Space Commander Travis Posted December 25, 2018 #1276 Share Posted December 25, 2018 The country with the largest French-speaking population isn't in fact the land of garlic and tear gas, but Dr Congo, which has 84 million inhabitants as against 67 million in France proper. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoofGardener Posted December 25, 2018 #1277 Share Posted December 25, 2018 1 hour ago, Vlad the Mighty said: The country with the largest French-speaking population isn't in fact the land of garlic and tear gas, but Dr Congo, which has 84 million inhabitants as against 67 million in France proper. I thought they spoke Belgian ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted December 25, 2018 Author #1278 Share Posted December 25, 2018 'Jewgle' is the Jewish version of Google. The Muslim equivalent is 'Halalgoogling'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted December 25, 2018 Author #1279 Share Posted December 25, 2018 36 minutes ago, RoofGardener said: I thought they spoke Belgian ? Belgians speak Dutch, French, or German, depending on their ethnicity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted December 25, 2018 Author #1280 Share Posted December 25, 2018 The NHS website states that there is "little evidence" that cough medicines are effective, but some ingredients can relieve symptoms such as fever and a blocked nose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted December 26, 2018 Author #1281 Share Posted December 26, 2018 (edited) Many music critics criticized Queen's single 'Bohemian Rhapsody' when it was released. Melody Maker magazine said that in releasing Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen “contrived to approximate the demented fury of the Balham Amateur Operatic Society performing The Pirates of Penzance.” Edited December 26, 2018 by acute Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Commander Travis Posted December 31, 2018 #1282 Share Posted December 31, 2018 it's bloody typical innit 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted January 4, 2019 Author #1283 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Blondie singer Debbie Harry was born Angela Trimble (in Miami), but she was adopted at three months by Richard and Catherine Harry (in New Jersey) and renamed Deborah Ann Harry. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted January 8, 2019 Author #1284 Share Posted January 8, 2019 (edited) In 2007, The Honourable Jacob William Rees-Mogg, the Member of Parliament for North East Somerset, married Helena Anne Beatrix Wentworth Fitzwilliam de Chair, the only child of Somerset de Chair and his fourth wife Lady Juliet Tadgell. The Rees-Moggs have six children: Peter Theodore Alphege, Mary Anne Charlotte Emma, Thomas Wentworth Somerset Dunstan, Anselm Charles Fitzwilliam, Alfred Wulfric Leyson Pius, and Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher. Edited January 8, 2019 by acute 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ouija ouija Posted January 9, 2019 #1285 Share Posted January 9, 2019 22 hours ago, acute said: In 2007, The Honourable Jacob William Rees-Mogg, the Member of Parliament for North East Somerset, married Helena Anne Beatrix Wentworth Fitzwilliam de Chair, the only child of Somerset de Chair and his fourth wife Lady Juliet Tadgell. The Rees-Moggs have six children: Peter Theodore Alphege, Mary Anne Charlotte Emma, Thomas Wentworth Somerset Dunstan, Anselm Charles Fitzwilliam, Alfred Wulfric Leyson Pius, and Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher. Posh people have nothing better to do than string lists of names together. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted January 10, 2019 Author #1286 Share Posted January 10, 2019 22 hours ago, ouija ouija said: Posh people have nothing better to do than string lists of names together. Indubitably! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted January 16, 2019 Author #1287 Share Posted January 16, 2019 The word "Brexit" was invented by solicitor Peter Wilding for an article he wrote in 2012. Mr Wilding, 'Brexit Director' at Black Country & Shropshire law firm FBC Manby Bowdler, is named by the Oxford English Dictionary as the first person to use the word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Commander Travis Posted January 16, 2019 #1288 Share Posted January 16, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Commander Travis Posted January 16, 2019 #1289 Share Posted January 16, 2019 3 hours ago, acute said: The word "Brexit" was invented by solicitor Peter Wilding for an article he wrote in 2012. Mr Wilding, 'Brexit Director' at Black Country & Shropshire law firm FBC Manby Bowdler, is named by the Oxford English Dictionary as the first person to use the word. I would imagine that Brexit Director is a fairly lucratively remunerated position, and so I imagine he'd be in no hurry to see it done and dusted and put to bed. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Commander Travis Posted January 16, 2019 #1290 Share Posted January 16, 2019 I wouldn't mind working for FBC Mandy Bowdler though. I suppose they'd cut out all of the bits that might be offensive to sensitive ears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Commander Travis Posted January 16, 2019 #1291 Share Posted January 16, 2019 In 1938 a jazz song "Flat Foot Floogie (with a Floy Floy)" peaked at number two on US charts. The original lyrics was sung with the word "floozie", meaning a sexually promiscuous woman, or a prostitute, but record company Vocalion objected. Hence the word was substituted with the almost similar sounding title word "floogie" in the second recording. The "floy floy" in the title was a slang term for a veneral disease, but that was not widely known back then. In the lyrics it is sung repeatedly "floy-doy", which was widely thought as a nonsense refrain. Since the lyrics were regarded as nonsense the song failed to catch the attention of censors. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stiff Posted January 16, 2019 #1292 Share Posted January 16, 2019 36 minutes ago, Vlad the Mighty said: In 1938 a jazz song "Flat Foot Floogie (with a Floy Floy)" peaked at number two on US charts. The original lyrics was sung with the word "floozie", meaning a sexually promiscuous woman, or a prostitute, but record company Vocalion objected. Hence the word was substituted with the almost similar sounding title word "floogie" in the second recording. The "floy floy" in the title was a slang term for a veneral disease, but that was not widely known back then. In the lyrics it is sung repeatedly "floy-doy", which was widely thought as a nonsense refrain. Since the lyrics were regarded as nonsense the song failed to catch the attention of censors. It's a good job they didn't try to release 'Smack My b**** Up'. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Commander Travis Posted January 17, 2019 #1293 Share Posted January 17, 2019 * Japan was discovered in 1854 by Commodore Perry from Little Mix. I think that's right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stiff Posted January 17, 2019 #1294 Share Posted January 17, 2019 8 hours ago, Vlad the Mighty said: * Japan was discovered in 1854 by Commodore Perry from Little Mix. I think that's right. Commodore 'Matthew' Perry. This was well before he starred in 'Friends' though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted January 17, 2019 Author #1295 Share Posted January 17, 2019 In 2018, 44 postmen/women were attacked by dogs, but 50 were attacked by cats. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted January 18, 2019 Author #1296 Share Posted January 18, 2019 82% of the wealth created in 2017 went to a global 1% of people. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted January 18, 2019 Author #1297 Share Posted January 18, 2019 18 hours ago, acute said: In 2018, 44 postmen/women were attacked by dogs, but 50 were attacked by cats. In the UK. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted January 18, 2019 Author #1298 Share Posted January 18, 2019 In the 16th century, football (with those heavy pig skins) caused more deaths than sword fighting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Commander Travis Posted January 19, 2019 #1299 Share Posted January 19, 2019 There's never been a better time to buy a Bugatti Veyron! Low mileage, quality used examples can now be obtained from as little as £1.3 million! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted January 20, 2019 Author #1300 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Theoretically, the highest break possible in a frame of snooker is 155, but breaks above 147 are extremely rare. Jamie Burnett made a break of 148 in the 2004 UK Championship. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_break Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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