Lard, originally onloy used as a cure for fish based anaphylaxis, was found to have a very unusually high boiling point which made it ideal for incinerating copper headed snakes and native Americans.

This gave birth to the saying "you've had your chips".

travelling man, someone on another thread has already accused me of being a reincarnation. i only joined betfair in november last year as im a luddite / technophobe. but hey ho.

id say thats a triple header, not to be confused with the triple headed copper head snake which survives on a diet of native americans.

Over the years, the incineration technique was gradually improved and the most efficient way was to place the snakes on a bed of sand impregnated with lard.
During the incineration process which would take several hours, the workers would amuse themselves playing a board game of their own invention which was named after them, and that's how the game of snake sand larders came into being.

Sepp Blatter is using his well-earned "sabbatical" from football to concentrate on his long-time primary sporting interest, racing pigeons.

The foyer shop at Charing Cross Hospital now stocks several different types of rock stick to satisfy demand from the ever increasing numbers of health tourists.

Felix W@nkel, the inventor of the internal combustion engine was arrested many times by the Heidelberg police for dropping his lederhosen and relieving himself in public places.

This explains why such activity is known as 'having a quick Felix'.

Tim Burgess and his band mates do not sing on their records. Nor are they able to play any musical instrument.

no worries travelling man

perhaps one of the most famous quotations ever in the english language is from Shakespeare's Henry V, his play about Agincourt a famous battle during the Hundred years war. as he prepares to attack, to encourage his men, Henry says 'once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more'.

but did you know how he came up with this powerful line? one morning when he was getting dressed, as his butler was passing him his clothes he said 'once more unto my breaches, dear friend, once more'. he immediately realised what a great line it was and so included it in his latest work. who would of thought that a line describing such a mundane task could morph into such a powerful piece of literature?

the TV ad jingle 'p-p-p-pick up a Penguin', as sung by Derek Nimmo was written by Gene Pitney's twin brother Randy.

Gary Sinise loves cats and has over 15, but he only ever gets them from Mogadishu.

Aunty Post buys all his Christmas presents from Poundland.

In the first ever episode of Kung Fu,(subsequently aborted and never broadcast), Kwai Chang Caine was referred to as "Caterpillar". This was later changed to "Grasshopper" as its pronunciation better appealed to racial stereotypes.

Ah, that explains it Akabula, last year he sent me a windscreen scraper with integral santa glove for Christmas.

Sh1t isn't actually brown, it's a light shade of purple, but because that shade is at the lower end of the spectrum, it appears brown to most humans.

The queen's sh1t is a lovely shade of turquose.

Wesdag has a brain

Tommy Toes is responsible, either directly or indirectly, for 6.8% of all minor accidents in the Stoke area.

annie great to see you back.

Yes good to see you back annie. for some unfathomable reason I thought it was a different annie at first.

Thank you akabula

Are you still playing poker?

That is funny, because I find it harder to win on Pokerstars. I do better on Party Poker, although I just play omaha and omaha hi lo nowadays.