Hedgecutter Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 The X-Men characters Wolverine, Storm and Banshee were designed by a high school student during a work experience placement at Marvel Comics. He sold them the rights for $150. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dindeleux Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 Last night the cricket highlights were on the news and they were playing music between "ends" (:unsure). Girlfriend asked me why they have music on at the cricket. Quick as a flash I told her that around 1900 there was no such thing as music in the UK or Europe and that a group of cricketers had heard it on some far flung tour. They brought back instruments/written notes etc and basically introduced music to the UK and Europe. ETA - She has accepted this and I have doubt she will share this wisdom today with her sister who will also accept it as fact. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 (edited) Ah, hence the Victorian nick name for them. Quimbys. Edited June 7, 2017 by D.A.F.C 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 30% of bees suffer from hayfever. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEADOWXI Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 On 07/06/2017 at 19:02, D.A.F.C said: Ah, hence the Victorian nick name for them. Quimbys. In fact the name Quimby is a modern additiional and is due to their similarity in shape to the nose of the Mayor of Springfield. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 Mary Whitehouse tried to have the Royal Coat of Arms banned because it has the word 'QUIM' at the top. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 In her original notes for Harry Potter, JK Rowling had Myles Hogarth as a character name having seen and liked the name on the back page of an Edinburgh Evening Express. The name was later changed to Ron Weasley. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ya Bezzer! Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 The four ancient architectural orders were Doric (example - the Parthenon), Ionic (example - Temple of Artemis), Corinthian (example - Temple of Zeus at Olympus) and Shitey Ugly Concrete (example - Cumbernauld shopping centre). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 Rangers have banned their players from wearing green boots as they're Celtic's colours. Wait... what? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonHMFC Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 The reason that toothpaste occasionally burns your tongue when you use it, is because it contains three ingredients that are often found in curries. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 Although officially the death penalty was abolished in the UK some fifty years ago, a person can still be executed at the express wish of the monarch. The last person to suffer this fate was one Martin Harrison, a footman at Buckingham Palace. On October 7th, 2002, he was beheaded with a sword wielded by Prince Philip himself, after being spotted kicking a corgi which was getting between his feet while he was trying to serve breakfast that morning. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fae_the_'briggs Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 Fidget Spinners were devised by the Department of Human Studies at Hull University to gauge the gullibility of people to buy needless, hyped up gadgets. A spokesperson for the University reported that people's gullibility had by far exceeded what they forecast. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsr Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 The Iberian peninsula sank into the Atlantic Ocean approximately two hours ago. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fae_the_'briggs Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 It never rains for more than four hours at a time in Scotland. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 Disco crisps originally contained a small amount of MDMA and were banned in Brazil after a kids musical chairs party lasted three months. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fae_the_'briggs Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 The broadcasting rights of Rangers TV have been purchased by the Comedy Channel. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 Those three ingredients being fire, hot water and sun particles. Tuesdays are named after the roman emperor Vespasian 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 (edited) Popes are entitled according to canon law to take a dump in the "biretta" of a cardinal of their choice. It is believed that Gregory XV was the last one to actually do this. After consecrating Cardinal Winning in 1994 the pickled cabbage loving, Polish Pope John Paul II let off a particularly loud and squelchy fart at which Winning quipped "after only just receiving this hat it would be a shame to spoil it, but here you are" (in Latin obviously) According to Winning's biography "The holy father chuckled, thanked me for the offer but wouldn't be needing my biretta. He excused himself to the lavatory and was gone for 22 minutes" Edited July 5, 2017 by topcat(The most tip top) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 1 hour ago, topcat(The most tip top) said: Tuesdays are named after the roman emperor Vespasian The same chap gave his name to the motorised scooter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEADOWXI Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 Ferruccio Lamborghini did not want a bull as an emblem for car badge and the first design was a shortening of his name The first badges on Lamborghini cars were lambs, as the founder Ferruccio Lamborghini was a sheep herder and Lamborghini is Italian for 'sheep driver'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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