Titbits of information, useless or otherwise

I was only chatting about that in the market yesterday…

absent!

I am well known as a 'mine of useless information' but even I didn't know that!

Nor me! What on earth are you doing* bags*

B - You've been reading that diet book, haven't you?

You mean you never knew that Bags?

The mind bogles , Im learning so much since I joined. Ta. Must take a break to let it sink in, brain getting rather full.

Just goes to show that if you only eat fruit and veg, you might still get heart disease!

Butty has guessed right.

And jess.

"twistle" in English placenames means a boundary stream. It's from an Old English word meaning a fork or junction.

You've been researching those Lancashire/Yorkshire names, haven't you, Bags?!

Only looked up twistle. Any more requests?

Thwaite means a piece of land cleared from forest or reclaimed from wasteland....

Hmm! Had an elocution teacher called Miss Thistlethwaite. Took the first few lessons to say her name properly

Oh, what a wonderfully apt ice-breaker, though, nanaej!

Brownie points were bad things to collect.

In the Middle Ages, they thought leprosy was a venereal disease.

Myxamotosis was a venereal disease (for rabbits); that's why it killed so many.

The ship in "don't spoil the ship for a ha'aporth of tar" was a sheep, not a floaty thing on the sea.

Had a Shufflebottom and a Higginbottom in my school!

what is the artysclerotic lesion thingy Nellie thought she knew a thing or two,would look it up but am cooking a mountain of spag Bol for aforementioned on another thread teenagers

The Skip in Skipton is a sheep as well, or several. But the skip in the Vikingskiphuset in Oslo is a ship, or several.

Definitely several ships because it should be Vikingskipshuset.

nellie hardening of the arteries

Thank you glad I am not one of the species mentioned,,LAH LAH with fingers in ears

Theseus says:

What connects Gobi desert ; the hoi polloi; oast house?

Told him you'd all know!