Groucho's Fact Hunt

[Jamo Martinez]

You can't sneeze and keep your eyes open.

In fact you can surpress a sneeze by forcing your eyes to stay open.

 

[larbert toffee]

Larry Grayson never did find anyone to "Shut That Door" !!

He did find someone to '''' Shut that lid' though.

 

[Groucho]

Eagles mate while flying

 

[Kenshin]

Did you know before mark hammill was cast as Luke Skywalker in episode 4, he had never seen a star wars movie before?

 

[PhilM]

Back in 2013, the state of Wyoming only had two escalators (one pair) as it was cheaper to build outwards into the expanse rather than upwards.

Not sure of the escalator numbers now to be fair. South Dakota and Montana didn't have much more either!

 

[larbert toffee]

Back in 2013, the state of Wyoming only had two escalators (one pair) as it was cheaper to build outwards into the expanse rather than upwards.

Not sure of the escalator numbers now to be fair. South Dakota and Montana didn't have much more either!

 

[PITA]

This video sounds like something that Joey66 would enjoy.

 

[summerisle]

After watching Henderson run around a bit tonight put me in mind of John Lennon' s lyric from Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite :

The Hendersons will all be there, late of Pablo Fanques Fair, what a scene.

So, with typical mid Victorian zeal, and Google, here's a poster that Lennon saw, containing virtually all the contents of the song.

Here's more about Mr Pablo.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-...-of-mr-kite-story-behind-beatles-song/8204080

 

[Brendan Janus]

Accrington Stanley were not founder members of the Football League, contrary to what some people think, that was Accrington !

 

[nosejam]

In Danish the word "gift" means both "married" and "poison", the only way to tell the difference is by context.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Backpfeifengesicht - German compound word meaning 'A face in need of a good punch'.

 

[TheBlueGibbon]

In Danish the word "gift" means both "married" and "poison", the only way to tell the difference is by context.

The same shift in meaning from a gift is seen in German, where it means poison and Dutch where gif also means poison.
In fact it seems to only be in English, where gift or its cognate doesn't mean Poison in the Germanic languages.

 

[kev]

Backpfeifengesicht - German compound word meaning 'A face in need of a good punch'.

Backpfeifengesicht

 

[summerisle]

In Danish the word "gift" means both "married" and "poison", the only way to tell the difference is by context.

The saying :
never look a gift horse in the mouth was originally never look a given horse in the mouth.
Now, where's the port.

 

[JammyP]

Did you know before mark hammill was cast as Luke Skywalker in episode 4, he had never seen a star wars movie before?

I do hope you were just trying to be funny