Fact Finder!

[Amber Fyre]

In this game one person chooses a topic (ie. cats) and the next person then has to post a statistic or fascinating fact about this topic. They then choose the next topic.

ie. If I posted ‘cats’ as the topic the next person could Google it (or use their memory of random facts!) and then find ‘It is known that 25 percent of cat owners blow-dry their cats after bathing.’.
They would then post the next topic of their choosing!

Next topic: Sheep!

[Kevin Hodge]

The small intestines from 11 sheep are needed to make 1 tennis racket.


next topic - spanners :frankenst

[Mouse]

The Nazi Proffessor Spanner created and headed research into the boiling down of Russian Jews to turn into soap.


Next topic Human Hair

[Grah08]

human hair is dead skin cells.(I think)

Oranges

[VO2]

Christopher Columbus was is thought to be the first person to bring orange seeds and seedlings to the new world on his second voyage in 1493.

freud

[Mouse]

Freud had a phobia about the number 62.


Hitler

[scarlet_diva]

All three women with whom Hitler had close relationships attempted suicide during their relationship with him, a fact which has led to speculation that Hitler may have had unusual sexual fetishes, such as urolagnia.
People with urolagnia often like to urinate in public, or urinate on, or be urinated on by other people, and may drink the urine.

Octopus

[Mouse]

Octopi are part of the Mollusc family and more closely related to Mussels than fish. They are also nocturnal.

Tobacco

[Mouse]

In South Bend, Indiana, it is illegal to make a monkey smoke a cigarette. This law goes back to 1924 when a monkey was found guilty of the crime of smoking a cigarette and forced to pay a fine of 25 dollars, as well as trial costs.


Wine

[Winnie57]

An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him. "Pauillac, 1873," he murmured and died.


writing

[Mouse]

Arabic is written from right to left. Because of this the front page of their newspapers would be the back page of ours.


Jimi Hendrix

[Winnie57]

In the summer of 1969, Hendrix performed at Woodstock with an ensemble of musicians collectively named The Electric Sky Church, with Mitch Mitchell on drums

Biscuits

[Mouse]

Mitch Mitchel was a great drummer.

The Jaffa Cake is actually classed as a biscuit for Tax purposes.


Mice

[Blue Haze]

Mice have poor vision, hence their activity patterns rely heavily on smell, taste, touch, and hearing.

Paranoid Larry

[Mouse]

Paranoid Larry feels moist and smells of insects :embarass:

Anyway, real fact,

"Paranoid Larry is a term used in Eastern Block countries as a comical way to describe the USA"


Gary Glitter

[Winnie57]

Gary Glitter's first single was released in 1959 under the name of Paul Raven: Alone In The Night


Halifax Blue Sox

[Mouse]

This is the Hooker from Halifax, and the centre half Danny Jones



Heroin

[Blue Haze]

Heroin is processed from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seed pod of certain varieties of poppy plant. Heroin is a highly addictive drug — the most widely abused and most rapidly acting of the opiates. It was once widely used in medicine until its addictive potential was recognized.

Crack

[Mouse]

The Crack of a whip is not the leather hitting itself. The tip actually goes faster than the speed of sound and creates a sonic boom.


Cows

[hardy]

its the loop travelling along the whip that creats a sonic boom not the tip as is popularly thought. The tip actually goes faster than the speed of sound.

http://www.npr.org/programs/wesat/fe...hip/index.html

[marmite]

cows can detect odors up to five miles away

estate agents

[Blue Haze]

There are more than 12000 registered estate agencies in the UK

Funk-O-Matic

[Mouse]

Funk-O-Matic is a song by Carl Spaeth. His music written for jazz combo will soon be available as standard head charts in Treble Clef, Bass Clef, Bb, and Eb. - Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice


Leon Trotski

[Mouse]

Originally Posted by hardy

its the loop travelling along the whip that creats a sonic boom not the tip as is popularly thought. The tip actually goes faster than the speed of sound.

http://www.npr.org/programs/wesat/fe...hip/index.html

Stephen Fry told me that so it must be true, who you gonna believe the internet or a man who sells tea

[Blue Haze]

After leading the failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and the increasing bureaucratization of the Soviet Union, Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party and deported from the Soviet Union in the Great Purge. As the head of the Fourth International, he continued in exile to oppose the Stalinist bureaucracy in the Soviet Union, and was eventually assassinated in Mexico by Ramón Mercader, a Soviet agent

Blue Haze

[hardy]

TRotsky was stabbed with an ice pick.
I agree -its suprising that the great Stephen Fry got the whip thing wrong . I saw that programme and thats why I looked it up. Its one of those "facts" that has recently been updated such as the Nile is not the longest river . I think thay discovered its the Amazon.

(quote Wickie)
Blue Haze is an album recorded in 1953 and 1954 by Miles Davis, for Prestige Records. The first track on the album is from the 3 April 1954 session which resulted in half of the album Walkin' (and was originally included on the 10" vinyl version of that album). The remainder is the result of two sessions on 19 May 1953 and 15 March 1954, the first being a quintet with John Lewis, Charles Mingus (on piano, not bass), Percy Heath and Max Roach, and the second a quartet with Horace Silver, Heath, and Art Blakey. Tracks 2 and 7 are wrongly credited as Davis compositions - they are both in fact by Eddie Vinson (see also Donna Lee for possible explanation of this). However, Vinson supposedly wrote these tunes for Davis, and this is probably how the confusion has occurred.



NEVER PROMISEDYOU A ROSE GARDEN

[Blue Haze]

"(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden" was the title of a song written by Joe South, that is best known as recorded by country legend Lynn Anderson. Her late 1970 release topped the U.S. country charts, reached #3 on the U.S. Billboard pop charts and remained the biggest selling recording by a female country artist until 1997. Anderson's recording sold over 16 million copies and has since become a country/pop music standard.

Man Hands

[hardy]

I've got a feeling that the song title "Never promised you-------" itself was a quote from something previous like a novel or biography.

[Winnie57]

Man Hands is a parody of the song "Badlands" by Bruce Springsteen and was written by Charlie Decker:

And excerpt from the parody is:

Man hands!
Yes you deal with them every day
But they're on your own wrists, and that makes it all OK
Among us men it's understood
That these man hands on women ain't good

Nicotine Gum

[Mouse]

Nicotine gum gives you the worst indigestion and in no way helps you to give up fags. Normal gum helped me much more.


Laxatives