The mystery remains unsolved: What terrible event has happened, causing the poor wide-eyed fellow to hold his ears, open his mouth and scream ?
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... a mass killing like that which occurred in Paris would not significantly affect the death toll from guns in the USI take this opportunity of reminding my Antipodes readers that Krauss is the author of a momentous book on physics and philosophy: A Universe from Nothing. It reflects upon humanity's biggest question (which has often driven me crazy... at least for a moment or so): Why is there something rather than nothing at all?
"My first duty is to protect you. I am proud of you. In spite of the drama, France has not given in. In spite of the tears, she remained upright. Faced with hatred, she revealed the force of her values, those of the République. I owe you the truth. We have not reached the end of terrorism. The threat is still present, at the same level."The president made his speech from the Napoléon III Room of the Elysées Palace. This was the same place from which he had spoken last January, after the attack against Charlie Hebdo, then in the middle of November, when a wave of terrorist crimes killed 130 people in Paris and Saint-Denis.
I find these communications between Oxfordians most pleasant and stylish.I’ve received a splendid emailFrom a most courageous female.Battling onward to Mauritius,Lone among the flying fishes,Albatrosses, giant whales,Turning turtle in the gales.To hell with Health and Safety rules,She’s in tune with tuna schools.She’ll dance, while others dance in bars,With pilot fish and Pilot Stars.I have not the faintest notionHow to brave the Indian OceanIn anything that keeps afloat,Let alone a rowing boat.But Sarah takes it in her stride,And going with her, for the ride,A book, or audio CDRead by Lalla and by me.To speed her trip to its conclusionWe’re reading her The God Delusion!All godly tripe and tosh she’s doubtin’So raise your glass to Sarah Outen.
The individuals who created such rubbish, not to mention the folk who sent and received such brain-damaged messages, must have been sick in an old-fashioned sense.A hearty Christmas greetingFour jovial frogs a-skating would goThey had asked their mammaBut she'd sternly said noAnd they all came to grief in a beautiful rowThere’s a sweet Christmas moral for one not too slowMust go!