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Laurence Brown

4 years

"The biggest difference between Britain and America is that Americans think one hundred years is a long time and the British think a hundred miles is a long way."

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

You don't ever imagine typing these words. My father died on Monday. He taught me that a sense of humour goes a long way; that there's value in optimism; and that few things are more useful than useless trivia. I couldn't be more thankful to be his son. He'll be missed immensely.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

3 years

It took thirty years, but Kevin Costner is no longer the worst Robin Hood.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

The numbers for this video have broken all kinds of 'Lost in the Pond' records. Thank you all for your kind words. Burdened by a stiff upper lip it's difficult to express in words how I feel at this moment. But I did it. I secretly became a US citizen:

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

8 months

Nine years ago today, I set up a little YouTube channel called 'Lost in the Pond.'

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

I just selected 'US citizen' on an application form. Feels real now.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

Naturally I have a stiff upper lip, but I must confess that it wobbled slightly upon reading the huge outpouring of well-wishes from you all. My dad would be confused and excited in equal measure. Thank you.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

Thankfully, my dad's sense of humour rubbed off on the rest of the family.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

I've had a busy month. I just bought my first American house:

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

Here's the thing you got to understand. If you've got something to say on this social media platform and you can not find a way to say it in fewer than two-hundred and eighty characters, then it just might be that you're not particularly cut out for a professional career in editi

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

8 months

I'm 42 today. Not even Richard the Lionheart made it this far.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

8 months

I don't often smile, but when I do, it's because my six-year-old niece drew THIS many pictures for my birthday specifically.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

Thanks, everyone. What do you say we double this?

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

Me and my dad at roughly the same age, about 35 years apart.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

The rumours are true. We finally made it to Vegas.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

It is my duty to report that—per Greenwich Mean Time—it is now officially my birthday. I hope you all read that in my voice.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

I am officially adding Adirondack chairs to my list of 100 greatest American inventions. The acquisition of my own set would firmly move them into the top 50.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

Happy birthday to Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Christina Ricci, and Tarah (my wife). When I was fifteen, I dreamed of marrying at least one of those people, so life has worked out pretty well, I'd say.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

Training a puppy at the same time as making a video about training a puppy is a) hard work, and b) the start of an existential crisis. Nonetheless, come say hello to Arthur.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

BREAKING: Twitter to be renamed MySpaceX.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

I just Googled a thing for research and found a ten-year-old blog post detailing precisely the information I needed. I wrote it.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

All of the big stuff has arrived. Can't wait to unpack it all seven months from now.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

BREAKING: 'Lost in the Pond' just had a video reach three million views for the very first time.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

Like most people alive today, I've never known a Britain without Queen Elizabeth II, which is a wild thing to say at 40. It's even more gobsmacking to think that—when I was born—she had already been on the throne nearly THIRTY years. Rest in peace, Your Majesty.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

I was in Grimsby this past week and raided the family photo albums. Here's me in 1984, refusing to let go of the seventies. My dog looks embarrassed.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

3 years

Born in Oak Park, Illinois, almost a hundred years ago. Wow.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

In the space of 38 years, England came up with three of the world's most recognizable bears—despite boasting no actual bears. Scientists don't know why.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

Just want to remind everyone that the tortoise on the left is still alive. Not bad, considering the photo was taken in 1882... WHEN HE WAS FIFTY.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

My YouTube channel just passed 400,000 subscribers. I would like to thank all of you for helping 'Lost in the Pond' finally exceed the population of Wichita. It's always been a dream of mine.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

3 months

This just happened.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

Someone turned thirteen today. My cat, obviously. I'm still twelve for another six months.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

His new favourite place.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

7 months

'Lost in the Pond' smashed its own records again in 2023, so unfortunately I'll have to keep doing this. • Views this year: 70 million (more than 3 times the previous record) • New subscribers: 235,000 (185% increase on previous record) • Awards lost: 1

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

8 months

Thus concludes Arthur's first birthday.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

The cat has been so excited with the new house that he's barely slept. To address this, I folded up his favorite blanket and popped it down in the living room. It sort of worked.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

Here we are, six months into the year, and 'Lost in the Pond' has been watched more times in 2023 than in any other year since we launched—and by some distance. Dear viewers, if you haven't patted yourselves on the back yet, do that now.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

We finally moved our cat into the new house. He has pretty much marked the entire building as his territory, and we're in the process of putting the house in his name.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

REPORT: Arthur has shown incredible progress. So far, in his first three days with us, he has learned to do the following: ○ Sit on command ○ Do his business outside (mostly now) ○ Find his way home ○ Force Laurence to run for the first time since 1998.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

He's suspicious of passersby. The puppy might be, too.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

He's already learned to sit on command. Might see if he can outsmart a computer next.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

I step away from the news for five hours and come back to discover that Russia is invading Russia.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

BREAKING: Susan.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

4 years

This is wild. My channel has now officially had more views in 2020 than the previous five years COMBINED. Can't decide if this is because of the pandemic, the fact that I've gone full-time, or because my mum just binge watches more. But I genuinely had to do a double-take.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

11 months

At least I now know how much stuffing is inside an average cushion.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

Here's my dad helping me and my brothers do something that would become outlawed twenty years later: feeding pigeons in London's Trafalgar Square. I'm the one in the middle (child, not pigeon).

