29-07-2019 17:09 via theguardian.com

The Fiver | Gareth Bale, the pushmi-pullyu and some basic maths

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Fans of the Doctor Dolittle books will be familiar with the pushmi-pullyu, an astonishing and now sadly extinct beast with two heads. When the eponymous doctor is first introduced to one, he is assured that it is a veritable cash machine. “This is the pushmi-pullyu, the rarest animal of the African jungles, the only two-headed beast in the world!” he’s told (by an unusually talkative monkey). “Take him home with you and y
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