Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stop...

"The belief that enhanced understanding will necessarily stir a nation to action is one of mankind's oldest illusions. " - ...

My father in law, Noel Wicks, is aged a sprightly 83. Whilst I was looking up something on the internet last year, I came across an artic...

"I don't exercise. If God wanted me to bend over, he'd have put diamonds on the floor." -  Joan Rivers (1933 - )

"Nobody shot me." -  Frank "Tight Lips" Gusenberg (1893-1929), gangster, member of Bugs Moran's North Side Gang a...

Mattel announces Scrabble rule change. In 1938 an architect by the name of Alfred Butts invented a word game he called "Criss-Crossw...

"..the depiction of me as a sort of arrogant, chardonnay-swilling, dilettantish elitist, is just -- is so at odds with the reality......

Misquote: “I want to suck your blood!” This quote, usually attributed to Bela Lugosi who played Dracula in 1931 (below and abov), was act...

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“She looked as though butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth - or anywhere else.” Elsa Lanchester (1902-1986), commenting upon  Maureen O’Hara.

"Nobody will ever know I existed. Nothing to leave behind me. Nothing to pass on. Nobody to mourn me. That’s the bitterest blow of all...

I have previously mentioned that my nomination for the funniest scene in any film is the Hitler car scene in Rat Race . My nomination for f...

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." - T H Huxley (1825-1895)

One of the most distinctive and riveting features of the Melbourne tourism commercials, the ones where the young lady is pushing a giant ba...

I came across the pic below whilst I was looking for an illustration of the Pearly Gates to go with the item below.  It is interesting that ...

Saint Peter is watching the gates of Heaven, but he really has to go the bathroom. He asks Jesus to watch the gates for a few minutes, and ...

John Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival) and Tony Joe White ( Polk Salad Annie ) are probably the best known exponents of swamp rock, a ...

For those who may not have heard of it, the Bald Archy is an art prize which parodies the Archbald. The winner is announced on April Fool’s...

(A reprint from last year). The name Easter owes its origin from Eostre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess who symbolises hare and egg. In pagan time...

"My daddy is a movie actor, and sometimes he plays the good guy and sometimes he plays the lawyer." - Malcolm Ford, explaining t...

Who? - Born December 25th. - Represented as a mediator. - Considered a great travelling teacher and master. - Had twelve companions. - Perfo...

“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all ...

Caution:  The following item has risque language.  It is a reprint from a story in today's news.com which, in turn, was a reprint from T...

"The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour."

Anyone who watches TV, especially Mythbusters , will have heard the expression “Fire in the hole”. It is usually called out before a blast ...

What with the Formula 1 race being held  in Melbourne on Sunday, it is appropriate to present another logo containing a hidden item.  (Othe...

“You can imagine my embarrassment when I killed the wrong guy.” Joe Valachi, US gangster, testifying in 1963 to a US Senate committee abou...

Robert Culp (1930-2010) Robert Culp, American actor, died last week outside his home after falling. He was 79. He is best remembered for ...

Byter Charles states that the Luv Gov (item posted 25.03.2010) was not properly quoted in that his aide had not heard the Gov properly.  Gov...

Sometimes choices made turn out to be real duds. Witness, for example, the comment by the Emperor Franz Josef to Mozart about The Marriage o...