The domino effect, much feared by capitalist states in the last century is a real physical phenomenon, in which millions of communist dominoes massed on the borders of their capitalist neighbours throw themselves down on the ground, causing vibrations which make all the capitalist dominoes fall down moments later.

Simon Bolivar suffered from a bad case of bolivs, hence his name.

An interregnum is a period in between Reginalds.

An optimist is a man who looks after your eyes and a pessimist is a man who looks after your feet.

Bumble bees exist in a state of quantum flux, so that they never exist in one place with more than a 50% probability.

The part of a bumble bee which is not in the place where the bee is observed is called the bumble be-not.

Kiwi fruit are rather misleadingly named, since they in fact ripen into wallabies.

Nothing is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

Lemons are made out of melons.

My stairs are made out of apples and pears.

Camberwell is radioactive again this afternoon.

There is no such thing as this-ness.

There's no this-ness like show-this-ness!

Loch Ness is the state of being like a Loch.

I regularly experience feelings of Lochness.

[Dunx] The latest theories in quantum apiology demonstrate that bumble bees cannot exist in a solitary state - they are always in a diapis form, known as the 2bee. On observing the diapis, the waveform collapses into either a present bee or the not present bee, in other words 2bee or not2bee.

Ibid is an unacknowledged genius. And Icelandic.

[Ibid] Ah - that explains a lot.

My parents were professional drinks coasters.

[Projoy] What a coincidence - my parents used to surf in a pint of Guinness left at the back table of the snug of the Kings Toenail pub in Wigan.

Spoons call lying snugly together "peopling"