Right after Queen Victoria visited the Canadian city named after her (Victoria, British Columbia, of course), she was asked if a housing development could be named in her honor — Victoria Mews.
The Queen replied “We can be a city in Canada, and We can be a falls in Africa, but We are NOT a mews!”… Read the rest...
https://shaggy-dogs.briancombs.net/queen-victoria/
A young man’s primary goal in life was to become a security guard at the local prison. After getting out of high school, the first thing he did was go to the prison and ask for an application, but he was told they weren’t hiring. Disappointed, he signed up for a stint in the Army, but not one week later he found a want ad in the newspaper saying “LOCAL PRISON NEEDS GUARDS.” Unable to break his Army commitment, he … Read the rest...
https://shaggy-dogs.briancombs.net/the-prison-guard/