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Two amusing little cultural snippets I had to share: Courtesy of a certain Purple Elephant.
Put your left foot in, Your left foot out, Your left foot in, And shake it all about. You do the hokey pokey And turn yourself around That's what it's all about.	O proud left foot, that ventures quick within Then soon upon a backward journey lithe. Anon, once more the gesture, then begin: Command sinistral pedestal to writhe. Commence thou then the fervid Hokey-Poke. A mad gyration, hips in wanton swirl. To spin! A wilde release from heaven's yoke. Blessed dervish! Surely canst go, girl. The Hoke, the poke -- banish now thy doubt. Verily, I say, 'tis what it's all about.
And courtesy of Ansible (news.ansible.co.uk) comes the following blurb from the Beeb: TERRY PRATCHETT's best-kept secret was revealed in the BBC website blurb for his 21 November BBC4 interview: `Terry Pratchett talks to Mark Lawson about his life and work, from the early days as a teenage journalist to his rise to fame as one of the world's most popular sci-fi writers under the name Iain M Banks.' Our newshound David Kennedy can hardly wait for the appearance of `a future Culture novel featuring a drone which follows the hero on hundreds of little legs ...' These have been brought to you by the "It's Friday" coalition and an outside temperature of .... does anyone know the temperature at which glass melts?