Google rather disputes it though....seems the origin of the phrase is less than certain.Quote:
Originally Posted by J.S
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Google rather disputes it though....seems the origin of the phrase is less than certain.Quote:
Originally Posted by J.S
You'll have to take that up with Stephen Fry then :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by RyeSloan
Or the QI elves.Quote:
Originally Posted by J.S
:aok:Quote:
Originally Posted by JeMeSouviens
Well there you go!
Ahh sheesh that’s me done for now! [emoji23]Quote:
Originally Posted by lord bunberry
Catagelophobia is the fear of being ridiculed. Maybe why I don’t post much.
The level used when levelling a professional full size snooker table is that accurate that placing a banknote under it will send the bubble a couple of degrees out.
I take it you mean another form of angle measurement than degrees, I can't imagine that a single bank note would cause a variation of even 1 degree. That would mean that 90 bank notes would cause the level to stand at a right angle to the measuring surface.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
I suspect he means the equivalent of a couple of degrees on a less sensitive level.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
Yes this exactly, I should have been more clearer by degrees I mean the lines on the level, there are many more than a standard level.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
Thankfully Scouse doesn't appear to suffer from acute Catagelophobia or else you'd have ruined his Sunday with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
Thanks, maybe mils? :dunno:Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
:faf: I'm sure he's got a thick skin.Quote:
Originally Posted by danhibees1875
As thick as a bank note under a snooker table level 😂Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
That's no skin, that's armour. :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
The total amount of time spent each day on social media in the world adds up to 1 million years.
If you divide one by eighty one the answer is 0.0123456789
If you point both index fingers at each other and rotate them around each other for two minutes, then try to bring them together to touch at the end of each finger they won’t touch and push away like magnets.
Scotland selected the required 22 man squad for the 1954 World Cup but only took 13 players.
Mulan has the highest kill-count of any Disney character.
If you follow the Fibonacci sequence, down the way it will convert kilometres to miles. If you follow it up the way it will convert miles to kilometres.
It took the inventor of the Rubiks Cube one month to solve it on his first attempt.
Sonic the Hedgehog’s full name is actually Ogilvie Maurice Hedgehog.
What about Pharoah in The Prince of Egypt?Quote:
Originally Posted by c31
Don't think that's a Disney movie...Quote:
Originally Posted by Future17
Nowhere in the nursery rhyme is Humpty Dumpty described as an egg. In reality it refers to a cannon from the English Civil War. The first depiction as an egg was in a Lewis Carroll book.
Jack and Jill is about the exectuions of Louis XVI and Marie Antoniette.
Probably older than themQuote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
https://interestingliterature.com/2017/05/a-short-analysis-of-the-jack-and-jill-nursery-rhyme/
That explains that then. :aok:Quote:
Originally Posted by c31
I've been enjoying myself trawling through this incredibly interesting thread and I thought I'd bump this for you all!Quote:
Originally Posted by lord bunberry
The oldest sporting Olympic medal winner is a 72 year old Swede who won a medal for shooting in 1920. However the oldest Olympic medal winner is John Copley who won a silver medal in 1948, when aged 73, in the Mixed Painting, Engravings and Etchings category when the Olympics included arts events.
If only we’d known it would happen so soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibbyradge