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Old 25-01-2010, 11:21   #16
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Todays QI fact of the day ...

Wild boars can be repelled by playing Britney Spears's song "Oops!...I did it again" at them.


No wonder they can be repelled .. think the deaf are the only ones who can listen to that ...
I always watch Britney Spears with the sound turned off
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Old 25-01-2010, 20:07   #17
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like you'd know
I think Flashy, he's attempting your Einstein quote


"Imagination is more important than knowledge" seems to equate
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Old 25-01-2010, 20:28   #18
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The expression "Robbing Peter to pay Paul" comes from a time when land belonging to Westminster Abbey (dedicated to St.Peter) was sold to raise money for repairs to St.Pauls Cathedral.


Taken from "A Miscellany of Britain" by Tom O'Meara
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Old 25-01-2010, 22:30   #19
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The expression "Robbing Peter to pay Paul" comes from a time when land belonging to Westminster Abbey (dedicated to St.Peter) was sold to raise money for repairs to St.Pauls Cathedral.


Taken from "A Miscellany of Britain" by Tom O'Meara
Not sure you are correct Dave... I thought it was robbing the Peter (Gas Meter) to pay Paul (the bloke who owned the off licence round the corner).
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Not sure you are correct Dave... I thought it was robbing the Peter (Gas Meter) to pay Paul (the bloke who owned the off licence round the corner).
thats what i always said, but then gas meters weren't around way back, so i'll give him that.
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Old 26-01-2010, 20:53   #21
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Not sure you are correct Dave... I thought it was robbing the Peter (Gas Meter) to pay Paul (the bloke who owned the off licence round the corner).
OK Mancie I'll allow some deviance on the ins & outs, it's probably a regional thing I would imagine. or a modern day equivalent
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Another one from the bbc ..

Top hats have been fashionable for almost 200 years, but when the first one was worn in 1797 by James Heatherington, he was immediately arrested and fined 50 pounds for behaving in a manner 'calculated to frighten timid people'.


When was the last time you saw someone wearing a top hat .. besides at a wedding ..
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When was the last time you saw someone wearing a top hat .. besides at a wedding ..
does the guy on the monopoly board count ?
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Another one from the bbc ..

Top hats have been fashionable for almost 200 years, but when the first one was worn in 1797 by James Heatherington, he was immediately arrested and fined 50 pounds for behaving in a manner 'calculated to frighten timid people'.


When was the last time you saw someone wearing a top hat .. besides at a wedding ..
Quite often over here (Germany) the chimney sweeps do, well some of them, usually the old boys "Masters in their craft" sort of thing wear them as a tradition
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Today's quote "A broad definition of crime in England is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper classes" Anthony Jay
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todays on the bbc website:

25% of the world's sheep are fat-tailed.

There are in Arabia two kinds of sheep worthy of admiration, the like of which are nowhere else to be seen. One kind has long tails no less than four and a half feet long which, if they were allowed to trail along the ground, would be bruised and develop sores. As it is, the shepherds have enough skill in carpentry to make little carts for their sheep's tail. The carts are placed under the tails, each sheep having one to himself. HERODOTUS


so who gets close enough to the sheep to decide if theyre fat tailed .. and how ..
i can see this going to the over 18s ..
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i can see this going to the over 18s ..
It's easier to just slap you and remove it
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you wouldnt and as its on the bbc website .. how can you say that its not suitable for aw ... especially as its in anything goes ..
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you wouldnt and as its on the bbc website .. how can you say that its not suitable for aw ... especially as its in anything goes ..
you said you were waiting for it to move to over 18's lol not me
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so who gets close enough to the sheep to decide if theyre fat tailed .. and how ..
i can see this going to the over 18s ..

I believe that'd be the Welsh then !!

Guess that's another group I've upset then !!
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