A S H Smyth

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Forty Popes have lived less than a year after their election.

— The Nelson Evening Mail, Friday, January 18 1907
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Ethiopia has exported its first avocados by train.

The Communist Party banned photocopiers.

More geese than swans now live.

In Brazil there is a butterfly that uses its legs for running.

All Pakistani things are under one roof.

Cecil Court is never dull.

Alastair Cook took just one wicket in his entire test career.

The Saracens taught us how to preserve our dead.

‘Sealioning’ is a type of trolling or harassment in the form of incessant bad-faith invitations to engage in debate.

William Huskisson MP was the first person to die as the result of a railway accident.

Lots of proletarians wear overcoats nowadays.

Zulu IPA is brewed in Great Britain.

Beatles fans pray facing towards Macca.

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A body of police specialists in New York are called the sanitary squad. They are dressed in plain clothes, and their duty is to arrest anyone found spitting on the pavement and other prohibited places, in trams, theatres, etc.

— The Nelson Evening Mail, Friday, August 31 1906
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Red Carpet Cigarettes is the No.1 brand in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A trace of the false self exists in the true self.

Women are a real-world problem.

Thirty-three tonnes of plastic come down the Yangtze every day.

There are no tigers in Siberia.

The United Kingdom is on the slide.

The Earl of Gowrie is on good terms with a Communist.

Rory Sutherland had a bilateral groin reconstruction three years ago.

Helmet saves lives.

All Anglos were writers until the railways came.

French bees are prone to wanderlust and ennui.

Leo XII was not particularly interested in Egyptology.

Providing jobs for the poor begins on September 2.

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