acute Posted June 11, 2018 Author #1176 Share Posted June 11, 2018 Bat-n-Ball Lane is a street in Bermuda. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stiff Posted June 11, 2018 #1177 Share Posted June 11, 2018 1 minute ago, acute said: Bat-n-Ball Lane is a street in Bermuda. There's also one in Farnham, Surrey (UK) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EllJay Posted June 11, 2018 #1178 Share Posted June 11, 2018 12 minutes ago, acute said: Bat-n-Ball Lane is a street in Bermuda. Would be worse if it was; Bat On Ball... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted June 11, 2018 Author #1179 Share Posted June 11, 2018 Just now, EllJay said: Would be worse if it was; Bat On Ball... Ouch! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EllJay Posted June 11, 2018 #1180 Share Posted June 11, 2018 5 minutes ago, acute said: Ouch! Yeah..you bet...or; you bat... Well, that was a bad joke,...even for me... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted June 12, 2018 Author #1181 Share Posted June 12, 2018 There are more Americans than Jamaicans in Britain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted June 16, 2018 Author #1182 Share Posted June 16, 2018 (edited) The Bronte surname can be traced to the Irish clan Ó Pronntaigh, which literally means "descendant of Pronntach". They were a family of hereditary scribes and literary men in Fermanagh (now in Northern Ireland). Patrick, the father of the Brontë sisters, changed the family name from the original Brunty and added the 'dots'. Edited June 16, 2018 by acute 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted June 22, 2018 Author #1183 Share Posted June 22, 2018 If a family illegally come into Britain, the children are separated from their parents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EllJay Posted June 22, 2018 #1184 Share Posted June 22, 2018 Dog food lid backwards is; Dildo of God. Well, that wasn't so interesting maybe, but... 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted June 23, 2018 Author #1185 Share Posted June 23, 2018 As the Isle of Man is not in the European Union, it did not take part in the 2016 Brexit referendum. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted June 26, 2018 Author #1186 Share Posted June 26, 2018 In 1907, over one million immigrants were processed on Ellis Island. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Commander Travis Posted July 2, 2018 #1187 Share Posted July 2, 2018 (edited) The record for the highest score in a senior football competition was set on 31 October 2002 when the Malagasy club AS Adema beat SO l'Emyrne 149-0 in the national championship. SOE scored own goals throughout the match as a protest to a refereeing decision in a prior match. Since this was by way of a protest, it might be construed as cheating, so the 'non-protesting' record goes to the match between Arbroath and Bon Accord which took place on 12 September 1885., in which Arbroath steamrolled the plucky Bon Accordions 36-0. Edited July 2, 2018 by Vlad the Mighty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt221 Posted July 4, 2018 #1188 Share Posted July 4, 2018 There are 5 temples in Kyoto, Japan that have blood stained ceilings. The ceilings are made from the floorboards of a castle where warriors killed themselves after a long hold-off against an army. To this day, you can still see the outlines and footprints 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Commander Travis Posted July 11, 2018 #1189 Share Posted July 11, 2018 An Anagram of the name of the English football manager, Gareth Southgate, is Treat to huge shag.. I suppose we shall see shortly whether or not he deserves this. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted July 14, 2018 Author #1190 Share Posted July 14, 2018 (edited) The Riot Act 1714 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain that authorized local authorities to declare any group of twelve or more people to be unlawfully assembled, and thus have to disperse or face punitive action. The act, whose long title was "An Act for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies, and for the more speedy and effectual punishing of the rioters", was repealed in England and Wales by a section of the Criminal Law Act 1967. Edited July 14, 2018 by acute 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt221 Posted July 15, 2018 #1191 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Nicholas Cage bought a pet octopus once because he sincerely thought it might help with his acting 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ouija ouija Posted July 16, 2018 #1192 Share Posted July 16, 2018 Croatia currently holds the World Championship for WATER POLO! