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I agree with you, Tal. I was a little surprised too... but then again maybe because all these -gamies sound like a little likeOrigami, which might confuse some!Quote:
Originally Posted by Taliesin
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Ann WiddecombeQuote:
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Top of the Pops is the weekly music chart show on BBC.
1. A US Patent has been granted for a "toy gas-fired missile and launcher assembly" (US patent 6,055,910). The gas in question? Colonic gas generated by the user.
2. The Duchess of Kent teaches children to rap.
3. The bikini-clad woman in the iPod adverts does not own one - she hasn't the money.
4. Urine was once made into ammonia to remove stains from laundry.
5. In the 1930s, a German inventor tried to deliver mail by rocket to one of the most remote parts of the UK, the tiny island of Scarp in the Outer Hebrides. Commemorative stamps were issued. But it ended in failure when the rocket exploded.
6. It takes a gallon of oil to make three fake fur coats.
7. Media studies is more popular than physics among A-level students.
8. Each successive monarch faces in a different direction on British coins.
9. White was the colour chosen for the Queen Mother's White Wardrobe - currently on show at Buckingham Palace - because she was in mourning for her mother at the time.
10. There's a sin of simony - to conduct financial transactions involving spiritual goods which Lincoln Cathedral had been accused of over the making of the Da Vinci Code movie.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/...8.stm#10things
Ive always said fake fur is worse than real fur!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
1. The average computer keyboard is reportedly infected with 3,295 germs.
2. 70% of internet porn traffic occurs during work hours.
3. Brad Pitt's full name is William Bradley Pitt.
4. Meanwhile, the biography of William Pitt the younger is the second most popular book for MPs to take on holiday, after the Da Vinci Code.
5. According to Amnesty International, 1,195 people were killed by police in Rio de Janeiro in 2003.
6. England batsman Marcus Trescothick ate steak for the first time when he was 27.
7. The day when most suicides occurred in the UK between 1993 and 2002 was 1 January, 2000.
8. The only day in that time when no-one killed themselves was 16 March, 2001, the day Comic Relief viewers saw Jack Dee win Celebrity Big Brother.
9. So-called "Lotto lout" Michael Carroll gets gay fan mail.
10. One of the eight ravens at the Tower of London, Thor, can say "Good morning".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4172642.stm
1. One in 18 people has a third nipple.
2. More than 100 tons of ripe tomatoes are splattered about in Spain's Tomatina Festival.
3. The crumbed batter around fish fingers is cooked so quickly the fish inside stays frozen. In all, preparation and packaging takes just 35 minutes.
4. The Spanish smoke more Gauloise cigarettes than the French.
5. Michael Sheard, who played Grange Hill's terrifying deputy head Mr Bronson and who died this week, also appeared in the Empire Strikes Back (he played Admiral Ozzel) and in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (he played Hitler).
6. The section of coast around Cleethorpes has the highest concentration of caravans in Europe.
7. George Clooney's father was a television news anchor.
8. China makes about 40% of the world's socks.
9. And it has around 24,000 coal mines - more than 3,000 miners have been killed this year alone, in fires, floods and other work-related accidents.
10. Road signs in an Austrian village - whose seven-letter name begins with "F" and ends in "ing" - are now encased in theft-proof concrete to stop tourists stealing them.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4189164.stm
1. Fifty-seven Bic Biros are sold every second - amounting to 100 billion since 1950.
2. Not only do the Spanish smoke more Gauloise cigarettes than the French (see last week's 10 things) they are the biggest cocaine users in the world, according to the UN.
3. See You Jimmy - Russ Abbot's incomprehensible 80s comedy creation - was inspired by a David Bowie-style wig discarded when Bowie changed his image.
4. Norway is the world's third largest oil exporter.
5. George Bernard Shaw named his shed after the UK capital so that when visitors called they could be told he was away in London.
6. Twenty-one stray animals are put down in the UK each day.
7. Turner's The Fighting Temeraire, this week voted the UK's favourite painting, shows the sun setting in the east.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...ner_203bbc.jpg
8. Paul McCartney's Beatles' classic Blackbird is a homage to the black civil rights movement - "bird", in this case, being a colloquial term for "woman".
