Trivia - feel free to add to this thread

[MauriceMynah]

Can't beat a bit of Bodyline.

[Poppy]

The bull question

The collection apparatus is more than just a large condom.

 

It consists of a tube which inside has a ruber bladder, this is filled with warm(not Hot) water(this mimics the body temperature of the cow), the collector which is an industrial strength clear rubber tube is attached to the opposite end to the entrance.

The Bull is introduced to a cow who is in season and the apparatus is substituted for the cow all held by men in white coats

 

Possibly how the great saying Come And Get it started !

 

Hope they're not fed cornflakes for breakfast that day 

[Baitrunner]

Yeah hah - I knew I was well paid.

 

That is quite sad though.

 

Or the richest 80 people in the World own more than the bottom 50% of the World.

 

Or next year the wealthiest 1% will own more than the poorest 50% of the World!

 

Staggering.

[MauriceMynah]

"Or the richest 80 people in the World own more than the bottom 50% of the World.

 

 

Or next year the wealthiest 1% will own more than the poorest 50% of the World!"

 

 

Interesting statistics, but have you ever tried verifying them (or what they imply)  from an independent source?

I ask this because I have but failed miserably.

 

To give an example of how these statistics CAN work would be to say...

 

... The wealthiest 1% will always own more that the remaining 99%,  or...

... The richest 80 people in the world own more that the remaining x million.

 

The term "put together" is never used

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

[Timbo]

if the population of China were to walk past you in single file, the queue would never stop moving due to the size and expansion of population in China!

 

God forbid they all decide to jump up and down!

[MauriceMynah]

Sorry Timbo, that can't be right!

If they are all queuing to walk passed Single file, they'd be in no position to make babies.

 

 

 

 

 

Sorry Iain, I'll stop there.

[BroadScot]

MM, nothing untowards there, that I can see   I canny see China can I now?

 

 

Iain

 

 

p.s. I wonder how many TOY ones they produce per day?

[alexandlorna]

Those spiders, there's none around here? 

Since reading this Lorna has suddenly stopped killing arachnids!!!

[alexandlorna]

Oops, where is that pesky mod whenyou need him  ?

[ranworthbreeze]

Hi Alex,

Deleted the double post for you.

Regards

Alan

[BroadScot]

Oops, where is that pesky mod whenyou need him  ?

Hi Alex,

 

Am doon sooth fur a few days. Hence pesky mod no aroon as much, awfy sorry!

 

 

Iain

[Wonderwall]

Time spent on the broads goes twice as fast as anywhere else on this planet.

I blame the goverment. It's a time tax. Outrageous and needs stopped

[BroadScot]

Time spent on the broads goes twice as fast as anywhere else on this planet.

I blame the goverment. It's a time tax. Outrageous and needs stopped

Yes agreed, unless Norfolk moves to 48 hour days!

 

 

Iain

[quo vadis]

Every camera I have owned has / had a round lens, so why do the pictures come out rectangular?

[Rincewind]

The first couple to be shown in the same bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone...

[Paul]

and the first two men shown in bed together ..... Morecambe and Wise

[Rincewind]

Ok, Dave..I goofed. I stand corrected.

 

Fred and Wilma, first 'man and woman' couple shown in bed together on prime time TV. 

[littlesprite]

Rincewind,

I always thought Andy Pandy and Loopy loo came before Fred and Wilma.

[BroadScot]

Rincewind,

I always thought Andy Pandy and Loopy loo came before Fred and Wilma.

As many of us did not have TVs then me included, can we really call them Prime Time TV?  What about Donald Duck n Mickey Mouse! Could they have been under the Eiderdown together? 

 

 

Iain.

[BroadScot]

Shortest place name in the UK

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ae,_Scotland

 

 

Iain.

[Baitrunner]

Longest village in norfolk - Shipdham.

Used to have something like 26 pubs as well!! Sadly only 1 left.

[ExSurveyor]

Bedfordshire has the highest murder rate in the UK per capita.

Your chance of being murdered over your lifetime is 1 in a thousand.

Now we have a greater chance of being murdered than of winning the jackpot on the lottery.

[ExSurveyor]

The Nike slogan, Just do it, was inspired by the last words of Gary Gilmore before he was executed by firing squad in 1997.

Not a lot of people know that

[watershed]

1997?thought it was a lot earlier than that,1970's? It inspired a punk rock song (gary gilmores eyes,by,i think,the adverts)as i believe his eyes were used for transplanting. I may be wrong,not for the first time!

[ranworthbreeze]

You are correct Gary Gilmore was executed in 1977 and the song was released about 8 months after by the Adverts.
 
Here is a link to the song for those of us who can not remember the punk era :-

Sadly some of us can even remember that Cliff Richard had some of his earlier records on 78's.
Many say however he must have been recording on wax cylinders

Regards
Alan