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Remember Les Miserables? The show that brought you such moving and beautiful lyrics as:

I am agog!
I am aghast!
Is Marius in love at last?
I've never heard him `ooh' and `aah'.
You talk of battles to be won
And here he comes like Don Ju-an
It's better than an o-per-a!
I saw it a couple of decades ago, at the gift of a kind friend, and had a pleasant enough evening, though I've felt no particular desire to repeat the experience. Well, now there's a film, and, while I may get around to seeing it some time in the next couple of decades, I bet the process won't be half as enjoyable as reading <a href="https://themattwalshblog.com/les-miserables-taught-me-how-to-hate-again/"" target="_blank">Matt Walsh's review.

There once was a man from the sticks
Who liked to compose limericks.
But he failed at the sport,
For he wrote ’em too short.

From Wikipedia.

I just love Tom Stoppard. Tidying up old files in old folders I came across this from Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead:

R: I don't believe in it anyway. G: What? R: England. G: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?

The Player: The old man thinks he's in love with his daughter. Rosencrantz: Good God. We're out of our depths here. The Player: No, no, no! He hasn't got a daughter! The old man thinks he's in love with his daughter. Rosencrantz: The old man is? The Player: Hamlet... in love... with the old man's daughter... the old man... thinks. Rosencrantz: Ah.

One of the records that was regularly played in my childhood home was a collection of sketches by the wonderful Joyce Grenfell. This was a favourite, and though I only ever knew it as audio, the place to find such things nowadays is of course YouTube.

Internet giant Google has teamed up with the Daily Mail to develop a unique version of the online search engine which will confirm the enquirer's prejudices.

Another nice spoof from Newsbiscuit.

Elton John has the reputation of writing his songs in very short periods of time. Richard E Grant puts him to the test. Quite fun.

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The original YouTube video has now been removed, but you can still see the clip here.

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This is probably at least partly staged, but I don't think it's a complete set-up.