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  • It's called Japes for Owre Tymes, and it features one comic per day translated into Middle English.

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • It's called Japes for Owre Tymes, and it features one comic per day translated into Middle English.

    New blog! New blog! 2008

  • Endless Japes -- A flyfisherman experiences withdrawal when his wife forbids him to go fishing with the guys.

    December 2009 2009

  • Endless Japes -- A flyfisherman experiences withdrawal when his wife forbids him to go fishing with the guys.

    My Reading Year 2009

  • Regarding Japes, I found it a little too precious.

    My Reading Year 2009

  • Endless Japes -- A flyfisherman experiences withdrawal when his wife forbids him to go fishing with the guys.

    Satirical 2009

  • It is, The Huntsman is sure, an egregious error so to do, for beneath the Jolly Japes veneer lurks a very well educated man with excellent presentational skills as his TV programme on Rome showed.

    Archive 2007-07-15 2007

  • Rex Murphy, weekend columnist in the Globe and Mail Aug 16 - Japes of Wrath - spent part of the power outage in Ontario running searches at Google for the name of the singer of "The Night the Lights Went out in Georgia".

    Internet News: Just Fun Archives 2009

  • It is, The Huntsman is sure, an egregious error so to do, for beneath the Jolly Japes veneer lurks a very well educated man with excellent presentational skills as his TV programme on Rome showed.

    Go, Boris, Go! 2007

  • The English have never learnt that we have the Advantage of 'em, especially by way of physical Strength & Vigour; and that there is a Price to be paid for the continual childish Japes & Jests they seem habituated to make at our Expense.

    "I encourage conservative and libertarian — or just mischievous — students to flood the system with complaints about anything that offends them." Ann Althouse 2008

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