Groucho's Fact Hunt

[Bwana]

When Cristiano Ronaldo was bought by Real Madrid, the glorious nation of Malawi couldn't have afforded him with all the money they had in their national bank's coffers.

 

[Groucho]

Clocks run faster up a mountain than at sea level

 

[Philw]

Clocks run faster up a mountain than at sea level

Don't they get tired??

 

[deipnosophist]

Clocks run faster up a mountain than at sea level

less gravity up a mountain (it's further distance from Earth's centre of gravity). Similarly, you weigh less up a mountain than at sea level

 

[Brendan Janus]

Clive Allen played for seven London football teams.

 

[Bwana]

In Eritrea hookers have their own trade union.

 

[Alan Whittle]

In Eritrea hookers have their own trade union.

One out, all out...

 

[Alan Whittle]

Clive Allen played for seven London football teams.

...and scored prolifically for six of them, Grrrrr.

 

[Groucho]

If you stood on a mountain in the moon and fired a gun at the horizon, you could shoot yourself in the back.

 

[Tramps_mate]

If you stood on a mountain in the moon and fired a gun at the horizon, you could shoot yourself in the back.

You sure about that one?

 

[Groucho]

You sure about that one?

Never sure about anything

 

[Groucho]

The character of Siegfried in All Creatures Great And Small was based on a real-life vet called Donald Sinclair. By a remarkable coincidence, the character of Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers was also based on a real-life hotelier called Donald Sinclair.

 

[WA Toffee]

If you stood on a mountain in the moon and fired a gun at the horizon, you could shoot yourself in the back.

that would only be feasible in zero gravity, and you would have to aim above the horizon

 

[Philw]

that would only be feasible in zero gravity, and you would have to aim above the horizon

Surely in zero gravity it would just fly off in to space? Must need gravity to circle the moon?

 

[Groucho]

Surely in zero gravity it would just fly off in to space? Must need gravity to circle the moon?

There is a teeny bit I. The moon. Or else Buzz would still be floating.