- Ben Franklin’s 200+ Synonyms for “Drunk” – Mental Floss
Today we’re celebrating Ben Franklin’s 306th birthday. If you’re celebrating at home, perhaps one of these phrases from The Drinkers Dictionary will come in handy. The lengthy list of expressions meaning “inebriated” was first published by Franklin in the Pennsylvania Gazette on January 6, 1737. Feel free to add your own phrases in the comments.
- Inky Fool: The Fifty Most Quoted Lines of Poetry
Shakespeare doesn’t make the top ten and Gertrude Stein is more quoted than Byron. Bet you didn’t see that coming.
- BBC News – Children’s science questions ‘stump many parents’
More than a quarter of parents thought their offspring knew more about maths and science than they did. Some added that their children’s enthusiasm was fuelled by television series such as Frozen Planet or Wonders of the Universe. About a third of parents said they actively researched answers to their children’s inquiries. But 16% told their children to ask their partner and a fifth made up a response or pretended that no one knew the answer.
- The Real Hundred Acre Wood
Thirty miles south of London, in East Sussex, England, is Ashdown Forest. Milne kept a country house on the Northern edge of Ashdown Forest and often took his son, Christopher Robin, out for walks in attempts to count trees or search for marsh flowers. Christopher also explored the forest on his own, and his reported adventures to his father became the basis for the tales of Winnie the Pooh.