Analogue clocks are most likely to be photographed at 10:08 for advertisements as it makes them look happy and people are more likely to purchase them.
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18-12-2020 11:13 AM #841
Do you think your security can keep you in purity, you will not shake us off above or below. Scottish friction, Scottish fiction
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Do you think your security can keep you in purity, you will not shake us off above or below. Scottish friction, Scottish fiction
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18-12-2020 05:20 PM #844This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I'm extremely bored today.
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21-12-2020 06:48 PM #845
The German phrase "Englisch einkaufen gehen" means "to go English shopping" when translated word for word but really means to go shoplifting.
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21-12-2020 07:03 PM #846
Bumblebees can fly higher than Everest.
Do you think your security can keep you in purity, you will not shake us off above or below. Scottish friction, Scottish fiction
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21-12-2020 07:27 PM #847This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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10-02-2021 07:47 PM #848
Other football Clubs formed in 1875
Birmingham City
Blackburn Rovers
Bournemouth
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05-04-2021 02:28 PM #849
Sailing by Rod Stewart was actually a cover. Originally done by The Sutherland Brothers, whoever they are.
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05-04-2021 02:40 PM #850This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I'm old.Last edited by CropleyWasGod; 05-04-2021 at 03:17 PM.
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05-04-2021 03:53 PM #851This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteEvery gimmick hungry yob,
Digging gold from rock and roll
Grabs the mic to tell us,
He'll die before he's sold.
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05-04-2021 03:53 PM #852This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteEvery gimmick hungry yob,
Digging gold from rock and roll
Grabs the mic to tell us,
He'll die before he's sold.
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05-04-2021 04:33 PM #853This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sutherland_Brothers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poDjuRlaNAg
One of the brothers wrote the song, he probably earned far more off the royalties than from his own musical career
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05-04-2021 05:33 PM #854
In Computing parlance, eight Bits is called a 'Byte'.
And half a Byte (four Bits) is called a 'Nibble'.
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05-04-2021 05:47 PM #855This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Rod definitely did a far better job of it.
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05-04-2021 05:58 PM #856This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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05-04-2021 07:44 PM #858
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Alexander Graham Bell's wife was deaf.
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06-04-2021 01:02 AM #859This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
United we stand here....
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06-04-2021 08:04 AM #860
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06-04-2021 08:49 PM #864
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I saw them at Aberdeen Uni union in 1980, I think.
Very hairy, if I remember.
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12-04-2021 07:29 AM #865
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Don’t forget Quiver
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12-04-2021 05:09 PM #866This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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06-09-2021 12:35 PM #867
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.
Why was that gauge used?
Well, because that's the way they built them in England, and English engineers designed the first US railroads.
Why did the English build them like that?
Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the wagon tramways, and that's the gauge they used.
So, why did 'they' use that gauge then?
Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building wagons, which used that same wheel spacing.
Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing?
Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break more often on some of the old, long distance roads in England . You see, that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.
So who built those old rutted roads?
Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (including England ) for their legions. Those roads have been used ever since.
And what about the ruts in the roads?
Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match or run the risk of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome , they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever.
So the next time you are handed a specification/procedure/process and wonder 'What horse's ass came up with this?', you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horses' asses.)
Now, the twist to the story:
When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah . The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.
So, a major Space Shuttle design feature, of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system, was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass. And you thought being a horse's ass wasn't important? Ancient horse's asses control almost everything......There is no such thing as too much yarn, just not enough time.
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06-09-2021 03:36 PM #868This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I was enjoying this, then when I got the last paragraph, I was blown away that’s incredibly interesting
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06-09-2021 05:52 PM #869
Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers.
But who was Peter Piper?
Well, in the 18th century, there was a French horticulturalist and Missionary called Pierre Poivre, whose name when translated to English is Peter Pepper.
In the 1760s, Monsiuer Poivre became the colonial administrator of Mauritius, where he had a massive garden and grew plants from all over the tropics. He was also instrumental in breaking the Dutch monopoly over the import and export of various foodstuffs grown in that region, and opened up the market to other European countries, and eventually the US, for which he became quite well known.
Among many other types of foodstuffs that massively increased in the levels of it's trade was, yes you've guessed it, the Pepper.
So if he's called Monsieur 'Pepper', where does the name 'Piper' come into it? Well, the word 'Piper' was actually the Old English name for 'Pepper', plus was a common surname in England, so when the rhyme was introduced in the early 1800s, most English speakers would immediately have got the reference to Monsiuer Poivre...
...although it's also possible that whoever came up with the rhyme just thought the name Piper fitted quite well and it has nothing whatsoever to do with Monsiuer Poivre. Who knows :)Last edited by Keith_M; 06-09-2021 at 05:54 PM.
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06-09-2021 07:43 PM #870This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
In the 1800s, a ‘cocktail’ was a root ginger suppository given to a working horse that wasn’t pulling its weight. The discomfort of it made its tail cock up and gave it a new lease of life.
Cocktails back then were just known as “mixed drinks” up to the turn of the century and a ‘cocktail’ was just one specific mixed drink. It was only when cocktail became a term for a variety of mixed drinks this changed (I think - and I may be wrong - it was in a 1911 book by Hugo Enslin), but generally speaking a cocktail is named after a horses arse.
Do you think your security can keep you in purity, you will not shake us off above or below. Scottish friction, Scottish fiction
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