A few more.....................
Malcolm Lowry had pnigophobia—the fear of choking on fish bones.
Augustus Caesar had achluophobia—the fear of sitting in the dark.
Androphobia is a fear of men.
Caligynephobia is a fear of beautiful women.
Pentheraphobia is a fear of a mother-in-law.
Scopophobia is a fear of being looked at.
Phobophobia is a fear of fearing.
Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook.
Papaphobia is the fear of Popes.
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive.
Clinophobia is the fear of beds.
The peanut is a vegetable and a member of the pea family,
French fries were invented in Belgium.
Bombay duck is dry, salted fish.
In Japan, Christmas Eve is the time to eat strawberry shortcake and fried chicken.
There are no bananas in banana oil. It is a synthetic compound made with amyl-alcohol and gets its name from its banana-like aroma.
Handy yokel tips no. 3:
If you need to examine a large sheep and are struggling to cope-I don't need to know why, your peccadillos are your own concern!!-grasp the beast's mouth in one hand , and rump in the other, and push the two towards the middle. Even the biggest 15 stone ram will fold up and sit quietly on his backside.
Handy yokel tips no.4:
Are your vegeatables and flowers getting devoured by aphids? Old fashioned soft-soap, mixed 80: 20 with warm water , will make a powerful and quite benign insecticide. Just remember not to spray before dusk so as to ensure that friendly bees, lacewings and ladybirds are not harmed.