¹ Toni
"...can you tell which twin is being attacked by the Toni?" refers to, on the one hand
an advertisement for the Toni Home Permanent, and on the other to Hitchcock's Psycho
where the homicidal maniac Norman Bates was played by Tony Perkins---well I liked the pun!

² Annie
"... Alvy Singer told Annie" Annie Hall of course!

³ Ormulum
"... just how exciting the Ormulum is" The Ormulum is a twelfth century poem, widely considered to be the most boring ever (see essay Of Nice Ormin). Surprisingly there is a whole site devoted to him at The Ormulum Project!

¹ The m/s is a genuine, real one (and actually is in CUL--though one can't really say that it's been all that unregarded).
The proper words are:
Me lykyþ ever þe lenger þe bet/by Wynchestyr þat ioly cite./ Þe toun ys good & wel yset,
Þe folk ys cumly on to see./ Þe ayr is gode boþe yn & out./ Þe cyte stont bineþ an hylle.
Þe ryvers rennyþ al about./ Þe toun ys rullyd uppe skylle.

Here is what the whole page of real m/s looks like, and the first line can be interpreted like this:

² Here is a more literal modernization:
Me lykyþ ever þe lenger þe bet
I am always pleased (the longer the better)
by Wynchestyr þat ioly cite.
By Winchester that attractive city
Þe toun ys good & wel yset,
The city center is pleasant and well situated
Þe folk ys cumly on to see.
The inhabitants are of an attractive mien too
Þe ayr is gode boþe yn & out.
Many buildings are air conditioned and the air quality index is good
Þe cyte stont bineþ an hylle.
The city has excellent vistas of the adjacent uplands
Þe ryvers rennyþ al about.
There is good access to riverine facilities both for commercial and leisure activities
Þe toun ys rullyd uppe skylle.
No one has yet found out about the Mayor's little peccadillo.

¹ Liberum arbitrium: Thus (probably) getting the drop on Thomas Aquinas by a good 250 years, though it's not at all clear that he differentiated it from voluntas.

² Ooh! Ooh!! I managed Polyptoton twice in two sentences!*

³ Reconstruction: Due to a limited budget and the fact that even these guys** weren't daft enough, the snow has been left out of the photo.

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*   Bloody Hell and there's a third one---I should give up while I'm still ahead.

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¹ 2132 Edgemere Drive: Strangely our Grandma Pearl Howard lived in this very spot some centuries later.

² Had to name: Those of you who know your Tallchap will remember that in his great poem the eponymous Mr Watha had the basic Adamic function of onomasticism.