o/t Your Favourite Random Fact

[Maths]

The actor who played Herr Flick in Allo Allo was a choirboy at Winston Churchill's funeral

 

[1966_and_all_that]

There is no proper name for the back of the knees.

 

[Happychap]

Avengers character Emma Peel, was named after producers stated the character should have man appeal. (m appeal).

 

[TangerinePeel]

This one is definitely my favourite:

Blackpool FC are the most successful team in play-off history (5 promotions)

Preston North End are the least successful team in play-off history (9 unsuccessful attempts)

 

[Wizaard]

The plastic bit on the end of a shoelace is an aglet.

 

[Bottle]

In 2020 we are only 49* years till the Summer of ‘69 but the Summer of ‘69 Bryan Adams sang about was 51** years ago.

* May^ decrease over time
** May^^ increase over time

^ dependent upon large planet busting meteorites
^^ may reduce on discovery of time travel

 

[Jimmy Jazz]

The gimp from Pulp Fiction was from Fleetwood.

 

[Johnno]

There is no proper name for the back of the knees.

I hate to do this, but it’s called the Popliteal Fossa.

 

[Wizaard]

The gimp from Pulp Fiction was from Fleetwood.

That's no way to talk about Jaffa

 

[Wizaard]

A chef's hat has one hundred pleats.

 

[Wizaard]

An orange is not a naturally occurring fruit. It's a hybrid of a tangerine and a pomelo.

 

[Whitstabletangerine]

Blackpool f c played a match in Los Angeles and won 13-2 against an All Stars team.

 

[southshore]

Lunatic asylums were often hidden from public view, with a curved driveway from the road. Hence when you visited one you went 'round the bend'.

 

[1966_and_all_that]

I hate to do this, but it’s called the Popliteal Fossa.

Not according to Vivian Stanshall it isn't.

 

[FY16JJ]

You can't hum if you hold your nose.

 

[FlytoKavala]

In Greece,your name day is more important than your birthday.

 

[BobHatton]

Your bodily cells (including your skin) are completely replaced every 7-10 years..

 

[FlytoKavala]

I got my first BJ in Stanley Park oval.

 

[BobHatton]

I got my first BJ in Stanley Park oval.

No it wasn't! We were under the South Pier!

 

[Davepick]

Blackpool Tower is 518 feet 9 inches to the top of the flagpole.
That is, unless they use a longer/shorter flagpole these days.

 

[Davepick]

I got my first BJ in Stanley Park oval.

Weren't you a little conspicuous there?

 

[Johnno]

No it wasn't! We were under the South Pier!

 

[FlytoKavala]

I got my first BJ in Stanley Park oval.

Forgot to mention that i've been married 45yrs and not had one since.

 

[FlytoKavala]

Weren't you a little conspicuous there?

Very discreet at the top of the grandstand.

 

[Davepick]

At Luton Airport once, the guys were having a 'discussion' and someone mentioned 'blow jobs'.
A young female Assistant Officer, who shouldn't have been listening, said 'What's a blow job?'
Of course we all cracked up.

 

[Wizaard]

You can't hum if you hold your nose.

Who hasn't tried that?

 

[braymarina]

A group of goldfinches is called a charm

 

[Wizaard]

A group of goldfinches is called a charm

As we speak, there's about a dozen eating sunflower seeds from a feeder outside my window.

 

[FlytoKavala]

I was taking a piss in a service station and stood at the trough next to me was Eric Bristow.

 

[Wizaard]

I was taking a piss in a service station and stood at the trough next to me was Eric Bristow.

On a similar note, at last year's British Masters at Hillside, I was having a piss in the clubhouse toilets next to Lee Westwood.

 

[braymarina]

Close the window Wiz, don't let them in.

 

[Johnno]

I’ve had a pee from the top of one of Deepdale’s floodlights.

 

[Trimm-Trab]

E.T. Never actually said “E.T. Phone home”

 

[RossendaleSeasider]

I got my first BJ in Stanley Park oval.

What was the blokes name?

 

[FlytoKavala]

What was the blokes name?

Everard Farquaharson

 

[SirHarryThomson]

Nobody knows where eels come from or how they reproduce

 

[Robbosa]

The gimp from Pulp Fiction was from Fleetwood.

 

[Robbosa]

I was taking a piss in a service station and stood at the trough next to me was Eric Bristow.

I was taking a piss in the cinema & Graham Gooch was pissing next to me

 

[FlytoKavala]

I was taking a piss in the cinema & Graham Gooch was pissing next to me

Did you get thrown out ?

 

[CGP1]

Here's a cheery one.

If the estimated deaths v total population percentage at England's biggest ever battle - Towton - were applied to today's population, then the deaths would number around 600,000.

 

[Scaramanga]

The plastic bit on the end of a shoelace is an aglet.

Thought it was a flugelbinder ? Or was that just from a film I watched

 

[seasideone]

I got my first BJ in Stanley Park oval.

How much did you pay him?

 

[seasideone]

You can't hum if you hold your nose.

Yep - just tried and failed

 

[Wizaard]

A chef's hat has one hundred pleats.

Apparently to reference the fact that's how many ways you can cook an egg.

 

[FlytoKavala]

How much did you pay him?

Told him i would pay him later.How he swallowed that one,i don't know.

 

[Dave62]

A sneeze can travel at speeds up to 102 MPH
That's nearly half the speed at which the Ormerod money disappeared in 2001

 

[Sooty59]

At Luton Airport once, the guys were having a 'discussion' and someone mentioned 'blow jobs'.
A young female Assistant Officer, who shouldn't have been listening, said 'What's a blow job?'
Of course we all cracked up.

I remember a school friends dad who obviously didn’t know what a BJ was & had us in stitches when he described it as a blow out, he was talking about what some women where he worked had been saying.

 

[Towerpower99]

You can in fact fold paper in half 12 times.....not 7 as previously thought maximum....some bright girl in America went all wizardly and done it.

 

[TangerineSeasider]

Ronald McDonald is “Donald McDonald” in Japan because it makes pronunciation easier for the Japanese. ​

 

[Archibald Knox]

60 tonnes of cosmic dust falls to Earth every day.