The bogwopple is the tallest plant in South America, reaching a quite remarkable fifty miles in height. Bogwopples that have not been sensibly pruned have been known to bring down geostationary satellites.

(Readers may wonder how this can be, given that the geostationary zone is around 35,786 km above mean sea level. The answer is that spy satellites often can't see detail well enough and scoot in for a better gander.)

The equatorial plane is a daily circle-line style service calling at Gabon, Congo, Lake Victoria, Kenya, Southern Somalia, Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, Pulao Ternate, Isla Isabela, Ecuador, Southern Colombia and Northern Brazil.

When they announce on the Underground that 'unattended luggage may be taken away and destroyed without notice', they really mean 'there is a cannibal loose in the station. All LU staff to scarper immediately.'

"Mind the Gap" is a warning to clothes shoppers.

Bono is good.

[Kim] It is on Chanel 9

Since the 1st of April 1906, I have imploded a total of 97,363 times. I have achieved three implosions this morning already.

[UK] I've never heard it called that before.

Silly string is neither string, nor particularly silly.

The Advertising Standards Agency has decreed that New Labour can no longer claim to be 'New' as it has been around for ten years, and 'Labour' is inappropriate as the party has no interest in the working person. The party will henceforth be known as .