"That's very interesting, Steve"

[Matt221]

Shakespeare is quoted 33,150 times in the Oxford English dictionary.

[Space Commander Travis]

Every hamster in the world is descended from one pair that was found in Aleppo, Syria in 1930. 

[Matt221]

 It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down.

[Mark One]

Sunday on average is the most depressing day of the week.

[Matt221]

When the French Academy was preparing its first dictionary, it defined "crab" as, "A small red fish, which walks backwards." This definition was sent with a number of others to the naturalist Cuvier for his approval.  The scientist wrote back, "Your definition, gentlemen, would be perfect, only for three exceptions. The crab is not a fish, it is not red and it does not walk backwards."

[Space Commander Travis]

Possibly my favorite European Union Directive* of all (there's so many great ones to choose from!) is European Union Directive 2012/19/EU on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, or WEEE. 

 

* No I don't know why I'm in italics 

Edited May 29, 2017 by Manfred von Dreidecker

[Matt221]

pregnant goldfish is called a twit

[acute]

Many remote controls have weights inside them, to make them feel more 'substantial', and/or counter the weight of the batteries.

Edited May 30, 2017 by acute
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[Matt221]

Electricity travels at 6,696,000 miles per hour

[EllJay]

40 minutes ago, Matt221 said:

Electricity travels at 6,696,000 miles per hour

 

Rumours & idiocy travels ten times that.

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[Matt221]

Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth

[Space Commander Travis]

• Nomophobia is the fear of being out of mobile phone contact.

 

• Meanwhile, 
• Gynophobia is the fear of women, Genophobia is the fear of sexual intercourse, and Gelotophobia is the fear of being laughed at. I suppose those might all follow in sequence. 

[Space Commander Travis]

And also on the note (interesting phobias I mean, not fear of the other subject), this is from a popular UK tabloid named after our nearest star, the name of which is bleeped out here, but I'll give you a clue, it was in the Sun.

Is Donald Trump afraid of stairs and what is bathmophobia?. 

https://www.************/news/2739145/donald-trump-fear-of-stairs-bathmophobia/

4 days ago - ASTONISHING pictures showing Donald Trump holding hands with Theresa May at the White House made headlines around the world. But The Sun revealed that Trump’s fear of stairs and slopes may have been behind the moment which was thought to be an act of chivalry by the President.

 

[acute]

3 minutes ago, Manfred von Dreidecker said:

Is Donald Trump afraid of stairs and what is bathmophobia?. 

4 days ago - ASTONISHING pictures showing Donald Trump holding hands with Theresa May at the White House made headlines around the world. But The Sun revealed that Trump’s fear of stairs and slopes may have been behind the moment which was thought to be an act of chivalry by the President.

And I thought they were just in love!

[Matt221]

The chemical name of caffeine is 1,3,7 trimethylantihine

[Space Commander Travis]

20 minutes ago, Matt221 said:

1,3,7 trimethylantihine

That's a rubbish chant, that'll never catch on.

 

[Space Commander Travis]

donald trump afraid of windmills ? 

[+ouija ouija]

On ‎29‎/‎05‎/‎2017 at 5:11 PM, Matt221 said:

When the French Academy was preparing its first dictionary, it defined "crab" as, "A small red fish, which walks backwards." This definition was sent with a number of others to the naturalist Cuvier for his approval.  The scientist wrote back, "Your definition, gentlemen, would be perfect, only for three exceptions. The crab is not a fish, it is not red and it does not walk backwards."

 

2 hours ago, Manfred von Dreidecker said:

• Nomophobia is the fear of being out of mobile phone contact.

 

• Meanwhile, 
• Gynophobia is the fear of women, Genophobia is the fear of sexual intercourse, and Gelotophobia is the fear of being laughed at. I suppose those might all follow in sequence. 

M. von D., I'm going to play the part of Cuvier here: Gynophobia is, in fact, a (justifiable) fear of gynaecologists; Genophobia is the fear of too much information; Gelotophobia is a fear of ice cream ...... specifically Italian ice cream.  

[Mark One]

The Moon does have air, small pockets of cloud, foggy regions and even primitive plant life.   

 

 

[acute]

6 hours ago, ouija ouija said:

M. von D., I'm going to play the part of Cuvier here: Gynophobia is, in fact, a (justifiable) fear of gynaecologists; Genophobia is the fear of too much information; Gelotophobia is a fear of ice cream ...... specifically Italian ice cream.  

OFF-TOPIC!!!!

(True trivia)

The door's over there.....

[+ouija ouija]

* flounces off *

[Space Commander Travis]

 Sid James, the archetypal Cockney star of the Carry On films, was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and his real or original name was Solomon Joel Cohen. 

[Matt221]

The technical manager of the Sunderland empire where Sid James passed away while on stage was called Mervyn James

[Space Commander Travis]

some interesting facts today about the University of Oxford: (1) It doesn't exist. It's not so much an organisation in its own right as a federation of colleges, each more or less independent. (The same goes for Cambridge.) That's the excuse for a team from somewhere college, Oxford or Somewhere college, Cambridge winning every single season of University Challenge, because they each get a separate entry. 

[Space Commander Travis]

(2) The governing body that meets every week discuss any business that needs to be discussed is called the Hebdomadal, or it might be Hebdominal, Council. This derives, as you no doubt recognised, from the Greek 'hebdomas', meaning 'seven', from which the word 'Hebdo' as in Je Suis Charlie, derives, which also of course means weekly.