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I’m sure folks are scratching their head and wondering who Sylvia Lennick is … here’s the incipit of her obit in the Globe and Mail: Sylvia Lennick, the last surviving member of the Wayne and Shuster comedy troupe, died this morning of complications from pneumonia in Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. She was 93. A stalwart…

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The Independent has a review of Tom Payne, Fame: From the Bronze Age to Britney … here are some excerpts: […] The teacher’s first book, Fame: From the Bronze Age to Britney, published next week, is set to do for classics what Harry Mount’s much-lauded Amo, Amas, Amat … and All That achieved for Latin…

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TV Squad is looking at some up-and-coming shows and the Spartacus series is one of them. Here’s some info on Lucy Lawless’ role: During the Spartacus panel, Lawless was asked if she’s going to be naked during the first season, as the show involves a lot of sex scenes. “I’m afraid so,” she said. She…

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Amicus noster Tim Parkin posted the Yes Minister thing from yesterday and a comment therefrom suggested tracking down another episode with a bit of ClassCon … ecce: … the discussion of “meta” is just after the six minute mark … if you don’t want the ‘context’, this one’s a bit shorter …

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While poking around to see if there was a way to make links to the Colbert Report more ‘universal’ (i.e. via Youtube) I came across this funny Yes, Minister clip (I used to watch this show … can’t recall ever seeing this episode) … there’s some good Latin stuff here (after a couple of minutes…

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