i haven’t had a smoke in years but i will catch a drag if you are smoking they told me to chew on a toothpick they told me to take a deep breath but what is better is to punch a wall to bin the boxes of your old love letters to be impassive to the words that could save you to need to see the world as ash
Today’s instalment of
Astonishing Names People of the Past Gave Their Offspring: “Equator
Thunderbolt.”
She
was born in Scotland in 1897 to Lily and Edward Thunderbolt, had two brothers Keith (!) and John. Her father was a SCOUNDREL. According to newspapers, he was born
blind, miraculously regained his sight at age 6 or 8 (reports vary), became an engineer, moved
to Melbourne, married Marion, then “installed a strange girl” in his house who
was pregnant to him (papers called her “Lily”, quotation marks and
all) then offered to pay Marion 10 shillings a week to live downstairs and let him keep Lily upstairs. Marion refused and took him to court and got 15 shillings out of him.
Then he and Lily took off to Scotland where they had Equator, Keith and John.
Wild.
Or this Norfolk family from the 1871 census
Transcription reads:
Banjoniah Byers, 9 Months John Byer 56 years Elizabeth Byer 42 Barbara Byer 15 Barnabas Byer 13 Bartemias Byer 12 Bathiah Byer 8 Beriah Byer 6 Bniah Byer 5 Barziliai Byer 1
Or Reginald Toogood Coward (born New Zealand, 1889). A name shared by at least three generations of Cowards. Just excellent.
euch, i hate…. metaphor….
by which i mean of course that i write almost entirely in metaphor and i like it fine but god if only i were good enough at words to pull off the direct cut, without needing to retreat into the edges of a thing so i can try to draw its outline without making everyone sick on too much sugar…
…. i just saw a twitter thread of people being ~AMAZED that the regions in the UK that voted for labour in 2015 line up almost exactly with the location of coalfields
must a sport be entertaining to watch? 