Odd Facts

This aircraft was brand new, had never flown then it was pranged by a mixture of Arab aircrew and dodgy interlocks coming from bad design. Running the engines up on the test stand made sense until the flight computer decided that it was being set up to take off with the wrong flap settings and so on. The warning sound also made sense but a pilot turned it off so the computer decided that it was landing and took the brakes off. With engines at full throttle it rammed the barrier and wrote itself off a at cost of several million. But the Arabs have plenty of oil in the ground to buy more with.

African Infantryman Of The Year
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African Infantryman of the Year
I know we have seen some before but I was made aware of these amusing contenders.
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What can I add to this comedian?

The rifle is all right. It is just the rest.
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Anagrams
They can be fun. They can be political.

 

Ancient Wisdom
Is highly valuable. We have lost out in a big way by not remembering it. It sounds plausible but ask why it was forgotten in the first place. Then ask who resurrected these stories and whence. It is not always an excuse for making up stories for credulous mug punters. It needs a calm look before being taken seriously.

 

Beer In England
Some self-righteous rogue wants to stop us drinking. This piece was nearly put under Social Engineering.

 

Big Holes
Enormous holes might be a better title, but see for yourself and make sure you don't fall in.

 

Black invention myths
Are wishful thinking from men who know nothing about science and care less but do have a political agenda.

 

Britain's Secret Support For US Aggression In The Vietnam War
Some was known. Thompson was an expert on guerilla operations and advised them. This source does not approve of British [ minimal or non-existent ] brutality in Malaya. He seems to it think  happened. The SAS were in Vietnam although not in great strength, I think. Heath, a left wing swine was for it. It wasn't really very secret though - see Richard Noone, Expedition to Vietnam to buy the book.

 

Brazilia's biggest breasts to appear in horror films

They turned up in Pravda so they must be real. Sadly though Woman With World's Largest Breasts Fighting for Her Life - her surgeon fouled up on hygiene or whatever.

 

The Catacombs of Paris
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The Catacombs of Paris is [ sic ] a famous burial place in Paris, France. It is a network of subterranean tunnels and rooms located in what were Roman-era limestone quarries. The quarries were converted into a mass tomb near the end of the 18^th century. It is most widely known as "the catacombs", but the official title is "les carrières de Paris" or "the quarries of Paris." Though the official tour only passes through the quarries in the 14th arrondissement, there are actually quarries in the 5th, 6th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th arrondissements (the municipal boroughs of Paris).
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They had their own very private, nay, secret picture palace.

 

Circumcision
Is it a medical issue or a sociological issue? Jews do it which makes it religious peculiarity. Does that make it desirable? Not a chance.

 

Cracked
That is Cracked as in Crazy. It is certainly odd and often interesting.

 

Crocodile Pictures
See crocodiles doing what crocodiles do sometimes. One came unstuck big time.

 

C Squadron Man Nicked For Taking Peregrine Falcon Eggs
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An ex-soldier tried to smuggle 14 endangered peregrine falcon eggs worth £70,000 to a wealthy Arab in Dubai by hiding them in socks taped to his chest. Jeffrey Lendrum, 48, a former member of the Rhodesian SAS [ C Squadron ], strapped the individually wrapped eggs to his chest using bandages to incubate them during the flight...... In reality, Lendrum, who has two previous convictions for dealing in and possessing protected bird eggs, had used his military training to scale and abseil off cliff tops in Rhondda, south Wales, to retrieve the valuable eggs from the endangered species. Yesterday, the daredevil Zimbabwean businessman was jailed for 30 months after he pleaded guilty to one count of trying to export the eggs and another of illegally stealing them from a nest on the side of a mountain. The eggs, worth £70,000 on the black market in Dubai where falconry is a national sport, were still alive when they were seized by officers on May 3 this year........ Lendrum had previously been fined £500 with a further £500 costs in 1986 after he supplied six eagle eggs to a dealer in Stafford, Staffs. In 2002 he was also fined $7,500 Canadian dollars (£4,660) after he was caught with seven peregrine and gyr falcon eggs.
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C Squadron had some first class men when it was based in Salisbury, Rhodesia. It is a pity that they lost.

