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Chris Coates
@MulberryCoates
Purveyor of niche drivel. Marker of silly anniversaries @OddThisDay
Jan 1, 2023 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Ah, New Year’s Day! That can only mean one thing. YES, THAT’S RIGHT! The 146th anniversary of New York Herald proprietor James Gordon Bennett Jr being banished from polite society for pissing in his fiancée’s fireplace Photo of a man in the early to mid 1870s in a three-piece su Nepo baby JGB Jr had inherited the Herald from its founder, his father, in 1872, by which time the younger man already had a reputation for being ‘flamboyant’, ‘erratic’, and enjoying ‘the good life’ – roughly translated, he was a roaring pisshead On midnight rides, careening down country roads, he would of
Oct 23, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Did you know, it’s 27 years to the day that the Financial Times killed one of England’s finest poets? They didn’t mean to. It’s just that Gavin Ewart was 79, and they bought him a lunch that involved enough booze to fell an ox The menus were not printed until 2003, so we cannot be sure I love the deep Englishness of “you are not to feel bad about this”
Aug 19, 2022 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Today, apparently, is National (or possibly International) Potato Day, so here is some root-vegetable-native-to-the-Americas content. We begin with the potato monument in Poland There is also a potato Airbnb in Idaho
Feb 10, 2021 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Hello, everyone. I'd like to tell you a story about plasticine penguins, sound effects, and my extreme silliness. Image Many years ago, a friend of mine semi-seriously said he thought the noise of Feathers McGraw landing in the milk bottle at the end of The Wrong Trousers was the best sound effect in the history of the motion picture. This casual remark became something of an obsession for me.