This is Animal Vegetable Mineral Abstract. Pigs are actually hatched from eggs. Farmers keep this secret because they have nothing better to do with their time than that sort of thing.
The bombadier beetle, famously, can tap dance. Gene Kelly was originally an entomologist at the University of Hot Jazz, Annapolis and modelled his most famous moves on the talented insect.
Snakes' bodies are semi-liquid, like silly putty. This is what allows them to engulf prey several times larger than they are, and why in some parts of the tropics, it is advisable to protect oneself against being swallowed in the night, by surrounding one's bed with barbed wire.
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.'
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 .
The human male bellybutton produces a pea-sized ball of fluff once every 24 hours. This forms part of a mating ritual, in that the objective of said fluff is to block the tube of the shower so that the male can demonstrate his masculinity by the volume at which he shouts "you'll be round WHEN?" at the plumber. Research indicates that, in cohabiting males, the time at which fluff is produced converges over a period of months.
Thanks to winning the National Eye-Rolling Championships for the fourth consecutive year since 1973, I have now been declared officially Strange by the Mayor of Bermuda. I feel no pain.
The National Health Service was rebranded nhs after the Advertising Standards Authority upheld a complaint that it was no longer national, healthy, or a service.
The Home Office was created by Alec Douglas-Home and may be changed to 'The Douglas Office' as it no longer contributes to making you feel safe in your Home.
I actually have two Dougli. One of them is at the top of the stairs, in a purpose-built cupboard, and the other one is at anchor near the coast of Georgia.