Odd factoids

[david k]

I remember Lance C***strong the porn star.

Are you not getting mixed up with Lance Headstrong? He was an arrogant compulsive cheat and liar

 

[david k]

Toddington reservoir holds 1.3 millions tons of water. Scary stuff.

Bolderdash, it's 1.29993789 tons

It's your type of bull that ruins this thread

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Bolderdash is the correct term for the activity known popularly as streaking.

 

[Drago]

I days of old it was the custom for single men to run to church naked on a sunday, with only a rasher of streaky bacon protecting their modesty. Thus streaking was born.

 

[david k]

Bolderdash is the correct term for the activity known popularly as streaking.

Bolderdash is a unit of mass, anything over one tonne

You hear it all the time in builders merchants, "Ill have three and a half bolderdash of bolderdash and two bolderdash of grit sand please "

 

[raleighnut]

Bolderdash is the correct term for the activity known popularly as streaking.

Streaking was invented in 1982 by Erica Roe.

 

[classic33]

I days of old it was the custom for single men to run to church naked on a sunday, with only a rasher of streaky bacon protecting their modesty. Thus streaking was born.

And if they didn't bring home the bacon, they went hungry.

 

[Drago]

I days of old it was the custom for single men to run to church naked on a sunday, with only a rasher of streaky bacon protecting their modesty. Thus streaking was born.

And that is also how pigs in blankets was invented.

 

[classic33]

"BRINGING HOME THE BACON" GOES BACK CENTURIES.

These days the phrase refers to making money, but its origins have nothing to do with income. In 12th Century England, churches would award a "flitch," or a side, of bacon to any married man who swore before God that he and his wife had not argued for a year and a day. Men who "brought home the bacon" were seen as exemplary citizens and husbands.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Bacon was a common name for dinosaurs in the Jurrasic period. Hence cavemen would go out and bring the bacon home.

 

[david k]

Bacon was a common name for dinosaurs in the Jurrasic period. Hence cavemen would go out and bring the bacon home.

The baconsorous was a mighty beast

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The eggosaurus was mostly a plant eater and not to be confused with the egosaurus which mostly put the other dinosaurs down.

 

[NorthernDave]

In response to the early 80s success of the Vauxhall Cavalier, Ford originally intended to call their new mid-sized hatchback the Ford Roundhead.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Smart cars are made from the offcuts of Mercedes S class production.

 

[Dave7]

"BRINGING HOME THE BACON" GOES BACK CENTURIES.

These days the phrase refers to making money, but its origins have nothing to do with income. In 12th Century England, churches would award a "flitch," or a side, of bacon to any married man who swore before God that he and his wife had not argued for a year and a day. Men who "brought home the bacon" were seen as exemplary citizens and husbands.

In that case I may have won a pigs trotters.
Of course, I may not.