The Edmondson Blog

You know you're going to have a bad Christmas when you get back from a visit to the boys room and Hitler has stolen your place.

Inscriptions from the mausoleum of Daniel and William Cormack, in the cemetery at Loughmore, County Tipperary, Ireland: By the IRISH RACE, i...

According to Google Search Results. Events for each year determined by the first page of Google search results for the phrases: by [year] in...

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, f...

My neighbour knocked on my door at 2:30am this morning! Can you believe that, 2:30am?! Luckily for him I was still up playing my Bagpipes. T...

The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi. I thought I saw an eye doctor...

Easter is a movable feast, meaning it is not fixed in relation to the civil calendar, but is, in fact, linked to the Jewish Passover as the ...

King Henry VIII of England King George I of Great Britain King Francis I of France King Frederick the Great of Prussia King Herod of Judea C...

Supervision of the early Olympic marathons was a trifle lax. The winner of the 1900 event in Paris, an enterprising local baker's delive...

In 1902, the Tour de France reached an all-time low amid widespread skullduggery and outright cheating. Spectators left nails in the road in...

Stella Walsh dominated the 1932 Olympic 100-metre sprint, confirming her status as the top female sprinter of the 1930s. Forty-three years l...

Sports' most inventive cheat may have been Boris Onischenko, a Red Army major from Ukraine. A veteran at the modern pentathlon — a five-...

An Englishman, a Frenchman, a Spaniard and a German are all standing watching a street performer do some excellent juggling. The juggler not...

This is one of those emails that has gone viral - people receive it, have a good laugh and send it on to all their friends, who then do the ...

Nuts are defined as a simple, dry fruit with one seed (very occasionally two) in which the seed case wall becomes very hard at maturity. Tru...

(Sean makes a mistake in the first verse.) As I was a goin' over the far famed Kerry mountains I met with Captain Farrell and his money ...

Sir, I was disappointed to fall behind with checking your blog. Bet R. Latethannerver Sir, You look neat, talk about a treat! You look dappe...

(Now that's really scarey!)

"There is a long history of David Truscott visiting this particular farm, and seeking sexual gratification while immersed in cow dung a...