| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” 21:12 - Dec 17 with 128993 views | colinallcars |
True ones please.
Samuel Goldwyn of Metro Goldwyn Mayer films is offically named Samuel Goldfish.
When he emigrated to the US from Poland, his actual name was Schmuel Goldfisz. The immigration officail misheard it as Samuel Goldfish which he remained for some years.
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 07:59 - Sep 9 with 3837 views | Rsole |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 22:19 - Jul 28 by DannyPaddox |
This led the Weight Watchers Association to issue a fatwa on him |
I thought it was Fatwa Fighters that did that…
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| Those possessed by devils, try and keep them under control a bit, can't you ?
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 08:16 - Sep 9 with 3776 views | Monkey_Roots |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 17:05 - Jan 15 by NewBee |
More specifically, the urine was mixed with alum, an aluminium ore, for tanning.
And I seem to recall reading that during the Middle Ages alum had to be imported from Europe, which was expensive.
Anyhow, during the 16th century, deposits of alum were discovered in North Yorkshire, near the coast, and a mining industry grew up. However they needed vast quantities of urine, so had to source it from outside the region.
With the biggest population in England, London was an obvious resource, the urine being sent up North by ship (no canals or proper roads back then).
This was doubly useful, since the barrels of urine served as ballast and income for the return journey of ships which had originally sailed to London with cargoes of processed alum, coal and timber etc.
And where did they get these barrels of urine? Out the back of every pub and tavern in the city, they'd have a big barrel for when punters needed to relieve themselves and I assume these would have been loaded on Thames barges and taken downriver to where the ships from Newcastle and the North East used to dock. The "Prospect of Whitby" in Wapping is named after one of these ships.
All of which represents the last time Northerners were legitimately able to take the piss out of Londoners, with the "trade" being very much the other way in the hundreds of years since! [Post edited 15 Jan 17:08]
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I think thats also where the phrase 'haven't got a pot to pîss in' comes from... |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 08:25 - Sep 9 with 3763 views | Monkey_Roots |
Deer and antelope, along with most other mammals, do not see the colour orange as humans do. They have dichromatic vision with only two types of colour receptors, making them effectively red-green colour blind. To them, the orange colour of a tiger's coat would appear as a muted shade of green or grey, blending in well with the forest environment.
Whats even more mental, is that Tiger's also don't know they're orange, as they also have dichromatic vision. They are orange because fur colours require melanin, which is basically brown - you can't grow green fur.
I find that mental. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 08:29 - Sep 9 with 3751 views | MrSheen |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 23:40 - Sep 8 by DannyPaddox |
Not sure where to post this one but I’ve just discovered Curaçao are managed by Dick Advocaat. So I wiki Dick Advocaat and under the heading ‘Personal Life’ it simply says, Advocaat is teetotal. I’m not sure why this is making me laugh so much. |
I was going to suggest they might make a yellow curaçao on his honour but it seems they already do. Which I genuinely didn’t know. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 09:06 - Sep 9 with 3696 views | johann28 |
Indeed - this also apples to common animals such as dogs & cats, and cows and bulls, who recognise blue and yellow but find it hard to see red or orange. So when you see a bull running towards a waving red cloth, it’s the waving movement, not the red colour that's attracting its attention. This also helps explain why most mammals support Qpr or Norwich. [Post edited 9 Sep 9:07]
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 09:34 - Sep 9 with 3647 views | Rsole |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 08:25 - Sep 9 by Monkey_Roots |
Deer and antelope, along with most other mammals, do not see the colour orange as humans do. They have dichromatic vision with only two types of colour receptors, making them effectively red-green colour blind. To them, the orange colour of a tiger's coat would appear as a muted shade of green or grey, blending in well with the forest environment.
Whats even more mental, is that Tiger's also don't know they're orange, as they also have dichromatic vision. They are orange because fur colours require melanin, which is basically brown - you can't grow green fur.
I find that mental. |
I think some players have the same issue with blue and white hoops….. | |
| Those possessed by devils, try and keep them under control a bit, can't you ?
