Daniel Lavery - The Stopgap (Page 5)

Oh, Dear - I Don't Feel At All Doughty...Perhaps I Won't Joust Today

Nov 1, 2023 Coping Mechanisms

A knight who is not feeling doughty had better not joust.

Proposed: Counter-Halloween

Oct 31, 2023

Presumably, if Halloween is the day each year when "the veil between the worlds is thinnest," there must exist somewhere in the calendar its opposite: a day when the veil between

Everyone in the Twelfth Century Was Named Matilda

Oct 30, 2023 The Middle Ages

Meet the Matildas

Resolved: That Yosemite Sam Is Clearly Modeled After The Gallic Warriors Cassivellaunus, Caractacus, and Vercingetorix

Oct 26, 2023 Ars rhetorica

You cannot deny that Yosemite Sam is modeled after three defeated Gallic warriors! You simply cannot refute the evidence of your eyes.

Health Advice From Douglas Fairbanks' 1917 Self-Help Manual, "Laugh and Live"

Oct 25, 2023 Advice

"Yet the average man goes into life with as little knowledge of its forces as the baby who puts its foot upon the third rail."

Know Your Popes

Oct 24, 2023 Church history

Amphi-pope – (See also aqua-pope,). Governs the Holy See Sea.

The Best Lines About Félicette, The French Astronaut Cat, Ranked By Poignancy, Glory, and Whimsy

Oct 20, 2023 Ranked

Glorious: "The cat was subjected to five minutes of weightlessness."

It's Okay To Be A Narcissist If You're

Oct 19, 2023 Ars rhetorica

5'10 or taller

"Small Children Often Object To Being Washed": The Best Advertisements of 1910

Oct 18, 2023 History

"Ask for Aquascutum"

"By God and St. Michael, My Horse Shall Be Avenged": The Best Lines From Hue de Rotelande's Ipomadon

Oct 17, 2023 The Middle Ages

Medieval bragging: "My mother was a queen and I was born in wedlock."