Author Archives: odeboyz

Quirky facts

Posted on March 18, 2019 by odeboyz

1) The cruise liner, QE2, moves only 6 inches for each gallon of diesel it burns. 2) A million seconds is less than two weeks, but a billion seconds is 31 years. 3) If the population of China walked past … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Sir Henry Howarth Bashford ~ Augustus Carp, Esq., by Himself (1924)

Posted on March 18, 2019 by odeboyz

Sometimes I chase up references and with the magic of Google and Amazon read reviews of books I’ve never heard by authors who’s names have long disappeared. If they’re not too expensive, I buy them. Not every move outside my … Continue reading →

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A Beautiful New Council Development

Posted on March 17, 2019 by odeboyz

A new build housing development Who, could deny, the need But, as in these multi-pound deals Might there be, an element of greed? Cram it dense, build it high Blot the landscape, the rich will buy But first, destroy the … Continue reading →

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Karl Marx’s favourite painting

Posted on March 14, 2019 by odeboyz

They are presenting a petition of protest to the city fathers of Düsseldorf in an opulent council chamber. Through a large window, an orator can be seen in the square outside addressing a raging crowd. Marx loved this painting for … Continue reading →

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Nazi Doctors, Sexism and Lung Cancer

Posted on March 14, 2019 by odeboyz

In Hitler’s opinion women should have focused solely on Kinder, Kuche, Kirche1 . German sexism predated Hitler. This created a beneficial situation for Nazi doctors. Women provided a huge control group for their epidemiological studies into lung cancer.2 They knew … Continue reading →

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Jack Benny* on Abraham Lincoln

Posted on March 11, 2019 by odeboyz

Any man who would walk five miles through the snow, barefoot, just to return a library book so he could save three cents – that’s my kind of guy An American comedian from the mid-20th century now forgotten.

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Book Review: Ian Rankin ~ In a house of lies (2018)

Posted on March 11, 2019 by odeboyz

Ian Rankin is a magnificent storyteller. His principal character and main achievement is Rebus. Rebus has been developed by Rankin in a way that other crime writers have not. Rebus is now old, ill with COPD, and retired. Rankin however … Continue reading →

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American teachers learn how to shoot in a school situation

Posted on March 7, 2019 by odeboyz

We continue training for three more days, eight to twelve hours a day. We will be taking the Ohio Peace Officer Training Assessment at the end of the course. It is the same test required for Ohio police officers, but … Continue reading →

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Freddie Mercury’s birthplace

Posted on March 7, 2019 by odeboyz

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Going to my first dance hall

Posted on March 6, 2019 by odeboyz

In about 1959, I and four friends from the plumbing course at our senior school met regularly outside of school hours. David Day, Terry Stockbridge, Malcolm Murray and Mickey (Jumbo) James, were more like brothers than my own real family. … Continue reading →

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