Groucho's Fact Hunt

[summerisle]

Does anybody still put a sixpence in a Christmas pud ?

 

[Groucho]

Does anybody still put a sixpence in a Christmas pud ?

I don't. Choking hazard. I put rum in instead.

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

10p, 5p, all bigger years ago. Smaller to save on production costs probably.

There's no truth in the rumour that this thread has caused Stephen Fry to quit QI though folks. He's always known we're better lol

And now they're getting toksvig to replace him Should've been the original choice (Before fry) - Michael Palin.

If you travelled at a steady 55mph, it'd take 192 years, 326 days, 13 hours, 5 minutes and 27 seconds to reach the sun.

 

[summerisle]

And now they're getting toksvig to replace him Should've been the original choice (Before fry) - Michael Palin.

If you travelled at a steady 55mph, it'd take 192 years, 326 days, 13 hours, 5 minutes and 27 seconds to reach the sun.

Without roadworks ?

 

[DualityNSNO]

10p, 5p, all bigger years ago. Smaller to save on production costs probably.

There's no truth in the rumour that this thread has caused Stephen Fry to quit QI though folks. He's always known we're better lol

Yeah, I know that (oddly enough haha) but why are/were they so massive in the first place?

 

[summerisle]

Yeah, I know that (oddly enough haha) but why are/were they so massive in the first place?

I think that the value of the actual metal in the coin was the same as it's denomination. Probably to stop people melting them down.

 

[DualityNSNO]

I think that the value of the actual metal in the coin was the same as it's denomination. Probably to stop people melting them down.

But the whole world has decently sized coins and currency whereas the UK has massive eff-off coins, soo...

 

[summerisle]

But the whole world has decently sized coins and currency whereas the UK has massive eff-off coins, soo...

We're stingy.

 

[DualityNSNO]

We're stingy.

So I've noticed lol

 

[The Cowboy]

But the whole world has decently sized coins and currency whereas the UK has massive eff-off coins, soo...

Have you ever seen the size of a 1900s penny? It's bigger than the £2 coin. The original 5 pound note was about the size of a piece of A4. British money has always been massive cos we're worth it.

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

Teflon (Or PTFE) was discovered by accident.

If it weren't for nuclear weapons technology, chances are you'd wouldn't be frying your eggs in a non-stick pan.....unless you're using one of them modern ceramic ones.

 

[DualityNSNO]

Have you ever seen the size of a 1900s penny? It's bigger than the £2 coin. The original 5 pound note was about the size of a piece of A4. British money has always been massive cos we're full of ourselves.

Is right. x

 

[The Cowboy]

Teflon (Or PTFE) was discovered by accident.

If it weren't for nuclear weapons technology, chances are you'd wouldn't be frying your eggs in a non-stick pan.....unless you're using one of them modern ceramic ones.

War, huh, what is it good for?

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

Sigurd the Mighty, a ninth-century Norse earl of Orkney, was killed by an enemy he had beheaded several hours earlier. He’d tied the man’s head to his horse’s saddle, but while riding home one of its protruding teeth grazed his leg. He died from the infection.

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

War, huh, what is it good for?

Edwin Starr was born Charles Edwin Hatcher.......