Did you know?

[tonyp]

Did you know
There was a young fellow named Goringe
Who longed to make rhymes using orange.
He quit in despair,
Hung himself in mid-air,
At his home on top of Mt Blorenge

[bristleposh]

If you saw a suitcase going around the baggage retrieval area at Heathrow with these stickers on -
SAD FAT OLD MAN
Who might have put them there and why?
Answer tomorrow if you don't know.

He was a frequent flyer and had left a few stickers on his suitcase after visiting
SAD Safford, AZ USA
FAT Fesno, USA
OLD Old Town, USA
MAN Manchester

Fortunately he hadn't been to Fukuoka - Japan instead of Manchester.

I'm pleased to say I didn't know that, another minute of my life I'll never get back.

[tonyp]

I'm pleased to say I didn't know that, another minute of my life I'll never get back.

Only a minute?
You should watch QI. It's amazing what you can learn.

[bristleposh]

I have watched it, it just doesn't sink in. Did you know Steven Fry has left the programme I believe a female is taking over, probably Sandi Toksvig.

[tonyp]

I have watched it, it just doesn't sink in. Did you know Steven Fry has left the programme I believe a female is taking over, probably Sandi Toksvig.

We still get old shows here and no mention has been made of Fry leaving.
Sandi Toksvig has been a panelist several times. I'd say she'll make a good host although Fry would have to be a hard act to follow.
I wonder if Alan Davies will stay on. (I wish he'd get a haircut).

[tonyp]

Did you know?
(I bet you didn't)
70% of British schoolchildren have never heard of Oliver Cromwell.

[bristleposh]

Wow. I didn't know this http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news ... irror_main

..and to think the number of times I've been in 'spoons

[tonyp]

Wow. I didn't know this http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news ... irror_main

..and to think the number of times I've been in 'spoons

You'll have to post a photo (on here not on there) of the carpet in your favourite pub.

[bristleposh]

As I drink at home most of the time that would mean posting a picture of our living room carpet

[tonyp]

Best Club Sandwich in the world: Sofitel Brisbane Central (Brisbane, Qld. Australia.
They're not cheap (about $27 each) but they're good.

[bristleposh]

Best Club Sandwich in the world: Sofitel Brisbane Central (Brisbane, Qld. Australia.
They're not cheap (about $27 each) but they're good.

I'll have to pop out and get one, what's the nearest outlet to Bristol? Can I walk there.

[Suffolkposh]

Did you know?
(I bet you didn't)
70% of British schoolchildren have never heard of Oliver Cromwell.

I would believe that, knowing the way they teach history now

[daib0]

Did you know?
(I bet you didn't)
70% of British schoolchildren have never heard of Oliver Cromwell.

I would believe that, knowing the way they teach history now

You lot probably won't believe me, but I'm indirectly related to Cromwell; he was a great-great-grandson of a person who was the brother of John Hampton III and he was the brother-in-law of Thomas Ramsey - a direct decendent of me at 17 generations back. My mother did a lot of work on this with over 250 names on the tree, and in fact we have our family tree back to 1350 and a Robert Belknappe who was 'Chief Justice of Common Pleas' prior to 1388 ... it is thought that Belknappe probably came over with William the Conqueror but I can't get any prooof of that unfortunately. Yep, you're talking to somebody who once had important connections, there was also a mayor of Reading in the early 1800s, just seems to have gone downhill since, ha-ha!!!

[dunc]

Ah so that's why you have an affinity with Posh

[Poshay]

No it's just his round head.