sovay: (Psholtii: in a bad mood)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2010-05-11 12:31 am

For we've slaved away four years of our life and earned about three pound ten

I have a sore throat and a steadily climbing fever and just discovered I missed a documentary on whaling tonight. It had better re-air. Preferably at some point when I can focus on the screen. Today: not success. Tell me something historically weird.

[identity profile] martianmooncrab.livejournal.com 2010-05-12 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
when a bunch of the drivers would get together in a field and see whose car really was the best handling, fastest and the most competant driver. It then became more of an outing for everyone, and they just went legit as it were.

[identity profile] martianmooncrab.livejournal.com 2010-05-12 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
feels like an episode of James Burke's Connections.