#donald bain

[thunderstruck9]

Donald Bain (British, 1904-1979), Steeplechase, 1964. Oil on board, 10 x 13 in.

[tennants-in-a-trenchcoat]

Do people still make powerpoint memes?

[witchee1014]

Rum and Razors: A Riveting Murder Mystery Set in Paradise

In "Sleuthing in the Sun: Reviewing Rum and Razors by Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain," we delve into the latest installment of the popular Murder She Wrote book series. Set on the idyllic island of St. Thomas, Rum and Razors follows mystery writer Jessi

https://amzn.to/41lBKMC This post contains affiliate links. When you buy from my links, I earn a commission. So, thank you. Rum and Razors is the third installment in the beloved Murder She Wrote book series, and it does not disappoint. Written by Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain, the book takes readers on a thrilling journey to the sunny shores of St. Thomas, where mystery writer Jessica…

[ghostofpatrickshand]

some david tennant thoughts

alex hardy: sad scottish noises

10: hyper dumbass babygirl genius

14: GAY GAY GAY, DILF

casanova: the horniest of bisexuals

campbell bain: happy sunshine baby must be protected

crowley: snakey baby

harry watling: if bad decisions was a person

cale erendreich: fucked up serial killer

emmett carver: scary angry american

will burton: sad dad, gets away with murder 💪💪

donald peterson: poor baby tackled by children

peter vincent: sexy leather clad motherfucker

peter carlisle: horny little shit

[coupleofdays]

Today I learned about the "Knuth reward check", a check with a computer-related amount (usually $2.56), awarded by famed computer scientist Donald Knuth to anyone finding errors in his publications. It's considered a great prize among computer nerds.

I would like to think that at least one of the ENCOM trio would have gotten one at some point. Flynn would probably frame his and hang it on display for everyone to see at the arcade. Alan would probably be a little more humble, maybe sticking it up on the wall of his cubicle? And I think it would be funny if Lora just shrugged and went to cash hers in, to Flynn's and Alan's horror.

[cosybookclub]

Murder, She Wrote

Jessica Fletcher's business trip turns murderous when she discovers her mentor has been stabbed to death.

Jessica Fletcher is off to London to deliver the keynote address at a mystery writers convention. She's also looking forward to seeing her mentor, Marjorie Ainsworth, who will be hosting a party at her country estate to celebrate her latest book. Marjorie is the grand dame of mystery writing but she's in frail health.

The routine business trip for Jessica becomes murderous when she discovers Marjorie stabbed to death in her own bedroom.

[gameofthrones2020]

Why People Can’t Trust the Media

Why People Can’t Trust the Media and why its partly due to people not doing research and partly due to new technology

Within the past 20 years, our societies around the globe, particularly in Global North and developed nations, have become incredibly uniform, killing off a diversity of thought and culture and, in some ways, variety in how we live our lives. Just take a walk in your local public centres, places of gathering, particularly in cities, and you will witness how uninformed people have…

[deadpresidents]

You're suggesting that I read a book about LBJ???

Should I pick one from this bookcase, or the other FULL bookcase I have that entirely consists of books about Lyndon Baines Johnson and/or the Johnson Administration?

The idea that Lyndon Johnson had to be "dragged to sign the civil rights act by a republican congress" is as laughable as the claim that Donald Trump did more for Black people than any President since Lincoln. Republicans were absolutely essential to passing LBJ's multiple pieces of significant civil rights legislation but Lyndon Johnson was the driving force behind every civil rights bill that he signed into law. Any brief study of the Civil Rights Movement or time spent listening to the tapes of President Johnson's phone calls tirelessly working to win Republican votes clearly tells the actual story.

The passage of LBJ's most important civil rights legislation -- particularly the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 -- was the result of LBJ's incredible mastery of the legislative process and fierce determination to enact meaningful civil rights laws. And if you don't want to take my word for it, go back and read what Black leaders since Martin Luther King Jr. have been saying for nearly 60 years about LBJ's essential role as a leader and as a partner in getting real legislation pushed through Congress and formally signed into law. John F. Kennedy couldn't have accomplished what LBJ did on civil rights and there's not a Republican President who would have even tried.

There are plenty of subjects that I am not even close to being an expert about, but I can guarantee you that I've studied Lyndon Johnson extensively and his accomplishments in domestic policy -- specifically civil rights -- is one area where I know what I am talking about.

