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

[theflamingred]

Useless fact:

The dot over the letter “i†is called a tittle.

People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

 

[gota quid]

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

goldfishes can not get pregnant can they? i thought they laid eggs and the male unloaded on them

 

[tek-monkey]

Well, OK then, a goldfish that is about to lay (gravid?).

 

[Jheych]

I have no new messages

sniff

actually it's cool..I have no inclination to answer any that I might have got

 

[theflamingred]

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

goldfishes can not get pregnant can they? i thought they laid eggs and the male unloaded on them

No idea - just pulled these off of some random page after Googling. They are probably a load of codswallop

Although, if the twit this is correct, I'd go with the 'full of eggs' option.

 

[db]

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

goldfishes can not get pregnant can they? i thought they laid eggs and the male unloaded on them

No idea - just pulled these off of some random page after Googling. They are probably a load of codswallop

Although, if the twit this is correct, I'd go with the 'full of eggs' option.

see, i always used to hear this as well when i was young (primary school age), although sometimes the word was credited as "twat" (oh, the naïveté!).. however, i can't find anything on this 'ere intarweb to support it, so i think we've all been had

 

[db]

back when i were a lad, those special days when you were allowed to wear your casual clothes to school were called "non-school-uniform day".. a mouthful, i think you'll agree - but one that made sense..

well, kids these days apparently call it "mufti day".. a long time ago, i asked my sister (lord and master of 3 kids) why this was, and she told me it was to do with some charity by the name of "MUFTI" which received the money raised by the school.. i just assumed she was correct, and haven't really thought about it since..

well, it turns out this is hogwash! someone at work just asked me why i dress more casual on a friday than i do the rest of the week, and i told them i had nominated fridays as "mufti day".. I, being me and insisting on knowing everything about everything, then googled "mufti day" so i could show her what i was on about..

Mufti, or civies/civvies (short for "civilian attire"), refers to ordinary clothes, especially when worn by one who normally wears, or has long worn, a military or other uniform.

Mufti Day (also known as Casual Clothes Day, Own Clothes Day, Plain Clothes Day, Non-uniform Day, Free Dress Day, Civvies Day, or Dress Down Day) is a day where schools allow the students and staff to come to school in normal clothing (instead of uniform). In return, students are usually required to pay a small fee. The proceeds go to fundraising efforts in which the school is currently involved. This is found in many countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and China. It is also occasionally found in business environments.

well i never! you learn a new thing every day.. which i guess was the point of this thread, hence me resurrecting it

 

[cookie_monster]

back when i were a lad, those special days when you were allowed to wear your casual clothes to school were called "non-school-uniform day".. a mouthful, i think you'll agree - but one that made sense...

we called mufti days at leasowes.

but then you oakridge lot did have the crappy brown and blue uniform, so really the point wasnt about what the day was called....just that you didnt have to wear it.


x

 

[wildwood]

I'd never heard it called mufti at Barnfields at all (some 17-18 years ago when I left).... as dirtybobby said it was mearly called.. "nonschooluniformday"

I'd only heard of mufti probably in the last 5 years when talking to work colleagues about their kids "nonschooluniformday"s.

 

[MISS T]

I always knew it as Mufti, I'm going back to the days when you needed ink cartridges and blotting paper from PK Stationary.

 

[db]

back to the days when you needed ink cartridges and blotting paper from PK Stationary.

woah, i've just entered a time warp.. those were great days.. there was nothing quite like the feeling of breaking in a nice new pen, and trying to decide twixt blue and black cartridges.. i always used black, but in my heart i knew blue looked nicer..

but then you oakridge lot did have the crappy brown and blue uniform, so really the point wasnt about what the day was called....just that you didnt have to wear it.

clearly it struck a chord, because to this day my wardrobe still consists of blues and browns.. maybe i've adopted them as my gang colours?

oakridge 4 lyf

 

[MISS T]

Interesting Year – 1981

1. Prince Charles got married
2. Liverpool crowned Champions of Europe
3. Australia lost the Ashes tournament.
4. The Pope Died




Interesting Year - 2005
1. Prince Charles got married
2. Liverpool crowned Champions of Europe
3. Australia lost the Ashes tournament
4. The Pope Died



Lesson Learned?





The next time Charles gets married................someone warn the Pope

 

[Tinkerbell]

If an average human scrotum were stretched until all its wrinkles were smoothed out, it could hold a basketball !

(What I want to know is - who tested this out ??)

 

[ToriRat]

awesome *scurries of to find a basketball*

 

[Tinkerbell]

Did you know that ...

The common lubricant known as WD-40 has a full name: Water Displacement-Fortieth Attempt. It was perfected on the 40th try.

 

[Tinkerbell]

back when i were a lad, those special days when you were allowed to wear your casual clothes to school were called "non-school-uniform day".. a mouthful, i think you'll agree - but one that made sense...

we called mufti days at leasowes.

but then you oakridge lot did have the crappy brown and blue uniform, so really the point wasnt about what the day was called....just that you didnt have to wear it.


x

They call it Mufti Day at Parkside Primary School in Stafford too - never understood why !!

 

[Andreas Rex]

back when i were a lad, those special days when you were allowed to wear your casual clothes to school were called "non-school-uniform day".. a mouthful, i think you'll agree - but one that made sense...

we called mufti days at leasowes.

but then you oakridge lot did have the crappy brown and blue uniform, so really the point wasnt about what the day was called....just that you didnt have to wear it.


x

They call it Mufti Day at Parkside Primary School in Stafford too - never understood why !!

The word originates from the Middle East and is Arabic - mufti (مفتي) means an Islamic scholar who is an interpreter or expounder of Islamic law (Sharia), and is the active form of the Arabic afta, meaning "to judge". It has been used by the British army since 1816 and is thought to derive from the vaguely Eastern style dressing gowns and tasseled caps worn by off-duty officers in the early 19th century. Yule and Burnell's Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive (1886) notes that the word was "perhaps originally applied to the attire of dressing-gown, smoking-cap, and slippers, which was like the Oriental dress of the Mufti".

It would have been ace to go to school in a dressing gown, smoking cap and slippers!

 

[mickyboy]

If an average human scrotum were stretched until all its wrinkles were smoothed out, it could hold a basketball !

(What I want to know is - who tested this out ??)

Hope they didn't use a live subject when they found this out!!! OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (cue watering eyes and screams)

 

[shoes]

awesome *scurries of to find a basketball*

Run hubbyrat! Run!

 

[kez77]

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