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I never cease to be amazed about the mind-boggling things I learn from BBC Radio 4. About 5 minutes ago I learned that King Edward VII had a golf bag made out of an elephant's penis. Evidently it was presented to him by an Indian Maharajah. The same programme informed me that "Snow Golf" was invented by Rudyard Kipling when he painted his balls red.
As I said before, the mind boggles.
So what mind-boggling facts have you learned from the radio/tv?
Gabi
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What????
Rudyard Kipling painted his BALLS red???? Now that's kinky!!! Wonder what he did with them then? The mind boggles. Perhaps it was so he could hide in a cherry tree? Nah, too elephantine. So he could find them among all the green ones? Nah, too croquet-ish, and I would hate to think of striking them with a mallet.
I give up.
CaroL
CaroL
Did it srink down
Did it shrink down for easy storage? Or could it expand?
Once there was a mohel (the guy who preforms a religious circumcision), who had saved all of the tips he got (not the cash, he spent that), but couldn't think of a thing to do with them. So after years he took them all into a leather worker and asked if something could be made from them. After months the smith said he was done and showed the mohel a small billfold.
"Ach!" the mohel said, "I leave you thousands of tips and this is all you can make!?"
The leather worker said, "Rub it. It becomes a suitcase."
{I know it's really old, but I didn't bring it up.}
hugs, Jan
From the little I know about it ...
I am thinking that the gesture was meant to be really offensive to him. I know a Punjabi woman who lives in London and from what she says, GB gets the blame for about everything evil that ever happened over there.
Just a thought ...
Khadija
Trouble is
GB is a land of imports; Vikings, Norse, Normans, Indians, East Europeans. You name it, we've got it. Heck, I'm probably an import myself (shock, horror). Not that I've a problem with that; it's the constant supply of new blood that makes Britain Great.
We're all Cosmopolitan, or at least, we've all read the magazine!
I must lead a boring life up here in the frozen North; I can't think of a single mind-boggling fact - except that Rugby is a game played by men with odd-shaped balls.
Susie
Did It Have A "Fore" Skin?
It really sounds like the kind of golfbag that came out of the Goon Show. "Stop rubbing that bag, Eccles. You'll get it excited!" Then the bag starts trumpeting,
Joanne
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Do they give to extenz tablets to keep it from Shrinking?
Hugs,
Jenna From FL
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Jenna From FL
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It is a long road ahead but I will finally become who I should be.
I just learned from yahoo news
That they are working to develop a new way to treat impotence in males from the venom of the wandering spider.It seems the bite causes male victims to have a painful erection that lasts up to 24 hours and it is the deadliest spider in the Americas.They've isolated what causes the erection and have tested it on rats.
Amy
Just what we need....
Just what the world needs.... rats with 24 hour erections!!! What will science think of next??
Lisa E