Runcibilities

As if by magic, about 18 months ago Marks and Spencer checkout staff started each customer with the phrase "thanks for waiting" a ...

In a world where bidets have now been forgotten and newspapers dwindle away it would seem that we take for granted the humble toilet roll. A...

I've unfortunately spent more time than most in hospitals, mostly as a visitor, my dad especially spent over 6 months as a patient and I...

Apparently William Shakespeare introduced over 1700 words into the English language, I wonder how many he'd heard on the street and how ...

Written by James Cavanugh, Vincent Rose and Larry Stock, it dates back to 1924 and as far as I know is the only song with the word "thi...

It has long been a suppressed piece of information that Clint Eastwood is in fact the son of comedy legend Stan Laurel. I suppose Clint ha...

A grass, a snout, copper's nark, a stool pigeon, slang terms for a police informant. Snout and nark are slang terms for nose, the latter...