Today Is...Scott Of The Antarctic's Body Discovered

Scott's mission was to be the first to reach the South Pole and to secure for the British Empire the honour of the magnificent achievement, basically to stick it to Johnny Foreigner and prove why Britain is the only country with Great in it's name although with hindsight, it was all a bit of a balls up.
Beginning 200 miles away from the Pole wasn't the best start and the thin woollen jumpers were a mistake and as the Norwegians took dogs and were big girls blouses, he decided his lot would use horses instead and the big, heavy wooden sleds which stuck to the ice were not his brightest idea and the food supplies were insufficient for the long trek but by George they stuck out the British stiff upper lip gave it a good go, even though the stiff upper lip got frostbitten and fell off along with various other body parts.
As they were preparing he said to the gang that with all this top notch British equipment it was almost making the venture too easy and he would take a massive punt that they would easily beat Amundsen and his gang.
Captain Oates and the rest of them called him something very similar to a massive punt when they arrived at the Pole and saw a bloody great Norwegian flag poking out the snow, the other group having got there five weeks before them.
On the way back Captain Oates said that he was just going outside and may be some time, if they had known he wasn't coming back at all then they could have eaten his share of canned fish and maybe they wouldn't have all starved to death and found as human ice lollies weeks later.