| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” 21:12 - Dec 17 with 28294 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 13:16 - Jan 28 with 1339 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:40 - Jan 28 by GaryHaddock |
Doing some work with the Blackwall tunnel today.
Found out the reason it’s kinked / curved is because if you put horses in a straight tunnel they bolt uncontrollably towards the light. |
That's quality. |  |
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 14:45 - Jan 28 with 1186 views | GaryHaddock |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 13:16 - Jan 28 by BrianMcCarthy |
That's quality. |
Imagine being the first poor fcker to find that out. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 15:18 - Jan 28 with 1127 views | derbyhoop |
Imagine being the first person to milk a cow. What did he think he was doing. |  |
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 15:26 - Jan 28 with 1103 views | GaryHaddock |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 15:18 - Jan 28 by derbyhoop |
Imagine being the first person to milk a cow. What did he think he was doing. |
Learning lessons from the first one who tried to milk a bull. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 15:26 - Jan 28 with 1102 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 15:18 - Jan 28 by derbyhoop |
Imagine being the first person to milk a cow. What did he think he was doing. |
Or eat an egg.
"Eat that? It just came out of...!" | |
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 15:31 - Jan 28 with 1088 views | colinallcars |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:56 - Jan 28 by PinnerR |
George wasn't on the throne in 1855. Victoria, 1837-1901 |
Sorry, my mistake ! | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 16:05 - Jan 28 with 1052 views | colinallcars |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 15:31 - Jan 28 by colinallcars |
Sorry, my mistake ! |
Edit…..I suppose is should be “my bad” these days…. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 16:46 - Jan 28 with 1004 views | hantssi |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:19 - Jan 28 by MrSheen |
Not secure enough to keep International Rescue out of the vaults. |
With Lady Penelope’s hair pin eventually! |  | | |
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 17:00 - Jan 28 with 970 views | lightwaterhoop |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:11 - Jan 28 by NewBee |
And the lead singer of The Clash wasn't born Joe Strummer, either.
His real name was Harry Strummer. |
John Mellor was Joe's real name. [Post edited 28 Jan 17:01]
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 17:11 - Jan 28 with 944 views | NewBee |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 15:18 - Jan 28 by derbyhoop |
Imagine being the first person to milk a cow. What did he think he was doing. |
Wonder what the cow was thinking.
"Oi! You could at least have warmed your hands first!" | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 18:19 - Jan 28 with 880 views | lightwaterhoop |
Future Hollywood movie stars Basil Rathbone,Claude Rains,Ronald Coleman and Herbert Marshall all served by total coincidence in the same regiment in WW1.The London Scots. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 18:38 - Jan 28 with 853 views | colinallcars |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:34 - Jan 28 by PinnerR |
Or even GeorgeVI (1936-1952). |
Next time I see Charles, I'll ask 'im. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 20:13 - Jan 28 with 777 views | Mick_S |
Other than humans, blue-eyed black lemurs are the only primate to have blue eyes. |  |
| Did I ever mention that I was in Minder? |
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 21:22 - Jan 28 with 719 views | fraserc |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:40 - Jan 28 by GaryHaddock |
Doing some work with the Blackwall tunnel today.
Found out the reason it’s kinked / curved is because if you put horses in a straight tunnel they bolt uncontrollably towards the light. |
The London Underground tunnel curves between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations because it was impossible to drill through the mass of skeletal remains buried in Hyde Park. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 21:34 - Jan 28 with 700 views | colinallcars |
My neighbour loves Elton John. I said to him one day “of course Elton John isn't his real name - he changed it”.
He said “did he….what to?” | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 22:13 - Jan 28 with 669 views | W12 |
Despite playing the role of placid conscientious objector Private Godfrey in Dad's Army, actor Arnold Ridley had in fact saw active service in the both world wars.
In WW1 his hand was left useless by wounds sustained on the Somme; his legs were riddled with shrapnel; in hand to hand combat he received a bayonet wound in the groin; and the legacy of a blow to the head from a German soldier's rifle butt left him prone to blackouts. Despite this he rejoined the army in 1939 and was posted to France. Ironically he ended the war as a member of the Home Guard in Surrey |  |
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 23:15 - Jan 28 with 562 views | MrSheen |
At the end of the Napoleonic War, the Congress of Vienna couldn’t decide if a valuable zinc mine should be awarded to the Netherlands or Prussia, so it was agreed they would share it under joint rule as the territory of Neutral Moresnet. When Belgium was carved out of the Netherlands in 1830, it took over the Dutch claim. The mine was initially so prosperous that Neutral Moresnet became a tax haven, but it closed in 1885. Various schemes to exploit its extra territorial status and restore its prosperity included a casino and making it the global headquarters of Esperanto. It was seized by Germany in World War One then dissolved and awarded to Belgium by the Treaty of Versailles. It’s last surviving citizen died in 2020.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_Moresnet |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 23:52 - Jan 28 with 508 views | NewBee |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 22:13 - Jan 28 by W12 |
Despite playing the role of placid conscientious objector Private Godfrey in Dad's Army, actor Arnold Ridley had in fact saw active service in the both world wars.
In WW1 his hand was left useless by wounds sustained on the Somme; his legs were riddled with shrapnel; in hand to hand combat he received a bayonet wound in the groin; and the legacy of a blow to the head from a German soldier's rifle butt left him prone to blackouts. Despite this he rejoined the army in 1939 and was posted to France. Ironically he ended the war as a member of the Home Guard in Surrey |
He was genuinely heroic with his wartime service, for despite the trauma and injury he suffered in the first War, he volunteered for the second at the age of 43 - easily old enough to avoid Conscription.
Was also a very prolific playwright, including most famously 'The Ghost Train', regularly restaged since; also made into a film, as were numerous others of his plays.
