| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” 21:12 - Dec 17 with 11914 views | colinallcars |
True ones please.
Samuel Goldwyn of Metro Goldwyn Mayer films is offically named Samuel Goldfish.
When he emigrated to the US from Poland, his actual name was Schmuel Goldfisz. The immigration officail misheard it as Samuel Goldfish which he remained for some years.
Notta Lotta People Know That. |  | | |  |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 07:15 - Dec 18 with 1935 views | Gus_iom |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 06:36 - Dec 18 by Wilkinswatercarrier |
The fear of long words is called 'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedal'.
First used by Roman poet Horace in the 1st century BC to criticse writers with a love of unreasonably long words.
Top marks to anyone who can fit that word into a QPR chant/song. |
Repeat the name three times, when he gets the ball, he does f all, repeat name |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 07:55 - Dec 18 with 1865 views | Monkey_Roots |
WHARF
Whare House Along River Front |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 07:56 - Dec 18 with 1861 views | stevec |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 23:01 - Dec 17 by BucksRanger |
No it isn't. it's Maurice Micklewhite. |
Michael Caines son was a professional footballer who played an integral part in getting his side to an FA Cup final and automatic promotion the following season. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 08:09 - Dec 18 with 1854 views | DannyPaddox |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 06:36 - Dec 18 by Wilkinswatercarrier |
The fear of long words is called 'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedal'.
First used by Roman poet Horace in the 1st century BC to criticse writers with a love of unreasonably long words.
Top marks to anyone who can fit that word into a QPR chant/song. |
You’re having a laugh
You’re having a laugh
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedal
You’re having a laugh
You have to add ‘phobia’ on the end of it to make it a fear surely.
As in ‘shirleynominatusophobia’ - the fear of being called Shirley |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 09:07 - Dec 18 with 1775 views | dmm |
There are no roads in the city of London. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 09:35 - Dec 18 with 1711 views | GaryHaddock |
Danny Welbeck's dad Stan was a long serving member of the army's bomb disposal unit. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 09:39 - Dec 18 with 1704 views | DannyPaddox |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 09:07 - Dec 18 by dmm |
There are no roads in the city of London. |
Seasonal but an old chestnut. There’s plenty of roads in the City of London and since a boundary change in the mid 90s even one Road - Goswell Road makes a marginal intrusion at the road’s south-eastern edge. The big question is how many pubs are there in the City of London? | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 09:49 - Dec 18 with 1677 views | johann28 |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 02:44 - Dec 18 by rbee |
It took around 4380 years for man to build something taller than The Great Pyramid when The Eiffel Tower was completed in 1887. |
Myth, I'm afraid - there were quite a few in fact, including Old St Paul's Cathedral, Rouen Cathedral, the Yongning Pagaoda, Cologne Cathedral, Lincoln Cathedral, the Washington monument and quite a few others. [Post edited 18 Dec 10:29]
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 10:11 - Dec 18 with 1648 views | MrSheen |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 09:49 - Dec 18 by johann28 |
Myth, I'm afraid - there were quite a few in fact, including Old St Paul's Cathedral, Rouen Cathedral, the Yongning Pagaoda, Cologne Cathedral, Lincoln Cathedral, the Washington monument and quite a few others. [Post edited 18 Dec 10:29]
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Lincoln Cathedral was the tallest for about 400 years until they dismantled a spire there and let someone else have a go.
An earlier cathedral at Lincoln was destroyed by an earthquake in 1188. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 10:31 - Dec 18 with 1608 views | GaryHaddock |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 09:49 - Dec 18 by johann28 |
Myth, I'm afraid - there were quite a few in fact, including Old St Paul's Cathedral, Rouen Cathedral, the Yongning Pagaoda, Cologne Cathedral, Lincoln Cathedral, the Washington monument and quite a few others. [Post edited 18 Dec 10:29]
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 10:33 - Dec 18 with 1598 views | Walnut |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 06:36 - Dec 18 by Wilkinswatercarrier |
The fear of long words is called 'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedal'.
First used by Roman poet Horace in the 1st century BC to criticse writers with a love of unreasonably long words.
Top marks to anyone who can fit that word into a QPR chant/song. |
"give us an H......" | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 10:41 - Dec 18 with 1580 views | johann28 |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 10:11 - Dec 18 by MrSheen |
Lincoln Cathedral was the tallest for about 400 years until they dismantled a spire there and let someone else have a go.
