Odd factoids

[Chris S]

In certain areas of our inner cities dried poo sells for more than cocaine

I assume you were trying to buy cannabis from a dodgy dealer?

 

[classic33]

Although in certain up market circles it is rocking horse poo that commands the highest prices among posh junkies.

Used to sell that at work!

 

[Seevio]

Mountains grow so large because they have no natural predators.

 

[Drago]

The Labour party wants to legislate all predators out of existence.

 

[classic33]

The highest wind speed, recorded in the UK, is 194 mph. Recorded at Cairn Gorm on 19 December 2008.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

The Met Office has not as yet held an anemometer to my dog's rear end in the evenings.

 

[Drago]

The staff of the Met Office have never met in an office. They all work from the car park.

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

Has anyone noticed how the weather forecast now changes by the hour? It seems they give out predictions just before the weather hits, so they can say they are always on target.
Long range forecasts - more than 24 hours in advance - are now not worth bothering with.

 

[raleighnut]

Has anyone noticed how the weather forecast now changes by the hour? It seems they give out predictions just before the weather hits, so they can say they are always on target.
Long range forecasts - more than 24 hours in advance - are now not worth bothering with.

That's due to very few British ships at Sea these days.

 

[Drago]

The sea was invented by the ancient Egyptians, who were getting a bit fed up with dessert everywhere. They built a wall from Morocco to Gibraltar by stacking old cars atop one another than then giving it a skim of concrete made from dodo eggs and myrrh. After a few years sufficient waters of the Amazon accumulated there to form the Indian ocean.

 

[raleighnut]

The sea was invented by the ancient Egyptians, who were getting a bit fed up with dessert everywhere. They built a wall from Morocco to Gibraltar by stacking old cars atop one another than then giving it a skim of concrete made from dodo eggs and myrrh. After a few years sufficient waters of the Amazon accumulated there to form the Indian ocean.

Then they renamed it the Med cos it was in the middle.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Ancient Dhows were in fact made from bread and butter puddings with sails attached that were found to float when the dessert was flooded.

 

[raleighnut]

Ancient Dhows were in fact made from bread and butter puddings with sails attached that were found to float when the dessert was flooded.

Whereas Batter Puddings were used as weapons,

View: https://youtu.be/_bVHNF7sDds

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

The biggest batter pudding ever made was filled with onion gravy and a show was soaked across it.

 

[Drago]

Batter took its name as when it was solidified it was an excellent material from which to whittle police truncheons.

Gravy is nothing more than a form of low fat Bovril.