In the most recent Internet Oracularities:

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Found this one particularly humourous:


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Selected-By: Ian Davis

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply.
Your question was:

> Why is this a "gateway"?  Why not a "doorway" or an "archway"?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} The concept of a "gate" covers more territory. Think of floodgates, or
} of the Pearly Gates of Heaven and the Fiery Gates of Hell, or of the
} Unavoidable Gates of Microsoft.

When preschool entertainment and vaccination controversy collide | Dean Burnett | Science | guardian.co.uk

Simultaneously hillarious and serious writing by Dean Burnett in the Guardian:

When preschool entertainment and vaccination controversy collide

"Get Well Soon" on Cbeebies has recently come under fire from a group opposed to vaccination, for showing that vaccines are safe and necessary, a position that all medical experts agree with. Although it may seem somewhat ridiculous to get so irate about a TV show for children, many people feel passionate about children’s entertainment for numerous valid reasons. However, none of these reasons lend credibility to the anti-vaccination campaigners

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