What amazing fact can you tell?

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Originally posted by rodwsmith:

The Appellation Contrôlée laws of the French wine region of Châteauneuf-du-Pape specifically prohibit the landing of spacecraft in the vineyards.

So the French think they run the universe as well then?

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Originally posted by rodwsmith:
The small piece of gristle under the septum that divides the two nostrils is the only visible part of the human anatomy not to have a name.



(or so I was told)

It is called a "Collumella" sorry to have to tell u that.

Regards...

If you place your hands on the keyboard as though you were about to touch-type, the longest word you can type just with your left hand is:

"stewardesses"

Jon

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Originally posted by Tony Lockhart:
The Apache uses xeolites to remove oxygen from air, so it can........?

Tony

I give in...

I have an ancestor that was part of the crew on the Bounty.



Dean...

My mother's cousin was Monica Beale Jones, Philip Larkin's long term lover

My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy that Lars Ulrich was going to be fired from Metallica.

Which side Dean?

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Originally posted by Jim Lawson:
My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy that Lars Ulrich was going to be fired from Metallica.

Serious? He's the best drummer that ever lived :S

... the interesting fact about your Arab is that he can live for a whole year on one grain of rice.

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Originally posted by JamieWednesday:
... the interesting fact about your Arab is that he can live for a whole year on one grain of rice.

I can't :S

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Originally posted by BigH47:
Which side Dean?

I don't know I've only just found out as my brother is doing a family tree, I'll ask him, though I think he wasn't an officer so that puts him on the mutiny side?



Dean...

Delia Smith's one of my neighbours, Bobby Robson's brother did gardening for another neighbour and my brother's been trout fishing with Eric Clapton!

Ha! Top that lot!

The late Malcolm Roberts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Roberts) once gave me a pair of orange loon pants which I unpicked to the knee and inserted a vee shaped piece of fur to make flares.

Almost is the longest English word with all the letters in alphabetical order.

No members of Pink Floyd were born Pink.

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Originally posted by Flame:

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Originally posted by JamieWednesday:
... the interesting fact about your Arab is that he can live for a whole year on one grain of rice.

I can't :S

Sorry, sorry. It's the mosquito that can live for a whole year on one grain of rice...I get those two muddled up because they're next to each other in the dictionary

The eyes of ostrich’s are bigger than their brains

Barry Mason is a family friend, i've heard him sing Delilah and The Last Waltz plus numerous other songs in the comfort of a living room accompanied by a very nice baby grand.


The Kahzzoom-Brookes postulate states the increasing energy efficiency leads to an increase in consumption negating the positive impact of such technological advances.

Oak is the traditional gift for couples celebrating their 80th wedding anniversary.

Is Jamie joking?
(Sorry if that's a stupid 'newbie' question)

Oh Bob, please post of pic of you in those pants, pretty please with a cherry on top?

Elephants get through six sets of teeth each tooth (four of them per set) the size of a brick, in their lifetime.

Fact my parent's met on a blind date '48 and end of evening dancing he proposed. Mom thought that was just not done. Next evening he said the same thing and added I think you'd like the military life. She said yes. Been married 61 years.

It deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe.

Under eighteens can no longer order Béarnaise sauce in a Beefeater "restaurant" because it contains alcohol:

http://www.beefeater.co.uk/a/u...ingGoodMealDeals.pdf

This despite the facts that
a) under 18s can have alcohol, if with a meal, under UK licencing laws
b) there is more alcohol in liqueur chocolates (which can legally be sold to 16 year olds)
c) true Béarnaise sauce doesn't involve alcohol in its preparation (wine vinegar, not wine).
And
d) alcohol used in cooking boils off (at low temperatures) so there would be none left anyway.

Still, the whole thing might just be a silly season story in order to promulgate their new menu, and if it is, I (and vicariously therefore, you) have just fallen for it hook, line and sinker. Ho hum.