[ineffable-ezra]

Queer DT headcanons

Crowley- genderfluid, arospec, acespec, panromantic any prns

The Doctor- genderfluid abrosexual abroromantic

Alec Hardy- transmasc aroace

Barty Crouch Jr- transmasc bi

Doug McLeod- he/they nonbinary biromantic asexual

Phileas Fogg - panromantic asexual

Ginger Littlejohn- repressed homosexual

Simon Yates - bisexual cis man

Rex Alexander - gay ace

Kilgrave - STRAIGHT BC I HATE HIM

Scrooge Mcduck- bisexual he/him nonbinary

Campbell Bain - he/they demiboy pansexual

Peter Vincent - any pronouns nonbinary nblw

Harry Watling- repressed bisexual

Roderick Peterson - straight

Donald Peterson - very bi

Casanova - like painfully bi

Peter Carlisle - SOMEHOW EVEN MORE BISEXUAL

If you think of any more, let me know

[darkmaga-retard]

The theme of the Democratic National Convention’s first night was “Democrats Donald Trump has vanquished.” The night’s keynotes were delivered by two of them. Hillary Clinton, the nominee who fell to Trump in 2016, gave a rousing, passionate prime-time address. She’s out for vengeance, however vicarious it must be. Madam Secretary will never be Madam President, but she thirsts to see Kamala Harris do what she could not and stop Trump.

Yet Trump also knows a thing or two about revenge, and he’s already requited himself against the only opponent ever to beat him. That was Joe Biden, whose career Trump brought to a prompt end after their first—and only—in-person rematch on June 27 this year. Yes, Trump defeated Biden—not just on that fateful night, when Biden’s wounds were mostly self-inflicted, but in the following weeks when Trump’s advantage over Biden became so commanding that the incumbent president was forced out of the race. 

Not since 1968, when the tag team of Eugene McCarthy and Robert F. Kennedy Sr. deterred Lyndon Baines Johnson from seeking re-election, had a sitting president been beaten like this, before the general election even began. And while Johnson’s heart might not have been set on his seeking a second term, Biden’s very much was. Trump destroyed his dream.

The Joe Biden who addressed the convention last night was already a ghost, one fated to haunt the White House until January 20. He’s an angry, impotent spirit. Heedless of his naked hypocrisy, he linked Trump to neo-Nazis in one breath and insisted in the next that he had been a president for all Americans, “demonizing no one.” On the contrary, he demonized Republicans relentlessly, not just last night but throughout his administration. “Democracy has prevailed, democracy has delivered, and now democracy must be preserved!” he shouted—after he, the democratically chosen nominee of the Democratic Party’s voters, handed the nomination over to a replacement who had never won so much as a single presidential primary. 

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Donald Currie Caskie was born on May 22nd 1902 at Bowmore, Islay, his exploits during WWII earned him the nickname "The Tartan Pimpernel"

Dr Caskie was the minister at the Scots Kirk in Paris when the Germans invaded France in 1940 and frequently denounced the Nazis from the pulpit which meant he had more to fear than many after the invasion.

He was repeatedly urged to return home and after the Dunkirk evacuation he locked the church on the 9th of June of that year and joined the mass exodus of Paris, heading south.

The crofter's son from the inner Hebridean island of Islay, said to have had the Celtic gift of second sight, endured weeks of hardship to get to Bayonne but in the end rejected the chance of safe passage on the last ship bound for England on the grounds that his place should be given to a wounded man instead.

He walked to a village called Cambo les Bains where he met friends from Paris purely by chance and they all drove to the port city of Marseille - leaving just hours before the Germans arrived.

Dr Caskie believed that God had commanded him to stay in France and help stranded British subjects and he was warned that he must only engage with civilians and would be arrested if he assisted servicemen.

He ran a Seaman's Mission but was living a double life and secretly helped airmen, seamen and soldiers, under the noses of the Vichy Police, escape the country across mountains into Spain or by sea in a submarine or ship.

Dr Caskie, a Gaelic speaker whose codename was Monsieur Le Canard – Donald Duck – was eventually recruited by British Intelligence officers and was told that his mission was the last link of a chain of safe houses that they had set up, which stretched from Dunkirk to Marseille.

One of the soldiers Dr Caskie helped was Captain Derek Lang who was captured at St Valery-en-Caux in Normandy along with 10,000 soldiers from the 51st Highland Division, mostly Scots, 81 years ago this weekend.

He managed to escape the Germans and fled to Marseille where he recalled meeting a "courageous and fearless" Church of Scotland minister.

"Evil in war produces heroes and Donald Caskie is one of these," wrote the army officer in the forward to the Tartan Pimpernel – a book he said moved him to tears.

