Groucho's Fact Hunt

[Cels]

 

[Cels]

 

[Jamo Martinez]

Groucho is defo falling in love with Cels. Fact.

 

[Seamus Colemole]

I heard this ages ago, and I must admit I doubt it is true, but it might be.

It is said that rivers in the UK derive their name from the local native tongue from eons ago calling them "The River", but the word for "River" was their word for them. So when we say the "River Avon", we are actually saying "River River". "Avon" being their word for "River".

But I think there are too many rivers for it to be true of every river.

On a similar note, Lake Chad, in Chad, takes it's name from the local word for lake. So it's effectively Lake Lake.

And the Sahara desert takes it's name from the Arabic word for desert. So it's effectively the Desert Desert.

 

[LostLegend]

On a side note, anyone who is interested in random facts should take a look at the books 'A short history of nearly everything' and 'At Home' by Bill Bryson. Both jammed full of random facts!

"If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No point asking. Nobody knows"

 

[JammyP]

Nothing rhymes with "Orange"

Any fule do know that orange rhymes with (i) sporange - only rhyme in the Oxford English Dictionary admittedly - (a very rare alternative form of sporangium, a botanical term for a sac where spores are made in a fern or similar plant) and (ii) Blorenge (a prominent hill which overlooks the valley of the River Usk in Monmouthshire, near Abergavenny in south east Wales).

 

[LostLegend]

This list of words that we use in our daily speech were all brought into usage by Shakespeare:

• accommodation
• aerial
• amazement
• apostrophe
• assassination
• auspicious
• baseless
• bloody
• bump
• castigate
• changeful
• clangor
• control (noun)
• countless
• courtship
• critic
• critical
• dexterously
• dishearten
• dislocate
• dwindle
• eventful
• exposure
• fitful
• frugal
• generous
• gloomy
• gnarled
• hurry
• impartial
• inauspicious
• indistinguishable
• invulnerable
• lapse
• laughable
• lonely
• majestic
• misplaced
• monumental
• multitudinous
• obscene
• palmy
• perusal
• pious
• premeditated
• radiance
• reliance
• road
• sanctimonious
• seamy
• sportive
• submerge
• suspicious

 

[PITA]

On a side note, anyone who is interested in random facts should take a look at the books 'A short history of nearly everything' and 'At Home' by Bill Bryson. Both jammed full of random facts!

"If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No point asking. Nobody knows"

Bill Bryson is the man.

 

[PITA]

This list of words that we use in our daily speech were all brought into usage by Shakespeare:

• accommodation
• aerial
• amazement
• apostrophe
• assassination
• auspicious
• baseless
• bloody
• bump
• castigate
• changeful
• clangor
• control (noun)
• countless
• courtship
• critic
• critical
• dexterously
• dishearten
• dislocate
• dwindle
• eventful
• exposure
• fitful
• frugal
• generous
• gloomy
• gnarled
• hurry
• impartial
• inauspicious
• indistinguishable
• invulnerable
• lapse
• laughable
• lonely
• majestic
• misplaced
• monumental
• multitudinous
• obscene
• palmy
• perusal
• pious
• premeditated
• radiance
• reliance
• road
• sanctimonious
• seamy
• sportive
• submerge
• suspicious

Impressive but he didn't invent a name (to the best of my knowledge) unlike J M Barrie who gave us Wendy.

Without we wouldn't have the lovely Wendy Craig or more importantly the very attractive Wendy James.

 

[Raymond077]

Aside from saying 'please don't swear', I will say that quoting one of us in the same post is basically grassing yourself up. Stop swearing.

Anyway, the official name of the lint that collects at the bottom of your pockets is gnurr.

I,m sorry Groucho, but i really don,t understand the term *grassing myself up*
I,ve been a member of this fine forum since Dec 2010 and never been other than respectful to the swear rule.

 

[Groucho]

I,m sorry Groucho, but i really don,t understand the term *grassing myself up*
I,ve been a member of this fine forum since Dec 2010 and never been other than respectful to the swear rule.

Sir, you avoided the swear filter in the post where you quote my post. If that isn't bringing my attention to it then I don't know what is.

Adding in an extra letter is not being respectful to the swear rule. The rules state this and are clear. You did not recive an infraction for this, I fail to see your apprecition of leniency, so I'll wade straight in with a warning in future.

Anyway folks.

Originally, the first line to Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" was "I'm sitting by a pool in Beverly Hills dreaming of a White Christmas. "A friend suggested to him that he drop the reference to Beverly Hills, and the song went on to become the most commercially successful song ever.

 

[Raymond077]

Sir, you avoided the swear filter in the post where you quote my post. If that isn't bringing my attention to it then I don't know what is.

Adding in an extra letter is not being respectful to the swear rule. The rules state this and are clear. You did not recive an infraction for this, I fail to see your apprecition of leniency, so I'll wade straight in with a warning in future.

Anyway folks.

Sir, its the grassing myself up i,m baffled with not the swear filter.
C,mon Groucho, do you think i,m one of them?

 

[Groucho]

Sir, its the grassing myself up i,m baffled with not the swear filter.
C,mon Groucho, do you think i,m one of them?

No to be honest I don't. You seem mostly decent.

You quote a post of mine, and do some swear filter avoiding in same post - I get a notification for that, therefore you yourself bring said sweary-ness to my attention.

You brought your own swear filter avoidance to my attention. Now I cannot ignore that otherwise people who I'd warn for swearing (which you didn't receive btw) would be able to accuse us of inconsistency. So I thought it best to remind of our wish to not tolerate swearing, simple as.

It's like shouting to a mobile speed camera van "WATCH THIS" then speeding past them at 90, then wondering why you were done.

Mate, it was a simple request for people to not avoid the swear filter or swear, not a cue for a debate.

 

[Raymond077]

Aside from saying 'please don't swear', I will say that quoting one of us in the same post is basically grassing yourself up. Stop swearing.

Anyway, the official name of the lint that collects at the bottom of your pockets is gnurr.

No to be honest I don't. You seem mostly decent.

You quote a post of mine, and do some swear filter avoiding in same post - I get a notification for that, therefore you yourself bring said sweary-ness to my attention.

You brought your own swear filter avoidance to my attention. Now I cannot ignore that otherwise people who I'd warn for swearing (which you didn't receive btw) would be able to accuse us of inconsistency. So I thought it best to remind of our wish to not tolerate swearing, simple as.

It's like shouting to a mobile speed camera van "WATCH THIS" then speeding past them at 90, then wondering why you were done.

Mate, it was a simple request for people to not avoid the swear filter or swear, not a cue for a debate.

But your original quote to witch i responded to,






Ended with FFS!.
I think that,s a worst swerve to what i actually said.

You are right tough, its not a cue for debate.

 

[Groucho]

But your original quote to witch i responded to,






Ended with FFS!.
I think that,s a worst swerve to what i actually said.

You are right tough, its not a cue for debate.

No. We've always allowed abbreviations, so I'd appreciate you not telling me how to run the place.

Someone post a fact.