I'm slightly breaking the rules with this one but Sacha Baron Cohen's cousin Dr Simon Baron Cohen is one of the UK's leading experts on autism.
Things you may never have known......
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Posted 15 December 2010 - 12:13 PM
A bit cliched but some may not be aware:
Mike Nesmith's mother invented liquid paper (Tippex)
Robert Palmer allegedly left an estate of more than £30m when he died in 1984. His family are still fighting over it.
Both the Royal Marines and the Kronenbourg Brewery were founded in 1664 and are still going strong.
Etta James always claimed that her real father was Minnesota Fats
Mike Nesmith's mother invented liquid paper (Tippex)
Robert Palmer allegedly left an estate of more than £30m when he died in 1984. His family are still fighting over it.
Both the Royal Marines and the Kronenbourg Brewery were founded in 1664 and are still going strong.
Etta James always claimed that her real father was Minnesota Fats
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Posted 15 December 2010 - 12:22 PM
QUOTE (Wolford6 @ Dec 15 2010, 12:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
A bit cliched but some may not be aware:
Robert Palmer allegedly left an estate of more than £30m when he died in 1984. His family are still fighting over it.
Robert Palmer allegedly left an estate of more than £30m when he died in 1984. His family are still fighting over it.
Did he die twice then?
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Posted 15 December 2010 - 12:29 PM
QUOTE (Wolford6 @ Dec 15 2010, 12:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
A bit cliched but some may not be aware:
Mike Nesmith's mother invented liquid paper (Tippex)
Mike Nesmith's mother invented liquid paper (Tippex)
I knew that.
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Posted 15 December 2010 - 12:29 PM
QUOTE (Wolford6 @ Dec 15 2010, 12:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
A bit cliched but some may not be aware:
Mike Nesmith's mother invented liquid paper (Tippex)
Mike Nesmith's mother invented liquid paper (Tippex)
Another musical name who inherited plenty of money - Carly Simon. That's 'Simon' as in 'Simon & Schuster', the book publishers.
Edited by Futtocks, 15 December 2010 - 12:30 PM.
"Journalists are meant to be neutral, for God's sake." - Stephen 'Wiggy' Jones
"Perhaps it would be better that future criticism of sports be made on the narrow basis of what is being discussed, without reference to other sports, unless those sports offer a solution to the problem in hand." - Brian 'Pigface' Moore
"What happens in rugby union? A player takes the ball, moves forward a little and gets tackled. A whole load of players then roll about on the ground. Pheep! The referee gives a penalty." - Simon Barnes
"Perhaps it would be better that future criticism of sports be made on the narrow basis of what is being discussed, without reference to other sports, unless those sports offer a solution to the problem in hand." - Brian 'Pigface' Moore
"What happens in rugby union? A player takes the ball, moves forward a little and gets tackled. A whole load of players then roll about on the ground. Pheep! The referee gives a penalty." - Simon Barnes
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Posted 15 December 2010 - 01:32 PM
Linda Ronstadt's grandfather invented the electric cooker and the non-stick ice-cube tray.
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Posted 15 December 2010 - 02:04 PM
Colonel Sanders invented the chicken. 
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Posted 15 December 2010 - 02:42 PM
QUOTE (Number 16 @ Dec 15 2010, 02:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Colonel Sanders invented the chicken.
Are you sure he didn't invent the egg??
Confused now aren't you!??
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Posted 15 December 2010 - 06:48 PM
Chris De Burgh was born in Argentina.
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Posted 16 December 2010 - 10:59 AM
The magician Paul Zenon used to be in Hawkwind.
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Posted 16 December 2010 - 04:20 PM
QUOTE (Wolford6 @ Dec 16 2010, 10:59 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
The magician Paul Zenon used to be in Hawkwind.
That's interesting. when I saw Hawkwind on the Earth Ritual tour one of the support acts was a magician.
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Posted 16 December 2010 - 06:42 PM
Because he was the son of a carpenter, Jesus had to make his own cross.
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Ooooh, the Challenge Cup!!! Thank you Tony.....
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Posted 16 December 2010 - 09:17 PM
QUOTE (goldcard @ Dec 16 2010, 06:42 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Because he was the son of a carpenter, Jesus had to make his own cross.
I thought his dad was supposed to be God?
