David Abbott

Retured and a cat owner - no, that's wrong - provider of food/shelter/entertainment to a cat

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

Because of the way our DNA is organised, we are more closely related to cats than dogs.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Dear @ASPCA —

I’d like to report cat abuse.

[Geoffrey Downes @asiageoff]

Flat key signatures and black notes are a very effective deterrent against interfering guitarists! Completely foxes ‘em. ✊🏻🎹

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

On several streets in St. John’s, Newfoundland, there is no house between numbers 17 and 21 because ‘number nineteen’ used to be a local euphemism for an outdoor toilet.

[David Abbott @dpabbott2012]

@NationCymru Photo of the chef in the article is of James Martin, not Matt Waldron as noted in the text

[Paul Bronks @SlenderSherbet]

I FUCKING KNEW IT.

[David Abbott @dpabbott2012]

@jammach 👍🏻😎

[David Abbott @dpabbott2012]

@jammach Out of interest, what’s the hardware outside? Cheers 😎

[David Abbott @dpabbott2012]

@SusanCalman My name is Gwen

[craig @guzzicraig]

My mate and his cousins started a band called 999 Megabytes.
They still haven’t got a gig.

[Dave † 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇸🇮🇪🎸🎶 @daveguitarjones]

Both Cream and The Jam were going to reunite for gigs in Devon and Cornwall this year, but the venues couldn't agree about who should go on first.

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. OSCAR WILDE

[WalesOnCraic @WalesOnCraic]

Over by yer, mun.

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

When Christian missionary Ron Trudinger gave a sermon to the Pitjantjatjara people of Central Australia, he mistranslated the phrase ‘tongues of fire’, instead saying the Holy Spirit would descend on them in a deluge of wallabies.

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

In the 18th century, a ‘sluggard waker’ would be employed by churches to wake up sleeping parishioners by hitting them on the head with a stick.

[David Abbott @dpabbott2012]

@almurray That’ll test your airbrush skills 😁

[Paul Rees. ex Rucksack. @HannahIamthest1]

My car wouldn't start this morning.
I looked under the bonnet and saw a bat sitting on the engine block.
He said: "Good day to you, Sir, and might I remark how splendidly handsome you look today?"
I knew the problem straight away:
bat flattery…..

I'll get my coat. 😂😂

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

On 15 November, 2026, NASA’S Voyager 1, launched in 1977, will have travelled one light-day from Earth.

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

At one point in ‘The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy’, 42 is suggested to be the answer to the question ‘What do you get if you multiply six by nine?’ When someone told Douglas Adams the maths actually works in numerical base 13, he replied ‘I don't make jokes in base 13’.