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Artist Removes One Letter from Famous Movie Titles and Illustrates the Results

Oh Bother, Where Art Thou?

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Beauty and the Beat

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The link says it all really- they definitely brightened my week, reader so if you haven't seen them yet I'd encourage you to click.

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It could be because it’s been a long week or it could be because I’ve not been very well this week so I’ve spent a lot of time alone under a duvet but this video of Lincoln, an orphaned red panda filmed in January as he left Lincoln Children’s Zoo for a zoo with more space, made me so happy this afternoon that I just couldn’t wait to share it with you reader:

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Autumn brings many treats and here in the UK one of them is the return of 'The Great British Bake off.' The generally warm and fluffy bake-off show has it’s moments of “drama”, for a couple of examples just type Custard-gate and bin-gate into google (or your search engine of choice reader). In the words of current contestant Martha: “I never thought I’d care about it to the point where I’d cry over an éclair” For Today’s Friday Find then I’m pleased to share with you this fun Bake-off themed parody song:

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Altogether now... Ready, steady, Bake

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This video by comedian Paul Gale reveals the 'real' reason Starbucks employees spell your name wrong. Suddenly it all makes sense:

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The Find I most want to share with you today reader is my current favourite tumblr -"Why Are You Still Single?" It provides answers one can give ‘to that most ridiculous of questions’.

 The answers up to now that I love the most are:

• ‘I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you.

                                                              …

                                                                No, really.’

• ‘ I can only marry someone worthy to carry on the secret royal bloodline.

                                                    …I’ve said too much already.’

• Dating is difficult when you’re a time traveler.
   [If they ask, “ARE you a time traveler?” just give them a really weird look and say slowly, “There’s no such thing as time travel.”]

Special mention too for:

• ‘I’ll always be faithful to my first love: the sea.’

And

• ‘No one has correctly answered my three riddles.’ 

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I'm sure reader you have seen the video of the Oz cast of The Lion King recently bursting into song on a flight, well not to be outdone the Broadway cast have submitted their own flash mob on a New York City subway car.
  
I found it interesting noting the passengers reactions, particularly those who are pretending nothing is happening.

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Ok reader, I'm sure everyone and their mum's already linked to this, but it is so good:

 *Clicky*New boys on the block: Your guide to the Kings of the Downing Street catwalk*clicky*

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Do you ever have those days reader, where you wish you owned a T.A.R.D.I.S or a DeLorean (and a guarantee that your meddling wouldn't have too great implications for the fabric of space and time) and could just go zooming off for an adventure?

Today’s Friday Find is the perfect pick me up for a UK based me with itchy feet and lack of funds… Instantaneous travel and you won’t even need your ruby slippers… just click here for a virtual tour of the Smithsonian museum.

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Yesterday, November 21, would have been Vivian Blaine's birthday. An American actress and singer with an acerbic sense of humour famous for her roles, among others, in State Fair, Doll Face and Three Little Girls in Blue. She is perhaps best known though for originating the role of the long-suffering, perpetually engaged chorus girl Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls. Indeed it is this last role that I will always remember her for. Today then, as a tribute to Ms Blaine I wanted to share a couple of 'Adelaide's' finest moments:

Take Back Your Mink


Adelaide’s Lament


Sue Me

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This weeks Friday Find is this acapella arrangement of ‘I need thee O I need thee’ mainly because I have been playing it over and over again this week. His rendition of ‘How Great Thou Art’ gives me goosebumps too:

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This week's Friday find is the Lip Sync Battle with Joseph Gordon Levitt, Stephen Merchant and Jimmy Fallon. A friend of mine, who is a huge fan of Joseph Gordon Levitt, excitedly shared it with me and we both chuckled over it so I wanted to share it with you reader:

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This weeks Friday find is this "Tomorrow" typography poster by the poster guy.

I can definately empathise with the truth of this one at the moment.

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A man recovering post-surgery forgets who his wife is and sees her "for the first time again". He'll never have to remember another anniversary after this.

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This is just so clever...

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Owing to the fact that I am a tad excited for the new film  (Into Darkness)  and overexposure to all sorts of photoshoots and other promotional paraphenaliaon, thank you Tumblr, over the last few weeks has made me fall in love with the cast a bit more than normal. This weeks Friday Finds are some adorable & very silly moments from interviews with the cast. First Simon Pegg & Alice Eve:

Also Chris Pine and Benedict Cumberbatch, along with fellow guest Kim Catrall on BBC's The Graham Norton show:

Finally the great bromance that is Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine in a vocabulary battle:

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This weeks Friday find is a video from part of cosmetic company Dove’s Real Beauty campaign. There are a few flaws in the experimental design and it’s more than a little schmaltzy. Most importantly you’re true worth is of course based on so much more than your physical appearance. However from personal experience I know we are own worst beauty critics so I wanted to share this and to encourage you reader. YOU are more beautiful than you think!

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This weeks find is a re-find. I’ve been tidying through lots of stuff this week and came across a sheet on which I had scrawled a note to myself with the words “important, remember this’ on the top. Needless to say reader that in the subsequent years I had completely forgotten what it was about. The note in question was amidst a bunch of paperwork from my sixth form days, that has been sitting in a box in a cupboard- not quite a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of The Leopard but not far off, anyway I digress. This sheet of paper upon which I had written had two names and a date. A quick Google reminded me that on 16th February, 1820 Rev. Sydney Smith wrote a Letter to Lady Georgiana Morpeth filled with prescriptions for low spirits. The letter is wonderful, a much needed reminder this week and I’m glad all over again at reading it.  I'm thus choosing to share it with you reader in the hopes the possible remedies contained help keep the grey clouds from your door. Here then, is the letter:

Dear Lady Georgiana,
Nobody has suffered more from low spirits than I have done — so I feel for you.

1st. Live as well as you dare.
2nd. Go into the shower-bath with a small quantity of water at a temperature low enough to give you a slight sensation of cold, 75° or 80°.
3rd. Amusing books.
4th. Short views of human life — not further than dinner or tea.
5th. Be as busy as you can.
6th. See as much as you can of those friends who respect and like you.
7th. And of those acquaintances who amuse you.
8th. Make no secret of low spirits to your friends, but talk of them freely — they are always worse for dignified concealment.
9th. Attend to the effects tea and coffee produce upon you.
10th. Compare your lot with that of other people.
11th. Don’t expect too much from human life — a sorry business at the best.
12th. Avoid poetry, dramatic representations (except comedy), music, serious novels, melancholy, sentimental people, and everything likely to excite feeling or emotion, not ending in active benevolence.
13th. Do good, and endeavour to please everybody of every degree.
14th. Be as much as you can in the open air without fatigue.
15th. Make the room where you commonly sit, gay and pleasant.
16th. Struggle by little and little against idleness.
17th. Don’t be too severe upon yourself, or underrate yourself, but do yourself justice.
18th. Keep good blazing fires.
19th. Be firm and constant in the exercise of rational religion.
20th. Believe me, dear Lady Georgiana,

Very truly yours,
 Sydney Smith