Caskie spoke Gaelic to confuse German spies and inquisitors, but was betrayed by an English double agent. He evaded the firing squad and then restarted his activities in Grenoble. There he again repeatedly escaped the clutches of the Nazis until he was sentenced to death - when the intervention of a German pastor had his sentence commuted and he saw out the war in a PoW camp. His awards were: OBE, MA and O.C.F.(an honour bestowed by the French government). The OBE was awarded by the king for services to his country.

The medal, along with other personal artefactcs, is on display in the church. at Bonore. His autobiography, The Tartan Pimpernel was published in 1951.

[tennants-in-a-trenchcoat]

Tennants as troubled birds

[witchee1014]

A Thrilling Mystery Adventure: A Review of "Murder, She Wrote: Gin and Daggers" by Donald Bain

https://amzn.to/3lwLTWx “Murder, She Wrote: Gin and Daggers” is a thrilling mystery novel written by Donald Bain and is the first book in the “Murder, She Wrote” series. The book follows the adventures of Jessica Fletcher, a bestselling mystery novelist and amateur sleuth, as she travels to London to deliver a keynote address at a convention for the International Society of Mystery Writers. The…

[kuri-crocus]

Results: A David Tennant bf/gf for a Michael Sheen character

I made a result post for the GO3 wishes. So here are the results for the Good Omens Extended Universe shipping polls as well. These are the results for Michael's characters. Here are the results for David's characters. It doesn't mean to be the end: I am still open for requests for other characters...

1. Aro -279 votes-

Most popular match: Peter Vincent (35.8%)

2. Barty Crouch Jr. (30.5%), 3. Crowley (11.5%), 4. Giacomo Casanova (8.6%), 5. Richard II (7.5%), 6. The Doctor  (5.7%) 0.4% voted for other characters (not specified)

2. Lucian -262 votes-

Most popular match: Peter Vincent (43.1%) again!

2. Barty Crouch Jr. (18.3%), 3. Crowley (9.9%), 4. Kilgrave/Kevin Thompson and the Doctor (9.5% each), 5. Giacomo Casanova (6.1%), 6. Campbell Bain  (2.3%) 1.1% voted for other characters (not specified)

3. Miles Maitland -241 votes-

Most popular match: Campbell Bain (43.1%)

2. Ginger Littlejohn (22.4%), 3. Phileas Fogg (15.4%), 4. The Doctor (11.6%), 5. Crowley (10%), 6. Peter Vincent (5.4%) 7. Jean-François Mercier (4.6%) 8. Hector Heldane (0.8%) 2.1% voted for other characters (not specified)

4. Martin Whitly -190 votes-

Most popular match: Alec Hardy (33.2%)

2. Kilgrave/Kevin Thompson (22.1%), 3. Cale Erendreich (17.4%), 4. Harry Watling (7.4%), 5. R.D. Laing (6.3%), 6. Tom Kendrick (5.3%) 7. Will Burton (2.6%) 8. Edgar Fallon (2.1%) 3.7% voted for other characters (not specified)

5. William Boldwood -157 votes-

Most popular match: Phileas Fogg (49%) 

2. Arthur Eddington (12.7%), 3. Davina (11.5%) 4. Crowley (10.2%) 5. Giacomo Casanova (7.6%) 6. The Doctor (7%) 7. Piers Pomfrey (0.6 %) , 1.3% voted for other characters: Alec Hardy

6. Thorne Jamison -129 votes-

Most popular match: Peter Vincent (28.7%) again, again!

2. Crowley (17.8%), 3. Ghost of Christmas Present (16.3%), 4. Campbell Bain  (13.2%), 5. John Helm (11.6%), 6. Peter Carlisle (4.7%) 7. Arthur Eddington (3.9%) 3.9% voted for other characters: Brendan Block and Roderick Peterson

7. Joe -117 votes-

Most popular match: Campbell Bain (58.1%) also again!

2. Davina (18.8%), 3. Alec Hardy and Crowley (11.1% each), 0.9% voted for other characters (not specified)

8. Roland Blum -97 votes-

Most popular match: Aiden Hoynes (26.8%)

2. Alec Hardy (19.6%), 3. Kilgrave/Kevin Thompson (15.5%), 4. Harry Watling (12.4%), 5. Cale Erendreich (8.2%), 6. Will Burton (7.2%) 7. Walt Jodell (5.2%) 5.2% voted for other characters (not specified)

9. Bill Masters -90 votes-

Most popular match: Alec Hardy (47.8%) again...

