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So called “blue zones” – where locals are especially likely to live to 100 – may be complete balls, says NPR. Oxford boffins crunched the data, they found that the likeliest cause of the apparently exceptional longevity was residents cooking the books. In Costa Rica, 42% of over-100-year-olds turned out to have lied on the census; in Greece, 72% of centenarians “disappeared” after an audit; and in Okinawa, Japan, the number of people supposedly reaching the milestone age is likely inflated by the fact that most of the birth records were burnt in wartime bombings.
 
Paul Matthews said:
BBC4 and iPlayer are showing episodes of Call my bluff and Face the music from the 1970s. Frank Muir, Richard Baker, Joyce Grenfell etc...
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Thank you, Paul. I've just watched the first episode listed of 'Face the Music'.I remember it at the time, which makes me very old. So fantastically civilised, and that interview with Ivor Newton is the purest of delights.
 
As I am sure you are all aware, Leonard Cohen was not only a poet but a spiritual chap, and spent several years in a Buddhist monastery. This is his touching but slightly surprising insight into the monastic life:
EARLY MORNING AT MT. BALDY

Alarm awakened me at 2:30 a.m.:
got into my robes
kimono and hakama
modelled after the 12th-century
archer’s costume:
on top of this the koroma
a heavy outer garment
with impossibly large sleeves:
on top of this the ruksu
a kind of patchwork bib
which incorporates an ivory disc:
and finally the four-foor
serpentine belt
that twists into a huge handsome knot
resembling a braided challah
and covers the bottom of the ruksu:
all in all
about 20 pounds of clothing
which I put on quickly
at 2:30 a.m.
over my enormous hard-on.
 
So tumbleweed is Russian?
"The tumbleweed, a fixture of the classic western, was not present in the US during the "Old West" period those films depict. It is formed from the Russian thistle, a species that was likely imported with grain seeds in the 1870s. It then spread extremely rapidly across the country, helped by the fact that each plant can generate up to 60,000 seeds."
 
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