I spoke Spanish when I was three, and then Maltese. I love dictionaries. I like foreigners. My dad moved every year before… — John Lloyd Copy Share Image
“As a baby, Oliver Cromwell was abducted by his grandfather’s pet monkey.” — John Lloyd Copy Share Image
“James Joyce married a woman named Nora Barnacle. She once said to him, ‘Why don’t you write books people can read?” — John Lloyd Copy Share Image
“Tour de France riders need to eat the equivalent of 27 cheeseburgers a day.” — John Lloyd Copy Share Image
“There is no known scientific way of predicting earthquakes. The most reliable method is to count the number of missing cats in the local… — John Lloyd Copy Share Image
Jokes are a lot about meaning. I think if we understand what jokes mean and why they work, we'd understand everything else. Genuinely I… — John Lloyd Copy Share Image
“About 200,000 academic journals are published in English each year. The average number of readers per article is five. The average numbers of… — John Lloyd Copy Share Image
“When John Hetherington ventured out in public wearing the first top hat, it was considered so shocking that children screamed, women fainted, and a… — John Lloyd Copy Share Image
“Robert Burns was never called Rabbie or Robbie—though he did occasionally call himself Spunkie.” — John Lloyd Copy Share Image
The universe is fractal. The closer you look at it, the more interesting it becomes. — John Lloyd Copy Share Image
