Groucho's Fact Hunt

[Seamus Colemole]

That's got to be a joke surely? You are poor and from the ghetto and you only have one strand of spaghetti for your tea. Therefore Spa-ghetto.

Edit. Just seen it is bonafide. Well I never.

I think in Italian I is masculine plural and O masculine singular.

Same with graffiti and graffito.

 

[kev]

I think in Italian I is masculine plural and O masculine singular.

Same with graffiti and graffito.

. . . . and apparantly the opposite is true in Spanish, where it takes many messo's to equal one messi.

 

[PhilM]

I think in Italian I is masculine plural and O masculine singular.

Same with graffiti and graffito.

I believe this is correct.

 

[summerisle]

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Johnny johnson lead .
His real name Johnny Mathis

 

[deipnosophist]

...my ex wife was often feeling poorly...

 

[summerisle]

 

[deipnosophist]

I recall the furore his release from Folsom Prison caused...as a result, the Warden got the sack and harsh conditions were imposed on the inmates of the prison...Johnny Cash mentions this episode in his seminal 1968 album At Folsom Prison

 

[PhilM]

I recall the furore his release from Folsom Prison caused...as a result, the Warden got the sack and harsh conditions were imposed on the inmates of the prison...Johnny Cash mentions this episode in his seminal 1968 album At Folsom Prison

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A great song from that set.

 

[WA Toffee]

Perth to Wyndham, at 2199kms, is the longest scheduled intrastate flight in the world.

 

[ste d' indica]

If you changed their orientation, the Andes mountains would stretch from San Francisco to London.

 

[PhilM]

If you changed their orientation, the Andes mountains would stretch from San Francisco to London.

I saw a map where the Andes were overlaid onto a map of Europe and North Africa: all the way from the very north of Norway into North Africa.

 

[deipnosophist]

If you changed their orientation, the Andes mountains would stretch from San Francisco to London.

...about 1000km short (Andes 7000km in length and distance san fran to London is 8000 km)

 

[summerisle]

 

[summerisle]