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To match the Bartimaeus in my head, they'd have to get David Sedaris to do the voiceovers. But I gather that he doesn't do stuff like that.

@amateurphilosopher, tell that to the tens of thousands of former Kodak employees in and around Rochester, NY who are now having to find other ways to scrape a living: more casualties of the capitalist system, whose only motivation is maximizing profits, with no regard whatsoever for human values.

I knew who Edward Heath was, but still didn't think it a good one-liner. I just thought the whole thing sounded stilted and awkward. But then again, lots of people here in the US didn't get Bob & Ray on account of their deadpan delivery, and I found them hilarious. No accounting for tastes, I ...

Please credit the songwriter: the great Malvina Reynolds, who also wrote 'Little Boxes,' the first-ever protest song against suburban sprawl.

It would be nice if you gave credit to the songwriter: the great Malvina Reynolds, who also wrote 'Little Boxes,' probably the first-ever protest song against suburban sprawl.

I wonder how they kept the original Neville butternut squash from Wizard Swears from rotting.

I hope that where I'm going for Thanksgiving dinner, they serve squash. I will laugh like an idiot and no one will know why.

The best thing about this whole routine is the way Ginny totally ignores Harry.

This is set to a traditional tune from the British Isles, probably better-known as the song variously titled 'The False Bride,' 'I Loved a Lass' or 'The Week before Easter.'

The same tune was also used by Austin John Marshall for his World War I lament 'Dancing at Whitsun,' which has been recor...

The music, if anybody cares, is the traditional fiddle tune 'Mason's Apron,' which is usually played much, much faster than this - but then you couldn't get the words out.

The music is by neither Adam McNaughton nor by Wesley Stace a/k/a John Wesley Harding. It is a traditional British fiddle tune called 'Mason's Apron,' usually played extremely fast, and has long been used by fiddlers to show off their chops by competing to see who can perform it at the most brea...