Share Your Interesting But Not Very Useful Facts

[davhill]

Hmm, social mores are curious - even the word is prononounced 'morays' as in the eels.

However, I recall that the Vauxhall Victor Super 101 was a big deal in the 60s. Here's one...


So what was the big deal? It was just a development from the pseudo Yank F-series car (there never was an FA Victor) and the 'but' was a big one.
The FC was the very first Vauxhall to have curved side glass and this was a radical thing at the time.
It was produced from 1963 to 1967 and I met one belonging to my mate's dad when I was about eight.

We lads with an eye to motors reverently called it the Super 101, pronouncing the figure as 'one oh one'.

But we didn't notice one important point. On the boot, my mate's dad's car had this...



It might have said, 'Victor 101', it may have had the suffix 'deluxe' but none ever said, 'Super 101'
but that name stuck.

Curiouser still is that though many of us had a fond memory of a film that predated the car by
two years, none of us ever said, 'One oh One Dalmatians'.

Funny what sticks in the memory bank innit?

[DickyC]

My dad's first company car was a Victor 101; FLN 618C. Two tone grey. It was awful. Three gears, column change and built-in obsolescence. We went to Spain in it on a camping holiday. It was so hot mum kept passing out. The hard plastic upholstery (for want of a better word) was almost unbearable. It didn't like Spanish petrol and kept pinking. On the plus side, it met dad's rule for showing us how to drive which was he'd let us drive if we could reach the pedals. My first drive was in that car round a bit of the peri track at Blackbushe Aerodrome in 1965, aged 11.

[Hugo a Gogo]

JulianPH said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

gmasterfunk said:

50% of people are more stupid than the average person.

that's just mean

That didn’t get the recognition it deserved!

I'm often unappreciated

[Killer2005]

Founders of Adidas and Puma were brothers and had a falling out leading to them both setting up both companies.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-puma-and-adida...

[poing]

Pothole said:

So said:

You can fold a sheet of A4 paper in half 7 times.

If you could fold it 50 times it would reach the moon.

103 times and it would be as thick as the universe.

Only, you can only fold any sheet of paper in half 7 times.

You can fold it more..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYBz7jjPzv8

[Big-Bo-Beep]

We managed to squeeze 4 adults, two kids [ and maybe a dog ] and loads of holiday luggage into one of these babies, all the way up the
old A9 to The Black Isle, we need a return of the front bench seat.

[Frank7]

nonsequitur said:

General Price said:

Humphrey Bogart didn't say 'Play it again,Sam' in Casablanca.

I think Ingrid Bergman said to Dooley Wilson, 'Play it Sam. Play it one more time'.

I think she said, “Play it once Sam, for old times sake.
Later Rick says to Sam, “You played it for her, you can play it for me.”

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Frank7 said:

nonsequitur said:

General Price said:

Humphrey Bogart didn't say 'Play it again,Sam' in Casablanca.

I think Ingrid Bergman said to Dooley Wilson, 'Play it Sam. Play it one more time'.

I think she said, “Play it once Sam, for old times sake.
Later Rick says to Sam, “You played it for her, you can play it for me.”

Sorry to lower the tone, but this - for me at least - falls in to the category of 'who gives a st'? Neither useful nor interesting.

[DickyC]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Frank7 said:

nonsequitur said:

General Price said:

Humphrey Bogart didn't say 'Play it again,Sam' in Casablanca.

I think Ingrid Bergman said to Dooley Wilson, 'Play it Sam. Play it one more time'.

I think she said, “Play it once Sam, for old times sake.
Later Rick says to Sam, “You played it for her, you can play it for me.”

Sorry to lower the tone, but this - for me at least - falls in to the category of 'who gives a st'? Neither useful nor interesting.

Are you saying it doesn't amount to a hill of beans?

[Big-Bo-Beep]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Sorry to lower the tone, but this - for me at least - falls in to the category of 'who gives a st'? Neither useful nor interesting.

