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Starboard is literally 'steering side' because board means side and star or 'styri' means rudder.
Port was Larboard but sounded too similar so they used port to mean left as it is the side they loaded and unloaded at 'ports'

elephants are the only animals with 4 knee joints

I am related to James Callaghan.

thanks deadly, i will enjoy sharing that fact some night in the pub

The word 'adolescent' comes from one of two Latin verbs spelt adoleo. One means 'to make bigger' and the other means 'to emit a smell'.

No worries iDave

I can just picture the conversation... 😆

77% of wimmin feel sexier when their underarms look good.

its on the nivea advert so must be true.

tangerines are not the only fruit..............

My two facts for today -

You cannot lick your own elbows,

Electricians that are friends of your relatives are substantially cheaper than electricians that you have no link to.

David Taylforth and myself are heading out to Portes du Soleil tomorrow afternoon and won't return till the following monday with grins bigger than shiteaters!

Tara!

A numberplate can fall off your car, and spend a week on a busy road getting run over and still be perfectly usable if you find it again.

I misread that as Gillian Taylforth, i was gonna congratulate you on the Range Rover oral in a handy lay-by..

Our Disaster Support site account manager who I met for the first time today, is a very sexy lady. 😉

The 24h distance record for travel on skis by kite is 595km

samuri - Member
Our Disaster Support site account manager who I met for the first time today, is a very sexy lady.

Hot start or cold start? 🙂

Fabio Capello is a useless England manager

Canada is 41 times bigger than the UK & has half the population.

A Single Christmas Island Red Crab gives birth to 100,000 baby crabs.

Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood starlet of the 40s and 50s, jointly patented spread spectrum wireless communication
Andy Murray had a trial for Glasgow Rangers
Caesar's last words were in fact "Et tu, Brute" but spoken in Greek, not Latin. In fact, Caesar, who was 15 years older than Brutus, had a long term affair with Brutus' mother, Servilia. And when Caesar began to rise to prominence in the Forum, rumour spread that he was really Brutus' father.
Loch Morar, home to Scotland's other monster, Morag, is s deep, the closest place you'll find water that deep is some 2o-odd miles west of Ireland. And the River Morar, at about 400 yards is the shortest river in Britain
The flight between Westray and Papa Westray (two Orkney islands) has a scheduled flight time of 2 minutes and is the shortest commercial airline flight in the world. [url=

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fatmuthahubbard - Member
77% of wimmin feel sexier when their underarms look good.

its on the nivea advert so must be true.

23% of women feel sexier when their underarms look bad. 😕

[i]Hot start or cold start? [/i]

Well the sites they are providing are cold but she's definately hot! 😉

A chicken cannot 'swallow' - it has a rigid gullet, so food 'rolls' down it (hence why they lift their heads up when they eat.

So, if you want to starve a chicken, take it into space.. (no gravity, innit)

DrP

(note - I am aware there IS gravity in space, but you know what I mean!)

One I posted earlier:

Bruce Jones, who played Les Battersby in Coronation street found the mutilated corpse of one of the Yorkshire Ripper's victims.

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A mate of mine (rusty nissan knows him too... 😉 ) may or may not have secreted, Sutcliffes hammer..

Britain is still technically at war with Finland.

If you get caught short in the Metropolitan District of London, it is still the duty of a Constable to provide cover with his cape(Goretex now I presume) whilst you take a waz!

The average erect penis size is five inches, not six as previously suspected.

For a nation of inveterate cussers, the Irish, curiously, have no swear words in their native language, Gaelic.

All crisps best before dates are a Saturday! 🙂

Utterly useless i know.

Ants NEVER sleep

elephants are the only animals with 4 knee joints

Rubbish.

The largest penis in the animal world belongs to the blue whale and has been measured at 8ft.

In relative terms the largest belongs to the Argentine Blue Bill duck, which at 17" is over twice as long as the duck, which measure 8".

And if anyone ever fancied being a fluffer, here's a pic of the whale 😯
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A sperm whale's b0llocks weigh 2 tonnes each.

Woody that is not a blue whale.

Speaking of whales, ever wonder how baby whales suckle? Mummy whale doesn't have a nipple, just a patch on their body which releases milk when stimulated. And the milk is lumpy and thick like cottage cheese, so it doesn't disperse in the water.

My great grandfather was one of the only five people to die building the titanic.
deadly, I was informed that the welsh also have no swearwords. Anyone know if this is true?

I am ace

There are approx 12'500 different types of ant in the world that we know about and an estimated 12'500 that have yet to be discovered (no i don't know how they worked out the last bit either 😕 )

molgrips - care to defy my fact with counterfact?

Woody that is not a blue whale.

I know but you try finding a pic with a man strong enough to lift a Blue Whales dick 8)

[i]In relative terms the largest belongs to the Argentine Blue Bill duck, which at 17" is over twice as long as the duck, which measure 8".[/i]

That duck has the largest comparative penis for a *vertebrate*.
Barnacles have knobs 40 times the lengths of their bodies.

Cats and dogs etc have knees, surely? The joint that looks like their knee but backwards is their ankle, and the knee is tucked up to their body is it not?

Or am I missing the definition of knee?

EDIT: wiki seems to suggest that 'knee' refers to the carpus or the bit at the end of the lower leg in animals - but that would still be four knees.

backhander, there are a fair few languages with no swear (ie. with a certain taboo) words. From memory, Japanese, quite a few native American dialects and lots of Polynesian Island languages...that's just off the top of my head. Not sure about Welsh but I suspect you may well be correct.

I think that when we got hold of English, with all it's swear words, and having spent centuries with none, we just got carried away. And never really reined it back in. 🙂

I think their front joints are knees and the back ones are elbows...from what I remember watching the jackrussel on Bionic Vet last week.

There's a penis museum in Husavik, Iceland.
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If the irish had no taboo words in their own language it would seem to encourage the use of any word you felt like, thereby resulting in lots of apparent swearing when speaking English.

Welsh does have naughty words btw.

Oh don't worry, we know it's swearing. And we ****ing like it.

Surely, what makes a swear word is a social decision. Arse might be completely acceptable in some circles and not in others.

[i]There's a penis museum in Husavik, Iceland.[/i]

Yep, the man on the left has clearly already been through interactive section judging by his jumper. 😉

samuri...what I'm saying is that there are NO questionable words in Gaelic.

We did invent **** though 🙂

the 793 raid on lindisfarne monastery is widely recognised as the beginning of the viking age.

when you blush your stomach does too.

when you blush your stomach does too.

Excellent if true...in fact I don't care if it's not. It has to be 🙂

unknown to any STW'ers until just now, i in fact know the answer to the age long question ( and the answer can be bribed out of me )to

'what tyres for all trail centres and any known trail in the UK'

Begin the bidding people !!!

Nothing happens by it's own as there is cause and effect.

🙂