Hove factually

Five facts you never knew about fantabulous Hove

1 Hove is 13 per cent argon.

2 We all know that the King Alfred is the world’s oldest leisure centre, formally opened by its illustrious Wessex namesake in AD 874, but few know that Ethelred the Unready allowed the Danelaw exclusive use of the pool on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and alternate Saturdays in lieu of tribute.

3 Hove has had Twitter since 1947 but has only had hot running water since 1982.

4 The Doge of the Most Serene Republic of Hove was an elected and supreme office that ran from 1371 till 1969, when it was replaced by the caliphate we know and fear today.

5 The seemingly empty drawers in the Craft section of Hove Museum actually contain the world’s only examples of invisible raffia work.

An occasional series in which we struggle to remember the original, simple, once common terms that have been abandoned in favour of overblown, crass, managerial nonsense.

Edward De Bonehead’s Lateral Thinking Puzzles
NO. 1 – THE WOMAN’S HAT
A man is walking down the road wearing a woman’s hat. Suddenly he breaks wind and immediately knows that his grandfather is dead. How does he know?
Answer next week.

WHAT WE SAY NOW:

“Talk us through”

Touchy-feely Americanism, presumably derived from talking through one’s problems during analysis, favoured currently by presenters of radio news programmes. “Minister – if you could talk us through the events leading up to this shock resignation that we all saw coming?”

WHAT WE USED TO SAY: “Tell us”

SPECIAL “SUCCESSFUL
TV SERIES THAT PERHAPS DON’T STAND THE TEST
OF TIME” EDITION PART 1

In & Out

In
• Nash Bridges
• Dr. Quinn,
Medicine Woman
• The Onedin Line
• Highway To Heaven
• Chancer
Out
• Alias Smith and Jones
• Rockliffe’s Babies
• When The Boat Comes In
• Harry O
• Ballykissangel