9. Saturn's rings are fluffy.
10. Ninety-five percent of today's 500,000 racehorses descend from a single stallion - the Darley Arabian, born in 1700.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/...8.stm#10things
heh, I knew that! :banana: and now I have an excuse for posting the dancing bananaQuote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
I always wondered how smart we really are if we forget to breathe. Interesting...Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
1. The herb rocket (aka roquette, arugula and rucola) was widely grown in English kitchen gardens in the 1600s.
2. Former Labour MP Oona King's aunt is agony aunt Miriam Stoppard.
3. Britain produces 700 regional cheeses, more even than France.
4. More slave-labourers died working on the Nazi's V2 rockets than were killed by them in attacks.
5. Camberwick Green's creator Gordon Murray destroyed the original models in a bonfire after the last transmission.
6. Dame Helen Mirren loves snorkelling.
7. Bob Dylan first visited Britain - in 1962 - to take part in a BBC play.
8. Inmates at the Buchenwald concentration camp staged a version of the Agatha Christie play now known as And Then There Were None.
9. Since the 1970s, the number of strong hurricanes around the world has doubled.
10. Sensitive hacking equipment could tell what words are being typed on a keyboard by analysing the unique sounds made by each key.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4236934.stm
1. The Church of Sweden is a major shareholder in H&M.
2. A hurricane name is retired from the rotating alphabetical list if the storm has been particularly destructive. Hence there will not be another Katrina.
3. Although the US National Weather Service did not start using names until 1953, for hundreds of years hurricanes in the West Indies were named after the saint's day on which they occurred.
4. Tim Farron, the new LibDem MP for Cumberland and Westmorland - famed for its sausages - is a strict vegetarian.
5. America's first regular TV news show was the Camel News Caravan - named for its sponsor, Camel Cigarettes. It was launched by NBC in 1949.
6. Andrew Motion listens to Bob Dylan every day.
7. Selina Scott runs her own business making mohair footwear.
8. Until 15 years ago, Japan had almost no foreign wrestlers. Today, they make up over a quarter of the wrestlers in its higher divisions.
9. The actor who plays Mike Tucker in BBC Radio 4's The Archers is the father of the actor who plays Will Grundy.
10. Japanese knotweed can grow from a piece of root the size of pea. And it can flourish anew if disturbed after lying dormant for more than 20 years
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4259624.stm
1. The Road Less Travelled has spent more than eight years on the New York Times best seller list, a record for a non-fiction book.
2. Some 40,000 UK children are on prescription drugs for depression.
3. Andrew Marr, former political editor of the BBC, has read Tolstoy's epic War and Peace 15 times.
4. The name for a gap between the teeth is a diastema.
5. About 800,000 Brits go to Australia each year, either for holiday, to work, or to emigrate.
6. Identical twins have never held the two top positions of power in a modern country. But it could happen soon in Poland.
7. You can be sent to jail for showing someone an inappropriate film on a mobile phone.
8. At its current rate of shrinkage, the Arctic ice cap might disappear altogether during the summer of 2060.
9. Hecklers are so-called because of militant textile workers in Dundee.
10. Pulling your foot out of quicksand takes a force equivalent to that needed to lift a medium-sized car.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4282040.stm
Only one....
1) I'm failing world History
I have one you can walk on custard!!!!
1. Ruby Wax is studying for a degree in psychology and philosophy.
2. A single "mother" spud from southern Peru gave rise to all the varieties of potato eaten today, scientists have learned.
3. Spanish Flu, the epidemic that killed 50 million people in 1918/9, was known as French Flu in Spain
4. Beryl Bainbridge was expelled from school aged 14 for writing a racy limerick.
5. Belarus has the highest ratio of police to people, of any country in the world.
6. Before Ronnie Barker revealed himself to be the Two Ronnies' mystery sketchwriter Gerald Wiley, some people thought the man behind the mask was Tom Stoppard.
7. It's not impossible to drink 40 shots of vodka and still want more.
8. The gender of unborn turtles is affected by sea temperature. As seas warm up, there are more female turtles being born.
9. Britons take home 430,000 gallons (1.95m litres) of shampoo from hotels every year, a survey has found.
10. Author Andrea Levy, winner of the "Orange of Oranges" book prize for her novel Small Island, says she "didn't actually read a book" until she was 23.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4303994.stm
*blinks at #10* :eek: