Ed Morello inspired this week’s email as our comedy advisor, when he told me about this…
There was a story about a guy in the States who was diagnosed with multi personality disorder. He had 7 separate identities. 6 were upstanding citizens. The 7th was a violent alcoholic (well we all have those days!). The 6 [...]
Category > History
Loony Lawsuits
Share your email pain here
This week, I have been thinking about emails. It seems all modern and shiny, but did you know the first systems that sent messages between computers started in 1965? The email address as we know it today, with the @ symbol, was invented in 1972 and now more than 600 million people internationally use email.
The Laundry, battling the elements for your recycling needs
It’s snowing - hooray - well I hope it is as I am writing this from sunny (but cold) Wednesday. (update: hurrah it is snowing. Well hurrah because it looks pretty, boo because it means we all spent far too long getting to work today and The Laundry vans are battling the elements [...]
Scotland
I’ve been doing a bit of thinking about Scotland. I was doing a search yesterday for a surname that I could read properly and found 14 of you of Scottish decent, the Macs and the Mcs. So three things on this:
Funky
I was having a conversation with my housemate last night who said she hates the use of the word funky, especially by people who are over 30 and are trying to seem cool (!). As in “I really think we could do with some more funky office furniture” or “I went [...]
Sticky Stuff
Now I won’t have to touch parcel tape (no more fighting with the evil stuff when bundling up Laundry bags anymore, we’ve got super fit and speedy couriers to deliver your orders now!) any more, I want to know more about my enemy:
Keep an egg in your pocket (just in case)
On this day 1970: The Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, has been hit in the face with an hit by flying egg. The raw egg, thrown at close range, hit him on the forehead and bounced onto his jacket where it broke. Edward Heath when asked about the incident said: “This [...]
Time Travel
You super duper lot are recycling over 300 whopping tonnes of paper, card, plastic and aluminium a year!! That’s the equivalent weight of 300 rhinoceroses, blimey.
Go team Laundry, high five (I can’t master the high five or any five, I was in a night club once and someone offered me a [...]
Posh stuff
POSH where did it come from? The origin of the word is obscure. The first recorded use of the word was in the British satirical magazine Punch on 25 September 1918, although an earlier possible reference uses the word push. The OED records a definition of the word as a noun from [...]
Crossing Spotting
On this day in 1961: Panda replaces zebra at road crossing
A new type of road crossing with push button controls for pedestrians was introduced. The new crossings consisted of triangular black and white stripes (hence panda)- instead of the rectangular stripes at zebra crossings. There was a push button on either side [...]
The Weather
After my hols I’m feeling particularly English and prompted by glorious and rare sunny day let’s talk weather:
All about Rachel
This is your new weekly-email-reminder-correspondent-and-general-Laundry-person-to-ask-anything, Rachel. I’m taking the hot seat from Jess at the Laundry, not that she has a particularly warm bum, well, actually I wouldn’t know either way, cough…moving on…
Right, Jess has let me know here is the space that is filled with interesting/mildy amusing tit-bits, sheesh [...]
John, King of Scots
John, King of Scots, better known as John Balliol (his Dad founded Balliol College, Oxford) became King of Scotland on this day in 1292.
Today (did you know that John Peel’s favourite biscuit was the fruit shortcake?)
As well as being the anniversary of various stuff (English troops occupy Acadia, Nova Scotia in 1710, Angora (Ankara) becomes Turkey’s capital in 1923, Shroud of Turin, revered by many Christians as Christ’s burial cloth, is shown by carbon-dating tests to be a fake from the Middle Ages in [...]
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