Bare Cheek: Hove factually

Five fun facts you didn’t know…

1. The UK’s first successful human head transplant took place at a Hove clinic in 1975, when the head of car-accident victim Anthony Kiyonga was stitched on to the body of Maurice Chalker, who had lost his own head while demonstrating a samurai sword to a friend. Kiyonga survived the operation, and “Two-tone Tony”, as he became known, was a familiar figure on Hove’s streets until his death in 1980.

2. The British Sign Language sign for “Hove” involves sticking the left index finger up the right nostril while vigorously rotating the right hand in a circular motion, as if operating a crank.

3. In a 1969 episode of the television show Star Trek, ‘Rendezvous With Yesterday’, Captain Kirk and his crew travel back in time to prevent the creation of Blatchington Road, an event that will cause the annihilation of the universe.

4. The child’s nursery rhyme ‘Old MacDonald Had a Farm’ is based on a real-life farmer, Ernest MacDonald, who owned a small farm near Portslade from 1921 until 1946. He did indeed have, on his farm, a cow, a pig, a sheep, and a horse, all of whom made the noises one would expect such animals to. What the song fails to mention is that he was a war criminal.

5. In Hove, disco dancing was illegal until 1990.

Edward De Bonehead’s Lateral Thinking Puzzles

NO. 9: THE FRENCHMAN
Every day at 8am precisely, Monsieur Georges Cochet leaves his Val-de-Grace apartment and walks to the Champs-Elysees, where he has his shoes shined, and then goes to a café, where he orders black coffee and croissants and reads Le Monde from cover to cover. On 15 April 2006, however, he breaks from his normal routine, and instead takes a taxi to Porte-Saint-Martin, where he exposes himself to two old ladies from Toulouse before jumping into the Seine. Why?

SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO.8
The last sausage is 22 feet long and weighs a quarter of a tonne.