Kas
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Strange factsAnyone got any?
I'll start us off.
Q) There are no Roads in the City (Square mile)
Only Streets, Lanes and Squares. Why?
A) Our sense of a road as being a fixed route or line on land for getting from one place to another came along much later, at the very end of the sixteenth century (Shakespeare is the first known user). This explains the old joke that there are no roads in the City of London (the medieval core of the metropolis), as indeed there aren’t: all the ways there had been named before the word came into the language.
Q) Where did the measurement of a yard come from?
A) A yard, measured on King Henry I (1068-1135) of England, was the distance from his nose to the middle fingertip of his extended arm.
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david hobbs
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•In 1962, the schools in Tanganyika closed because of an outbreak of contagious laughter that lasted for six months
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Raymond
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The saying 'rule of thumb' comes from the middle ages when men weren't allowed to beat their wives with anything thicker than their own thumbs.
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david hobbs
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Those were truly barbaric times.
You have to bash them twice as hard to get the same amount of pain.
Ignorant ancestral git's
Should be strung up the lot of them.
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Raymond
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| david hobbs wrote: | | Should be strung up the lot of them. |
Who? Women or middle ages people in general?
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david hobbs
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Oh when I'm in this mood it's any one I could get my fekking hands on.
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Kas
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The City of London was inside a huge wall which had 7 gates.
Ludgate, Newgate, Aldersgate, Cripplegate, Bishopsgate, Aldgate and Moorgate.
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Hunter
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The idea that the V sign came from English archers in the 100 years war taunting the french that they still had their fingers, is a legend given by historians of the fore mentioned war.
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david hobbs
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| Hunter wrote: | | The idea that the V sign came from English archers in the 100 years war taunting the french that they still had their fingers, is a legend given by historians of the fore mentioned war. |
Oh no I actually though that it was true 
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david hobbs
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Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
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Hunter
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If a flea was human sized it would be able to jump from London to Moscow in one leap.
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david hobbs
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| Hunter wrote: | | If a flea was human sized it would be able to jump from London to Moscow in one leap. |
On the Moon?
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Raymond
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It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
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david hobbs
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Why?
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Raymond
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Apparently your eyes will pop out. Could be fun actually.
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david hobbs
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| Raymond wrote: | | Apparently your eyes will pop out. Could be fun actually. |
Try it Oh socketed one.
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Raymond
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After you old chap.
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david hobbs
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You go first and I shall keep an eye out for you.
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Raymond
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Oh that's it. Time for bed.
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david hobbs
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Wimp!!!!!!
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david hobbs
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In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
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Scott
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i've probably got this all wrong because i can't usually remember jokes never mind useless facts but i remember reading somewhere once that it's still a law that makes it illegal to kill a scotishman in london on a sunday. i'm sure that's wrong but it was something like that
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david hobbs
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No mate it's dead right.
The dustmen don't work Sundays.
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Raymond
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British law is full of ancient laws made hundreds of years ago that nobody has ever bothered to repeal.
For example, did you know that even though the reigning Monarch is allowed to go anywhere in the country unhindered (yes, even our homes without our permission) he/she cannot enter the City of London (the sqaure mile) without permission from the Lord Mayor of London or the Houses of Parliament without permission from the Speaker of the House.
I'm not sure what would happen if Her Majesty tried it but if I were the Monarch I'd be wandering in and out of both all the time.
Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough!!!
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Waffle King
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Reindeers enjoy eating Bananas 
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Raymond
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Many a mickle makes a muckle.
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evergreen
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how is that a fact love? haha
and what does it mean...
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Raymond
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F*cked if I know. 
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Hunter
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You can still be executed for treason as the law hasn't been rescinded.
However in our pc days, what is treason ??
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Raymond
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Exactly.
When a bunch of foreigners can set light to the Union Jack outside the houses of parliament and the police arrest those who have a go at them then you have to ask, what is treason?
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Waffle King
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Treason these days, i think the only way you can commit it is by physically Bitch Slapping the Queen, even then you might not get executed for it
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Raymond
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Even if somebody did that some do-gooder would start arguing that the person doing the slapping was in some way not responsible for his actions because he had his rattle stolen when he was a baby.
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Waffle King
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True true, all i know is when i eventually take over the world VIA Penguin power and cheap labour, i will most certainly kill anyone who stands against me, and anyone who claims i did wrong, i'd just kill them aswell, it makes things sooooo much easier.
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Raymond
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Crushing the opposition is the only way to true power.
Democracy is over-rated.
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Waffle King
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Government is over-rated, Comunism for the win!
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Raymond
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Now let's not get back into all that silliness again.
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david hobbs
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Treason is handing over the governing of this country to an unelected bunch of invisible people in Brussels.
This to me is the ultimate and ignored high treason in this countries history.
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Raymond
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We'd have to put every Prime Minister all the way back to Edward Heath in the dock over that one.
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Hunter
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Back to strange facts & this one is a personal strange fact : my cat does the green cross code when leaving the house, looks both ways to see if there's any traffic & then gets off the front step to go on his wanders.
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david hobbs
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But the amazing fact is that he lives in the country and there is no road.
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Hunter
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We live in the middle of a town David. In the town centre.
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Kas
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Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.
A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2
teeth every 10 yrs.
People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ...even your heart. This is why people have always said "God bless you" after a sneeze.
Only 7% of the population are lefties.
40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
The average housefly lives for one month.
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year. Don't ask how.
A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
Among the music catalog's that Michael Jackson owns the rights to, is the South Carolina State anthem.
In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.
The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburettor.
Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth.
They are reused in vein transplant surgery.
Humphrey Bogart and Princess Diana were seventh cousins.
If colouring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
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Raymond
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Marylin Monroe had six toes on her left foot.
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david hobbs
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| Raymond wrote: | | Marylin Monroe had six toes on her left foot. |
With a bum like hers who ever looked any lower anyway!!!
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