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I don't know if it's a national chain or not so this might be meaningless to some, but,

Round here there's a load of "Dixie Fried Chicken" low-rent KFC style take-aways, usually rammed with sozzled idiots at closing time. Well, it turns out that "dixie fried" is 50s Beatnik slang for "drunk." Yes, it is quite literally "drunk chicken."


 
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Mitsubishi Pajero. 😆


 
Posted : 02/02/2017 3:22 pm
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You're a mine of information.

You should change your username to Couggle.


 
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Yesterday my neighbour told me that the bit between your legs is called the "gooch". I didn't know that.


 
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You should change your username to Couggle.

I've just spat tea all over my desk at that. (-:

Yesterday my neighbour told me that the bit between your legs is called the "gooch". I didn't know that.

We had a meeting at work recently to discuss sorting out a storage room. As it's between the front doors and the back doors we concluded that it shall hereafter be known as the Perineum.


 
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Yesterday my neighbour told me that the bit between your legs is called the "gooch". I didn't know that.

Gooch, Taint, Biffing’s - it's really called your perineum and it's a fairly terrible place to get a wound, as is your sacrum.

I know this because most evenings when we're having dinner, my wife tells me all about some massive gaping pressure sore some poor old 80 year old has got and the frankly grim treatments for them.

My go-to "little known fact" is that one of the few ships to survive the attack on Pearl Harbour was finally sunk by the British.


 
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Biffin Bridge


 
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Bob Holness was the first Bond....


 
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I've just spat tea all over my desk at that. (-:

Aaah! The "Teaboard" - My raison d'etre

My go-to "little known fact" is that one of the few ships to survive the attack on Pearl Harbour was finally sunk by the British.

USS Phoenix a.k.a the General Belgrano- The only naval ship ever to have been sunk by a Nuclear submarine in a conflict.

Edited for pedantry. 🙂


 
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Unless you count the Antares.


 
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Or Barry Nelson


 
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[i]As it's between the front doors and the back doors we concluded that it shall hereafter be known as the Perineum. [/i]

And now recorded in the anals of history.


 
Posted : 02/02/2017 3:53 pm
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Gee, I thought that was the bit between your nose and your top lip...


 
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[i]I thought that was the bit between your nose and your top lip...[/i]

"You've got some of the cream off that scone on your perineum Vicar."


 
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There are still two grandsons of John Tyler, the 10th President of the USA 1841-1845, alive today.


 
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I thought that was the bit between your nose and your top lip...

That's the philtrum. Or moustache for some of us.


 
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To continue the body parts theme, I learned from one of my students that the loose skin on the outside of your elbow is a weenus...


 
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According to my wife who is a nurse the loose bit of skin at the end of a penis is called a Man!

Boom-tish,I'm here all week


 
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I didn't know this! [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20141117-why-seals-have-sex-with-penguins ]-why-seals-have-sex-with-penguins[/url].


 
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Denmark has an energy company called Dong, and it's the biggest wind power producer in Europe.

On the plus side they have just announced [url= http://www.thelocal.dk/20170202/denmarks-dong-energy-to-ditch-coal-by-2023 ]they are moving off all coal by 2023, after having previously dropped oil and gas.[/url]


 
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Who played the guitar hook on eminem's massive breakout hit [i]My name is[/i]?

Chas and Dave!

Sampled from this Labi Siffre track from the 70s, which the pub rock maestros did a lot of session work on:


 
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Mitsubishi Pajero

Somewhat fitting I reckon 😀


 
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The bestest body part is really the gunt...


 
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[b]Weenus.[/b] (noun) [i]: The loose skin covering the outside of the elbow joint. [/i]


 
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smelly bridge


 
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The bestest body part is really the gunt...

This


 
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Who played the guitar hook on eminem's massive breakout hit My name is?

Chas and Dave!

More pedantry then, as Chas plays the piano and Dave plays the bass which one was playing the guitar? (Yes, I'm sure like most musicians they both play multiple instruments).


 
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That it between the parts - God's weld on a bloke and chin rest on a woman...


 
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I didn't know this! -why-seals-have-sex-with-penguins.
😯

What's black and white and red all over?

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But on one of the more recent occasions, the seal killed and ate the penguin after trying to mate with it.


 
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SOS does not stand for Save Our Souls


 
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What does it stand for then?

As it's between the front doors and the back doors we concluded that it shall hereafter be known as the Perineum

That sounds like a genuine classical architectural feature, perfect 🙂


 
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What does it stand for then?

Nothing.

Just an easy and distinct pattern in Morse code.

dit dit dit dah dah dah dit dit dit and repeat.....


 
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What does it stand for then?

(edit) beaten to that one

However, Mayday does mean Help

Mayday = M'Aidez = Help me!

Loving the Chas and Dave fact


 
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the useless blob of fat on the end of a nob is called a man


 
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Violet Jessop...

she was a survivor on the Titanic in 1911, it's sister ship; Britannic in 1912, and was aboard the Olympic when it collided...

[url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Jessop ]Lucky? unlucky? only you can decide...[/url]


 
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Better still, the gunt produces butter...


 
Posted : 03/02/2017 11:42 am
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That sounds like a genuine classical architectural feature, perfect

And had the added effect of reducing three grown men who really should know better into fits of giggles for about 20 minutes.


 
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1/ The Emma Peal character in the Avengers was so named because the producers wanted a female with ‘man appeal’ - abbreviated to ‘M appeal’.

2/ ‘How I wish I could calculate pi’

If you count the number of letters in each word, you can remember pi to 6dp.

3.141592

3/ Because it has just appeared on a STW ‘Motability’ advert:

The BMW roundel represents a white aeroplane propeller against a blue sky.


 
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Volvo is the latin for "I roll"
A link to the founders previous jobs in the Swedish bearing manufacturers.
The sign on the front is also a symbol for iron again a link to there previous careers


 
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People watch "Death In Paradise"!


 
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The BMW roundel represents a white aeroplane propeller against a blue sky.

Maybe...It could also be from the symbol design from Bavaria.

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A few of these "facts" would be setting off the QI alarm


 
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Anchovies are packed so tightly because, by volume, the oil is worth more than the anchovies.


 
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Maybe...It could also be from the symbol design from Bavaria.

I stand corrected (abbreviated for brevity – full text on link):

In July 1917, Franz Josef Popp registered the name Bayerische Motoren Werke, thus distancing the new company from the former Rapp Motorenwerke aero engine company… While the name was registered there wasn’t yet a new logo.

It was on October 5, 1917 the BMW trademark was registered… It featured the circular design of the Rapp logo but with the letters BMW at the top of the outer ring. The inner quadrants featured the Bavarian Free State colors of blue and white – but in the opposite order – as it was illegal to use national symbols in a commercial trademark.

The design was not in any way connected with aircraft engines or propellers. The idea that the blue and white had anything to do with spinning propellers comes from a 1929 advertisement, which featured aircraft with the image of the Roundel in the rotating propellers…

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Origins of the BMW Logo (and the Spinning Propeller Myth)


 
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