Random fact of the day

[KEEF]

I still can't find what I'm looking for

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Sorry, I just have to say this:

Billy Connolly has the first stages of Parkinson's and has also undergone an operation to treat the early symptoms of prostate Cancer (and you can bet he'll be talking about the both of them in his usual way!).

Parkinson's? Poor guy!
That is all.

 

[Cycling Dan]

If you hold your breath for 10 minutes..... you die!

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Venice isn't sinking. It's subsiding.

 

[Tyke]

I still can't find what I'm looking for

You will find it in the last place you look for it

 

[Toshiba Boy]

The largest tidal reach in the world, at 11.7m is in the Bay of Fundy, Canada.

The tidal reach in the Bristol Channel can regularly reach 9m, as several holiday-makers on the beach by my house find out each year, just as the Coastguard is called again.

 

[hopless500]

Sorry, I just have to say this:

Billy Connolly has the first stages of Parkinson's and has also undergone an operation to treat the early symptoms of prostate Cancer (and you can bet he'll be talking about the both of them in his usual way!).

Parkinson's? Poor guy!
That is all.

Oh, what?????

 

[Archie_tect]

I'd be happy to go, having lived a life half as full as Billy's, but I wouldn't wish Parkinson's on my worst enemy... well... no, not even him.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Oh, what?????

With the right treatment I'm sure he'll have several years yet.
I've always liked him, I know a lot don't, but I do, and being from Glasgow and sometimes talking of places I know has that extra resonance with me. If I'd been about 20-40 years previously then he would have been local.....ish to me too.

 

[hopless500]

With the right treatment I'm sure he'll have several years yet.
I've always liked him, I know a lot don't, but I do, and being from Glasgow and sometimes talking of places I know has that extra resonance with me.

Had a quick look online, and it says that the surgery he had was successful . So hopefully that won't affect him from now. But Parkinson's - horrible. We have a friend with severe Parkinsons and watching her deteriorate is grim.
No doubt you're right and he'll have people laughing about his problems.....it's what he does....love him.

 

[classic33]

And good luck to it*, that's what I say!


* - We have to pray that it finds intelligent life somewhere out in space because there's bugger all down here on earth!

Maybe it has
A strange, unearthly “shriek” greeted NASA’s Voyager I spacecraft as it became the first man-made object to enter interstellar space.
"A strange rising “howl” was detected by instruments aboard the 36-year-old probe, which has travelled 12 billion miles away from our sun.
The sound was transmitted back to scientists on Earth, over a distance so vast radio waves take 17 hours to reach us. Science site iO9 described the sounds as “creepy” and “wraithlike”.
NASA announced this week that the tiny probe has now left the “solar bubble” - a historic moment which marks our species entry into interstellar space."
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2355612/pg1

 

[Archie_tect]

Maybe it has
A strange, unearthly “shriek” greeted NASA’s Voyager I spacecraft as it became the first man-made object to enter interstellar space.
"A strange rising “howl” was detected by instruments aboard the 36-year-old probe, which has travelled 12 billion miles away from our sun.
The sound was transmitted back to scientists on Earth, over a distance so vast radio waves take 17 hours to reach us. Science site iO9 described the sounds as “creepy” and “wraithlike”.
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2355612/pg1

Followed by an announcement that the Archers will follow the news.

 

[hopless500]

Maybe it has
A strange, unearthly “shriek” greeted NASA’s Voyager I spacecraft as it became the first man-made object to enter interstellar space.
"A strange rising “howl” was detected by instruments aboard the 36-year-old probe, which has travelled 12 billion miles away from our sun.
The sound was transmitted back to scientists on Earth, over a distance so vast radio waves take 17 hours to reach us. Science site iO9 described the sounds as “creepy” and “wraithlike”.
NASA announced this week that the tiny probe has now left the “solar bubble” - a historic moment which marks our species entry into interstellar space."
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2355612/pg1

 

[Hill Wimp]

The distance between your wrist and your elbow is the size of your foot.

**Cue lots of people resting their shoes on their arm.**

Actually i got down on the floor and measured my right arm against my left foot and i would say my foot is half a size smaller than the wrist elbow distance.

i can't believe i just did that, i must be so bored.

 

[hopless500]

Actually i got down on the floor and measured my right arm against my left foot and i would say my foot is half a size smaller than the wrist elbow distance.

i can't believe i just did that, i must be so bored.

I did it too, but I used a ruler - can't get my arm against my foot (just tried that as well)