News for the Day here was news from the day of the UK general election:
At the time of going to press, there seems to be a recount for Nigel Farrage’s attempt to win the new South Thanet Fascist constituency so, to ease the tension – and move back to my non-political agenda, I bring you bits of unrelated trivia I learned whilst trying to avoid the election on TV/radio last night
i) The Gavel – the hammer used by judges to call order in court is not used in English courts.
This has appeared in TV crime/legal programmes for my whole life which are just a fraud
ii) First use of OMG for Oh My God was by the First Sea Lord during the First World War – thus beating Hannah Montana by nearly a century.
And is that her real name by the way – and if so, what were Mr and Mrs Montana senior thinking of?
iii) There is a woman who works for the American arm of a company a friend of mine works at called Ginger Bitz.
This begs the same question of her parents or, alternatively whether she actually married a Mr Bitz and it is self inflicted. In the latter case, Mr Bitz must be quite something for marrying him to be worth a lifetime of that name
I didn’t learn this last night – just seemed to follow on from point (ii) *
iv) Seems there is an increasingly long list of celebrities who are 1 year younger than me. Clearly this suggests I’m becoming paranoid about my age and noticing more.
The latest is Matt LeBlanc who plays Joey in Friends.
I think I can cling on to the fact that he appears to have greyer hair than me, and set aside the fact that his hair is not falling out and that he is rich and famous and women all love him.
I could go on here….
* I don’t think this is sexist– a vaguely similar line could have worked just as well for a man.
Nevertheless, if you’re reading this on a work computer, I urge you not to Google Ginger Bitz. God knows what results that would come up with
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