Devenish-Phibbs

Anyone who subscribes to Time Out or picks up the Metro on the train every morning will already know about this, but it’s funny enough to warrant adding here! This is a link to the website of one Croy Devenish-Phibbs, who purports to be 102 years old and trying to track down his family.

The Devenish-Phibbs family are clearly a rum bunch and would probably fit right in with the Addams Family. Like all the best jokes, this is played straight (ish) and you can even receive a prize for finding information on the family that Croy Devenish-Phibbs hasn’t already got.

The information seems to consist entirely of brass plaques on benches and trees…

Of the many posted, I think this may be my favouite...



The inscription reads:

The Reverend Abel Devenish-Phibbs

Whilst addressing a sermon to three disinterested parishioners he whimpered twice, unleashed a most monstrous fart and expired to the sound of an uncertain "Amen"

Psalm 1:4

Devenish-Phibbs

Anyone who subscribes to Time Out or picks up the Metro on the train every morning will already know about this, but it’s funny enough to warrant adding here! This is a link to the website of one Croy Devenish-Phibbs, who purports to be 102 years old and trying to track down his family.

The Devenish-Phibbs family are clearly a rum bunch and would probably fit right in with the Addams Family. Like all the best jokes, this is played straight (ish) and you can even receive a prize for finding information on the family that Croy Devenish-Phibbs hasn’t already got.

The information seems to consist entirely of brass plaques on benches and trees…

Of the many posted, I think this may be my favouite...



The inscription reads:

The Reverend Abel Devenish-Phibbs

Whilst addressing a sermon to three disinterested parishioners he whimpered twice, unleashed a most monstrous fart and expired to the sound of an uncertain "Amen"

Psalm 1:4

A little history

As pointless notes go, I should like to highlight the fact that today is the 556th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turk forces of Sultan Mehmet II.

This brought an end to the Byzantine Empire, a civilization that evolved from the Roman Empire – indeed to its citizens it was the Roman Empire. Byzantium was founded as the Eastern Roman Empire in AD 285 when Diocletian split the Roman Empire in two for administrative reasons. Constantinople was founded in May 330 and served as the eastern capital for over a millennium before the fall (with a short interregnum after 1204, but we gloss over the Latin Empire and the Fourth Crusade).

A little history

As pointless notes go, I should like to highlight the fact that today is the 556th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turk forces of Sultan Mehmet II.

This brought an end to the Byzantine Empire, a civilization that evolved from the Roman Empire – indeed to its citizens it was the Roman Empire. Byzantium was founded as the Eastern Roman Empire in AD 285 when Diocletian split the Roman Empire in two for administrative reasons. Constantinople was founded in May 330 and served as the eastern capital for over a millennium before the fall (with a short interregnum after 1204, but we gloss over the Latin Empire and the Fourth Crusade).