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Ran is on page 330 of 400

The airline pilots sketch, in which 'two airline pilots ... become so bored on a long-haul flight that they decide to amuse themselves by making ambiguous announcements to frighten their passengers' cracked me up. Best sketch in this book!

— Jan 27, 2019 05:29PM

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Ran is on page 327 of 400

Graham and I adored this man's cast of mind: it reminded us of Lloyd George's observation of the Irish Republican Eamon de Valera that arguing with him was "like trying to pick up mercury with a fork."

— Jan 27, 2019 05:22PM

Ran is on page 318 of 400

The only moment of disappointment came at the very end of the service when I discovered that I'd failed to excise one particular mention of the word "God."

— Jan 27, 2019 05:06PM

Ran is on page 187 of 400

[On a Nick Walt’s support of Somerset]: I had been reading about existentialism; here was someone living it, someone who accepted the concept of an act of Free Will in a Meaningless Universe, and was taking it to a new level.

— Jan 26, 2019 10:10PM