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Hooks

Beans on toast

... that beans on toast (example pictured) have variously been referred to as "skinheads", "skins on a raft" and "cowboy's dinner"?
... that Licia Fertz posed nude for Rolling Stone at the age of 89?
... that the author of Your Own Quiz wanted the readers to answer at least one question in the novel correctly at the same time as the main character?
... that all three sons of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip attended Gordonstoun School?
... that one writer described the decorations of 44 West 77th Street as having seemingly been "squeezed out of a pastry tube"?
... that the documentary film Kino-Eye includes footage reversed by director Dziga Vertov to show bread being unmade and a bull being "resurrected"?
... that Patrick Castagno won his 60th state championship shortly after his 60th birthday?
... that the Gordon House was the headquarters of a project to rebuild an 1813 ship?
... that Vasily Baranshchikov's travelogue was an 18th-century bestseller, despite what one contemporary review deemed sloppy writing and an ungrateful, whiny tone?