Groucho's Fact Hunt

[Kurt.]

I know. Psygod wibli wobli isn't jellyfish, either.

It’s actually known in some welsh speaking parts of North Wales as ‘Cont y mor’

 

[Groucho]

Colour me disappointed

Seamus Coleman will be round later to support you

 

[Philw]

Seamus Coleman will be round later to support you

I would love that, as I missed meeting him by an hour several years ago cos he was faffing about being indecisive!!

 

[deipnosophist]

If two house flies mated at the start of Summer, all the eggs hatched and survived, and then they all mated and their eggs all survived etc, by the end of Summer the entire earth would be 47 feet deep in house flies

{back of an envelope}...that's about a hundred trillion flies!!

 

[Groucho]

The first web address was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html and is still active.

AND IT’S LIVE......

 

[summerisle]

 

[Groucho]

The 1918 “Spanish flu” epidemic killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS and HIV have in 24 years.

 

[deipnosophist]

It was called the Spanish Flu because Spain’s media was one of the very few fourth estates that were uncensored at the time (1918) and hence was openly writing (and informing) about this new horrific ‘plague’

 

[Tipp blue]

There’s a few words that don’t have corresponding words.

Ruthless. There is no way to have any ruth.

Gormless. You can’t lose your gorm.

If you were dating a woman called Ruth and she dumped you would you not be ruthless?

 

[chrismpw]

The 1918 “Spanish flu” epidemic killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS and HIV have in 24 years.

It was called the Spanish Flu because Spain’s media was one of the very few fourth estates that were uncensored at the time (1918) and hence was openly writing (and informing) about this new horrific ‘plague’

And Spanish Flu originated on and came from the US .....

Who like the rs simply cannot take the blame for anything.

 

[summerisle]

Nosh is a Yiddish word meaning snack, which I'm just about to have.

 

[Groucho]

And Spanish Flu originated on and came from the US .....

Who like the rs simply cannot take the blame for anything.

It was only called the Spanish flu because it was only Spain who reported it while no one else did.

The whole western world had it equally.

 

[deipnosophist]

And Spanish Flu originated on and came from the US .....

Who like the rs simply cannot take the blame for anything.

yes, I saw a good doco on the pandemic recently...they mentioned some farmer conscript from Kansas. Some bloke from China was also implicated.

 

[deipnosophist]

If you were dating a woman called Ruth and she dumped you would you not be ruthless?

...you might also become rootless

 

[degsy]

The 1918 “Spanish flu” epidemic killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS and HIV have in 24 years.

New evidence pinpoints the origins to Kansas and the US troops carried it over.