Groucho's Fact Hunt

[Gwlacticos]

During a nuclear explosion, there is a certain distance of the radius where all the frozen supermarket pizzas are cooked to perfection.

You’d certainly be a Fat Man if you ate them all.

 

[degsy]

During a nuclear explosion, there is a certain distance of the radius where all the frozen supermarket pizzas are cooked to perfection.

And, presumably, any people in the vicinity, if any survivors find the newly baked spuds and some mint sauce, they should at least eat well for the rest of their lives... however short that may be

 

[JammyP]

Fritz Spiegl fled with his family from Austria in 1939. He taught himself the flute, and won a place at the Royal Academy of Music.

He becmae Principal Flautist with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for more than 10 years, before hearing damage forced him to stand down.

He arranged the Z-Cars theme:



And the Radio 4 UK theme:



And he wrote Lern Yerself Scouse:



Sadly, he had a season ticket at Anfield.

He died suddenly in 2003 in Liverpool, eating Sunday lunch with his wife and friends

 

[anjelikaferrett]

Fritz Spiegl fled with his family from Austria in 1939. He taught himself the flute, and won a place at the Royal Academy of Music.

He becmae Principal Flautist with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for more than 10 years, before hearing damage forced him to stand down.

He arranged the Z-Cars theme:



And the Radio 4 UK theme:



And he wrote Lern Yerself Scouse:

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Sadly, he had a season ticket at Anfield.

He died suddenly in 2003 in Liverpool, eating Sunday lunch with his wife and friends

I'm sure he lived in Princes Park next door to my school. One of the big houses in Windermere Terrace.

 

[summerisle]

 

[daza_1973]

During a nuclear explosion, there is a certain distance of the radius where all the frozen supermarket pizzas are cooked to perfection.

Apparently its called the 'Domino's Effect'

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Ringo Starr is left handed, but plays a right-handed drum-kit.
That gives his drumming a unique and hard to replicate sound.

 

[Groucho]

This stew has been on the go since the ‘70’s

 

[bigjonny]

This stew has been on the go since the ‘70’s

That must have been where my mum got the inspiration from for cooking sprouts.

 

[Groucho]

That must have been where my mum got the inspiration from for cooking sprouts.

When my mother in law makes a cottage pie, the council come round and condemn it.

 

[deipnosophist]

A semordnilap word is one that when spelt backwards forms a new word eg spots and stops are semordnilap words

Further, palindrome's a semordnilap (and the sentence 'palindrome's a semordnilap' is a palindrome)

 

[Brendan Janus]

The Tamil Separatists were not allowed to gamble !!

 

[canuckblue]

Fritz Spiegl fled with his family from Austria in 1939. He taught himself the flute, and won a place at the Royal Academy of Music.

He becmae Principal Flautist with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for more than 10 years, before hearing damage forced him to stand down.

He arranged the Z-Cars theme:



And the Radio 4 UK theme:



And he wrote Lern Yerself Scouse:

View attachment 101337

Sadly, he had a season ticket at Anfield.

He died suddenly in 2003 in Liverpool, eating Sunday lunch with his wife and friends

Couple of famous Evertonians in that first clip.

 

[kev]

A semordnilap word is one that when spelt backwards forms a new word eg spots and stops are semordnilap words

Further, palindrome's a semordnilap (and the sentence 'palindrome's a semordnilap' is a palindrome)

'Under milk wood' by Dylan Thomas is set in the welsh village of Llareggub.
A fan of semordnilaps was Dylan lol

 

[Daz1878]

Mark Sheridan, the music hall singer who made "I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside" famous, shot himself in Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow.

Presumably because he wasn't beside the seaside??