Which reminded me, Charles De Gaulle had a Downs Syndrome child called Anne, whom he doted on, and the family never hid this fact from the press, sadly she had the severest form on the spectrum and died at 20.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Haribo (the sweet makers) got the name Haribo by taking the first 2 letters of the founder's first name, surname, and the city where they were based...Hans Riegel, Bonn.

[Anthony Micallef]

bristolbaron said:

Crisps go out of date on Saturdays.

(Can be useful in a pub for a ‘next round’ bet, but pubs are closed = not very useful)

Just checked and I have a pack of crisps that go out of date on a Tuesday.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Big-Bo-Beep said:

Which reminded me, Charles De Gaulle had a Downs Syndrome child called Anne, whom he doted on, and the family never hid this fact from the press, sadly she had the severest form on the spectrum and died at 20.

I didn't know that.

[john2443]

Big-Bo-Beep said:

Dont think we need an excuse to show a picture of Miss Drake in a serious role, Gabby, of course, famous sister to Charlie Nick Drake.

FTFY!

[davhill]

Big-Bo-Beep said:

We managed to squeeze 4 adults, two kids [ and maybe a dog ] and loads of holiday luggage into one of these babies, all the way up the
old A9 to The Black Isle, we need a return of the front bench seat.

This isn't a competition but...

Me, my mum, my Auntie Nancy, two girl cousins and little boy cousin, all in one of these.

Edited by davhill on Monday 23 March 15:13

[Pinkie15]

Doofus said:

gregs656 said:

Killer whales are not whales, they’re dolphins and the name we give them is a mistranslation of the Spanish ‘whale killer’.

Sharks teeth envolved from their skin, and the jaws from their ribs.

A great white shark doesn’t have a swim bladder, it’s buoyancy comes from its liver (full of oil) which makes up about 1/3 of its body.

If a shark stops moving, it drowns.

Pretty sure that's only Great Whites as they have no ability to move water over their gills unless they're swimming; they would actually asphixiate rather than drown

Sand tiger sharks spend quite a lot of their life half buried in sand / silt waiting for a meal to swim past

[irocfan]

DickyC said:

Are you saying it doesn't amount to a hill of beans?

Very good

[Frank7]

gregs656 said:

Killer whales are not whales, they’re dolphins and the name we give them is a mistranslation of the Spanish ‘whale killer’.

Sharks teeth envolved from their skin, and the jaws from their ribs.

A great white shark doesn’t have a swim bladder, it’s buoyancy comes from its liver (full of oil) which makes up about 1/3 of its body.

Not sure how to say this, I don’t want to second guess you, and maybe I’ve misunderstood your post, but the Spanish translation of “whale killer” bears no resemblance to either dolphin or porpoise, nor does the Portuguese translation.

[Doofus]

Frank7 said:

gregs656 said:

Killer whales are not whales, they’re dolphins and the name we give them is a mistranslation of the Spanish ‘whale killer’.

Not sure how to say this, I don’t want to second guess you, and maybe I’ve misunderstood your post, but the Spanish translation of “whale killer” bears no resemblance to either dolphin or porpoise, nor does the Portuguese translation.

It's bks, I'm afraid. Killer Whales are Odontoceti, or Toothed Whales, which is a species including, inter alia, dolphins, killer whales, sperm whales, beluga whales and beaked whales.

Killer Whales are taxinomicaly Orcinus Orca. The genus Orcinus means 'kingdom of the dead', which is where the 'killer' name comes from.

[Frank7]

Doofus said:

It's bks, I'm afraid. Killer Whales are Odontoceti, or Toothed Whales, which is a species including, inter alia, dolphins, killer whales, sperm whales, beluga whales and beaked whales.

Killer Whales are taxinomicaly Orcinus Orca. The genus Orcinus means 'kingdom of the dead', which is where the 'killer' name comes from.

Thanks Doofus, I was worried that I’d misunderstood, and dropped a massive bo££ock!