Post by Taxigirl on Nov 1, 2003 11:01:08 GMT
this time last week...
1. Paul Burrell once won a national catering award for sculpting a model of Chesterfield's crooked spire out of margarine.
2. Tony Blair is a compulsive shoe-polisher, according to the memoirs of former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook.
3. Monday was the first time in the Red Cross's 140-year history that the famously neutral aid agency had been targeted by a suicide bomber.
4. The face that so terrorised Jamie Lee Curtis - and filmgoers - in Halloween was that of William Shatner. The serial killer wore a Captain Kirk mask as the budget was too tight for custom-made costumes. (Thanks to 100 Greatest Scary Moments on Channel 4.)
5. Baroness Thatcher once told Douglas Hurd that she hadn't thought much of the three people who stood for election as Tory leader after she had lost the job. She had forgotten that Hurd was himself one of them.
6. The 1922 committee (the organisation of backbench Tory MPs) first met in 1923.
7. Jim Caviezel, the actor in Mel Gibson's film about Jesus who has been struck by lightning twice, take heart. Bolts are not as rare as you might think - in fact lightning hits somewhere on the Earth's surface 100 times every second.
8. Japanese political parties don't have manifestos. Until this week, when the opposition Democratic Party became the first to publish its policy pledges, inspired by a fact-finding trip to Labour headquarters in London.
9. In 19th Century London, police officers wore leather neck bands for protection - the weapon of choice among the criminal classes was garrotting wire. Today it is blades, and stab vests are standard issue.
10. Winnie The Pooh merchandise makes more money for Disney than either Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck.
1. Paul Burrell once won a national catering award for sculpting a model of Chesterfield's crooked spire out of margarine.
2. Tony Blair is a compulsive shoe-polisher, according to the memoirs of former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook.
3. Monday was the first time in the Red Cross's 140-year history that the famously neutral aid agency had been targeted by a suicide bomber.
4. The face that so terrorised Jamie Lee Curtis - and filmgoers - in Halloween was that of William Shatner. The serial killer wore a Captain Kirk mask as the budget was too tight for custom-made costumes. (Thanks to 100 Greatest Scary Moments on Channel 4.)
5. Baroness Thatcher once told Douglas Hurd that she hadn't thought much of the three people who stood for election as Tory leader after she had lost the job. She had forgotten that Hurd was himself one of them.
6. The 1922 committee (the organisation of backbench Tory MPs) first met in 1923.
7. Jim Caviezel, the actor in Mel Gibson's film about Jesus who has been struck by lightning twice, take heart. Bolts are not as rare as you might think - in fact lightning hits somewhere on the Earth's surface 100 times every second.
8. Japanese political parties don't have manifestos. Until this week, when the opposition Democratic Party became the first to publish its policy pledges, inspired by a fact-finding trip to Labour headquarters in London.
9. In 19th Century London, police officers wore leather neck bands for protection - the weapon of choice among the criminal classes was garrotting wire. Today it is blades, and stab vests are standard issue.
10. Winnie The Pooh merchandise makes more money for Disney than either Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck.