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Selected winners of the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, awarded annually by Bookseller magazine to the book published that year with the strangest title:

  • The Joy of Chickens (1980)

  • Versailles: The View From Sweden (1988)

  • How to Avoid Huge Ships (1992)

  • Bombproof Your Horse (2004)

Of these, I think “How to Avoid Huge Ships” is my favourite, and my vote for this year’s prize is “Afterthoughts of a Worm Hunter”.

More at the Wikipedia page.

Dammit, just got lost in Wikipedia for an hour.

I’ve spent the last hour reading about the Titanic and her sister ships, naval disasters and various other nautical matters.

DAMN YOU WIKIPEDIA!!!

These Wikipedia Pages Might Interest You

(Via pterodactyls)

I’m intrigued as to whether this is a list of quite fantastic trees from Britain, or if Wikipedia as a whole has had a complete brain-freeze when it came to titling this page.

EDIT: It turns out that it is actually a list of 50 trees selected as worthy of honouring the Queen’s Jubilee in 2002. Utterly, utterly ridiculous. Makes me wonder what else was listed in that year…


Reblogged from: pterodactyls
Originally posted on: Pterodactyls

Idiot”, “imbecile”, and “moron” were once neutral terms for a developmentally delayed adult of toddler, preschool, and primary school mental ages, respectively.

Euphemism Treadmill, on Wikipedia.

These are words that I use “affectionately” towards the girlfriend. Handy to know their etymology.

Things I did not know until today:

Queen Victoria’s birth name was actually Alexandrina Victoria. We could still be referring to “Alexandrian” or “Alexandrinian” times if she didn’t become the first British monarch to assume a Regnal Name when taking the throne.

That became en vogue in the first half of the 20th century, until our current queen responded “Why, my own name; what else?” when asked what her regnal name would be. Good ol’ Bess.

EDIT: Ooh, also: The King of Norway is 62nd in line to the British throne.

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