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 10:22 - Sep 9 with 3580 views | DannyPaddox |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 08:29 - Sep 9 by MrSheen |
I was going to suggest they might make a yellow curaçao on his honour but it seems they already do. Which I genuinely didn’t know. |
“Curaçao and curaçao-er” said Alice. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:45 - Sep 9 with 3487 views | izlingtonhoop |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 08:25 - Sep 9 by Monkey_Roots |
Deer and antelope, along with most other mammals, do not see the colour orange as humans do. They have dichromatic vision with only two types of colour receptors, making them effectively red-green colour blind. To them, the orange colour of a tiger's coat would appear as a muted shade of green or grey, blending in well with the forest environment.
Whats even more mental, is that Tiger's also don't know they're orange, as they also have dichromatic vision. They are orange because fur colours require melanin, which is basically brown - you can't grow green fur.
I find that mental. |
Hmm
There's a whole 'if a tree falls down in a forest" can of worms opening there.
Tigers don't know they're orange, because they're not - to a tiger's eyes.
Just as flowers send quite different colour messages to pollinating insects than we see as we don't perceive reflected uv parts of the spectrum... |  | | |
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:56 - Sep 9 with 3477 views | DannyPaddox |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:45 - Sep 9 by izlingtonhoop |
Hmm
There's a whole 'if a tree falls down in a forest" can of worms opening there.
Tigers don't know they're orange, because they're not - to a tiger's eyes.
Just as flowers send quite different colour messages to pollinating insects than we see as we don't perceive reflected uv parts of the spectrum... |
Risin' up, straight to the top
Had the guts, got the glory
Went the distance, now I'm not gonna stop
Just a man and his will to survive
All together now … | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 13:12 - Sep 10 with 3022 views | jamesisaburyfan |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:19 - Dec 18 by davekay |
The actual line was ' a pint of bitter, in a thin glass' delivered in consummate Caine style in Get Carter |
My mate used to go to the same church as Bryan Moseley, who as Cliff Brumby was chucked off a multi-storey car park by Carter, before he went on to play Alf Roberts in Coronation Street.
Moseley was a devout Catholic who wasn't sure about accepting the role due to the sex and violence in the film. He took the script to his priest who argued that it was a morality tale with Carter as the hero, and Moseley accepted the role. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 15:56 - Sep 10 with 2925 views | colinallcars |
The phrase “it's not cricket” dates back to the era of WG Grace. He was a great batsman but a rotter.
In one match, an opposing batsman stepped out of the crease momentarily. Grace tumbled the bails and exclaimed “owzat?!”
The umpire said not out. Grace queried it and the umpire said “it's not cricket”. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 22:23 - Sep 10 with 2768 views | DannyPaddox |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 05:00 - Sep 9 by PlanetHonneywood |
I might have mentioned this already, but Ho Chi Minh worked as a cleaner at the Drayton Court pub in west Ealing in 1914. |
This has all the elements of a Benny Hill novelty song. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 23:04 - Sep 10 with 2707 views | MrSheen |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 22:23 - Sep 10 by DannyPaddox |
This has all the elements of a Benny Hill novelty song. |
Talking of which, there's a Brazilian Supreme Court Justice called Luiz Fux. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 10:02 - Sep 11 with 2479 views | DannyPaddox |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 23:04 - Sep 10 by MrSheen |
Talking of which, there's a Brazilian Supreme Court Justice called Luiz Fux. |
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 10:12 - Sep 11 with 2440 views | MrSheen |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 10:02 - Sep 11 by DannyPaddox |
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If you Google him, he actually looks a bit like Benny Hill in an Arsène Wenger wig. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 10:35 - Sep 11 with 2417 views | DannyPaddox |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 10:12 - Sep 11 by MrSheen |
If you Google him, he actually looks a bit like Benny Hill in an Arsène Wenger wig. |
Earlier photos with more colour in his bouffant I’m getting Julian Stéphane vibes | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:18 - Sep 11 with 2358 views | R_from_afar |
Corrour railway station, in the Scottish Highlands, is not in an actual settlement.
When the line was being built, the laird's permission had to be sought to run it across his land.
He agreed, on the proviso that they built a station for him.
There it sits to this day. You can get off there, you can go to the station cafe and you can stay in a converted station building but that's about it. |  |
| "Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1." |
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:22 - Sep 11 with 2296 views | R_from_afar |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 14:47 - Jun 18 by hubble |
I wonder how many of you know there is (or was) a fairly major American car manufacturer called International Harvester? I only discovered this when I was trying to find out what the super cool jeep was in the TV drama series Animal Kingdom. This is it, an International Harvester Scout.
