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The telephone has a tendency to render the girl operators left-eared.
— The Nelson Evening Mail, July 4 1908
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Eight wickets for eight runs is the worst batting collapse in Twenty20 international cricket.
St Blaise is the patron saint of sore throats, and of knitting.
Estonian literature suffers from a dearth of stories by trucks drivers and/or prostitutes.
The presidential statues on Mount Rushmore were originally intended to extend down to the waist.
The Athenian philosopher Chrysippus died from laughing at his own jokes.
Richard Nixon once wrote a memo instructing his Secret Service detail to make sure no press took pictures of him with a drink in hand.
Tramps have heels like turnips.
Samuel Derrick, pimp, failed actor and master of the ceremonies at Bath, wrote a novel in the voice of Shakespeare’s ghost.
People now take in five times more information every day than they did thirty years ago.
Geoffrey Chaucer addressed his 1391 A Treatise on the Astrolabe to his ten-year-old son, Lewis.
The Japanese toilet industry has agreed to standardise complex bidet controls.
Calling somebody a pussy is not illegal.
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