Odd factoids

[classic33]

Monday is the best day to buy a car

Believe it or not, there are positive things about Monday. For instance, when you're going to shop for a new car, do it on a Monday. Car salespeople make the bulk of their sales on the weekends. When Monday rolls around, there are usually few customers in sight, and the weekend is a long way off. That's why car salespeople are more desperate on Monday, and they'll be more willing to cut you a deal.

 

[Drago]

The day Monday was invented by Bob Geldof, solely so the Boomtlwn Rats could sing a song about it.

 

[Dave7]

The day Monday was invented by Bob Geldof, solely so the Boomtlwn Rats could sing a song about it.

Personally speaking, I dont like Mondays.

 

[bruce1530]

Nobody ever liked mondays, and people have always complained about them.

They were originally called “Moan Days”; the modern spelling was introduced by Queen Victoria. She was practically illiterate,but her courtiers regularly changed the official spelling of words to hide her poor spelling.

 

[Dave7]

The first bicycles to be made had square wheels. This made the difficult to ride and a tad uncomfortable, so padded shorts were invented to combat the problem.
Someone then tried octagonal wheels which, as you can imagine, made things much easier.
It was 60 years later that a distant relative of sir Walter Raleigh started producing bikes and he tried round wheels which everyone liked and this shaped wheel is still prefered by most cyclists today.

 

[Drago]

Another motivation behind the development of round wheels was the desire to avoid the "Corner Tax" which was imposed by the conservative government of Nikita Kruschev in 1805. Every 90% angle produced anywhere had an annual tax payable, and round wheels neatly avoided this. This worked out very nicely, as the only available bicycle tyres were round anyway.

 

[Threevok]

Liam Neeson is rubbish at Guess Who?

 

[Drago]

Liam Neeson invented racism in 1939. Back then he was a little bit shorter, and sported a natty toothbrush moustache.

 

[classic33]

Tuesday is named after Tiw, the Norse god of single combat, victory and glory, and Tiw is associated with Mars, the Roman god of war, hence the day being known as 'Mardi' in French, 'Martes' in Spanish and 'Martedi' in Italian. Tuesday is considered to be an unlucky day in the Greek and Spanish-speaking worlds.

 

[Drago]

Thursday, or Thorsday, is not, as is often presumed, named after the God Thor. Thursday did not exist until it was created in honour of the heavy metal singer Thor in 1979.

 

[Dave7]

Friday did not exist until some Pope decided that all catholics must eat fish one day each week. He chose a particular day and as everybody prefered a fried fish from the local chippy he named it Fry-day........later it became better known as Friday.

 

[Drago]

Monday was invented in the North East of england. On the first day of every week the locals would greet one another, "Way-aye mon!" Mon day quickly became abbreviated to Monday.

 

[raleighnut]

Not at all, they love an 'English'

View: https://youtu.be/huSP7PtctC4

 

[Threevok]

View: https://youtu.be/huSP7PtctC4

I loved that show. My favourite sketch was this one though

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNt63Pj2qV4

 

[raleighnut]

I loved that show. My favourite sketch was this one though

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNt63Pj2qV4

Nah this has to be the best,

View: https://youtu.be/z6h0lkq-Sno?list=PLO0ECaYdRuu1rWo22A_GfrTbUEVeI72DU