thewisdomtooth

A Glaswegian chancer and one and only purveyor of #ToothTackleHugs™ ... I deal my own deck, sometimes the ace, sometimes the deuces!... SAPERE AUDE!

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🎶Drink up dreamers, you're running dry.🎶

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Hi-tech

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Central Republic of Gateaux!

[Jessica M @Jesii_ca_M]

Guess the country??

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3, 4 or 5 tbh...

[Chef 👩🏻‍🍳 @chefsevenn]

How do u like your steak cooked ? 🥩

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Ooooo the bots are out over 7 inches! 🤣

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Skin?

[Sofia @Sofia50020Sofia]

I heard only biology majors know the answer

Can you do it?

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I saw that #DustyBin was trending and my heart sank.... Thankfully, he's still alive! #Phew

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#RIP Giles 😢

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@MancJules @Dominos_UK 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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It's payday, so.... @Dominos_UK oo-oooooo!

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@MancJules Exactly.... As scary as that was in the moment, she's the most lovely,prettiest, protective and cheeky wee tortie. We love our Scully 😻

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Have cats, they say. It'll be fun they say.... This is what I woke up to this morning... #Terrifying

[Scotland National Team @ScotlandNT]

Your 26-strong Scotland squad heading to the @FIFAWorldCup 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

➡️ Read more: https://t.co/BuZ2ubTegE

#FIFAWorldCup

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[BBC Press Office @bbcpress]

Remembering Gone Fishing’s Ted - Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse pay tribute

More ➡️ https://t.co/6ghySJTlqW

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Rotterdam, with bitterballen!

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@doglegjack @HedgieMarkets I miss clippy!

[VisionaryVoid @VisionaryVoid]

The Schoolboy Who Accidentally Slipped D-Day Secrets Into a Newspaper Crossword.

In May 1944, just weeks before the biggest invasion of World War II, British intelligence officers opened the Daily Telegraph and froze.

The crossword puzzles published between 2 May and 1 June contained several top-secret codewords: Utah, Omaha, Overlord, Mulberry, and Neptune, the exact names for the Normandy beaches, the overall operation, the artificial harbours, and the naval assault plan.

MI5 launched a full investigation. They arrested Leonard Dawe, the 54-year-old headmaster of Strand School (evacuated to Surrey) and the puzzle’s compiler.

Dawe and a colleague were interrogated intensely. They insisted they knew nothing about any military operation.

The real explanation came years later.

Dawe had a habit of calling sixth-form boys into his study to suggest words for the grid, then writing clues around them.

One of those boys, 14-year-old Ronald French, had been hanging around nearby American and Canadian troops preparing for D-Day. Security around the camp was surprisingly lax, and the soldiers chatted openly. Ronald picked up the codewords and casually suggested them as “interesting new words” for the puzzles.

Dawe used them without realising their significance.

MI5 eventually cleared everyone of espionage. The invasion went ahead on 6 June as planned. The Germans apparently never noticed the crosswords.

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Top tier 1990s joke! Bravo @anitathetweeter 👏👏👏

[Anita Singh @anitathetweeter]

Trees are good

[Daz McKavett @Dazmac1882]

I know Henry VIII had 6 wives - There was Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr but I can't for the life of me remember the surname of the one called Jane....See More

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My boys... ❤️

#Beni #Mulder

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@greateranglia Thanks Keira, appreciate it.

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Morning @greateranglia can you ask staff at Shenfield to make announcements of when trains will arrive, please. Just been terminated here and no information. It's freezing!