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

I don't have anything useful to add to any of this. So here's my cat curled up in the sun.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

7 months

@NoContextBrits "The biggest difference between Britain and America is that Americans think one hundred years is a long time, and the British think a hundred miles is a long way." - someone.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

This is coming in handy.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

Before going outside, our puppy still struggles with getting his hind legs out of the crate. Before eating food that's just been prepared for him, our puppy has absolutely no problem getting his hind legs out of the crate.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

Imagine filing taxes as a self-employed person who both rented and owned a home in 2022, and who transitioned from alien resident to US citizen in that very year.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

My American sister-in-law to my wife just now: "My daughter (your niece) demanded to watch the Christmas episode of Peppa Pig three times today and is now calling Santa "Father Christmas." This, my friends, is how Britain will reclaim America.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

A historic ceasefire.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

3 years

Sorry to steal all the birthday attention away from you, Owen Wilson, but I'm forty today. Tone it down.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

5 months

Or else they'd be lost in the pond.

Terrible Maps

@TerribleMaps

5 months

More people live in the green area than the blue area

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

Having now moved homes in both a heatwave and thick snowfall, I'd take the second one every time. Walking outside into the winter chill after lots of heavy lifting is an oddly beautiful thing.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

Hi Twitter. I'm going to leave my dog with you all while I take care of laundry. He's especially fond of tree trunks.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

3 years

I have now gone a whole year without alcohol. Might celebrate with a glass of milk.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

3 years

I just took this from my balcony and I refuse to shut up about it.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

I went without a blue checkmark before it was cool.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

Farewell to Angela Lansbury, who—in addition to a stellar career—held British, Irish, and American citizenships. I believe my first introduction to her would have been Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

3 years

Today is the one-year anniversary of me going full-time on YouTube. Back then, even though I'd just passed 100,000 subs, I was hyper-aware of the risks—especially with the emerging pandemic. Yesterday, I passed 256,000 subscribers. Turns out this might be a proper job after all.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

I may have been naturalized in time for the New Year, but the knighthood confirmation from the new king "got lost in the post" again. Like mother like son

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

10 months

It's his bed now.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

My cat would like you all to know that today he turned twelve human years old.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

My American wife was just talking about 'caulk softener' and, my gosh, did I hear something else.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

9 months

Watching dogs use the sidewalk.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

My jumper/sweater fits again.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

4 years

Maybe it's because I'm from Britain, but I've noticed that hardly anyone is talking about the fact that the world's largest tea pot is located in West Virginia—a state shaped like a teapot.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

6 months

The rumours are true: I have more Twitter followers than Fuddruckers.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

Just a quick update to announce that Arthur is a very good boy. Back to work, everyone.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

I've just realized I need a US passport. Pronto.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

3 years

The wife and I have now had our second shot and jab respectively.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

The fourth of July is as American as apple pie so long as you forget that apple pie originated in England and that "fourth of July" is written in UK date format.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

7 months

The temptation to drop Steamboat Willie into 'Lost in the Pond' videos is inordinately strong.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

I've been a US citizen for eight months, and I'm already calling both of my pets 'buddy.' This naturalization stuff is effective.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

3 years

I did it. I made the worst Christmas card ever.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

Weird to hear the phrase "end of the second Elizabethan era."

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

Just got passed by two students who said, "he looks like an esteemed gentleman." They were referring to my puppy.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

Before adopting a puppy, I didn't realize HOW popular they are with human strangers. Must have been stopped thirty times in two hours at the outdoor mall. Hope in humanity restored.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

Since moving into my first American house, I've made a surprising number of friends. I've even remembered their names. They're all dogs.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

4 years

As a compromise, the wife and I watch neither American nor British New Year coverage, but Canadian. And... it's amazing. A performance was delayed—and I'm not making this up—because a polar bear invaded the stage.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

2 years

It's my wife's birthday today and we just came to a pleasing realization; her birthday is forty-three days from the start of the year and mine is forty-three from the end.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

3 years

I just reached 10,000 Twitter followers and my first thought was, what would Jesus do? And then I realized he'd feed half of you and I simply don't have the budget for that.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

9 months

Even the British can appreciate American rock bands like Jefferson Aeroplane, Grand Funk Railway, and Zed Zed Top.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

3 years

"The biggest difference between Britain and America is that Americans think a hundred years is a long time and the British think a hundred miles is a long way."

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

While my wife was out, my dog just led me to the front door from inside. Then he turned around to grab one of my wife's socks, dropping it next to the door. He jumped up at the door, excitedly, before repeating both actions. And then it hit me, and it was profound.

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Laurence Brown

@LostInThePondUS

1 year

My cat and I had different feelings about this father's day photo shoot.