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...oddest pets in pet-loving Britain are two electric turtles named Elmer and Elsie. They play around the home of Dr. W. Grey Walter, head of the physiological department of the Burden Neurological Institute at Bristol. Elmer and Elsie are not exactly alive. Under their shiny steel shells are no flesh & blood, but only mechanical organs. They take no interest in each other, and could not, in any case, reproduce. But wandering around Dr. Walter's house, they act much like real live animals...
Mechanic's Clue. In Bristol, England, George Law recognized an auto stolen from him three years before, despite fake engine and chassis numbers and a new paint job, proved his ownership by pointing out a piece of chewing gum he had once used to patch an oil leak...
Packing the ukulele that a Hawaiian bunkmate had taught him to play, he was off to Constantinople. For the next two years the flotilla plied the Aegean and Black Seas. On every shore leave, Godfrey and his fellow musicians of "Admiral Bristol's Bobo Six" beat out their rhythms in Levantine dives and were paid off in free drinks and applause...
Ever since the 17th Century, Britons have drunk a sherry called "Bristol Milk." Samuel Pepys wrote in its praise. The entry in his diary of June 13, 1668 reads: ". . . and did give us good entertainment of strawberries, a whole venison-pasty, cold, and plenty of brave wine, and above all, Bristol milk...
...John Harvey & Sons, makers of Bristol Milk and a better sherry called Bristol Cream, never got around to registering the trademark of their mellow product. Recently, intending to enter the U.S. market on a larger scale, Harvey's finally applied to the British Food Ministry for a registration certificate protecting the Bristol Milk label...