10 things...
Snippets harvested from the week's news, chopped, sliced and diced for your weekend convenience by The BBCi.
1. Charles Webb, who wrote The Graduate about himself and his female partner Fred, is still with her. The pair live in Hove, East Sussex, but are flat broke and facing eviction from their flat.
2. A hen can take on the characteristics of a cockerel - comb and wattle, crowing, trying to mate with hens - if the cockerel in their brood is removed. But they do not develop male sex organs.
3. British diplomats have a call-out rate of £84.50 an hour.
4. Paint is classed as a "hazardous article" under new health and safety rules governing public transport, and can only be taken on a bus if "carried in two containers".
5. Vanessa Mae is worth more than Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin, according to the Sunday Times Rich List 2006, which estimates Ms Mae's wealth at £32m compared to Mr Martin's £25m fortune.
6. Yellow, the Coldplay hit that ranked fifth in a recent roundup of Britain's favourite lyric, was inspired, in part by a copy of the Yellow Pages.
7. The Queen has visited every country in the Commonwealth except Cameroon.
8. Homer Simpson's hair is drawn as an "M" and his ear as a "G", representing the initials of Simpson's animator Matt Groening.
9. Suri - the name of Tom Cruise's new daughter - means "pickpocket" in Japanese.
10. Camel's milk, which is widely drunk in Arab countries, has 10 times more iron than cow's milk.
The BBCi
1. Charles Webb, who wrote The Graduate about himself and his female partner Fred, is still with her. The pair live in Hove, East Sussex, but are flat broke and facing eviction from their flat.
2. A hen can take on the characteristics of a cockerel - comb and wattle, crowing, trying to mate with hens - if the cockerel in their brood is removed. But they do not develop male sex organs.
3. British diplomats have a call-out rate of £84.50 an hour.
4. Paint is classed as a "hazardous article" under new health and safety rules governing public transport, and can only be taken on a bus if "carried in two containers".
5. Vanessa Mae is worth more than Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin, according to the Sunday Times Rich List 2006, which estimates Ms Mae's wealth at £32m compared to Mr Martin's £25m fortune.
6. Yellow, the Coldplay hit that ranked fifth in a recent roundup of Britain's favourite lyric, was inspired, in part by a copy of the Yellow Pages.
7. The Queen has visited every country in the Commonwealth except Cameroon.
8. Homer Simpson's hair is drawn as an "M" and his ear as a "G", representing the initials of Simpson's animator Matt Groening.
9. Suri - the name of Tom Cruise's new daughter - means "pickpocket" in Japanese.
10. Camel's milk, which is widely drunk in Arab countries, has 10 times more iron than cow's milk.
The BBCi
posted by theGoose at 7:50:00 AM
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