Uninteresting Trivial Facts

[WearyRhino]

Bush The Third, Jeb, wants to put Maggie Thatcher's picture on the US $10 note when it's next redesigned.

Expensive toilet paper that!

[ckn]

Expensive toilet paper that!

The US $10 note is the most likely to be contaminated with cocaine unit of physical currency in the world.

[WearyRhino]

The US $10 note is the most likely to be contaminated with cocaine unit of physical currency in the world.

So, used as toilet paper it would leave you high and dry.

[Futtocks]

Finally given up on Opera's new, dumbed-down Chrome-like browser and reverted to Opera v12.17 (the last 'classic' version). I'd forgotten how fast the internet could be!

 

Meanwhile, some of the original Opera staff are working on Vivaldi, a browser that may end up being the real successor to Opera. It is currently very clunky indeed, but there is definitely some promise in their goals.

[ckn]

Apparently, pasties are different things in the US.  A friend posted a Facebook link saying "women covered in pasties".  My brain just couldn't work out what sort of weird fetish thing he was posting...

[Farmduck]

Same with thongs. Only a matter of time before we start calling them flip-flops too.

 

You know you've passed 60 when you turn on your favourite TV channel and half the ads are for life insurance and the other half are for funeral insurance.

[ckn]

The first part of the NZ national anthem sounds like they're just singing random vowels.

[Farmduck]

That's because it's in Maori.

[ckn]

That's because it's in Maori.

Really?  (sarcasm hint )

[Farmduck]

Yeah, that dawned on me just after I hit "Post." In my defence, it's 5.00am here and I'm having caffeine withdrawals.

[Futtocks]

Joan Bakewell's middle name is Dawson.

[ckn]

Our eyes are perfect motion sensors.  A good test is look at the room you're in from one side to the other.  You'll notice your eyes jump unless you REALLY try hard to make it smooth.  But... watch something move and your eyes track it perfectly.  Try it with your finger or even the mouse cursor if you're on a computer.

[Wolford6]

It's Eid. Can't get a taxi for love or money tonight.

[Tiny Tim]

I will be watching the England vs Wales RWC in a pub in Amsterdam.

[ckn]

I have yet to meet a Serco employee who is polite or friendly.

[Wolford6]

Well, I never, whodathunkit.

 

Thursday's T&A:

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/13779285.UPDATE__One_arrested_as_400_cannabis_plants_seized_in_Queensbury_drugs_raid/

 

Friday's T&A:

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/13784164.Three_vehicles_smashed_up_with_baseball_bats_after_argument_between_two_groups_of_men/

[WearyRhino]

The French for a pigs snout is groin. Which seems kind of appropriate!

[Bearman]

This thread was started by "the Serb"

Does anyone know how he is?

He doesn't seem to post anymore.

He was a mainstay of the old Wolverhampton Wizards and an all round good bloke.

[timtum]

The French for a pigs snout is groin. Which seems kind of appropriate!

 

On my delivery rounds I pass a charcuterie called the Groin Gourmand.  Always makes me titter in a chidlike fashion.

[ckn]

No!  Eclipse starting to get good with the darkening edges and a huge dark cloud moves in over the moon.  It'd better **** off sharpish.

[Wolford6]

Got a couple of shots. The moon wasn't as big as I was expecting.

[Bearman]

This thread was started by "the Serb"

Does anyone know how he is?

He doesn't seem to post anymore.

He was a mainstay of the old Wolverhampton Wizards and an all round good bloke.

I'm happy to report that he has been in touch and he is fine.

[Farmduck]

If we had P&R in the NRL, this year the Newcastle Knights would be relegated and replaced by NSW Cup winners, the Newcastle Knights.

[Futtocks]

If we had P&R in the NRL, this year the Newcastle Knights would be relegated and replaced by NSW Cup winners, the Newcastle Knights.

So how do you know it didn't actually happen (you have to imagine the 'Twilight Zone' theme tune at this point)?

[Futtocks]

People of a certain age will remember that stupid poem that teachers tried to din into our brains:
Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November.
All the rest have 31,
Except for February all alone,
It has 28 each year,'
but 29 each leap year.
Useless because there are three rhyming months (ending in 'ember'). And it's a lousy poem by pretty much any standard.

Well, when I was knee-high to a grasshopper, I learned the knuckles method, and it was only quite recently I realised that it wasn't the common knowledge that I'd assumed it to be.

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