1926 Irish writer George Bernard Shaw refuses Nobel Prize for literature money of £7,000, saying "I can forgive Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
10:10A man traditionally walks with a woman on his left arm so that in the event of a duel, his right sword arm is free.
18:33
They're showing old comedy from the nineteen seventies on RTE One and calling it light entertainment. What a joke. Mike Murphy sneaking up on Gay Byrne wearing a beret and a fake moustache. Quel suprise! C'est moi! Ha-dee-ha ha.
19:36
I can't believe how incredulous Michael Moore is or pretends to be. What do you Americans expect at this stage, to have a political leader who is credible? To have a government that acts in the people's interests? It's corporate and cruel and it's coming this way.
21:06
Restart to take effect.
23:31
Deathproof. Pornographic violence for children.
23:41
On this day in history 1978: Mass murder-suicide in Jonestown with over 900 dead in an afternoon, many by drinking poisonous Kool-Aid grape-flavoured water, giving rise to the expression, "Don't drink the Kool-Aid":
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Cult leader Jim Jones and hundreds of his People's Temple followers commit mass suicide in Guyana. Jones, an American pastor, led his followers to South America in 1977 and set up an agricultural commune called Jonestown in remote northwestern Guyana.
http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/this_day_in_history/this_day_November_18.php
23:58
I've been making comments on a social site about a video game that is at odds with what other commentators are saying. How can I argue with someone who doesn't yet realise I'm always right about these things?
