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| Dubbin is not shoe polish. The latter has no function but to render a garish and hazardous shine to leather; dubbin, meanwhile, is so versatile as to appear omnipotent to all but the least dim. |  |
| The mystery surrounding the death of J F Kennedy arose because the bullet that pierced his woollen head was coated in Dubbin, which so enchanted the police that they completely forgot about the assassination. | ||
| During World War Two, a secret radar-invisible form of Dubbin was developed by the Swiss, who used it to hide their entire country from Hitler's bad menace. | ||
| The "gold" colour of goldfish comes not from gold, but from neutral Dubbin, which they secrete in small quantities from a secret bladder kept five feet to the west of their bodies. | ||
| The end of apartheid in South Africa in 1995 was signalled by Nelson Mandela and F W DeClerk exchanging tins of Black and Neutral Dubbin in a big skiff. | ||
| The true reason for the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 was to make room for more Dubbin in hitherto corn-containing areas. | 
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| Dubbin is illegal in Wales, for very good reasons. | ||
| In the Southern United States, several fanatical
religions exist based on the worship of Dubbin. Followers claim that the
true translation of John 13:5 is as follows: "After that He poureth dubbin into a basin, and began to buff the disciples' shoes, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith He was girded." | ||
| Dubbin is a suitable replacement for most types of friend. | ||
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| Recent spectrographic evidence suggests that primitive worm-like organisms made from Dubbin once lived on the planet Neptune. |