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Post by henry on Dec 26, 2019 21:04:45 GMT
Dolly Parton has been married for 53 years. She also wrote Islands in the stream when lying in the bath.
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Post by mattador78 on Dec 27, 2019 5:37:59 GMT
Dolly Parton has been married for 53 years. She also wrote Islands in the stream when lying in the bath. On that note Barry Gibb also wrote the title song for Grease as well as islands in the stream
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Post by murphthesurf on Dec 27, 2019 8:58:46 GMT
In Chinese restaurants, 'crispy seaweed' isn't seaweed - it's in fact shredded cabbage.
Or, if you're a ventriloquist, shredded caggage. Gottle o' geer, gottle o' geer.
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Post by mrcoke on Dec 27, 2019 9:49:08 GMT
Frank Sinatra never wore the same pair of socks twice.
He always put on a new pair.
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Post by chuffedstokie on Dec 27, 2019 9:57:26 GMT
It's possible to open a bottle of champagne with a sword whilst keeping the closure (cork etc) and neck all in one piece.
Never tried it, don't own a sword. 🤔
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Post by rogerjonesisgod on Dec 27, 2019 11:18:13 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2019 13:06:56 GMT
Charles Darwin's personal pet tortoise didn't die until recently.
Okay, technically she wasn't his pet, but after his tour of the Galapagos Islands, Charles Darwin brought back a five-year-old tortoise he named Harriet. She outlived her adopter by 124 years, ultimately making it to a whopping 176 years old. Harriet lived out her final years as part of the family of Steve "Crocodile Hunter" Irwin in Australia, until she passed away, in 2006.
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Post by murphthesurf on Dec 27, 2019 13:20:52 GMT
It's possible to open a bottle of champagne with a sword whilst keeping the closure (cork etc) and neck all in one piece. Never tried it, don't own a sword. 🤔 It's all swords and axes with your lot, innit, Chuff! It's called 'sabrage', as in using a sabre, & apparently originated with Boney's troops, who carried (as did our own cavalry) that type of sword & liked to show off anytime they got near a decent stash of booze. Only the blunt side of the blade should be used when opening champagne. You can buy 'champagne sabres'. Personally I can't stand this poncey show-off sort of stuff & it's always nice to bear in mind that it's fairly typical of the French that the only skill they had with swords was for opening bottles, eg. I wouldn't think they were feeling much in the mood after Waterloo or Trafalgar. (*) Go our guys! (* Or Agincourt, though different swords + many longbows. V sign, anyone?!)
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Post by marylandstoke on Dec 27, 2019 14:09:10 GMT
It's possible to open a bottle of champagne with a sword whilst keeping the closure (cork etc) and neck all in one piece. Never tried it, don't own a sword. 🤔 It's all swords and axes with your lot, innit, Chuff! It's called 'sabrage', as in using a sabre, & apparently originated with Boney's troops, who carried (as did our own cavalry) that type of sword & liked to show off anytime they got near a decent stash of booze. Only the blunt side of the blade should be used when opening champagne. You can buy 'champagne sabres'. Personally I can't stand this poncey show-off sort of stuff & it's always nice to bear in mind that it's fairly typical of the French that the only skill they had with swords was for opening bottles, eg. I wouldn't think they were feeling much in the mood after Waterloo or Trafalgar. (*) Go our guys! (* Or Agincourt, though different swords + many longbows. V sign, anyone?!) Ah yes, one of my best man (A Septics) fave stories. An archer need his first two fingers to draw his bow. The French, if capturing an archer would cut off the first finger rendering him useless, thus, if you waved the V sign at the enemy you were defiantly thumbing your nose at them. I believe it’s also true that Paris has so many trees so the Germans could march in the shade.
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Post by felonious on Dec 27, 2019 16:37:15 GMT
Matt Lucas is actually paid to "present" a show on Radio 2.
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Post by The Drunken Communist on Dec 27, 2019 16:54:28 GMT
The eastern entrance/exit to the Panama Canal is further to the west than the western entrance/exit is.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2019 17:03:02 GMT
A single strand of Spaghetti is called a “Spaghetto”.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2019 17:17:41 GMT
During the 1908 Olympics in London, the Russians showed up 12 days late due to the fact that they were using the Julian calendar instead of the Gregorian calendar.
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Post by felonious on Dec 27, 2019 17:39:23 GMT
A single strand of Spaghetti is called a “Spaghetto”. This sounds like it could be from the "Strange but false" thread
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Post by mrcoke on Dec 27, 2019 19:48:15 GMT
Bet365 stadium is further north than Audlem in Cheshire.
