monarchy – A S H Smyth

NEWS AT A GLANCE

A S H Smyth — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 12:43:10 +0000

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The veddahs, or wild hunters, of Ceylon mingle the pounded fibres of soft and decayed wood with the honey on which they feed when meat is not to be obtained.

— The Nelson Evening Mail, Monday, January 21 1907
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Samuel John Taylor Coleridge is the first descendant in more than two centuries to be named after his great-great-great-great-great-uncle the poet.

The Oxford prison is a boutique hotel.

There are no bears at London Zoo.

Native Americans do not care about the name of the Washington Redskins.

If the king laugh, all laugh.

Laser hair removal in Maradana might be cheaper than you think.

Pasternak means ‘parsnip’ in Russian.

Everything is rare somewhere.

Laurie Lee did not drink cider.

Map-makers include mistakes in their work to see if anyone is copying them.

25% of all Welsh males are related to the Welsh nobility.

Richard Branson eats his dinner in 45 minutes.

It takes nothing to cook up a thoroughgoing libel.
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NEWS AT A GLANCE

A S H Smyth — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 05:14:54 +0000

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During one year a high police official in New York was offered £120,000 in bribes to “look the other way.”

— The Nelson Evening Mail, Tuesday, June 22 1909
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The night is chilly to a man without clothes.

You get a free tote bag if you subscribe to almost anything.

Sussex folk have few superstitions.

There are four benefits to sleeping with a garlic clove under your pillow.

Half a ducat is what monarchs pay their whores.

Only one man ever shook Thomas Mann’s hand.

The English have always been uniquely torn.

There is an Irish cricketer named after Pocahontas.

Towns are attractive to the discontented.

Glasgow University is stamping out rabies.

Elephants use their long noses to climb trees (but only when nobody’s looking).

Because the Lonely Planet says it, doesn’t make it so.

The great game is finished when everyone is dead.
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NEWS AT A GLANCE

A S H Smyth — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 04:54:52 +0000

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The King has a collection of 170 curious walking sticks. One is made from one of the piles of old London Bridge.

— The Nelson Evening Mail, Wednesday, April 10 1907
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All the best people are born in October.

In Moldova (and Czechoslovakia), ‘carp’ is spelled ‘crap’.

In 1492 Native Americans discovered Columbus lost at sea.

Exultant language is reserved for the mountains.

Ye cannae shove yer granny off the bus.

You can get syphilis through wooden spoons.

Real men wear real clothes.

Termite baiting is currently in progress.

Max Hastings is the author of 27 books, most about conflict.

Not all of Mozart’s paintings were perfect.

Scotland have been knocked out of the Rugby World Cup.

One of the known properties of honey is that it drips.

Some Russian villages purposely elect the village idiot.
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