Flugelbinders: the truth

In the 1988, Tom Cruise movie Cocktail, Brian Flanagan explains to Elizabeth Shue's character that someone's probably made gazillions by inventing the "flugelbinder" - the plastic bits on the end of shoelaces.

These are actually called Aglets (from the French word for needle).

So now you know.

I can't believe how long it's been since I last posted. I have had two children since then! Hence my first topic to get me back into the swing of things is based around some of the pre-school television to which I've been subjected recently.

Did you know that the voice of Grandpa Pig is also the voice of Brains from Thunderbirds? how cool is that?!