Newbornbairn Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 The Impressionist painters got their name because they did impressions whilst painting. Claude Monet did a vicious impression of Prince Albert which was why he was never offered any commissions by Queen Victoria. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 Despite statements to the contrary, Prince Albert did in fact have his dick pierced and had a large metal ring through the jap's eye. When he died Queen Victoria had it removed and carried it around in her knickers for the rest of her life. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 (edited) Queen Jane, born 1537 King George I, born 1660 King Frederick, born 1701 King George V, born 1865 Rodney King, born 1965 Future King George VII, born 2013 Historians expect Queen Bungle or King Zippy to rise to power at some point in the 2100s. Edited July 24, 2016 by banana 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 15 hours ago, D.A.F.C said: The Earl of Elgin invented the game of marbles. He is also responsible for a medical term whereby the patient has gone slightly insane. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 20 hours ago, Mark Connolly said: Elgin is so named after a mispronunciation when a Spanish visitor to King David I's court asked for a juniper flavoured local beverage. Elgin is twinned with Le Tonic in the Pyrenees 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 Forres' Mosset Park has more advertising boards than Celtic Park, Ibrox & Pittodrie combined. Wouldn't surprise me if that's true actually. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 2 hours ago, Hedgecutter said: Forres' Mosset Park has more advertising boards than Celtic Park, Ibrox & Pittodrie combined. Wouldn't surprise me if that's true actually. What! You didn't research this first. People take this thread very seriously and the last person who posted something here that was actually true was turned into a giant squirrel. Be careful. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mortar Bored Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 The average height of a Highland a League player is 5'6" which is particularly surprising as it's a league made up of mainly certified midgets. The average height is brought up by Steve "tiny" Macgregor, the Inverurie Locos second choice right back who is over 700 feet tall. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 Steve "Tiny" Macgregor's grandfather was the original artist's model for Hen Broon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 .. and while we are on about Elgin and Forres, let's not forget about somewhere else in Moray that gave its name to a big city in Texas. I will give you a clue. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 The official currency of the remote and self sufficient British island colony of Tristan de Cunha is the TDC postage stamp. High value sales of these to collectors worldwide bring in a wide variety of currencies used for any external trade, but the stamp remains the most easily supplied and standardised form of legal tender amongst inhabitants despite them being offered the St Helena pound. The pre-1957 currency was the rock lobster, but a combination of seasonality, uncertainty over sustainability and an Atlantic storm destroying the island's cooling house (i.e. bank) forced change. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim O'Grady Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 Marble Arch, which currently resides in London was going to be returned to Elgin in 2014, alas it didn't happen due to the 55% of Scotland that hate Elgin. G-Bo -2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 Elgin has the highest number of male prostitutes per square mile in Europe. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim O'Grady Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 There are no filthy grasses in Eastonia, they have several teams of filthy grass elimination squads, they only work at night. The starting wage is 12e per hour & they get every 3rd weekend off. G-Bo -2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dee_62 Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 The cost to the Crown of fighting the Napoleonic Wars at the start of the 19th Century was met by a short term loan/tax on the Peat Barons of North West Scotland. Britain's victory jump-started the golden period in the Empire and the Peat Baron's financial sacrifices were not forgotten. Travel along any side road near Kinlochbervie, Achiltibuie, Lochinver and Durness and you'll marvel at the number of Palaces sitting not too far into the tree line. Both George III and George IV were regular visitors during the building works. In fact, it was during one of these trips that George III's mental illness was first noticed. Picking up a wheelbarrow and filling it with apples, he ran amongst the workies singing "Who will buy, this beautiful morning" once too often. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 In 2012 a Dundee man opened a packet of Jacob's Cheddars biscuits and found that not a single one was broken. A Jacob's spokesman said there was no record of such a thing ever happening before and they were unable to explain how it had happened. The packet is now on display in the Royal Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry94 Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 Former US President Richard Nixon visited Scotland once when serving in the role. He was flown in to Edzell which was meant to be the start of a four day tour. His trip was cut short though after four hours when a plot was unearthed which would have seen the global leader attacked by trained seagals in Brechin. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 It is illegal for men and women's underwear to be washed together in Saudi Arabia. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dee_62 Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 In another stomach-churning example of the world going mad - a loony council in the South East of England has banned the use of the phrase "Daddy long-legs" for fear of offending single mums and short arses. Instead, schools and all council employes have been emailed with instructions that they should now be referred to as "intersex, vertically enhanced, super flies". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 4 hours ago, Mozzamozza said: On the last Tuesday of July in Dundee, everyone gets to go home from work at 12 oclock. That's nice, although I assume it means the wife still finishes at least an hour after you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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