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From Merriam-Webster.

Muchness

Pronunciation: \’məch-nəs\

Function: noun

Date: 14th century

: the quality or state of being great in quantity, extent, or degree

-much of a muchness: very much the same

"Did you ever see a drawing of a muchness?" - The Mad Hatter

Ebook update. Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensiblity.

Well, they are…

Richard Herley has made some of his works available online. I can only vouch for The Penal Colony. It suffers from a mild case of Twenty Minutes Into The Future and being British, but it’s a good read.

Heh, penal.

All the processes of production in the Village were interdependent and demanded a high degree of co-operation. At busy times the men growing fruit were excused other duties, and extra labour was drafted in to pick the crops. Every member of the Community had his own area of responsibility, yet the work was so well scheduled by Franks and Appleton that nothing ever seemed to be left undone. It was this aspect of life in the Village that Routledge found the most remarkable. He would not have believed it possible, least of all from a disparate bunch of convicts whose chief common trait had been an inability to function in mainland society.

The Unfact™ is, to the best of our knowledge, completely false and unsupportable. We are not responsible for any consequences that are bound to occur if you are silly enough to believe it.

The Ninety-Five Theses were a Halloween prank committed by Martin Luther’s fraternity. Luther, then an unpopular pledge, was set up as the scapegoat. The rest of the fraternity was surprised by Luther’s later success and, to a man, fled to various Italian states.

Protesto! E ‘tutto vero!

A couple of new and insanely jingoistic ebooks, Captain Gardiner of the International Police and The World Peril of 1910. I’ve also added a brief review of my ebook device.

Take up the White Man’s burden–

From Wikiquote's Latin Phrases.

Mors certa, vita incerta. - "Death is certain, life is not.".

“I am death, not taxes. I turn up only once.” - Death

They were dead when I got here.

Brain freeze.

I cleared it with my lawyer.

What is truth?

FEMA!

Two words. Emergency Economic Stabilization.

You’re not seeing the big picture.

It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

I misplaced my moral compass.

I’m the anti-Santa.

Somebody had to.

The Unfact™ is, to the best of our knowledge, completely false and unsupportable. We are not responsible for any consequences that are bound to occur if you are silly enough to believe it.

Due to late payments on several loans, the United States was owned by the Dominion of Newfoundland for a week during the Twenty-three Day Panic of 1801, a very brief economic depression.

The ignominy of it all has still got me down. That’s a "depression" pun.

"Do you have power?"

Gulf Coast Ike Relief Fund.

American Red Cross.

Any day now!

No phone, no lights, no motorcar…okay, not really. Phone, lights and motorcars are back. Things should be back to “normal” on Monday…ish. We’re at the phase of post-hurricane recovery where we curse FEMA. Try it at home!

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