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[the blue panther]

Whilst a day out and a train trip sound great as a boy, I don't know what to make of the rest of that.
It absolutely fits the OP's brief though.

Cheers - you're not really Denis are you, with a pseudonym as you're on the run after escaping Hull, perhaps?

 

[Bill Walker]

Therefore it's factually correct so what is your point?

It's interesting

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Granny Smith apples take their name from Eglantine Smith, a beloved grandmother who was buried beneath an apple tree.

 

[DrBlueBob]

Cheers - you're not really Denis are you, with a pseudonym as you're on the run after escaping Hull, perhaps?

Shush, eyes everywhere. Besides, you might give some on here the idea that I'm not actually a doctor.

As an aside, Denis is 58 years older than when you visited him, could you be in line for a windfall at point relatively soon?

 

[Blue Mist]

It's interesting

That's OK then I thought you were saying it isn't that far.

 

[the blue panther]

I suspect that I probably never crossed Denis's mind again after that now famous day in 1965, and that his booty will have been distributed elsewhere.
Wait a sec.... my mum's surname was Taylor.... Denis Taylor... and he wore glasses!
Thanks - I'm off to investigate................

 

[Brightwell’s left peg]

There are more people alive today than all the people who have existed previously, up to tten years ago. There is enough room in Texas/New Mexico to house the entire population of the planet, at the same density as San Francisco.

Sorry mate. First one is wrong. I used to believe this, but have since been told (and subsequently read) that it’s estimated that over 117 Billion humans have lived/died.

 

[xmusampa]

Up until Victorian times, men and women were segregated in church. Women sat on the north side of the aisle, men on the south. The system broke when more and more influential men decided they wanted to sit with their wives.

However, it is still the custom at weddings for the groom to take the south side and the bride the north.

Not a lot of people know that! Not even people who direct Jane Austen adaptations.

What happens when the aisles are in the east and west?

 

[xmusampa]

Licking the head of a Cane Toad became a source of a "trip" for some drug users in Australia during the 1980's. As a defence from predators, the toad produces the hallucinogenic chemical Bufotenine

Cane toad racing is a good night out. Beats bingo
anyway

 

[Bill Walker]

Cane toad racing is a good night out. Beats bingo
anyway

The Cane toad has come into some renown in Australia, where four people died last year after partaking of its marbled flesh. (Depending on the size of the toad and the concentrations of toxin consumed, bufotenine can be fatal). The toad was imported to Australia from Hawaii in 1935 to kill the grayback beetle, which was destroying sugar cane in Queensland. The toad adapted beautifully, multiplied by the millions and ate everything--except for the beetle.

Licking Toads Leaves More Than a Bad Taste in the Mouth : Trends: It may indeed be a 'desperation high,' but licking a toad is the latest way to hallucinate.

Licking toads will not give you warts or produce a fairy prince, but it might get you high.

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