An earlier cathedral at Lincoln was destroyed by an earthquake in 1188. |
Lincoln was indeed among the tallest buildings in the world in medieval times, albeit not for 400 years. After the earthquake in 1185, there was extensive re-building as little had survived except the west front, but it wasn't until 1310 that the Cathedral’s central tower was rebuilt which, with its additional spire, brought the height to around 525 feet (160 m). Unfortunately, a storm destroyed this spire in the 1540s and was never replaced. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 10:51 - Dec 18 with 1545 views | dmm |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 09:39 - Dec 18 by DannyPaddox |
Seasonal but an old chestnut. There’s plenty of roads in the City of London and since a boundary change in the mid 90s even one Road - Goswell Road makes a marginal intrusion at the road’s south-eastern edge. The big question is how many pubs are there in the City of London? |
I'm old school. I consider the city of London to be within the Roman wall. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:09 - Dec 18 with 1511 views | PeterHucker |
Westward Ho! is the only placename in Europe with an exclamation mark in its name. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:11 - Dec 18 with 1504 views | PeterHucker |
Malcolm Messiter who plays the oboe on Tanita Tikaram's Twist In My Sobriety is the son of Ian Messiter who invented the radio panel game Just A Minute. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:19 - Dec 18 with 1478 views | PeterHucker |
When Minnie Riperton recorded her hit song "Lovin' You" she sang it to her baby daughter who was in the studio with her that day. Her daughter is the actress / comedian Maya Rudolph.
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:20 - Dec 18 with 1472 views | rocknroland |
Every deck of 52 playing cards ever shuffled has had a different sequence. The odds of two being the same are more than the number of atoms in the Milky Way. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:30 - Dec 18 with 1429 views | DannyPaddox |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 10:51 - Dec 18 by dmm |
I'm old school. I consider the city of London to be within the Roman wall. |
Goswell-denier! | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:32 - Dec 18 with 1415 views | WokingR |
Robbie Williams is being played by Gareth Bale in his new film 'Better Man'
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:03 - Dec 18 with 1343 views | rbee |
Actress Anita Page was a Hollywood superstar at the end of the 1920's. She would receive 10,000 peices of fan mail every week including 100 letters a week from an Italian fan by the name of Benito Mussolini. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:11 - Dec 18 with 1316 views | rbee |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 09:49 - Dec 18 by johann28 |
Myth, I'm afraid - there were quite a few in fact, including Old St Paul's Cathedral, Rouen Cathedral, the Yongning Pagaoda, Cologne Cathedral, Lincoln Cathedral, the Washington monument and quite a few others. [Post edited 18 Dec 10:29]
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Strange as there was a historian on BBC Radio mentioning the Eiffel Tower just a few weeks ago.
Only a few hundred years out so we are still looking at around 4000 years which I find amazing given the rate of change that we are used to. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:19 - Dec 18 with 1304 views | davekay |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 22:56 - Dec 17 by HantsR |
I think he said it in educating Rita? |
The actual line was ' a pint of bitter, in a thin glass' delivered in consummate Caine style in Get Carter |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 13:10 - Dec 18 with 1197 views | hantssi |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 09:35 - Dec 18 by GaryHaddock |
Danny Welbeck's dad Stan was a long serving member of the army's bomb disposal unit. |
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 13:14 - Dec 18 with 1186 views | dmm |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:30 - Dec 18 by DannyPaddox |
Goswell-denier! |
Yeah, Goswell can do one. As far as I'm concerned that's Aldersgate Street.
Anyway, some say there are over 700 pubs in the city of London. I guess we'll just have to find out, though that'll be a long old crawl. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 13:22 - Dec 18 with 1169 views | GaryHaddock |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 13:14 - Dec 18 by dmm |
Yeah, Goswell can do one. As far as I'm concerned that's Aldersgate Street.
Anyway, some say there are over 700 pubs in the city of London. I guess we'll just have to find out, though that'll be a long old crawl. |
Am I missing something? I work / visit CoL every day and i'm wondering what the buses and lunatic cyclists are riding on haha
Edit: Penny has dropped. No highways called 'road'. [Post edited 18 Dec 13:24]
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