Odd factoids

[Drago]

Amsterdam is named for an event in the city's past. Previously it had been known as Clogtown, until one day the dyke that protects the city from the Indian Ocean sprang a leak. In a panic one of the residents plugged the leak with his pet hamster, and all was saved. The town then became known as hamster-dam, and over time became Amsterdam.

 

[Threevok]

Amsterdam is named for an event in the city's past. Previously it had been known as Clogtown, until one day the dyke that protects the city from the Indian Ocean sprang a leak. In a panic one of the residents plugged the leak with his pet hamster, and all was saved. The town then became known as hamster-dam, and over time became Amsterdam.

The remains of this heroic hamster can still be seen at a local museum, although only his mouth parts survived

Hence the song "Two Lips from Hamster Dam"

 

[Ming the Merciless]

New York is on the site of a Roman fort at the eastern end of the New Hadrian's Wall

 

[Kempstonian]

My grandma (on my mother's side) didn't have 61 first cousins. She had 53. The other eight were in fact her brothers & sisters!

Ooops! Schoolboy error on the counting up...

 

[Bonefish Blues]

The remains of this heroic hamster can still be seen at a local museum, although only his mouth parts survived

Hence the song "Two Lips from Hamster Dam"

I'm afraid that said rodent was inserted backwards, so they aren't mouth parts. He seemed very scared, based on examination of the evidence.

 

[colly]

The rats at the bottom of my garden are taking the pi55.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Joseph Stalin put an assassination order out on John Wayne. This was in response to a message from traveller from the future. Unfortunately the message got garbled in the worm hole and should have said Ronald Reagan is the future president of USA.

 

[classic33]

The rats at the bottom of my garden are taking the pi55.

Where to?

 

[Drago]

Josef Stalin is in fact how John Wayne is pronounced in Russian.

 

[classic33]

John Waynes nickname, The Duke, was got from his Airedale Terrier.

Unfortunatly the head of Fox Studios was a fan of Revolutionary WarGeneral Anthony Wayne, so Morrison’s surname was quickly settled.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Josef Stalin is in fact how John Wayne is pronounced in Russian.

But since it is pronounced backwards it is Nilats Fesoj.

 

[Drago]

John Wayne was in fact only 5'1" tall. He's made to appear a big chap by standing much closer to the camera than the other actors.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

John Wayne was in fact only 5'1" tall. He's made to appear a big chap by standing much closer to the camera than the other actors.

That's also why you never see him in focus.

 

[classic33]

One mickey is the smallest resolvable unit of distance by a given computer mouse pointing device. It is named after Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon character. Mouse motion is reported in horizontal and vertical mickeys. Device sensitivity is usually specified in mickeys per inch. Typical resolution is 500 mickeys per inch (16 mickeys per mm), but resolutions up to 16,000 mickeys per inch are available.

 

[Drago]

Walt Disney, famous anti semite, ensured that Mickey Mouse had a toothbrush moustache during the war years. Following the war these frames were edited.