Other Men's Flowers

Women born with these names were later known by their husbands' surnames. Who were they? (Those marked * became much more famous than th...

No 27 in an occasional series of extracts from The Postcard Century October 1909: Is this anything like your hat? I am better again today bu...

Grumio has announced that he is calling a press conference at the O2 Arena to apologise to his family, his friends and their children, and h...

More re-cycled posts from 2005: superstition Money from your toad people A world-class bore theatre Hedda bores herself to death

On this day in 2006 I wrote about the three third-century martyrs with this name but omitted to mention the interesting fact that that the ...

The Guardian has a long-running feature called Notes & Queries in which readers send in questions on a range of topics, some frivolous ...

"I'm just ringing to let everyone know I'm an arsehole..." Private Eye

It's shamefully lackadaisical to publish a post consisting of nothing more than a couple of YouTube links, but one of these little films...

More recycled posts from 2005: food Dishes now almost forgotten, with good reason society Funerals really swing up Barnsley way people Valed...

...was founded by Edward III in 1348 to fulfil a vow made at the end of the Great Windsor Tournament of 1344. Its foundation legend is prob...

George Orwell wrote a famous essay with this title sixty-three years ago. Our political concerns are different from those of 1946 and the p...

After leaving home briefly to take a satisfactory if not particularly enjoyable break in the Arctic wastes of Sussex, I have returned to a c...

More recycled posts from 2005: francophilia A Frenchman demonstrates his mastery of demotic English politics Well said, though not quite as ...

"I'd say loosen his flies but who listens to sex therapists?" Arnold Frederick Wiles, Punch, 1982

For a week or two Other Men's Flowers will contain only a few pre-scheduled posts with no comments allowed.

No, not really. Sadly, it is unlikely that even the looniest of the faithful will launch an action against the atheists who have published a...

More recycled posts from 2005: food Throdkins enter cyberspace! people John Mills, a convincing swine music A rotten singer, much loved

Young Richard Whittington has a prophetic nightmare of the way posterity will picture him George Morrow, Punch 1925

They said that before they give me an ARR next month I must go and see the anaesthetist to find out whether he would be likely to do me any ...

It gave me quite a frisson when I realised that the alleged perpetrator of yesterday's attempted terrorist attack on Northwest Airlines ...