useless facts? post them here......

[Mr X]

Talking of '!?': for a short time there was a key put on typewriters that combined the exclamation mark and the question mark. Having just researched it, I've found it is known as the 'interrobang' (unless wikipedia is lying again!) It looks like this (it works on my computer anyway!): ‽. In Spanish, they have a character known as a gnaborretni (read it backwards!), because in Spanish they place an inverted punctuation mark before the sentence. Therefore a gnaborretni is an upside-down interrobang

 

[basil]

By law: London Hackney Carriages (taxis/cabs) must carry a bale of hay and a sack of oats

To where?.......

 

[John Marwood]

Everywhere........

15% of Grand Prix drivers in 2009 were called Sebastian

 

[basil]

It's nearly 7 o'clock and in stafford the taxis wunna go south of the river after 7.........

 

[John Marwood]

Nobody has ever found a Lithuanian penguin across the border in Estonia

 

[Mr X]

There are 72 errors in Encyclopedia Britannica which have been corrected on Wikipedia.

A study in 2005 found that the average number of mistakes per article is 2.92 for Britannica and 3.86 for Wikipedia, meaning that Wikipedia is only slightly less reliable than a 'proper' encyclopedia. Britannica also requires a subscription charge online.

 

[John Marwood]

Source?

 

[John Marwood]

Space smells like a fat biker's arse

 

[Mr X]

Source?

Wikipedia!!

The list of corrections was from Wikipedia, but the study was conducted by the journal 'Nature' (I found it through CNET via a Google search).

 

[Slainte]

Tetley's Yorkshire bitter will be brewed in


Wolverhampton

I read about this yesterday, will it have to be changed from Yorkshire bitter now to just Tetleys Bitter?

 

[Gramaisc]

Tetley's Yorkshire bitter will be brewed in


Wolverhampton

I read about this yesterday, will it have to be changed from Yorkshire bitter now to just Tetleys Bitter?

I believe that Yorkshire Tea is not actually grown there either..

 

[zakkwylde87]

There is no such thing as black ink, it is always another colour, but very very dark

Is that really true?

 

[basil]

words next to each other in the dictionary but not linked in meaning, ie heath and heathen, gaunt and gauntlet, blight and blighter, pinnace and pinnacle.......

 

[Gramaisc]

Wàn Wéi Wǎng

Wàn Wéi Wǎng = 万维网 = ten-thousand dimensional net.

And this Forum came up second on the search!..

 

[age'd parent]

Written in 1768, in the very first edition of Encyclopedia Britannica, Homo sapiens were sub divided into five varieties: the American, the European, the Asiatic, the African and the monstrous.

 

[John Marwood]

There is no such thing as black ink, it is always another colour, but very very dark

Is that really true?

So I am lead to believe

 

[John Marwood]

Wàn Wéi Wǎng

Wàn Wéi Wǎng = 万维网 = ten-thousand dimensional net.

And this Forum came up second on the search!..

The power of the Forum eh..

But then again Google searches locally now dunna rit?

 

[Gramaisc]

Wàn Wéi Wǎng

Wàn Wéi Wǎng = 万维网 = ten-thousand dimensional net.

And this Forum came up second on the search!..

The power of the Forum eh..

But then again Google searches locally now dunna rit?

They do keep asking me for my location, but I am not aware of telling them. And I am still allowed to watch RTÉPlayer, and so I presume that I have some sort of ambiguous location..

 

[John Marwood]

Poodle Clipping was once an Olympic Event

 

[ToriRat]

The ancient Incan and Mayan religions can accurately predict events to occur hundreds of years in the future....It tru it is we all gone die in 2012 !!11!!