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.
Alan Bennett has just announced a sequel to The History Boys. The new play will be called The Geography Boys, with a rumoured fourteen other curriculum subjects to follow, including The Home Economics Boys, starring Jamie Oliver.
Bacteria and viruses are so small that they can travel backwards in time. This is why you should wash your hands before you use a toilet as well as after.
In her most extravagant period, Imelda Marcos had a dress made of a continual cascade of rice pudding, which was pumped out of her collar from a reservoir she carried between her knees, and fell gracefully downwards, covering her naked body from view. This reservoir had to be continually replenished by manservants throughout the evening, and by the time she left the room, more than two thousand litres of rice pudding had been discharged on to the floor and the head chef had resigned.
If severed, the human penis is able to live independently of the body for around two months, including the generation of a separate income if absolutely necessary.
The custom of sending Christmas cards and presents is an old pagan ritual that can be traced back to Roman times, when people would send requests written on wax tablets for any money they felt was morally owed them. The threat would be accompanied by a verse of praise asking the appropriate god to favour the request and punish the stony-hearted. with a picture of what might happen were the request refused.
Mauve was never a colour before 1952, when sufficient fluoride in the water altered humans' wave-length perception. This is why you never see 'mauve' in third-world countries.
[Valentin] A quick search of Google or Wikipedia should will give you some more background including his name and details of his endurance records he held. The one about calenders suprised even me.
Rap music was never intended to be a genuine musical genre. It was created, partly as a joke, partly as an experiment by some geeky Cambridge students in the 60's on the grounds it was ironic - they modelled it deliberately to be music that could never possibly "catch on".
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.