Groucho's Fact Hunt

[summerisle]

The nursery rhyme 'ring a ring o roses' has, apparently, nothing to do with the plague. A popular interpretation, but one that first appeared in the mid-twentieth century and had no record in folklore.

Groucho's Fact Hunt

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Groucho's Fact Hunt

Sry summerisle - I'm using the rotation system with another man's material My daughter was singing it at Christmas - so must have had it in my head.

 

[summerisle]

Sry summerisle - I'm using the rotation system with another man's material My daughter was singing it at Christmas - so must have had it in my head.

Me being pernickety ; I try and stop myself but I blame GOT

 

[Kurt.]

The STOP button will be pressed at Wylfa Nuclear Power station today and it will cease generating for the first time in 44 years.

 

[Groucho]

Dolphins give each other names, and answer to it even when called by Dolphins they don't know.

Most (non-vegan) people eat about 7000 animals in their life.

The French get the most sleep, on average, of all the Western world.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

The snow used in the film 'it's a wonderful life' was made out of asbestos.

 

[summerisle]

The first known use of the word f*** was in 1310 in English court papers. It referred to a man from Chester, one Roger Fuckebythenavele, assumed to be a nickname.
It either refers to an inexperienced copulater, someone trying to have sex with a navel, or a dimwit, someone so stupid that they think this is the way to have sex. Now you know.

 

[Eggs]

.....every race horse has the same birthday, 1st January. Not many people know that. Happy birthday to all the race horses.

 

[Bluesaint]

The snow used in the film 'it's a wonderful life' was made out of asbestos.

And most of it was filmed in the summer time, beyond the snow bound main streets was a californian heat wave.

 

[degsy]

In the 1841 census the population of Ireland (whole ) was 8.2M... It took until 2012 to get back to that figure

 

[COYBL25]

Guy Fletcher 71 yrs, father of Justin Fletcher aka Mr Tumble, has written songs for the following artists amongst others :

Elvis Presley.
Frankie Vali.
Tom Jones.
Joe Cocker.
Ray Charles.
The Hollies.

He wrote the 1973 Eurovision entry for Cliff Richard - Power To All Our Friends ( came 3rd ).

He also discovered and managed Chris de Burgh and received an OBE in 2005.

 

[Groucho]

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Guy Fletcher 71 yrs, father of Justin Fletcher aka Mr Tumble, has written songs for the following artists amongst others :

Elvis Presley.
Frankie Vali.
Tom Jones.
Joe Cocker.
Ray Charles.
The Hollies.

He wrote the 1973 Eurovision entry for Cliff Richard - Power To All Our Friends ( came 3rd ).

He also discovered and managed Chris de Burgh and received an OBE in 2005.

He wants putting in solitary confinement for De Burgh.

 

[summerisle]

The AA was founded in 1905 to warn motorists of police speed traps.

 

[degsy]

The STOP button will be pressed at Wylfa Nuclear Power station today and it will cease generating for the first time in 44 years.

*ducks, searches for Iodine tablets.

 

[Groucho]

Oh wow, 100 pages so far. Well done folks.

The often repeated thought that we use 10% or so of our brains is wrong. We use almost all of it daily.