Tell Me Something I Don't Know!

[carlos21]

How’s it going Carlos?

Evening sir.

 

[Old Blue 2]

In the mid-1980s I received a police escort out of Hamburg...

 

[Rita_Poon]

In the mid-1980s I received a police escort out of Hamburg...

Because of all the Hasselhoff vinyls right?

 

[Jamo Martinez]

Michael Keaton’s real name is Michael Douglas

Stewart Granger's real name was James Stewart.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

Ray Parker Jr of Ghostbusters theme tune fame played guitar for Freda Payne on her hit song Band of Gold

He also played guitar on Stevie Wonder's 'Maybe Your Baby' from the 'Talking Book' album

 

[Groucho]

Lay turf green side up, always.

Never stand up in a canoe.

Be very careful if you sneeze while wiping.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

This is very interesting... but - isnt the French word for cow - Vache? The French word for Beef is Beouf. I am intrigued to know why we use the word beef for cow meat in the first place, or I guess why the French called it Beouf?

The French have (Normans had) seperate words for the animal and the meat it produces. Maybe the Saxons did too but their words disappeared.
I would imagine the Saxon farmers/butchers continued using their word for the animals they were working with while the Norman rulers insisted that everyone referred to the meat by their names.

Language is weird

 

[Simon Buttle]

Hot water bottles have an expiry date on them (Just learnt this on BBC breakfast this morning)

 

[Jamo Martinez]

Hot water bottles have an expiry date on them (Just learnt this on BBC breakfast this morning)

But you can still eat them up to 6 months later without suffering any ill effects.

 

[Simon Buttle]

But you can still eat them up to 6 months later without suffering any ill effects.

Yeah, maybe just hope they don't explode on you, some pretty heavy duty burns they showed people had had from them.

 

[Old Blue 2]

Because of all the Hasselhoff vinyls right?

?

 

[gonetomorrow]

Naga Munchetty is terrifically good at golf.
Sorry if already posted.

 

[Rita_Poon]

?

 

[Stephen Gibson]

Naga Munchetty is terrifically good at golf.
Sorry if already posted.

Can confirm. Let her group play through the hole I was on during golf coaching a few years back.

 

[Old Blue 2]

Didn't know he was there.
I was at the Berlin Wall in the mid-1980s when it was still up, and you had to walk up a ladder and stand on a walkway to see it properly.
When it came down, Karl(ex Luftwaffe) invited me and Anne to stay with him and Gerda in Berlin, which we accepted. He sent me a small piece of the wall, so I asked if he could get a bigger piece for when we visited. Did he? When we got to his place, he disappeared, then a few moments later came back with an almost square piece of the wall, about 1' x 1'. I don't know how I got it through German customs in my luggage, trying not to walk lopsided with the weight!
As Karl was in the Battle of Britain, I donated it to the Kent Battle of Britain Museum at Hawkinge as a 'gift' from Karl, who had died several years previously.