2. Davina (16.7%), 3. R.D. Laing (13.3%), 4. The Doctor and Crowley (7.8% each), 5. Campbell Bain (2.2%) 4.4% voted for other characters (not specified)

10. Robbie Ross -81 votes-

Most popular match: Giacomo Casanova (40.7%)

2. Phileas Fogg (24.7%), 3. Arthur Eddington (21%), 4. Crowley (8.6%), 5. Jean-François Mercier (4.9%)

11. Malcolm Howe -62 votes-

Most popular match: Cale Erendreich (32.3%)

2. Harry Watling and Barty Crouch Jr. (21% each), 3. Davina (11.3%), 4. Brendan Block (6.5%), 5. Peter Carlisle (3.2%) 4.8% voted for other characters: 10th Doctor

12. Harry Jones -45 votes-

Most popular match: Peter Carlisle (31.1%)

2. Davina (28.9%), 3. Walt Jodell (15.6%), 4. James Arber (13.3%), 5. John Helm (11.1%)

13. Wesley Snipes -42 votes-

Most popular match: Chris and Peter Carlisle (23.8% each)

2. Doug McLeod (21.4%), 3. Walt Jodell (16.7%), 4. Kilgrave/Kevin Thompson (9.5%) 4.8% voted for other characters (not specified)

14. Tony Towers -39 votes-

Most popular match: Ghost of Christmas Present (28.2 %)

2. The Doctor and John Helm (20.5% each), 3. Roderick Peterson, and Donald Peterson (15.4 % each)

15. Steven Arthur Younger -34 votes-

Most popular match: Jean-François Mercier (29.4 %)

2. Kilgrave/Kevin Thompson and Cale Erendreich (23.5 % each), 3. Barty Crouch Jr. (17.6 %), 4. Brendan Block (5.9 %)

16. Tony Blair -32 votes-

Most popular match: Aiden Hoynes (40.6%) again

2. Will Burton (25%), 3. Rex Alexander (21.9%), 4. Roderick Peterson (9.4%) 4.8% voted for other characters: Alec Hardy and Peter Vincent

17. Colin Lawes -32 votes-

Most popular match: Peter Carlisle (25%) again No. 2,5

2. Donald Peterson and James Arber (18.8 % each), 3. Walt Jodell, Doug McLeod and Simon Yates (9.4% each) 9.4% voted for other characters: Campbell Bain

18. The Bat -31 votes-

Most popular match: Piers Pomfrey and Barty Crouch Jr. (35.5 % each)

2. Cale Erendreich and Roderick Peterson (12.9 % each) 3.2% voted for other characters (not specified)

19. Austen Blume -29 votes-

Most popular match: Simon Yates (24.1%)

2. Walt Jodell and James Arber (20.7 % each), 3. John Helm (17.2 %) 4. Emmett Carver (10.3 %) 5. Roderick Peterson (6.9%), 6. Alan Hamilton (0%)

20. Slavkin O'Hara -21 votes-

Most popular match: Dave Tiler (28.6%)

2. Simon Yates and Donald Peterson (23.8 % each), 3. James Arber 14.3%), 4. Doug McLeod (9.5%)

If you scrolled until here you deserve this fact: Until now we have 6 mutual couples where the character won the other ones poll and vice versa: Aro x Peter Vincent, Alec Hardy x Bill Masters, Campbell Bain x Miles Maitland, Roland Blum x Aiden Hoynes, Giacomo Casanova x Robbie Ross and Peter Carlisle x Colin Lawes!

[princeloww]

hey! what's your favorite david tennant character? i know its a tough question but i'd like to hear your reasoning!!

Oh my god, I'm so sorry I missed this!!! It's been soo long I'm sorry

I think I'm gonna have to say Alec Hardy. I think @davidtennantgenderenvy put it very well in their DT video essay; to me, Broadchurch sort of marks an important shift in DT characters and roles, and I think that's just really interesting.

On a character level, I just love him so much. He's so packed full of angst and whump and I eat that shit up. Sickness, trauma, social-awkwardness, wet cat syndrome, sad little dad? He's a fanfic writers ideal muse. The grip him and Ellie had on me was so crazy -- on my first watch I was late to school because I kept trying to watch more of it in the morning. It was like I COULD NOT set it down.

My close second is Crowley, because he kicked off my David Tennant disease and I'm grateful for that. Close third Campbell Bain. Honourable mentions: Tenth doctor (obvious reasons), Donald Peterson (first exposure)

I hope that's a good answer lol. Sorry for taking a month to answer it

(This is unforgivable, though ^)