Hell&related Stuff

While I'm educating you cultured and sophisticated readers, I may as well give you this little snippet which may come in handy when interrogating spouses as to their previous wherabouts.

It seems that when questioning some-one, if the person looks to their right and upwards they are trying to remember, if to their right they are going to tell porkies.

...I'd never have known that.

To what am I refering my little blogging buddies?

I refer to the fact that Wellington, that great defeater of Napoleon and whom we know as 'The Iron Duke', got this moniker in a way I for one didn't dream of.

He is not the 'Iron Duke' in the same way as Mrs Thatcher was the 'Iron Lady', oh no.

He was given this title as a term of derision, the situation being as follows:

Wellington, after his vanquishing of 'Old boney', went on to become Prime minister and a bloody hopeless one at that. Pissed off with the populace venting its wrath by lobbing stones through his windows, he took steps by cladding all his windows with an Iron grille.

'oood av fort it eh?

I was about to end your lesson for today but one other interesting fact emerges from this anecdote, insomuch as, he wasn't in Downing street at the time but resided at 'Apsley House'. The thing about 'Apsley House' is that when, for the sake of the postal service, houses started to be numbered, 'Apsley House' was given the address......1, London.

Dennypoos, as educational as hell.