The really really boring and totaly pointless snippets of information thread
Over 1000 posts and I bought this Personal Title to try and tell my mother the embarrassing news that I am a closet Jazz fan.
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Manchester
Posts: 136
Thats because they're so ******* ugly Gainesy. Makes a good, if rather expensive scarecrow yer helicopter does.
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Geriatrica, UK
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Started on page eleven today. Worked out that if I am to get to the end before ... well, you know what, I'd better pick up speed.
February is better than November. The days are getting longer and there aren't as many of them.
My brain still hurts but not as badly. Not sure about my left elbow, though.
February is better than November. The days are getting longer and there aren't as many of them.
My brain still hurts but not as badly. Not sure about my left elbow, though.
Jack's Granddad
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Lancashire
Age: 72
Posts: 623
Mmm, RRBATPSOI is getting a bit near the bottom of page 1 of the index so perhaps it is time to share this bit of info:
Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria was remarkably vain. Prior to attending formal functions, for example, he would have himself literally sewn into his uniform, lest his appearance be marred by a wrinkle. Unfortunately, the Archduke's vanity proved his undoing...
When he was shot (by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip) in Sarajevo, on June 28, 1914, attendants were dismayed to find that his uniform contained no buttons. By the time scissors were found, Ferdinand had bled to death.
Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria was remarkably vain. Prior to attending formal functions, for example, he would have himself literally sewn into his uniform, lest his appearance be marred by a wrinkle. Unfortunately, the Archduke's vanity proved his undoing...
When he was shot (by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip) in Sarajevo, on June 28, 1914, attendants were dismayed to find that his uniform contained no buttons. By the time scissors were found, Ferdinand had bled to death.
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: England
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The prison population in Lancashire is the highest in the country.
The percentage of the population of Lancashire in prison is also the highest in the country.
Does anyone know if Lancashire has more prisons than anywhere else?
The percentage of the population of Lancashire in prison is also the highest in the country.
Does anyone know if Lancashire has more prisons than anywhere else?
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Newcastle/UK
Posts: 1,477
Marilyne Monro was sown into that dress she wore when she sang happy birthday Mr President for Kennedy, I would have unpicked the stiches with me teeth so as to avoid cutting her with the scissors.
Had she asked me to unstitch her that is,which she didn't incidently.
Had she asked me to unstitch her that is,which she didn't incidently.
Nice-but-dim
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Rural Yorkshire
Posts: 632
Drapes, have you noticed that it's getting increasingly more difficult to keep interest in this thread over the weekend.
Now some of us (we know who we are) make the effort and post in our own time, as well as that of our employers. Some (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE) do not.
Come on, we've all got PC's at home as well as at work.. make the effort and keep up.
Now some of us (we know who we are) make the effort and post in our own time, as well as that of our employers. Some (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE) do not.
Come on, we've all got PC's at home as well as at work.. make the effort and keep up.
I'll mak siccar
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Tir nan Og
Posts: 285
A secret Amish? Hmmm. Interesting possibility. Against that, though, at the material moment he was riding in a motor vehicle, not the trad. one-horse buggy. Perhaps, to pursue the thought, he was of aspirate-deviant Scottish stock, a secret Hamish?
A subordinate or collateral apercu: they do dig deeply into Occidental arcana at that ladies' seminary in Singapore, don't they?
A subordinate or collateral apercu: they do dig deeply into Occidental arcana at that ladies' seminary in Singapore, don't they?
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Newcastle/UK
Posts: 1,477
Why do Americans say fix eggs? If one remembers correctly all the Kings Horses and all the Kings men couldn't manage that.
Incidently when did xmas trees arrive in America? as one understands it they were introduced to blighty quite recently by Queen Victoria's hubby, how and when did they get to America?
PS just been to another website, apparently Americans are all agog about this new movie Master and Commander, it is I am reliable informed about British Seafaring Chaps on a British
Man o war.
Never mind, in another four hundred years they will be able to make movies about their own history.
Oh thats sarcy, that is Drapes.
One thinks one will return to that other website and post it there.
Incidently when did xmas trees arrive in America? as one understands it they were introduced to blighty quite recently by Queen Victoria's hubby, how and when did they get to America?
PS just been to another website, apparently Americans are all agog about this new movie Master and Commander, it is I am reliable informed about British Seafaring Chaps on a British
Man o war.
Never mind, in another four hundred years they will be able to make movies about their own history.
Oh thats sarcy, that is Drapes.
One thinks one will return to that other website and post it there.
