Again I apologise for the poor effort on the blogging front, but something as big as Rick Waller is going down (ooooh bad mental image)… but as this isn’t a personal blog I shall have to keep you all guessing (clue: it is vaguely shed related).
Today my brain feels as if it’s lacking in information, so I pass the responsibility onto you to fill my brain with random facts of a useless nature. These can be as rubbish as you like, something to aid in the pub quiz or whatever you have.
Here are some examples, which I’m sure you can all better…
The 7up logo has a red dot on it because the inventor (if you call them that) was an albino and had red eyes… I’m not sure if this is true.
Apparently Squids testicles are in their heads… I’m not checking if these are true, I believe everything I’m told
4 people die every year in the UK while putting their trousers on
Cathie Jung’s waist is about the same size as a regular jar of mayonnaise. She’s been wearing a corset every day for the past 12 years, and she now wears one 24 hours a day.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb… how thoughtful.
Anyway… feed me your random factoids. I was going to use some I heard on Colin Murray’s show the other day (source of the squid fact) which were amazing, but I have forgotten them. If anyone remembers them write ‘em down for me. Thank you.
May 16th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
There’s no word in the english language for
May 17th, 2007 at 7:32 am
For what?
May 17th, 2007 at 9:25 am
ha ha
May 17th, 2007 at 10:35 am
it is too early in the morning for such tom foolery
May 17th, 2007 at 11:06 am
Birds such as ostriches eat stones to aid in digestion of food.
Elephants walk on their toes.
There are little hairs on the inside of your throat called Silia. Silia pulse upwards to prevent phlegm and such like ending up in your lungs. Every time you smoke the silia hairs stop pulsing for 20 seconds allowing phlegm into your lungs. So it is possible if you are a massively heavy smoker to drown in your own phlegm.
I have so many facts - I love random facts!
May 17th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
I love random facts. There’s this radio show out here in AZ that after the traffic guy does his thing, he spouts out some random fact. I dont remember them though, but they’re hilarious.
May 18th, 2007 at 7:16 am
I have a million and one random facts but now they actually need to be used..all vanished. I shall come back when they resurface.
May 18th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
What your looking for is always in the last place you look!
May 19th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
People are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than die due to a spider bite.
May 21st, 2007 at 7:39 am
Haha I stared at Rhys’ comment for a while. That corsett woman is a foul piece of work. OK, I’ve got some for you from the fantastic ZOO magazine’s “Pub Ammo” section:
1. The Bible is the number one shoplifted book in America
2. In modern circus, 31 performers have died after being shout out of cannons
3. You can smell a skunk by only 0.0000002g of its spray
4. The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910
5. If birds could sweat, they wouldn’t be able to fly
6. 0.3% of men are able to give themselves a blowjob. The remaining 99.7% have probably tried
gross. ps. Sarah get the measley donation?
May 21st, 2007 at 7:39 am
I’m surprised someone hasn’t given you the:
“Ahhh….. 75% of statistics are made up! Ha!”
tossbags.
May 22nd, 2007 at 8:08 am
Those facts are ace.
Donations were kindly accepted thank you all.