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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.
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:09 - Jan 15 with 932 views
Why are we on a train but in a car? Answer: if you can stand up, you're on something; if not, you're in something (on a plane, in a helicopter). Simples.
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:11 - Jan 15 with 926 views
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:09 - Jan 15 by rocknroland
Why are we on a train but in a car? Answer: if you can stand up, you're on something; if not, you're in something (on a plane, in a helicopter). Simples.
This is brilliant.
Nonsensical (nobody's on a plane, at least not for very long) but brilliant.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 16:41 - Dec 19 by johann28
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, a tiny Welsh village on the isle of Anglesey, has the longest place name in Europe.
Translated to English, it’s a name that describes the town’s location: Saint Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio of the red cave.
The longest word in the world is
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, which is a hill in New Zealand. The Name was the inspiration for the 1979 hit "The Lone Ranger" by Quantum Jump. It was slightly altered to sound as if it were Native American, in keeping with the Lone Ranger and Tonto theme. It is chanted as follows:
People used to use urine to tan animal skins, so some families used to all pee in a pot and then sell it to the tannery. If you had to do this to survive you were "Piss Poor". But spare a thought for the really poor folk who couldn't even afford to buy a pot. They "didn't have a pot to piss in".
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 15:07 - Jan 15 with 659 views
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:09 - Jan 15 by rocknroland
Why are we on a train but in a car? Answer: if you can stand up, you're on something; if not, you're in something (on a plane, in a helicopter). Simples.
False.
I've definitely had experiences where I've been on something and couldn't stand up.
If one has a hump on one's back here's the cure . Take a slice of lemon and insert up ones backside..as the hump moves down for a suck, tighten ones belt ! Hump gone but you will have a slightly deformed arse! Not a lot of people know that !
AND WHEN I DREAM , I DREAM ABOUT YOU AND WHEN I SCREAM I SCREAM ABOUT YOU!!!!!
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 14:27 - Jan 15 by GaryT
The longest word in the world is
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, which is a hill in New Zealand. The Name was the inspiration for the 1979 hit "The Lone Ranger" by Quantum Jump. It was slightly altered to sound as if it were Native American, in keeping with the Lone Ranger and Tonto theme. It is chanted as follows:
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:09 - Jan 15 by rocknroland
Why are we on a train but in a car? Answer: if you can stand up, you're on something; if not, you're in something (on a plane, in a helicopter). Simples.
Somebody should have pointed that out to JFK in Dallas back in 1963...
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 16:51 - Jan 15 with 461 views
Since the removal of fact checking on Meta it is now widely known that Zuckerberg is a Swahili word meaning Cocksucker and the fires in LA began with sparks from his malfunctioning penis pump.
The grass is always greener.
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 17:04 - Jan 15 with 450 views
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 14:49 - Jan 15 by Benny_the_Ball
People used to use urine to tan animal skins, so some families used to all pee in a pot and then sell it to the tannery. If you had to do this to survive you were "Piss Poor". But spare a thought for the really poor folk who couldn't even afford to buy a pot. They "didn't have a pot to piss in".
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More specifically, the urine was mixed with alum, an aluminium ore, for tanning.
And I seem to recall reading that during the Middle Ages alum had to be imported from Europe, which was expensive.
Anyhow, during the 16th century, deposits of alum were discovered in North Yorkshire, near the coast, and a mining industry grew up. However they needed vast quantities of urine, so had to source it from outside the region.
With the biggest population in England, London was an obvious resource, the urine being sent up North by ship (no canals or proper roads back then).
This was doubly useful, since the barrels of urine served as ballast and income for the return journey of ships which had originally sailed to London with cargoes of processed alum, coal and timber etc.
And where did they get these barrels of urine? Out the back of every pub and tavern in the city, they'd have a big barrel for when punters needed to relieve themselves and I assume these would have been loaded on Thames barges and taken downriver to where the ships from Newcastle and the North East used to dock. The "Prospect of Whitby" in Wapping is named after one of these ships.
All of which represents the last time Northerners were legitimately able to take the piss out of Londoners, with the "trade" being very much the other way in the hundreds of years since!
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 17:23 - Jan 15 with 406 views
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 17:05 - Jan 15 by NewBee
More specifically, the urine was mixed with alum, an aluminium ore, for tanning.
