findings from the last 48 hours
Evanescence: I knew the track "Bring me to life". A pseudo gothic metal classic sung by the charming Amy Lee who sounds like she must have had a classic trained voice. Up the tune popped on itunes, and now I know the works about Amy, and the group
Hedgehogs. Two new discoveries here. They apparently taste of pork. Furthermore the best way to eat one is to place one (dead one would hope) in a dual sided wooden container in a kiln. On removing said Hedgehog holding container from kiln and opening it you see a cooked hedgehog, minus spikes, which fall off once removed from the oven. Convenient huh?
David Frost still hosts "Through the keyhole". Sir David looks younger than he did 15 years ago. I suspect botox. Loyd Grossman has been replaced by an attractive lady rummaging thorugh C list celebs homes. Eve Pollard is still a panellist. She too looks younger than she di in the mid 1980s version.
The band Arcade Fire are from Canada. I like them. They know a place where "no cars go". That would be a pedestrian only walkway then. They then complicated the description by saying that no ships or even spaceships go there either. This is pretty obvious really. I am currently searching for parallell meanings in these lyrics.
The Honey Badger, found in most of Africa, is described as the "most fearless animal in the world". Fierce carnivores that kill snakes. Apparently their desire for honey is so strong that they have been found stung to death in beehives. More research required here.
More as I find it
When I was a kid there were Hedgehog flavoured crisps that did taste of pork. The firm that made them then had to withdraw them coz they were threatened by the trades description act or summat because they had no hedgehog in them.
hedgehog flavoured crisps actually started as a bit of a joke by a landlord of a pub in Montgomery mid wales, used to go to the pub occassionally.
Was stopped because there were no hedgehogs in them though - personally I'd have thought animal rights would win the day and they'd be pleased hedgehogs weren't harmed in the making of these crisps.