Sunday 15 April 2018

Obscure trivia, pedantry and cake...

... are a few of my favourite things, so if course I was going to enjoy Simon Whistler's video on the history of the phrase "having your cake and eating it." My favourite piece of trivia was the fascinating detail that The Unabomber's pedantic habit of turning this phrase around so that it made more sense was one of the linguistic clues that finally revealed his true identity. If these are your sort of things too, help yourself to a slice...

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