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You step into a boat and onto a ship...

As I told Chris Evans on his Radio 2 breakfast show a few years ago when he asked what the difference was between a boat and a ship.
 
Blackpool the first place to
Get street lighting on the prom, folk would
Come from All over to look and the illuminations were born
 
Those little cardboard thingies they put around your cup of coffee so you can hold it safely ,they call it a cup-sleeve, but actually it is called a zarf. Derives from Arabic.
 
Kangaroos can have a youngster, a juvenile in the pouch and a viable embryo ready to develop. One in, one out and one waiting.
 
It takes 8 minutes 20 seconds for light to travel from the sun to the Earth.

So it could have blown up 8 minutes ago leading to the destruction our planet. No one will be allowed in football stadiums after that. 😄
 
Towerpower99 said:
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.
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WOW

gizmodo.com

If you fold a paper in half 103 times it'll get as thick as the Universe

The myth: You can't fold a paper in half more than eight times.* The reality: Given a paper large enough—and enough energy—you can fold it as many times as you want. The problem: If you fold it 103 times, the thickness of your paper will be larger than the observable Universe: 93 billion...
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Can't believe I've missed this thread till now....
  1. Blackpool Central train station was once the busiest station in the world.
  2. The phrase never look a gift horse in the mouth comes from judging the age of a horse from the length of it's teeth and therefor its value, so it's rude to check the value of a gift (checking the length of a gift horses teeth). This is also where long in the tooth comes from.
  3. The phrase taking a "long shot" comes from old naval canons being inaccurate... taking a risk/ long shot with that kind of canon.
 
Bomber (London) taxis were designed with their amazing turning circle, to be able to get round the tight roundabout outside the entrance to the Savoy in London. Other vehicles couldn’t manage it.
The road that ends in that roundabout is the only public road in England that is driven on on the right hand side, so the driver gets out onto pavement.

I think.
 
Further to that, I read somewhere that the phrase parting shot is derived from Parthian Shot.

An army that kicked the Romans hard at the battle of Carrhae, with very skilled archers mounted on fast ponies. Charged into range, shot on the move and off again before the Romans, in formation, could do anything about it. Kept it up for ages, killed thousands.
 
A couple to try...

If you put your arms out wide, you're height is the same measurement

Your foot is the same size as the measurement between elbow and wrist (on the inside of your arm)

Might be a load of crap but I can see you all trying both now and getting the tape measure out!!😀
 
GTFsTwinBrother said:
Can't believe I've missed this thread till now....
  1. Blackpool Central train station was once the busiest station in the world.
  2. The phrase never look a gift horse in the mouth comes from judging the age of a horse from the length of it's teeth and therefor its value, so it's rude to check the value of a gift (checking the length of a gift horses teeth). This is also where long in the tooth comes from.
  3. The phrase taking a "long shot" comes from old naval canons being inaccurate... taking a risk/ long shot with that kind of canon.
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Another Central station fact. It is the biggest ever to close in this country (in terms of number of platforms - 14 )
 
All people of European heritage can trace their lineage back to Charlemagne.

(well statistically anyone alive at that time but it’s cooler to say Chalremagne)
 
Lord Nelson perfected the art of shooting cannon balls so they bounced off the sea before hitting their target. Usually French vessels. Perhaps they were the French Buster's, not the dambusters.☠️
 
When WW2 broke out the football league was suspended not scrapped and Blackpool fc we're top of the league so therefore Blackpool have been top for the longest ( getting on for 5 years ) bet that record may never get broken. UTMP
 
Dave62 said:
A sneeze can travel at speeds up to 102 MPH
That's nearly half the speed at which the Ormerod money disappeared in 2001
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Dave62 said:
A sneeze can travel at speeds up to 102 MPH
That's nearly half the speed at which the Ormerod money disappeared in 2001
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Bluecabinboy said:
Elephants are the only mammals that have four knees, yet can’t jump.
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My wife must be an elephant because i can't get a jump out of her. 😕
 
There are only 4 racecourses that don't contain a letter from the word "races".
Goodwood
Huntingdon
Ludlow
Plumpton.
ps Does anyone know where B'pool racecourse was sited before it closed in 1915 ?
 
I wrote the software the operates Liverpool FC scoreboard in 2005.
There was a stadium tour while I was testing the system so set the score scrolling at Liverpool 0 Blackpool 3.
Thinking to my self 'as if'. Then 5 years later ...
 
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