Groucho's Fact Hunt

[4737carlin]

Psycho is the first American film to show a toilet on screen. It's also the first American film in which we hear a toilet being flushed.

 

[woodsyni]

….they used to use urine to soften animal hide. People would pee in a pot & sell it to the tannery, these folk were called ‘p*ss poor’. Some people didn’t have a pot, ‘not a pot to p*ss in’.

I read that if someone was embarrassed about taking urine to the tanneries and claimed they on another job, they were said to be "taking the piss" now meaning what it does today.

 

[Rita_Poon]

….they used to use urine to soften animal hide. People would pee in a pot & sell it to the tannery, these folk were called ‘p*ss poor’. Some people didn’t have a pot, ‘not a pot to p*ss in’.

Penny lane?

 

[woodsyni]

I claim my prize. lol @Groucho

Really, really need that *shakes head in disbelief " emoji.

 

[woodsyni]

Penny lane?

?Is in my heart and in my ?..... Oh, not a sing song?

 

[davids]

Really, really need that *shakes head in disbelief " emoji.

? works.

 

[woodsyni]

? works.

That'll do, David's.. that'LL do

 

[Bilko]

The official @kfc Twitter account follows eleven people: six men named Herb and the five Spice Girls.

 

[summerisle]

Eartha Kitt's daughter was named Kitt.

 

[Groucho]

Eartha Kitt's daughter was named Kitt.

I’ve met Eartha Kitt.

Contrary to popular belief she was not diva-like at all and was very pleasant.

 

[chrismpw]

I claim my prize. lol @Groucho

So if creationists state this they accept that dinosaurs existed (at the time of Noah) thereby contradicting their claim that dinosaur fossils are falsely put there by the devil to deceive us and never existed at all.

What about unicorns?

Religion .... sow doubt and confusion and then create the requirement of religious clerics to tell you what to do and who to give money to in thanks.

 

[Bilko]

Wuthering heights was Emily Bronte's only Novel.

 

[Amokachi1995]

I’ve met Eartha Kitt.

Contrary to popular belief she was not diva-like at all and was very pleasant.

Did you mention the cockney rhyming slang...?

 

[summerisle]

 

[Bilko]

@Groucho you know, I get so much pleasure from this thread, it was a brilliant idea and I'm delighted that it doesn't go off it's topic ( bar this particular post ! ).
Thanks