> of Records a pickled cucumber. She claims it is the oldest
> in the world and was pickled by her mother-in-law on the
> birth of her late husband in 1930.
>
> Sadly the cucumber survived longer than her husband.
>
> There is an urban myth that the holder of the equivalent
> English record is a Yorkshire man called Mr Wally Gherkin.
>
> 2) A friend of Will’s named Thomas Irwin, once owned a
> dog and a cat and they were named Kate and Sidney Pie. When
> Tom visited the veterinary clinic the receptionist thought
> his name must be Mr Pie.
>
> 3) One of the British national daily newspapers has been
> asking for comments about: "what it means to be British".
> Here is a comment from a chap in Switzerland who lived in
> Britain for 12 years.
>
> "Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish
> pub for a Belgian beer, then travelling home, grabbing an
> Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on
> Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV;
> and the most British thing of all? Suspicion of anything
> foreign."
>
> 4) The West Sussex, England, Fire Brigade were invited to a
> local Primary School to talk to the children about fire
> safety in the home. One of the firemen let off a smoke
> alarm, which made its customary high-pitched noise. The 6
> year olds were asked what the noise represented. A little
> boy’s hand went up and he answered, "That’s mummy
> cooking dinner."
>
> 5) In Budapest, early in January 2006, firemen were needed
> to lift a 50 stone woman from her home so that she could
> attend hospital.
>
> They need to remove a window and break down the wall so
> that the bed could be strapped to a forklift truck. This
> took 13 firemen 5 hours.
>
> The unnamed woman is now in hospital on a weight loss
> programme.
>
> 6) In Eliat, Israel, at the turn of the year 2006, an
> English woman married a dolphin in a ceremony where she wore
> a white dress and a pink tiara.
>
> She had been visiting Cindy, the dolphin for some 15 years.
> The woman dived in with Cindy and she gave him a hug and
> told the dolphin that she loved him.
>
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