News At A Glance #25

By ASH Smyth
October 2022

—    The Nelson Evening Mail, 14 September 1906

South Georgia is not the best place for historic artefacts.

Dead men tell no ‘knock knock’ jokes.

Russia earns a billion dollars a day from energy sales to Europe.

Erwin Schrödinger did not know the capital of Montenegro.

Nicolae Ceaușescu joined the Young Communist League to meet pretty girls.

Man made the electrolyte.

Archie’s got a purple watch.

75% of undertakers are owned by the Co-Op.

Architecture is a dangerous field for amateurs.

Poetry is pretty irrelevant these days, with what’s going on in Argentina.

Anneka Rice is unexpectedly funny.

Wolves are looking for a new manager.

Rats love parchment even more than scholars do.