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Yanks vs. Limeys
From “Coalition of the Differing,” by Patrick Cooke (Smithsonian Magazine, June 2003):
The Americans and the British have not always seen eye to eye—neither in war nor wardrobe. In fact, during World War II the U.S. and British commands had such a terrible time communicating with one another that in 1943 they commissioned anthropologist Margaret Mead to determine why. The Americans...
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No one should be designing record covers after the age of 30.
– Peter Saville, March 12, 2009 @ D&AD President’s Lecture, London.
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For post-30, see here; left column, everything under Whitechapel. Case closed.
Selections from “The Goop Directory of Juvenile Offenders Famous for their Misdeeds and Serving as a Salutary Example for all Virtuous Children” by Galett Burgess (1913).
Throwing things away:
Stealing sweets:
Cheating at play: