Wikipedia’s article about Opus the Penguin is further evidence for why this type of encyclopedia genre interests me so much:
…on several occasions, his “fanny” has fallen off (often with
a clanking sound on the floor), and he has also had instances
where his nose droops or is taken completely off as a result
of sneezing while using dental floss and so on.
Sometimes these are combined; he has had either his nose
and rear end fall off, or his nose droop while his rear end
has fallen off, and so on. He eventually learned that his
navel was in fact the screw that attached his rear end to
his body.
Where else would you read that last sentence? The internet == win!
The British company “albam” doesn’t use Chinese manufacturers to make its high quality clothing:
We are an independent company so we can listen to you.
We develop and produce our clothes in the UK because
we think the extra cost is worth the great quality. If we
don’t make a line in the UK it is because we haven’t found
a quality high enough to hang our hat on.
…
As someone told us “it doesn’t have to be radically
different, just a lot better”, well we are sticking by this.
