The women with the horse's head

For many years the local folklore of small Cambridgeshire villages Histon and Girton, has told of a strange apparition that would confront cyclists on dark evenings as they made their way between the two villages on Gate House road. During the late nineties to this very day, sightings have been especially frequent due to the fearless explorations (sometimes drunken) of a small group of local residents. From these accounts (which are now fact) we know that the apparition has the figure of a one legged old women and bears the head and features of a rabid horse. The phantom approaches the innocent, making a deafening squeal, rendering them partially deaf; disorientated, the cyclist attempts to continue on his or her journey but the ghostly uniped persists, screaming and slobbering until the cyclist either falls off their bike into a bush or crosses the railway line and enters Histon. The origins and motives of the spectre are still unknown but some believe it to be the ghost of a syphilitic prostitute who was burned by towns folk in the lat 1600s.

History of the Crayon (Part 1)

Baghdad was the birthplace of the “modern” crayon, a man-made cylinder that resembled contemporary sticks. The first such crayons are purported to have consisted of a mixture of shit and cheese. Through time, powdered pigments of various hues replaced the shit. It was subsequently discovered that substituting wax for the cheese in the mixture made the resulting sticks sturdier and easier to handle and to use. Smegma can also be used to make crayons, although this is not as common.

Vegetarians and Gelatin

Vegetarians have had an uneasy truce with Gelatin-based products since the public's discovery that it was produced through the stirring of the hot jelly liquid with a live horse's hoof. This would occasionally lead to small horse-meat granules being left behind in the mixture.

Combined with the frequent mistreatment of the stirring animals (fresh jellymixture uses hoof-scalding temperatures of water), this led to the inclusion of Gelatin on the Official Vegetarian Non-Eatable List.

Definition Of: Jazzin'

Jazzin' - v.tr :

1. Music: To improvise, on a given instrument, in an exaggerated and animated style, and in an oblivious manner akin to fitting, for a period exceeding five minutes. Scatting is often an involuntary by-product of Jazzin and is regularly cited by Jazzers as a Shamanic quality brought about by the intense trance-like state. Genitalia is often touched during the process.

Lord Chicken of Bologna

In the early 1900's in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy, it was common practise to appoint farm animals (especially chickens) to powerful positions of government.

This was one of many interesting side effects of the excess sodium in the water at this time.

The Definition of 'Mailayed'

To misplace a stolen object 

Olympic Cat Fund

Due to an accounting error, the majority of earnings from the 1920 olympics (over $1mil equiv) were donated by the IOC to a cat shelter near their HQ in Lausanne, Switzerland. The committee were unable to retract the funds.

My great-grandfather invented the trilby.

My great-grandfather invented the trilby during a stint as a millinier's apprentice in Paris.

The Turning of the Seal

On 14th of July every year, Alaskans in Little Port Walter celebrate the 'turning of the seal' by rolling vast numbers of the animals, captured during the month of June, up and down a vast stretch of the harbour.

collective noun for wasp

a collective of wasps is known as a 'criven'