It was back in 1844 that the Victorian poet and satirist James Payn wrote : “I’ve never had a piece of toast particularly long and wide, but fell upon a sanded floor, and always on the buttered-side.” Depending on whether you are an optimist or a pessimist this poetic generalisation may […]
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When eggs were falling
“EGGS ARE FALLING“, says an ambiguously worded headline in the March 12, 1910 issue of the Lawrence Daily World. BONUS: The much later development of the square egg BONUS (and possibly bogus, despite and because of which it drew angry letters from the same person): Experiment: Which Came First — The Chicken Or the Egg?
Gov’t Falling Coconut Advice Underscored
Knowingly or not, Indian government officials acted in accord with published medical advice when they ordered recently that coconuts be removed from the trees at Mumbai’s Gandhi museum for fear that a nut would descend on to the head of President Obama. Should those officials wish to more fully educate the public, they could distribute […]