Fact of the day

The contents of a Ginsters cornish pasty is not meant to be eaten either, but Ginsters chuck that shit in there anyway.

Ha! now't wrong with a steack slice after 80 miles etc

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Despite Chinese naming conventions, there are fourteen pandas in Beijing's Zoo called Keith. One of them gives out free chocolate to anyone who looks a bit sad.

Covent Garden is really a spelling mistake! The area used to be the market garden for what is now Westminster Abbey monastery and convent.

Elephant and Castle is a bastardisation of l'Infant de castille, summat to do with henry VII, i think

If true that is very interesting Stevo_Com, from whence do you obtain this knowledge?

schoolmaster is an anagram of "the classroom"

If you disregard a few letters!

my missus, who is a font of south london factoids. i'll look it up too

The Queen Mother and Cliff Richard both had colostomy bags.

Elephant and Castle is a bastardisation of l'Infant de castille, summat to do with henry VII, i think

Leicester square used to be pronounced Lyesestershire square but they changed the pronounciation to confuse Americans.

Bang!

'Infanta de Castille', the eldest daughter of the King of Castille who had come to the area in the early 1500s to shack up with Henry VIII's elder brother Arthur. I think this was debunked by referring to the crest of the Cutler's Company, which has been traced back to the very early 1600s and which shows an elephant carrying a howdah, misinterpreted as a castle. They supposedly incorporated the elephant symbol because of the ivory used to make knife handles. There was also an 'Elephant and Castle' pub at Newington

some differing opinions but I'm more inclined to go with my missus' version

Leicester Square is actually officially referred to as Leicester Gardens- 'twas on the licence document so it must be true.

The Queen has only one ball. She lost one during the war.

Allegedly, Sherborne Lane, near Cannon Street, was originally Shiteburn Lane, meaning shit house after the public lavatories in it.

Well I never!

If you disregard a few letters!

No, works.

The Queen has only one ball. She lost one during the war.

It was found in 1972 and is now preserved in a jar and kept in Scotland. It is not on public view.

grape st in soho was grope st, and grope cunt st before that

Either there's no such thing as fish, or we're all fish.

Told to me by the fish curator of the Natural History Museum, when he came to a poker game at my flat once. It means that, to find a common ancestor for everything we call a fish, you have to go so far back that it's our common ancestor too.

Blew. My. Mind.

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'Infanta de Castille', the eldest daughter of the King of Castille who had come to the area in the early 1500s to shack up with Henry VIII's elder brother Arthur. I think this was debunked by referring to the crest of the Cutler's Company, which has been traced back to the very early 1600s and which shows an elephant carrying a howdah, misinterpreted as a castle. They supposedly incorporated the elephant symbol because of the ivory used to make knife handles. There was also an 'Elephant and Castle' pub at Newington

some differing opinions but I'm more inclined to go with my missus' version

Elephant & Castle is more of often (wrongly) associated with Eleanor of Catille (wife of Edward I) who was not an infanta. Arthur Tudor's wife was Catherine of Aragon & Castille, who was an infanta, but of Aragon & Castille, but is more famous for being Henry VIII first wife (yup he married his bro's widow).

The Cutler's company explanation is the correct one. The Elephant and Castle pub (which is still there) has stood on the junction of the roads to Kent and Surrey for like ages.....

In Anglo Saxon times, mobile reception was scant.

grape st in soho was grope st, and grope cunt st before that

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane

Well I never!

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