Clanging Chimes of Doom


To atone for telling Ebola jokes I've pledged to mail a copy of the "We Are The World, We Are Ebola" song to anyone who (1) writes me a letter requesting it; and (2) is currently infected with Ebola.

Update: The deal is off, it turns out "We Are The World, We Are Ebola" is unavailable on vinyl, and vinyl is my preferred format for charity singles I mail to diseased strangers.

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  1. Mercurius Aulicus19/11/14 9:05 PM

    Sorry to go off topic, my good Sir, but have you heard the terrible news about "World’s Largest Earwig" (http://newpsalmanazar.wordpress.com/2014/11/19/marginalia-no-344)

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    1. C. Van Carter19/11/14 9:45 PM

      Sad, they will be missed. Do earwigs ever actually go in people's ears? I think they've gotten a bad rap.

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  2. Jim21/11/14 7:10 AM

    Your generosity is an inspiration to all of humanity.

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    1. C. Van Carter21/11/14 9:58 AM

      And yet I don't receive the praise the singers who recorded the "We Are The World, We Are Ebola" song get. It all comes down to marketing, I guess.

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  3. Jim21/11/14 10:59 AM

    Doing good should be its own reward. You don't need praise.

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  4. Mercurius Aulicus22/11/14 5:30 AM

    Both you Sir and the Earwig are sadly misunderstood and unappreciated by the General Public.

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    1. C. Van Carter22/11/14 10:37 AM

      "The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble." - Thomas Carlyle.

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  5. Mercurius Aulicus22/11/14 11:54 AM

    “Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.” — Sir Robert Peel

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    1. C. Van Carter22/11/14 12:28 PM

      It's even worse now because soundbites have replaced newspaper paragraphs.

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  6. Mercurius Aulicus11/12/14 2:49 AM

    In more Earwig news - Earwigs are not the innocents that they claim to be:
    'Earwig stops trains' https://twitter.com/BNArchive/status/542365672492531714

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    1. C. Van Carter15/12/14 10:10 AM

      It amazes me earwigs stopping trains is an established fact, but it remains unclear if they actually go in ears.

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