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt221 Posted July 16, 2018 #1193 Share Posted July 16, 2018 33 Toto the Dog Was Once a Cow In the 1910 silent film version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy did not have a dog but a faithful cow named Imogene. It’s not clear why they opted for the change—Toto was in the 1902 stage rendition and L. Frank Baum’s book. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted July 17, 2018 Author #1194 Share Posted July 17, 2018 (edited) My ex-girlfriend's great-great-(great?)-uncle was Captain Matthew Webb, the first person to swim the English Channel. Quote Despite stings from jellyfish, and strong currents [...] which prevented him from reaching the shore for five hours, finally, after 21 hours and 45 minutes, he landed near Calais — the first successful cross-channel swim. His zig-zag course across the Channel was over 39 miles (64 km) long. There's a statue marking his achievement in Dover, but in Dawley, Shropshire (now in Telford) where he was born 'n' bred, it's a pub. Nice ales at reasonable prices, though! Edited July 17, 2018 by acute 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purrrpetrator Posted July 18, 2018 #1195 Share Posted July 18, 2018 On 11/06/2018 at 9:41 AM, EllJay said: Yeah..you bet...or; you bat... Well, that was a bad joke,...even for me... It's a BAT joke!...comedically speaking, how much wood could anyone seriously expect to get on it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted July 20, 2018 Author #1196 Share Posted July 20, 2018 One of the Great train robbers, Charlie Wilson, escaped from Birmingham Prison in 1965. He was recaptured in Canada three years later. The prison also held Fred West who was charged with the murders of 12 people found buried in the garden of his home in Gloucestershire. He was found hanged in his cell in 1995 while awaiting trial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted July 20, 2018 Author #1197 Share Posted July 20, 2018 KP Snacks is a British producer of snack foods and nuts, based in Slough, Berkshire. The company was founded in 1853 as Kenyon & Son, makers of confectionery, jam and pickles. The KP originally stood for Kenyon Produce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Monk Posted July 21, 2018 #1198 Share Posted July 21, 2018 (edited) Pi to three figures written backwards spells "pie" . ***** imagine you walk into a room with 22 other people already inside. The probability that anyone in there has the same birthday as you is really low. However, the chances that any two people in the room share the same birthday is 50%. ***** 0.9999... isn't less than 1. They are actually both the same number. ***** Think of any 4-digit number that has at least two different digits (e.g. 1112 is allowed, 1111 is not). Now arrange the digits in descending order and then again in ascending order giving you two different numbers. Subtract the smaller number from the larger one. Repeat. Your answer will be 6174. ***** If you order two 12-inch pizzas, you'll get less pizza than if you ordered an 18-inch pizza. However, if you order a 24-inch pizza you'll get more pizza than if you ordered an 18-inch pizza. Edited July 21, 2018 by Black Monk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opus Magnus Posted July 21, 2018 #1199 Share Posted July 21, 2018 I'm not sure about .9 repeating being 1. I asked this same question to my math teacher in high school. I've pretty much had to decide for myself, and call it some kind of mystery. As the prime fractions do this, no number can fit between .9 repeating and 1. I don't consider them equal, but there might be some infinitesimally small number that would fit there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Monk Posted July 21, 2018 #1200 Share Posted July 21, 2018 (edited) 16 minutes ago, Opus Magnus said: I'm not sure about .9 repeating being 1. I asked this same question to my math teacher in high school. I've pretty much had to decide for myself, and call it some kind of mystery. As the prime fractions do this, no number can fit between .9 repeating and 1. I don't consider them equal, but there might be some infinitesimally small number that would fit there. And yet mathematicians KNOW they are equal. There's no mystery at all. Just as equally, 1.99999... is the same number as 2. Another interesting fact: Maths can prove that 0.9999... = 1 but it can't prove that 1= 0.9999... Assume: x= 0.999999 Therefore: 10x=9.9 Therefore: 10x-x = 9.9- 0.9 9.9-0.9=9 Therefore 9x=9 Therefore: x (which is 0.999999)=1 Edited July 21, 2018 by Black Monk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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