The Life And Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

For those who are interested, the archive of my old webpage is now at http://www.rilstone-beta.talktalk.net/Archive/ Should anyone want to l...

So, is it strictly necessary for me to emigrate before I can apply to become an American?

Oh dear.

New edition of Church of England communion rite to read: "Christ has probably died! Christ is probably risen! Christ will probably come...

Now relax and enjoy your life. Unless what you enjoy is fairy tales, Harry Potter, or the X-Files, which may make your head explode or lead ...

The argument about god goes round and round Round and round Round and round The argument about god goes round and round All Day Long The bis...

Labeling buses as "atheist" is even worse than bus-abuse.

The idea of a triple decker bus needs to be demytholgized.

Typical, you wait ages for a deity and then three-in-one come at once.

There's probably no God. But there's definitely no bus.

And when they bore me overmuch, I will not shake mine ears, Recalling many thousand such whom I have bored to tears. And when they labour to...

...and when Bagpuss goes to sleep... RIP Oliver Postgate

Typical. You wait 450 years for a black man to be appointed to an important position, and then three come along all at once.

I was walking home the other day, and a total stranger came up to me and asked if I ever had a the kind of day which just makes me what to g...

A man dropping out of a talent show is not sensational.

I've been in London. The Tube is festooned with ten foot high photographs of 200 year old stuffed mocking birds, with some reasonably cl...

The Boston Tea Party has a very small supply of that special coffee that's harvested from cat-poo; its suppliers sold it to them at cost...

"It is emphasized that the "ship" may transport the four characters backwards or forwards, sideways into lesser or greater di...

It would also be interesting to teach more than one theory of creation. The dominant one in this culture happens to be the Jewish creation m...

When the pistols were ready, Blackbeard blew out the candle and crossing his hands discharged them at his company: Hands, the master, was sh...