#TodayILearned that the ancient Aztec unit of drunkenness was a rabbit
So being mildly tipsy was to be as drunk as one rabbit, being totally plastered might be being as drunk as 400 rabbits
(via @InkyFool)
Some parliamentary traditions leave me cold, but I’ve always liked the one about a new Speaker being dragged to the Chair
RT @PolhomeEditor: This is the sort of gaffe that loses elections.
I know JC has a big-ish majority, but I wonder what odds you could get on both Corbyn and Johnson losing their seats? www.standard.co.uk/news/poli…
RT @Victoriamary: Shane and I are terribly sad to hear of the loss of Gay Byrne, he was eternally kind and supportive and thoughtful and co…
“In the song [You’re So Vain], hopefully, the person could wink at himself in the mirror because he got the joke”
I hope not
There are quite a few players embodying Frank Lampard’s Chelsea revolution though
#KTBFFH
2015: number of new homes promised by @conservatives - 60,000
2019: number of new homes built by @Conservatives - 0
I’m wondering if ‘Thatcherism’ has any great emotional resonance to anyone under 40?
#TodayILearned twitter.com/RevRichar…
#VoteStella
stellacreasy @stellacreasy EVERY ADVERT ON TELLY IS ABOUT CHRISTMAS! We haven’t even had bonfire night people! this is definitely a law I’m going to follow up if re-elected …..#keepxmasatxmas!
My favourite bookshop in the whole wide world has moved
Both learnings are from @MaryNorrisTNY’s book
#TodayILearned that the ‘were’ in ‘If I were a rich man’ is in the subjunctive tense
During the Civil War, a chap called John Bond called Sherborne ‘the cradle of cavalierism’, and ' the first western nest of the cockatrice’s eggs'
It always seems quite a nice place
#TodayILearned that the word iridescent comes from Iris, the Greek goddess of rainbows
#OnThisDay in 2005 Van Morrison played at @CityHallSalis salisburyandstonehenge.net/on-this-d…
#OnThisDay in 1885 Bishop Wordsworth was enthroned
RT @neal_sousbois: Swing Low Sweet Chariot has to be the worst song sung at any sporting event ever