SCABS
Acronym of the day: SCABS - the Scottish Consortium for Academic Book Supply.
Backing [Ian] Blair (cf. Backing Blair).
August 17, 2005
Third test
Oscar Wildebeest on the third Ashes test at Old Trafford.
ADDENDUM: Oh, yes, that reminds me. Apparently someone on ITN news had the gall, after the second Test, to proclaim “has cricket finally become interesting?” Which is a bit like saying, “has ITV finally become shite?”
Test tube terrorists
Thanks to a Guardian typo, this subhead from yesterday’s paper about the feud between the Ulster Volunteer Force and the Loyalist Volunteer Force suggests that the UVF will be rebranding itself to make it even less popular with Catholics:
Ambush in morning rush-hour linked to feud between LVF and IVF
August 16, 2005
Kissing cousins
In my family history research, I’ve come across a few occasions where a pair of siblings married another pair of siblings. I’ve finally uncovered an example of a married couple apparently being first cousins:
No definitive proof yet that Maria (aka Mary) Baverstock and Frederick (my ancestor) are siblings, but Jesse is described as his nephew on the 1861 census.
Deliverance
From this latest weekly lists of Library of Congress Subject Headings/DDC mappings, an entry twenty-one digits long:
Rednecks in motion pictures 791.436526230975091734
