General Chat

Having many wives is called polygamy.
Having one is called monotony.

The population of London is very dense.

Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefield.

A skeleton is a man with his inside out and his outside off.

The Three Wise Men brought gifts of gold, frankenstein & myrrh.

Henry VIII had an abbess on his knee which made walking difficult.

The sailors hung Albert Ross round the neck of the ancient mariner.

Solomon had 300 wives and 700 porcupines.

A herbaceous border is a lodger who is fond of greens.

Wordsworth went to the Lake District as a young man and soon became intimate with the local beauties.

They gave the Duke of Wellington a lovely funeral. It took six men to carry the beer.

The Matterhorn was the horn blown by the Ancient Britons when there was something the matter.

King Alfred fought hard all his life to keep back the Dames.

The Black Prince's father was Old King Cole.

The climate of the Sahara Desert is so harsh that the inhabitants here live elsewhere.

When schoolchildren were asked to correct the sentence: "The toast was drank in silence" - this was one child's response:
"The toast was eat in silence."

A child listing the Ten Commandments wrote:
"Thou shalt not admit adultery."