Accrington Claim to fame - Page 5

Tealeaf · 07-10-2003, 13:39

Oh dear....so he's not as nice as he looks then.....he always used to come across as a decent bloke...who's Emly Huges? What's she do?

Jo · 07-10-2003, 13:50

Sorry meant Emlyn Hughes the football player - it's a typing error! He was Bill's opponent on a Question of Sport - did you never watch it?

Tealeaf · 07-10-2003, 14:03

Only rarely.....I prefer to stick my head into the pages of a good book rather than watch telly...and I'm not that much into sport anyway. I won't be watching the England - Turkey game this saturday, thats for sure...

Jo · 07-10-2003, 14:38

Well that put an end to that!

Mik Dickinson · 08-10-2003, 17:20

[quote author=Tealeaf link=board=qanda;num=1064939674;start=0#49 date=10/06/03 at 13:52:06]Re: Gatty

Somewhat ironic, is it not, that Gatty - the guy who developed the Khaki dye - the standard colour of the British Army battledress - was a German

Apparently the guy who developed cats eyes for the roads was German and his stipulation on the patent was that they are not allowed to be used in that country

Tealeaf · 09-10-2003, 16:41

Hey Mik,
I thought the guy who developed Cats Eyes in the 1930's was called Percy Shaw and came from somewhere in Derbyshire.....died about 10 years back...went completely wacko with his royalties, never left his house and used to sit around watching 3 different telly's at the same time....

German, eh......and did Messersmidt invent the jet engine before Whittle? I think it all depends where you love...

I see us Brits got a share in this  years Nobel in Medicine & in Physics. No Germans, though. Shame that...

Tealeaf · 09-10-2003, 16:42

Re: above...
Love s/b live......or possibly not

Jo · 10-10-2003, 08:59

Freudian slip there Tealeaf, have love on your subconscience do ya?
Believe Freud was German come to think of it, too.....  

Tealeaf · 10-10-2003, 09:05

Austrian - but is there a difference?

Jo · 10-10-2003, 09:24

Thought he might have been.
Is there a difference between Brits adn Americans? If so teh same applies to Germans and Austrians..... !! ;D
(ps Austrians are more laid back and have a better sense of humour than Germans)

Tealeaf · 10-10-2003, 10:36

The Germans speak the same language as the Austrians, unlike the British & the Americans......

Jo · 10-10-2003, 11:07

Not true.  

more words differ between "hoch deutsch", which is spoken in Germany, predominantly in the North, and "Österreicherisch" spoken in Austrian than between English and America.
Example:
Gibst Du mir bitte zwei Eier, um einen Pfannenkuchen zu kochen?
Gibst mir zwo coccele, um ein omlett zu bocken?

Can I have two eggs to make a pancake please?
Think it would be the same in US English, big diff though in German and Austrian. ;D

Tealeaf · 10-10-2003, 11:20

I'll remember that in World War III

kestrelx · 11-10-2003, 15:36

What about Steve Pinder ex of Brookside? And some other geezer who is in Emmerdale? THen there is ... Harrison Birtwistle.

http://www.braunarts.com/birtwistle/

P.S. wasn't Jon Anderson called the singing milkman?

Mik Dickinson · 12-10-2003, 18:41

[quote author=Tealeaf link=board=qanda;num=1064939674;start=40#65 date=10/09/03 at 17:41:15]Hey Mik,

......and did Messersmidt invent the jet engine before Whittle?
Would not know about that i thought he was called
Messerschmidt witch translates as knife smith, just another piece of useless info.