Random stuff you've learned.

[classic33]

[QUOTE 3970873, member: 259"]Baile Átha Cliath (I had to check the spelling!)[/QUOTE]
Meaning?

 

[Padraig]

The town of the hurdle ford. The original bridge across the Liffey. Dublin is derived from dubh linn, or dark pool.

 

[classic33]

The town of the hurdle ford. The original bridge across the Liffey. Dublin is derived from dubh linn, or dark pool.

Which is the Norse(Viking) name.

 

[machew]

Take it from someone who lived in France for some years, and has a diploma in French from Bordeaux University, that there is a word for seventy in the French language, also for eighty and ninety.
Clue: France isn't the only country where French is an official language.

http://www.academie-francaise.fr/la..._strong-em-septante-octante-nonante-em-strong

 

[biggs682]

When you find out what raisins are it's going to blow your mind

I think I found some raisins growing up on the great orme !

 

[Tanis8472]

Alsatians are the only dog that can do the backstroke.

and the proper name is German Shepherd

 

[Hover Fly]

Academie français or some English bloke on youtube, who can a body trust?

 

[TheDoctor]

Septante might be a number in French, but it's not a French number!
Just a little further north...

 

[srw]

Septante might be a number in French, but it's not a French number!
Just a little further north...

The first time I heard the word I was in France - watching Les mots et les chiffres - the French-language version of Countdown.

 

[winjim]

Dogs align themselves along the Earth's north-south magnetic axis in order to defecate.

 

[PaulB]

Spangles are no longer available as they were banned due to containing increasingly high levels of LSD.

 

[vernon]

Spangles are no longer available as they were banned due to containing increasingly high levels of LSD.

An erroneous assertion based on this advert?

 

[vernon]

Spangles are no longer available as they were banned due to containing increasingly high levels of LSD.

This Spangles advertising campaign wouldn't be allowed leave the advertising agency if the brand was revived on the back of a nostalgia wave.

 

[Profpointy]

80% of.people in China don't actually eat Chinese food

 

[vernon]

[QUOTE 3972178, member: 259"]Isn't that one of those trick questions that depend on how you define a river and how you define a capital?[/QUOTE]

I reckon so. Andorra la Vella is around 450m higher than Madrid.