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Hands off our Internet

Dec10
by on 2012-12-10 at 00:00
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For those of you desperately looking for the joke, I have to say there isn’t one. Unless the joke is those governments which call themselves “democracies”.

Avaaz says:

“Posted: 10 December 2012
Right now at a UN meeting in Dubai, authoritarian regimes are pushing for full governmental control of the Internet in a binding global treaty — if they succeed, the internet could become less open, more costly and much slower. We have only 2 days to stop them.”

Please help by signing the petition.

And then perhaps we can get back to the giraffes in leopard-suits.

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Hands off our Internet!
Internet is a force for democracy
-- tell your government to leave it that way!
...we don't have much time...

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Heist at the Ashmolean

May03
by on 2012-05-03 at 00:00
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At last, here’s the output from Adam Murphy’s comic drawing weekend at the Ashmolean. Took a bit of finishing and, though the festooned bass viol appears to be of wildly variable size, I’m fairly pleased with the result.

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Ladies — this has gone too far!
I need another bass viol — if we’re to play the five part Byrd fantasia!
Hower are you going to do that on /your/ pension, Susie dear?
Well spotted, Emma. If you’re all ready, I’ll propose a way we can get one…
OLD LADIES in HEIST at the ASHMOLEAN
The “Somerset” bass — the only one of its kind
Unfortunately, it’s kept in the most secure museum in the world…

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crazy, maybe — but I didn’t do that seismology OU course for nothing!
ZERO HOUR is in three months — Emma, you’re on Chemistry; Laura: Robotics; Eileen — social networks
and Alison… you’ve got a special job — knitting!
3 MONTHS LATER
[under the Ashmolean] Mole Ian – whir dig whir
~STOP~ tick tick
meanwhile in the security control room…
{pretty quiet today. Just how I like it}
[suddenly…] RUMBLE! RUMBLE!
strange – the whole building is shaking! must be an earthquake!
[and in the ladies’ loo…] quake’s /exactly/ on my prediction
Now, come on Laura!

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[Under cover of the quake … breakthrough!] CRASH! CRACK!
{why do they make the cubicles so small?}
{at last — quake’s stopped}
[Eileen’s been busy too…] FLASH MOB! ASHMOLEAN 3pm BRING INSTRUMENTS
[and soon the museum begins to fill up]
[at 3pm all over the museum]
[security are on high alert!]
LADIES
{one more musician isn’t going to be noticed…}
{and here it is}
PRESS
ZZAP {cameras down!}

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Now Emma’s chemistry on the glass…
🙂
this knitted viol on a balloon will cover my tracks for a few minutes [clingfilm]
{now, nonchalantly!}
hey — you!
{made it!}
one short bus ride later…
Ladies! I’m home!

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now for some music!
scrunge! screech! scrape!
No! No! No!
hey! this “viol” is made of papier mache!
~~ flutter ~~
Beat you to it, ladies! signed Old Men’s Viol Consort XXX P.S. come round and play Byrd some time!

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2012-04-28 Rhino Lutenist

Apr30
by on 2012-04-30 at 00:00
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Not actually a comc…

I found out recently about the increased poaching of white rhinoceros — due to the ill-conceived belief that its horn cures cancer. While the recipients find out that they’ve paid $50,000 per kilo of horn for something that doesn’t work, the rhino dies anyway from the overly aggressive wound. So my band Skeleton Crew will be doing a rhinoceros benefit concert in July. If you know any rhinoceros lutenists, can you ask them to get in touch?

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<A rhinoceros playing a lute, seated on a collapsing chair before a music stand>

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2012-01-01 Happy New Year

Jan01
by on 2012-01-01 at 00:00
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Just in case anybody is arbitrarily counting time in solar revolutions with zero based on today — Happy New Year.

Andrew

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(just a drawing of a dragon)

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#204 Cake and Eat it

Dec04
by on 2011-12-04 at 00:00
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…and so did I. Happy (belated) birthday Adam: http://adammurphy.com/2011/11/cute/

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1. (Did you hear about Adam's birthday?) [no...]
2. (well, his wife ate all his birthday cake!) [wow -- I bet he was angry!]
3. (no, not really. he loves her very much...)
4. (and she is very cute.)
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6. (...and he made a good comic out of it) [aha!]


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Small Print

Oct03
by on 2011-10-03 at 00:00
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Small Print: this story is based on “The Wild Bride” which we went to see performed by Knee High at the Oxford Playhouse on Saturday night.

A poor farmer traded with the devil — a new suit of clothes in exchange for the contents of his apple tree. To his horror he discovered in the tree his beautiful but under-age daughter… which is when he called ‘You and Yours‘ for advice. We say, in contracts of this kind with diabolical forces there is no automatic 7 day cooling off period. So in future we recommend a more careful approach — remember the devil is in the details. Meanwhile Sue has been studying High Street Banking interest rates… Sue?

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Invisibule Man

Aug29
by on 2011-08-29 at 12:04
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I have no joke here, but I found this chap hanging around at the end of the Millennium bridge in London t’other day. He may have been trying to get a lift back to Invisibulia…

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