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Great stuff! 👍 As someone who used to market tractor parts, I was aware that IH made tractors and combines, but I had no idea that they also made cars.
While we are on this subject, Porsche used to make tractors and even now, you can buy a Lamborghini branded tractor, should you wish to.... | |
| "Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1." |
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 15:22 - Sep 11 with 2183 views | colinallcars |
One foot in the grave - an expression aimed at old sods like me. I know there was a TV prog but knew it went back donkey's years.
First mentioned in a work by William Paynter in 1566 !
“ we took it to visite upon hym though he hadst one of his feet in the graue”
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 15:43 - Sep 11 with 2155 views | Orthodox_Hoop |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:22 - Sep 11 by R_from_afar |
Great stuff! 👍 As someone who used to market tractor parts, I was aware that IH made tractors and combines, but I had no idea that they also made cars.
While we are on this subject, Porsche used to make tractors and even now, you can buy a Lamborghini branded tractor, should you wish to.... |
Not only did Ferdinand Porsche make tractors, he also helped design tanks for the Wehrmacht in WW2. I believe he was also an an honorary officer of the SS! [Post edited 11 Sep 15:45]
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 15:55 - Sep 11 with 2127 views | Mick_S |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 15:43 - Sep 11 by Orthodox_Hoop |
Not only did Ferdinand Porsche make tractors, he also helped design tanks for the Wehrmacht in WW2. I believe he was also an an honorary officer of the SS! [Post edited 11 Sep 15:45]
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Right. I’ve decided to boycott Porsche from now on. |  |
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 16:01 - Sep 11 with 2110 views | fraserc |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 23:04 - Sep 10 by MrSheen |
Talking of which, there's a Brazilian Supreme Court Justice called Luiz Fux. |
And if I may refer to my previous post of an ex- US House Representative called Dick Swett | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 17:27 - Sep 11 with 2046 views | DannyPaddox |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 15:22 - Sep 11 by colinallcars |
One foot in the grave - an expression aimed at old sods like me. I know there was a TV prog but knew it went back donkey's years.
First mentioned in a work by William Paynter in 1566 !
“ we took it to visite upon hym though he hadst one of his feet in the graue”
(Original spelling). |
The town my Mum’s from in Ireland one of the council workers lost his lower limb in some freak municipal gardening accident to some heavy machinery. So they buried his lower leg and had a service and everything. On the tombstone is the legend ‘One foot in the grave’ and when the fella one day shuffles off this mortal coil they’ll bury the rest of him with it - it’s about 3 graves up from my dear old Nan.
JH - I’m not making this up! | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 19:19 - Sep 11 with 1971 views | R_from_afar |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 08:25 - Sep 9 by Monkey_Roots |
Deer and antelope, along with most other mammals, do not see the colour orange as humans do. They have dichromatic vision with only two types of colour receptors, making them effectively red-green colour blind. To them, the orange colour of a tiger's coat would appear as a muted shade of green or grey, blending in well with the forest environment.
Whats even more mental, is that Tiger's also don't know they're orange, as they also have dichromatic vision. They are orange because fur colours require melanin, which is basically brown - you can't grow green fur.
I find that mental. |
Bernard Bosanquet, the father of suave newsreader Reginald, developed cricket's googly.
For many years, Australians referred to the delivery as a "Bosie". | |
| "Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1." |
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 19:26 - Sep 11 with 1963 views | NewBee |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:22 - Sep 11 by R_from_afar |
Great stuff! 👍 As someone who used to market tractor parts, I was aware that IH made tractors and combines, but I had no idea that they also made cars.
While we are on this subject, Porsche used to make tractors and even now, you can buy a Lamborghini branded tractor, should you wish to.... |
Probably reasonably well known, but BSA, famous for its motorbikes, was originally Birmingham Small Arms, dating from 1861 in the Gun Quarter (who knew that B'ham had one of those?). Anyhow:
"BSA was a major British industrial combine, a group of businesses manufacturing military and sporting firearms; bicycles; motorcycles; cars; buses and bodies; steel; iron castings; hand, power, and machine tools; coal cleaning and handling plants; sintered metals; and hard chrome process."
Anyhow, went to hell after WWII, with various businesses sold off or gone bust, HMG nationalised the remnants in 1973, soon after disappearing completely. | | | |
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