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Posted 16 December 2010 - 09:32 PM
QUOTE (Millman @ Dec 16 2010, 09:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I thought his dad was supposed to be God?
His dad WAS. Heathen.
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Posted 16 December 2010 - 11:29 PM
QUOTE (Number 16 @ Dec 15 2010, 02:34 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
As is, apparently, Bernard Hepton, who also played for them in the 50s.
Well thats two Hunslet fans can you name the other 398 ?
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Posted 17 December 2010 - 09:55 AM
QUOTE (goldcard @ Dec 16 2010, 06:42 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Because he was the son of a carpenter, Jesus had to make his own cross.
Judee Sill was way ahead of you on this one...
"Journalists are meant to be neutral, for God's sake." - Stephen 'Wiggy' Jones
"Perhaps it would be better that future criticism of sports be made on the narrow basis of what is being discussed, without reference to other sports, unless those sports offer a solution to the problem in hand." - Brian 'Pigface' Moore
"What happens in rugby union? A player takes the ball, moves forward a little and gets tackled. A whole load of players then roll about on the ground. Pheep! The referee gives a penalty." - Simon Barnes
"Perhaps it would be better that future criticism of sports be made on the narrow basis of what is being discussed, without reference to other sports, unless those sports offer a solution to the problem in hand." - Brian 'Pigface' Moore
"What happens in rugby union? A player takes the ball, moves forward a little and gets tackled. A whole load of players then roll about on the ground. Pheep! The referee gives a penalty." - Simon Barnes
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Posted 17 December 2010 - 09:59 AM
Cher ( THE Cher!) is 12 days older than me. If she looks as good as I do then...no..er..hang on...if I look as good as she does when I get to her age......
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Posted 17 December 2010 - 10:06 AM
QUOTE (Millman @ Dec 16 2010, 09:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I thought his dad was supposed to be God?
Yep, the same "dad" who knocked up Jesus' mum while he's married to Joseph, disappeared without paying child support while the ungrateful kid went around saying "god is great", "god is merciful" and so on while effectively ignoring the man who raised him despite knowing he isn't his kid.
And all this dross about "immaculate conception", it's just like something off a bad episode of the Jeremy Kyle show. These Christians then have a cheek to get all sniffy over modern unmarried mothers.
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Posted 17 December 2010 - 10:15 AM
QUOTE (ckn @ Dec 17 2010, 10:06 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yep, the same "dad" who knocked up Jesus' mum while he's married to Joseph, disappeared without paying child support while the ungrateful kid went around saying "god is great", "god is merciful" and so on while effectively ignoring the man who raised him despite knowing he isn't his kid.
And all this dross about "immaculate conception", it's just like something off a bad episode of the Jeremy Kyle show. These Christians then have a cheek to get all sniffy over modern unmarried mothers.
And all this dross about "immaculate conception", it's just like something off a bad episode of the Jeremy Kyle show. These Christians then have a cheek to get all sniffy over modern unmarried mothers.
Hang on, didn't he tell some other bloke that adultery was a sin? Or does that just apply to wimmin.
Inconsistencies in a religious text, who would thunk it.
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Posted 20 December 2010 - 07:38 PM
On a recent QI -
On 6 August 1945 Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima, preparing to return home from a business trip when the American B-29 bomber, Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb on the city. Yamaguchi lived, while 140,000 other people who were in the city that morning died.
Burned and barely able to comprehend what had happened - only that he had witnessed a bomb unlike any used before - Yamaguchi spent a fitful night in an air raid shelter before returning home the following day.
That home, 180 miles to the west, was Nagasaki. He arrived the day before it was devastated by a second US atomic bomb on 9 August. In a barely conceivable course of events, in three days he had twice been close to nuclear ground zero and both times he had lived. He died recently aged 93.
On 6 August 1945 Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima, preparing to return home from a business trip when the American B-29 bomber, Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb on the city. Yamaguchi lived, while 140,000 other people who were in the city that morning died.
Burned and barely able to comprehend what had happened - only that he had witnessed a bomb unlike any used before - Yamaguchi spent a fitful night in an air raid shelter before returning home the following day.
That home, 180 miles to the west, was Nagasaki. He arrived the day before it was devastated by a second US atomic bomb on 9 August. In a barely conceivable course of events, in three days he had twice been close to nuclear ground zero and both times he had lived. He died recently aged 93.
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