10 Things We Didn't Know This Time Last Week

[Virgil]

Never heard of the old nursery rhyme Virg?

I'm not sure which one you're referring to.

[Niamh]

Slightly irrelivant but it reminded me of this;
What are little boys made of?
Snips and snails, and puppy dogs tails
That's what little boys are made of !"
What are little girls made of?
"Sugar and spice and all things nice
That's what little girls are made of!"

[Scheherazade]

1. Kosher is not the word to describe the method of slaughtering animals which conforms to Jewish law - it's shechita.

2. Britons throw away 1.3 million unopened pots of yoghurt each day.

3. Punch and Judy puppeteers are called professors.

4. The duck-billed platypus's genetic code contains avian, reptilian and mammalian features.

5 No one knows how many adults there are in England with autism.

6. Foreign workers at British airports don't have to undergo criminal record checks.

7. Only 3% of London street robberies are solved with the help of CCTV evidence.

8. The song Waltzing Matilda was believed to be a socialist anthem.

9. Catherine Tate won the People's Choice Award at the 2005 British Comedy Awards, not Ant and Dec.

10. Flowers wave at passing insects to get their attention.

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[Virgil]

13. Punch and Judy puppeteers are called professors.

I knew a few professors that were no better than a Punch and Judy show.

4. The duck-billed platypus's genetic code contains avian, reptilian and mammalian features.

Now that is very interesting. Let's give it an aien smilie:

5 No one knows how many adults there are in England with autism.

I think I remember seeing something similar for the US as well. It's something that's hard to diagnose.

[Niamh]

6. Foreign workers at British airports don't have to undergo criminal record checks.

Anyone who wants a job airside in an Irish airport has to undergo a ten year backround check by the airport police, including police records before being issued with a pass!!
So much for hightened security in british airports!

[sprinks]

10. Flowers wave at passing insects to get their attention.

Aww thats cute It made me smile when I read it

[Scheherazade]

1. Nice, in the economic terms in which Bank of England governor Mervyn King was speaking, stands for "non-inflationary constant expansion".

2. The rubble from the old Wembley Stadium was turned into man-made hills.

3. Gordon Brown is a Bee Gees fan.

4. Neil Diamond has never had a number one album in the United States... until now.

5. Locusts combine into swarms because they are frightened of being eaten by each other.

6. Knitting patterns of trademarked characters can breach copyright.

7. The search for extraterrestrial life does not contradict a belief in God.

8. The Ministry of Defence has amassed 160 files on UFOs, containing details of 8,000 sightings.

9. A child of three is expected to know about 300 words.

10. Sloths aren't lazy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a027268

[Virgil]

1. Nice, in the economic terms in which Bank of England governor Mervyn King was speaking, stands for "non-inflationary constant expansion".

Ah yes, that is nirvana for economies.

3. Gordon Brown is a Bee Gees fan.

I can't believe he admitted that. Does he actually want to get re-elected?

7. The search for extraterrestrial life does not contradict a belief in God.

Actually in my opinion it might even confirm God. I've said a number of times, given the gazillion to one odds of life intiateing and developing on earth that if it actually developed elsewhere then it couldn't possibly be a fluke. Gazillion to one odds do not happen more than once by chance.

8. The Ministry of Defence has amassed 160 files on UFOs, containing details of 8,000 sightings.

I bet it's Scher calling in most of these.

[Nightshade]

7. The search for extraterrestrial life does not contradict a belief in God.

eh I didnt know anythought it did.

Actually in my opinion it might even confirm God. I've said a number of times, given the gazillion to one odds of life intiateing and developing on earth that if it actually developed elsewhere then it couldn't possibly be a fluke. Gazillion to one odds do not happen more than once by chance.

quite, why if God create humans soley for the purpose of worshipping him would He just want humans when He could have so many more different things. Like with smarties why have one colour when you can have them all? which reminds me although the blue smartie is back they might as well have left it missing as thenew one is NOT the real blue smartie but some horrid imposter.

9. A child of three is expected to know about 300 words.

only 300? thats doesnt seem very uch in fact I think thats rather disturbingly low. Thats like barley anything...

10. Sloths aren't lazy.

i knew that!

[Scheherazade]

I bet it's Scher calling in most of these.

True... Whenever I get to see your pics in the Photo Album!

[Niamh]

True... Whenever I get to see your pics in the Photo Album!

[Virgil]

True... Whenever I get to see your pics in the Photo Album!

Not I know I'm not pretty, but I'm not exactly an alien.

[Scheherazade]

Not I know I'm not pretty, but I'm not exactly an alien.

Aliens are not necessarily "alien" looking, y'know:



This week's list:

1. "Nice" originally meant foolish or silly.

2. More rural homes have broadband than urban dwellings.

3. 27% of people have opened a bottle with their teeth.

4. Britain has the fifth largest Jewish population in the world.

5. Brain chemical oxytocin makes us trust strangers with money.

6. Women drivers are three times more likely than men to suffer whiplash injuries if their car is hit from behind.

7. Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is deaf in one ear.

8. Skunks can be de-scented to make better pets.

9. You can lessen jet lag by not eating.

10. The "$100 laptop" now costs $75.

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[Virgil]

3. 27% of people have opened a bottle with their teeth.

Yeah, and I've known people who have chipped their teeth doing it.

4. Britain has the fifth largest Jewish population in the world.

It doesn't give a list of the other countries, but I believe, though not a 100% sure, that the US is number one and has more jewish people than Israel.

5. Brain chemical oxytocin makes us trust strangers with money.

Article says it's 'Nicknamed the "cuddle chemical"' Let's not let my wife hear about this because she will want me to take it before going to bed.

6. Women drivers are three times more likely than men to suffer whiplash injuries if their car is hit from behind.

Strange. I guess women need to start driving like a cool guy and sit back and drive with one hand on tp of the wheel.

8. Skunks can be de-scented to make better pets.

Lions can make good pets too if you take out their teeth.

9. You can lessen jet lag by not eating.

You can lessen jet lag with a bullet to the temple too but neither of these are practical. I get hungry on an eight hour flight.

[Scheherazade]

1. Kingsley Amis wrote a Bond follow-up.

2. One of the earliest Mars Bars was pineapple-flavoured. It flopped.

3. Charles Lindbergh invented the first pump to keep an organ alive outside the body.

4. San Marino officially has just three British people.

5. Amazonian tribesmen can show aggression by painting themselves red.

6. Within the concept of karma, it's the motive for doing something that is important.

7. Emo, among other things, stands for "emotional hardcore".

8. Women are banned by law from Mount Athos in Greece, home to 20 monasteries.

9. The Stonehenge site was a burial ground for 500 years.

10. The first known science film was a one-minute close-up of cheese mites filmed through a microscope.


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