special one today.....all dogs are mongrels...they have a common ancestor from approx 30-50k years ago. If you needed any confirmation of how dim the eejits are that pay stupid money for a "ozlemdog"...
Putin is about to start WW3, the Yanks and NATO are preparing what to do when he does. There must be hundreds or stories surrounding this yet what are our media obsessed with? An 18 month old birthday...
The US national anthem is based on a British drinking song by Ralph Tomlinson Circa 1775 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IPLFLH3BHU The words used of course are those written by Francis Scott Key...
If you google "javelin World Record" you get 98.48 from Jan Zelezny in 1996, however that's only the record since the IAAF felt compelled to change the centre of gravity of the javelin to make it come...
3 times world champion and all round F1 legend Jackie Stewart is also an Olympian. In Rome 1960 Sir Jackie represented GB in the Trap Shooting, widely regarded as the favourite at the time he had a...
of course we all know the first man on the moon was Neil Armstrong but did you know why? It wasn't pre ordained it was because the design of the lunar module put him nearest the door, it could just as...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60080080 ...leaving aside the whole mask effectiveness thing, why would you turn a plane around and inconvenience all the passenger for one dissenter? Just...
Topical one today, the Whips are in the news at the moment. The term originates from "Whipper-in" in Fox Hunting. His job is to keep the pack of hounds together. Analogous with what the party whips...
In nautical terminology, the "hook" was the anchor and the sling was a sort of holder for the anchor. So Sling yer ook, is saying put the anchor in the sling, ie go away!...
Musical one today. The Neil Diamond song, Cracklin Rosie is actually about Rose Wine. Diamond got the idea from a story about an Indian tribe in Canada who had more men than women. On Saturday nights...
Venus is very similar to Earth in Size and construct but that's where the similarity ends. It has suffered a runaway greenhouse effect and rains sulphuric acid, it's mean surface temperature is hotter...
The highest break in snooker is generally regarded to be 147, however with a 16 red clearance it is theoretically 155. The first 16 red clearance in a tournament, the World Championships, no less was...