And I seem to recall reading that during the Middle Ages alum had to be imported from Europe, which was expensive.
Anyhow, during the 16th century, deposits of alum were discovered in North Yorkshire, near the coast, and a mining industry grew up. However they needed vast quantities of urine, so had to source it from outside the region.
With the biggest population in England, London was an obvious resource, the urine being sent up North by ship (no canals or proper roads back then).
This was doubly useful, since the barrels of urine served as ballast and income for the return journey of ships which had originally sailed to London with cargoes of processed alum, coal and timber etc.
And where did they get these barrels of urine? Out the back of every pub and tavern in the city, they'd have a big barrel for when punters needed to relieve themselves and I assume these would have been loaded on Thames barges and taken downriver to where the ships from Newcastle and the North East used to dock. The "Prospect of Whitby" in Wapping is named after one of these ships.
All of which represents the last time Northerners were legitimately able to take the piss out of Londoners, with the "trade" being very much the other way in the hundreds of years since!
[Post edited 15 Jan 17:08]
A modern version of that trade is in the making of IVF treatments, which rely on the collection of oestrogen uncontaminated by contraceptive pills. Despite the church taking a dim view of IVF, convents have been happy to sell their piss to the makers. They might need a new strategy as vocations crater.
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 17:29 - Jan 15 with 395 views
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 15:42 - Jan 15 by R_from_afar
Are you sure it isn't a dead heat with this word?
Funny you should say that, here's what it says on its Wiki page...
"The Lone Ranger" was first released in 1976. After it was chosen as Tony Blackburn's BBC Radio 1 "Record of the Week" (the nationwide morning radio show with the highest ratings in the UK at the time), it was banned when some fragments of lyrics were deemed to contain references to drugs and homosexuality. The BBC stopped playing the record, and it failed to chart.
Quantum Jump disbanded at the end of 1977 but the band would, however, make an unexpected return two years later when a re-release of "The Lone Ranger" single became an unexpected hit. The song had been widely played by Kenny Everett on both his radio and TV shows. Re-released in 1979, it eventually reached number 5 in the UK Singles Chart.
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 18:46 - Jan 15 with 295 views
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 17:05 - Jan 15 by NewBee
More specifically, the urine was mixed with alum, an aluminium ore, for tanning.
And I seem to recall reading that during the Middle Ages alum had to be imported from Europe, which was expensive.
Anyhow, during the 16th century, deposits of alum were discovered in North Yorkshire, near the coast, and a mining industry grew up. However they needed vast quantities of urine, so had to source it from outside the region.
With the biggest population in England, London was an obvious resource, the urine being sent up North by ship (no canals or proper roads back then).
This was doubly useful, since the barrels of urine served as ballast and income for the return journey of ships which had originally sailed to London with cargoes of processed alum, coal and timber etc.
And where did they get these barrels of urine? Out the back of every pub and tavern in the city, they'd have a big barrel for when punters needed to relieve themselves and I assume these would have been loaded on Thames barges and taken downriver to where the ships from Newcastle and the North East used to dock. The "Prospect of Whitby" in Wapping is named after one of these ships.
All of which represents the last time Northerners were legitimately able to take the piss out of Londoners, with the "trade" being very much the other way in the hundreds of years since!
[Post edited 15 Jan 17:08]
Thanks, very interesting.
The alum didn't just have to be "imported from Europe" - for most of the Middle Ages the only known sources were on Greek islands (i.e. Byzantine Empire) and imported via Constantinople (especially by the Genoese who got a monopoly on the trade to the West after c 1261.) And it wasn't just needed for tanning, it was a vital ingredient in dying cloth.
Textiles were the big industry in Europe before large scale steel working - clothes were probably the main thing you spent your money on if you had cash. So as a commodity, alum was the equivalent of, I dunno, probably not oil, but maybe rubber, back before plastics took off.
After 1453, when the Turks took Constantinople (cue: They Might Be Giants) things got really tricky for a bit, then the Pope's nephew found a big alum deposit in the Papal States and for a period the Pope got very rich indeed on the proceeds - I think I'm right in saying the English source was found after Henry VIII had that little difficulty with the Pope, which I'm guessing also put the price up.
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 23:45 - Jan 15 with 43 views
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