Recent Posts Tagged With 'trivia'

• Monk caught trying to worship the wrong kind of god

  Posted on Friday March 7th, 2008 at 08:10 in trivia

  A 49-year-old German monk may face criminal charges after he was caught steal gay porn DVDs from a shop.A search of his room at the medieval Abbey of Maria Laach in Rhineland-Palatine found more than 200 similar DVDs.The Benedictine monk was challeng...

• Keira's posh frock scoops film poll

  Posted on Monday December 31st, 2007 at 08:49 in trivia, keira knightley

  The emerald green dress worn by Keira Knightley in Atonement has been voted the best film costume of all time.The bias-cut, backless silk gown had fashion editors raving when it first appeared on screen last year.Keira's character, Cecilia Tallis, wo...

• Old queens

  Posted on Thursday November 29th, 2007 at 03:55 in trivia, royal family

  Caroline Butler in The Telegraph debunks a few myths about 'Backstairs Billy' - William Tallon - the queen behind the Queen Mother, who died last week.'She can make her own b***** gin and tonic...'...

• 101 gadgets that changed the world No 20 - Condom, 1640

  Posted on Saturday November 3rd, 2007 at 05:39 in trivia

  Condom, 1640 Egyptians donned them 3,000 years ago and the 16th-century Italian gynaecologist Gabriele Falloppio (he of the tubes) first advocated their use to prevent the spread of disease. The earliest remains of a condom, which date from 1640, wer...

• Did Rock beat Liz to Dean as a bet?

  Posted on Tuesday October 30th, 2007 at 08:32 in celebrity news, trivia

  A former Hollywood starlet has claimed that actress Elizabeth Taylor made a bet with gay actor Rock Hudson about which one of them could seduce James Dean.The much-married Ms Taylor lost out, according to Noreen Nash.Dean starred in the movie Giant w...

• Landlord prosecuted over homophobic pub sign

  Posted on Friday October 19th, 2007 at 10:59 in trivia, homophobia

  The landlord of a Wiltshire pub who allowed a homophobic sign to be displayed outside his premises has been found guilty of public order offence at Chippenham Magistrates Court.The pub's former landlords John Williams, 40, and his 26-year-old partner...

• 'Gay bomb' scoops Ig Nobel award

  Posted on Friday October 5th, 2007 at 03:33 in trivia

  Pioneering research into a "gay bomb" that makes enemy troops "sexually irresistible" to each other has scooped one of this year's Ig Nobel Prizes. Other winners included work on treating hamster jetlag with impotency drugs, extracting vanilla from c...