Salman Rushdie
also came up with the "naughty but nice" slogan for fresh cream cakes. This clearly didn't upset those sensitive muslim chappies sufficiently to issue a fatwah on that occasion.

Babies under 3 months old can only concentrate on 2 things at a time, which explains why, if you pat their back and talk to them they can't concentrate on crying too (that's the theory, anyway).

Horses cannot vomit, so don't take one out on the piss.

Bono wrote the U2 song "stuck in a moment that you can't get of" to cheer his mate Michael Hutchence up. Oh well...

The capital of Burkina Faso is called Ouagadougou.

And the bestest one of all:

The football game "Subbuteo" is so called because the game's inventor originally wanted to call it "hobby", which had been registered already, so he looked in the dictionary under "hobby" and discovered that it was also a small bird of prey, like a little buzzard (latin name, buteo buteo). The hobby's latin name is (falco) subbuteo(lesser buzzard).
Or something like that, anyway.
( BobbyParadise, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 12:07, Reply)