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Things I think or know about unicorns. A thread. — Paul Morriss (@paulmorriss) March 31, 2018 They seem to be quite popular these days (slippers, mugs, cakes). As well as sometimes meaning something mythical, they also seem to be treated as cute. — Paul Morriss (@paulmorriss) March 31, 2018 pic.twitter.com/4dMvbMEH0y — Paul Morriss (@paulmorriss) March 31, 2018 They aren't cute. They're horses WITH A SPIKE ON THEIR HEAD. Never mind the four hooved feet. — Paul Morriss (@paulmorriss) March 31, 2018 I only recently realised that the unicorn on the heraldic picture with a lion and a unicorn signifies Scotland, in the same way that a lion signifies England. Sorry Wales. (I like dragons.) — Paul Morriss (@paulmorriss) March 31, 2018 When I was in primary school we had two houses, lions and unicorns. I was in the unicorns. Unicorns are great. — Paul Morriss (@paulmorriss) March 31, 2018

A few years ago I heard a new song by the Beach Boys. I was never a great fan of their, though I did listen to a whole album by theirs on the way to a chess tournament (as you can imagine that was really wild), and I think Good Vibrations is a great song. However this new song left me distinctly underwhelmed. "That sounds like the Beach Boys", I thought, "what more would you expect?". I watched a programme on BBC4 recently about how these days there are so many bands that are getting back together, going on tour and sometimes releasing new singles. Blondie reformed 20 years ago. Do you feel old? — Paul Morriss (@paulmorriss) February 2, 2018 On that programme Stewart Copeland, the drummer with the Police, captured my thoughts about why new songs by old bands are rarely that good. He said that old songs have emotional baggage, like those crazy times on the chess tournament tour bus, and the new stuff doesn't evoke that emotion when you first hear it. ...