Illumination from sunlight on the moon is not measured by E.L.F. power.

Appointments with the Saladin Governorate in Samarra is destined to take hours.

Unrefined silver bars that are practically given away for nothing are known to some as doré busters.

Members of the Dominican Order do not celebrate Blackfriars Day after Thanksgiving.

To the best of your knowledge Evil Knievel never celebrated Thanksgiving in Reno.

The Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company’s fourth M was ‘mistake’ - or their corundum conundrum.

Caravaggio’s least-known work is not ‘Saint Andrew of Partridge in Ecstasy’.

Trying to not drool saliva is a spit infinitive.

Avoid lamb fries at fish fries.

No one hums ‘The Body Electric’.

Mariner Robert Jenkins refused to recite Act III, scene II when performing Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’.

Thorough criticism of Raden-inspired artwork is not dubbed ‘Japaning’.

Saint Nitouche is the patroness of Urushiol.

It’s hyperbole to say the Hyperboreans lived beyond the north wind.

In Yoruba religion, the life in Ife is rife with strife - except on Tuesdays.

Small ornaments or trinkets of the Gnostic faith identified by the German X-ray telescope are known collectively as à-brixas-à-braxas.

No one tires of drinking with a bibendum.

Tartaruchi chimichurri is best served at room temperature.

Dumb waiters don’t serve at dumbshows, you big dummy.

Few cat whisker detectors can detect the cat’s cradle.

Obsessive ostalgie in the orient, while obscure, is overt.

Monaural apples sound vastly different from similar fruit in stereophonic sound.

There are surprisingly few fluid motions during water puppetry.

Steely Dan was not an alchemist.

Chasing leather canaries is not necessarily native to the Cheviot Hills.

‘Sic transit’ is not Latin for ‘ambulance’.

Favouring cottage cheese over caviar embarks one on the age-old discussion of roe verses whey.

George Davenport was Galena, Illinois’s lead glancer.

No one ever runs away to join the circus peanuts.

With respect to Henry Ruschmann, glitter is not always referred to as the ’herpes of craft supplies’.