But eventually we got in and Ms Toksvig was great. Her themes were fame and death and she brought in all sorts of historical characters, most of whom being unheard of, by me at least. I'll share two of the titbits I remember.
Research has been carried out leading to the publication of a paper entitled BITE. I can't remember what it stands for (argh, my brain) but it's about the dangers of biscuits, how they can injure you and which are the most dangerous.
Custard creams are to be avoided as they're top of the Danger List while chocolate fingers can be eaten to your heart's content. Only Jaffa cakes had a lower score than fingers and, really there's no competition.
P.S. I looked it up: Biscuit Injury Threat Evaluation. You can read the full list of dangerous biscuits here.
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I thought you Brits were made of sterner stuff. Who knew you were so vulnerable to biscuits (or cookies, as we call them here)? Good thing Hitler didn't have that info or he would have bombed your island with them instead.
We had a visitor get bitten by the dog! Traditionally the dog got the last biscuit (no chocolate though). The dog knew that. So when the old lady took the last biscuit, the dog nipped her hand. She dropped the biccy and the dog grabbed it and ran off ;-)
Ginger nuts?
O.K. I've read the article about B.I.T.E now.
I'm not sure how they blamed biscuits when some man was injured wading into wet concrete to retrieve one he'd dropped … did he then eat it v-e-r-y slowly, chewing with his mouth open, till it set round his molars?
We had a PI case once at work where someone was injured badly with some frozen chips! So I can quite believe biscuits are dangerous - certainly for the hips!
True, Debra. A packet of custard creams and he'd have won.
You see, Stu, they're right!
Nor poking themselves in the eye with the biscuit, Sonata. That's more stupidity than dangerous biscuits.
Oh my, but they are dangerous for the hips, you're right, - I'm going to have to find a shorter form of your name, wherethejourneytakesme!
The activity of eating biscuits can be dangerous (not leastly, as WheretheJourney wrote, to the hips), but I can't fault the biscuits, themselves, for any of it, can I? As with any distracting activity, one must keep mindful of where they are and what they are doing.
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