 

Darwin Awards
Are about stupidity and survival. They can become opposites. Stupidity is not an all black phenomenon but they do get awards.

 

Droit du Seigneur
Find out  the truth behind the rumour.

 

Great Shooter
Is the title. He wouldn't have done in the US Marine Corps. He wouldn't have sorted Kennedy out either.

 

Henry Root
The hoaxer extraordinaire.

 

Hoaxes
Some are fun. Others make serious and useful points about chancers on the make or whatever.

 

Japan admits dissecting WWII POWs
They are not nice people and it was Americans that they murdered thus.

 

English Scenes
Are rather good.

 

Meta Rules
Are rules about making rules and quite sensible.

 

Michael Gaughan, Irish Hunger Striker
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Michael Gaughan (5 October 1949 – 3 June 1974 was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) hunger striker who died in 1974 in Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight, England........

Gaughan's body was initially removed from London and on Friday, 7 June, and on Saturday, 8 June 1974, over 3,000 mourners lined the streets of Kilburn and marched behind his coffin, which was flanked by an IRA honour guard, to a requiem mass held in the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Kilburn......

On Saturday, his body was transported to Dublin, where again it was met by mourners and another IRA guard of honour who brought it to the Adam and Eve's Franciscan church on Merchant's Quay, where thousands filed past as it lay in state. The following day, his body was removed to Ballina, County Mayo. The funeral mass took place on 9 June, at St. Muredach's Cathedral, Ballina, and the procession then led to Leigue Cemetery, Ballina. Gaughan was given a full republican burial and was laid to rest in the Republican plot, where Frank Stagg would also join him after being reburied in November 1976. His funeral was attended by over 50,000 people and was larger than the funeral of former Irish president Éamon de Valera.........

His coffin was draped in the same Tricolour that was used for Terence McSwiney's funeral 54 years earlier, the same flag would later be used in the funeral of James McDade who was a IRA member killed in a premature explosion in Coventry..
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It was all about nationalism. The Irish want to run the place. The Irish do run it. The Irish made a pig's ear of it. Their problem, not ours.

 

Murphy's Law
Was devised by Captain Murphy when things went wrong. He was a pilot who went into air safety and not amused by cheerful statements of his rule.

 

Quotes
Sometimes a remark is worth remembering. Here are some that might help you understand life better.

 

Russian Driving Is Seriously Bad

 

Serial Litigants
When someone sues you it is worth knowing if it is a habit. Various chancers make money this way. Some of them are major nuisances.

 

Shangri La
Is a mythical Paradise in the area of Tibet. It comes from a book by James Hilton.

 

Spam
It can be dealt with.

 

Tech Tips
Computer problems? Join the club then go to the experts.

 

The Top Ten Places You Can't Go
One or two are obvious. Others are surprising. They don't mention the Archbishop of Canterbury's secret library in Lambeth Palace but there are some bonus extras.

 

World Clock
It tells us everything. The world's population NOW is just one example.

 

ZYKLON B and chlorine were invented by Fritz Haber, a Jew
Industrial chemistry was big in Germany and some of the talent was Jewish. Zyklon B which translates into English as Cyclone B was an industrial poison used for delousing in a time when fewer people had access to first class hygiene. Albeit this source skates over the Zyklon B but tells us that he did invent poison gas. His wife was so impressed that she topped herself. The point about Fritz Haber is rather amusingly confirmed by the Wikipedia, a Jewish propaganda operation.
PS Zyklon B is still available but under a different name. Don't make jokes when you buy it.
PPS It seems that he oversaw the development of the cyanide gas formulation Zyklon B, which was used as an insecticide, especially as a fumigant in grain stores.