Growing up I used to hear a sonic boom from Concorde each evening around nine (apparently it headed for the Bristol Channel and accelerated there). This was in mid Devon, so I expect it was pretty lo… (View Post)

The trick is to belt out “My hen lid a haddock on top of a tree” very confidently for the opening line and then mime the rest… Edit: mime, not mine! (View Post)

I saw a service sheet where the word “burning” in a hymn had been replaced with “buming”. The person responsible had to spend an hour before the service correcting each one by hand… (View Post)

Are we sure Elon Musk is not a Bond villain? I’ve seen a published, peer reviewed paper in an education journal where the results of a survey of less than a hundred people (of the “on a scale of 1 to… (View Post)

Wasn’t there a survey where a small but significant proportion said “don’t know” to the question “have you ever been decapitated?” (View Post)