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Mike Chisholm's avatar

Heh... People who enjoy such lists may well find solid entertainment in Palmer's Index to The Times... See:

https://idiotic-hat.blogspot.com/2020/01/quiet-fun.html

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Matthew Reisz's avatar

There was once a headline in The News of the World or a similar newspaper about someone who was arrested for some utterly minor offence. What made it newsworthy was that he happened to be a chick sexer by profession and to have a wooden leg. Hence the dramatic headline: CHICK SEXER WITH WOODEN LEG CAUGHT!

There are also great menus for titles offering options such as 'Archimandrite' and 'His Supreme Majesty' alongside Mr and Ms

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Ian Patterson's avatar

I always like to read through that list when I'm in the London Library; it never fails to cheer me.

(And talking of forks in the road, do you know the remark attributed to Yogi Berra? 'When you come to a fork in the road, take it.'

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