Odd factoids

[twentysix by twentyfive]

The Irish for Blackpool is Dublin

(Oh wait - wrong thread )

Dublin is attempting to build its own tower

(Swift recovery )

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Contrary to popular belief, we actually get taller as we get older.

You can test this theory by bending at the waste and trying to touch your toes, and you will notice that the floor has got further away.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Bending at the waste pipe is not recommended for the over 40s

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Over Forties was the shipping area located between Forties and Dogger.

Hence "Over Forties can end up getting off with a Dogger"

 

[Drago]

Blackpool was originally founded by the white slave trader, Cecil Pool. BLM wanted the name changed and got the white turned to black, before Tommy "the tit" Robinson blocked the changing of the second half in the high court and it remains Black Pool, or Blackpool, to this day. Strangely, nearby Kukluxklanpool has remained unnoticed and untroubled to this day.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Blackpool pleasure beach is mis described under the trades description act. There is no sand!

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Liverpool was founded on the site of an abbatoir, but as scousers hate offal, the livers were discarded into a local pond.

The innumberable flies swarming on the rotting flesh attracted much insectivorous bird life, and the local swallows grew to huge dimensions as a result, now immortalised in statue form as "Liver Birds"

 

[Drago]

Nerys Hughes was in fact a chap, Nerys being the welsh equivalent of Neville.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Nerys Huge was the world's tallest and widest woman, with a circumference of 14 feet.

 

[PeteXXX]

Sir Cumference was the first Knight to recommend the use of a round table.

He got so round by eating, not sliced, but, pie squared..

 

[roubaixtuesday]

The role of pirates in mathematics is underappreciated. For instance, Blackbeard first elucidated the formula for the circumference of a large round dish:

"Two pie, arrrrrrr."

The formula for the area of a circle comes from a piratical threat to slice off the buttocks of an obese enemy, leaving just an exposed circular area of bloodied flesh:

"I'll have your Pie arse kwaired"

 

[Threevok]

Pirates are not allowed to become hairdressers, if they fail their patch test

 

[PeteXXX]

Pirates is the Japanese version of Pilates.

 

[Threevok]

Pilates is Dyslexic crockery

 

[Drago]

People used to slop thsir food straight on the table and eat it. When the plate was invented by Cliff Richard in 1992, the new fangled invention was described as "a crock of sheet", and it quickly became known as crockery.