Word of the day

Exauctorate – to deprive of authority; dismiss from service; deprive of a benefice; discharge.

Yes Sir Humphrey

The job of a well conducted internal enquiry is to unearth a great mass of no evidence. If you say there was no intention, you can be proved wrong. But if you say the enquiry found no evidence of intention, you can't be proved wrong!

— Sir Humphrey Appleby (@YesSirHumphrey) May 24, 2021

Keep the boy in school

A tractor advertisement from 1921 reads: “Keep the boy in school—and let a Case Kerosene Tractor take his place in the field. You'll never regret either investment.” https://t.co/uotWCnKfmo pic.twitter.com/s4iCcWNLQK

— HumanProgress.org (@HumanProgress) July 3, 2018

Yes Sir Humphrey

The public doesn’t know anything about wasting government money. We're the experts!

— Sir Humphrey Appleby (@YesSirHumphrey) May 23, 2021

Saturday soapbox

Saturday’s soapbox is yours to use as you will – within the bounds of decency and absence of defamation. You’re welcome to look back or forward, discuss issues of the moment, to pontificate, ponder or point us to something of interest, to educate, elucidate or entertain, amuse, bemuse or simply muse, but not abuse.

A room without books is like a body without a soul – Cicero