this week's general weekly
Got your attention? A headline has more impact if it is short and clear: today's readers are busy people who don't have time to assimilate or even bother attempting to take in a long string of words. Furthermore, a long headline somehow gives the impression that the writer just could not express concisely what he/she wanted to say - so the author tries to get all the information into the title.
In 1868 the All England Croquet Club was founded off Worple Road in the London neighbourhood of Wimbledon. Then, in 1875, Major Walter Clapton Wingfield introduced a game he had invented and named "Sphairistike" or "lawn tennis".
The man in the photograph was condemned by the Spanish Inquisition. The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (the direct descendant of the Inquisition) have said that this man's writings could be dangerous. They are right.
Athletes are supposed to be role models for children. At least, when I was a child they were. They represented the triumph of will over adversity. Work hard, be faithful and you will, if not win, at least compete with dignity. That was the message.
Imagine you fall in love but your boss says you can't get married. More than that. Your boss says that if you insist on marrying, you'll have to resign. Scandalous, right?
There are 365 types of cheese in France. They use 19 different grapes to produce their wines. Only the Japanese live longer.
Do you remember The Beatles' song “Across the Universe”? Do you know what ‘Jai Guru Deva Om' means? It means, more or less, ‘Thank You to the Teacher'. I like that sentiment. I like lots of Eastern things. When I was 17 I learned Transcendental Meditation.
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An eccentric is a one person sub-culture. The English, usually quite conformist, have had a famous tolerance of eccentrics.
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All the best chefs are men and in the Basque country women are not allowed to be members of the traditional gourmet societies. So why am I such a bad cook? There is an English saying that "Too many cooks spoil the broth" . Well, I can spoil it all by myself.
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Ask anyone who was a child in England from the 1960s to the 1990s if they were ever frightened by a TV programme and 99% of them will tell you how they hid behind the sofas to escape the “Daleks”.
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