to surround your opponent by circling in his tiny blobs and convert them to your color. Wonderful game.


When we were 14 years old, we (two buddies an me) "dreamt" of dying by rolling off a high-rise building in our neighborhood, sitting naked in shopping carts and crashing in a hilarious manner. Now that I'm more than 30 years older, my view has changed. I think, when my time arrives, I just want to die peacefully and without pain.



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