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Post by borat on Dec 27, 2019 19:55:08 GMT
Your member isn't a bone on hard! :)
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Post by PotterLog on Dec 27, 2019 21:12:51 GMT
A single strand of Spaghetti is called a “Spaghetto”. Presumably the same applies for a raviolo and a macarono.... Similarly the plural of pizza is pizze
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Post by swampmongrel on Dec 27, 2019 21:32:27 GMT
Edinburgh is further west than Carlisle. I'm sure many of you knew that already but I never did until recently. Crab sticks don't actually contain any crab. Further west than Bristol too I think. And Norwich is further north than Birmingham. Also further west than Cardiff. 🐑
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Post by swampmongrel on Dec 27, 2019 21:40:05 GMT
Penguins can’t fly.
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Post by innocentbystander on Dec 27, 2019 23:00:13 GMT
There are more Muslims in India than Pakistan.
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Post by Goonie on Dec 28, 2019 10:01:33 GMT
Germany used suicide 'kamikaze' piolts in WWII
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Post by noustie on Dec 28, 2019 10:54:11 GMT
Few years back was watching Return Of The Jedi with my Mrs who pretty much moaned throughout. When she saw the Ewoks she was well confused and said 'we don't have them in Tibet' incredulously. Had no idea what she was on about until at the bit where C3PO gets raised off the ground she says 'What are they talking about there is no money!'- What they were saying was actually 'look at all the money; look at all the money!' in Tibetan so the random fact is woman are annoying as fuck watching films no matter where they're from.
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Post by mrcoke on Dec 28, 2019 11:56:57 GMT
There are more French people in London than Bordeaux, or Strasbourg.
Over 100,000 moved here when Macron came to power and increased taxes on the rich.
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Dec 28, 2019 12:21:04 GMT
It's all swords and axes with your lot, innit, Chuff! It's called 'sabrage', as in using a sabre, & apparently originated with Boney's troops, who carried (as did our own cavalry) that type of sword & liked to show off anytime they got near a decent stash of booze. Only the blunt side of the blade should be used when opening champagne. You can buy 'champagne sabres'. Personally I can't stand this poncey show-off sort of stuff & it's always nice to bear in mind that it's fairly typical of the French that the only skill they had with swords was for opening bottles, eg. I wouldn't think they were feeling much in the mood after Waterloo or Trafalgar. (*) Go our guys! (* Or Agincourt, though different swords + many longbows. V sign, anyone?!) Ah yes, one of my best man (A Septics) fave stories. An archer need his first two fingers to draw his bow. The French, if capturing an archer would cut off the first finger rendering him useless, thus, if you waved the V sign at the enemy you were defiantly thumbing your nose at them. I believe it’s also true that Paris has so many trees so the Germans could march in the shade. The V Sign one is one of those pieces of folk history, I'm afraid. Absolutely no written primary historical sources exist to support it. Shame though cause it sounds ace.
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Post by Goonie on Dec 28, 2019 12:32:37 GMT
In WWII the British effectively used balloons to bomb occupied Europe (an idea the Japanese also used ineffectively against America)
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Post by marylandstoke on Dec 28, 2019 13:48:43 GMT
Ah yes, one of my best man (A Septics) fave stories. An archer need his first two fingers to draw his bow. The French, if capturing an archer would cut off the first finger rendering him useless, thus, if you waved the V sign at the enemy you were defiantly thumbing your nose at them. I believe it’s also true that Paris has so many trees so the Germans could march in the shade. The V Sign one is one of those pieces of folk history, I'm afraid. Absolutely no written primary historical sources exist to support it. Shame though cause it sounds ace. As stated....story maybe should be in strange but false Anyhoo....Murph goaded me into it and that’s my defense
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Post by mattador78 on Dec 28, 2019 15:44:40 GMT
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Post by mattyd on Dec 28, 2019 15:47:59 GMT
Charles Darwin's personal pet tortoise didn't die until recently. Okay, technically she wasn't his pet, but after his tour of the Galapagos Islands, Charles Darwin brought back a five-year-old tortoise he named Harriet. She outlived her adopter by 124 years, ultimately making it to a whopping 176 years old. Harriet lived out her final years as part of the family of Steve "Crocodile Hunter" Irwin in Australia, until she passed away, in 2006. Got ran over by a Mitsubishi... Now that's Evolution for ya....
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Post by mattyd on Dec 28, 2019 15:51:01 GMT
Charles Darwin's personal pet tortoise didn't die until recently. Okay, technically she wasn't his pet, but after his tour of the Galapagos Islands, Charles Darwin brought back a five-year-old tortoise he named Harriet. She outlived her adopter by 124 years, ultimately making it to a whopping 176 years old. Harriet lived out her final years as part of the family of Steve "Crocodile Hunter" Irwin in Australia, until she passed away, in 2006. Copy and Paste eh Deeside....
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Post by mattyd on Dec 28, 2019 15:55:14 GMT
Some people love it and some people hate it, but what is it that makes joint cracking so loud? When joints are stretched, the pockets of gas that get trapped between them are released. When these bubbles of oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide escape, they might make a popping or cracking noise. Whether or not intentional joint cracking is bad for your health has yet to be decided. Some scientists say it harmless, while others say it may lead to osteoarthritis
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