Dinosaur stampede

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22382503

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Best anagram in the world

11 + 2 = 12 + 1

eleven plus two = twelve plus one

. elevenplustwo
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…and the numbers each side of the sum are also an anagram

Chess club chocolates

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Understatement as art

[Radio 5]
Interviewer: I suppose one of the questions people of my generation always ask your generation is, weren’t you all very frightened?
Veteran Merchant Seaman: No, no, not frightened… It went on too long for that… Of course, there were moments of concern.
Interviewer: I expect one of those ‘moments of concern’ was when your ship was torpedoed just leaving Gibraltar carrying thousands of tons of ammunition and petrol? VMS: Yes, we had to evacuate pretty quickly…

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A useful caution against hasty action

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Criminals are getting bolder I see

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Oops

“…future historians note that one of the core empirical points providing the intellectual foundation for the global move to austerity in the early 2010s was based on someone accidentally not updating a row formula in Excel”

http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/researchers-finally-replicated-reinhart-rogoff-and-there-are-serious-problems

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