After WWII he was a theatre director, but a business partner diddled him out of his money, meaning he had to return to acting in his 50's, to scrape a living.
And apparently it was only getting the role in Dad's Army at the age of 72 which got him back on his feet financially, saving him from destitution in his final years.
And here's a photo of the great man, aged 25:
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 00:07 - Jan 29 with 498 views | NewBee |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 23:15 - Jan 28 by MrSheen |
At the end of the Napoleonic War, the Congress of Vienna couldn’t decide if a valuable zinc mine should be awarded to the Netherlands or Prussia, so it was agreed they would share it under joint rule as the territory of Neutral Moresnet. When Belgium was carved out of the Netherlands in 1830, it took over the Dutch claim. The mine was initially so prosperous that Neutral Moresnet became a tax haven, but it closed in 1885. Various schemes to exploit its extra territorial status and restore its prosperity included a casino and making it the global headquarters of Esperanto. It was seized by Germany in World War One then dissolved and awarded to Belgium by the Treaty of Versailles. It’s last surviving citizen died in 2020.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_Moresnet |
A footballing equivalent?
[Meanwhile] another largely forgotten national team emerged on what is now German territory. In July 1948, the Saarland FA (SFB) was formed in Sulzbach, near Saarbrucken. The Saarland is the relatively small area in southwestern Germany surrounded by Rhineland-Palatinate, Luxembourg and the French region Lorraine.
After the Second World War, the Saarland became an autonomous French protectorate. During the SFB's AGM in 1949, a vote was held over whether or not the association should join the French Football Federation. Although the Saar's government was in favour of the move, the members of the SFB voted to stay independent by a large majority.
And so, under president Hermann Neuberger and as an "association based in a country which is recognised by the United Nations as an independent state," the Saarland FA applied for FIFA membership in 1950. On June 22, the world governing body accepted this application, which means that the SFB became a proper FIFA member three months before the DFB did.
On Nov. 22, 1950, the country of 950,000 inhabitants played its first official international. Seven of the 11 starting players came from the Saarland's biggest club, Saarbrucken FC, three from Borussia Neunkirchen (a club that would spend three seasons in the Bundesliga in the 1960s), one from Ensdorf FC. They defeated Switzerland reserves 5-3. The Saarland's national manager was Auguste Jordan, an Austrian-born naturalised Frenchman who also coached Saarbrucken FC.
Jordan soon went back to France, to manage Racing Club, and so Neuberger needed a new coach who would guide the team through the qualifying games for the 1954 World Cup. He found his man in Wiesbaden, a city some 100 miles north-east of Saarbrucken. SV Wiesbaden, a club then in the second tier of German football, were coached by the former international and Dresden club legend Helmut Schon. When Neuberger offered Schon the job as national coach, the latter accepted.
When Schon's team travelled to Oslo to play Norway in the World Cup qualifiers, it was the first time they met not a reserve side but a proper national team. Neunkirchen forward Gerhard Siedl scored the winner as the Saarland came away with a 3-2 victory. The return match, watched by 40,000 in Saarbrucken, finished scoreless. Yet the Saarland didn't make it to the World Cup, because there was another team in this group -- none other than West Germany.
Who knows what would have happened if Siedl had scored in the first meeting, staged in Stuttgart. But Jupp Posipal cleared Siedl's ninth-minute effort off the line and the West Germans went on to win 3-0. (The return match in Saarbrucken was another close affair, but West Germany won again, 3-1, and travelled to the World Cup in Switzerland to make history and lift the trophy.)
After those qualifiers, the Saarland went on to play another nine internationals. The low point, in terms of naked results, was a 7-1 mauling at the hands of Uruguay in June 1954, the high point a creditable 1-1 in May 1956 against Switzerland's first team, which had held Brazil to a draw three weeks earlier.
The Saarland's final game was a 3-2 defeat in Amsterdam against the Netherlands on June 6, 1956. About eight months before this match, a referendum had been held in the Saarland [where[ the majority of Saar people said no -- in this case to plans of making the Saarland neither French nor German but an independent state under the auspices of the Council of Europe. The referendum was, in effect, a vote pro-Germany. On Jan. 1, 1957, the Saarland joined the Federal Republic of Germany. The SFB left FIFA with immediate effect and became a regional member association of the DFB.
https://www.espn.co.uk/football/story/_/id/37403049/saarland-forgotten-internati | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 00:08 - Jan 29 with 503 views | hubble |
Mr Sheen's post about 'Neutral Moresnet' made me think of Konigsberg, another one of those geopolitical anomalies that not a lot of people know about (as Michael would say). Now known as Kaliningrad, it is the capital of the Russian province of the same name, that exists wholly outside of Russia, sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania along the Baltic Coast. Must be weird living there. I read this about getting there by car:
"The road system is extensive in the Kaliningrad region; however, they are not always well-maintained, and sometimes it is hard to get around because of absence of signage indicating directions/destinations (especially in the city). On large roads, signs are displayed in Cyrillic and Roman letters.
"Driving rules are generally the same as in most European countries, but many do not follow the rules, especially during rush hour in the city. Beware of the traffic police because they like to stop foreigners and often expect bribes."
I'd quite like to visit it. [Post edited 29 Jan 0:14]
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 00:15 - Jan 29 with 490 views | GaryHaddock |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 23:15 - Jan 28 by MrSheen |
At the end of the Napoleonic War, the Congress of Vienna couldn’t decide if a valuable zinc mine should be awarded to the Netherlands or Prussia, so it was agreed they would share it under joint rule as the territory of Neutral Moresnet. When Belgium was carved out of the Netherlands in 1830, it took over the Dutch claim. The mine was initially so prosperous that Neutral Moresnet became a tax haven, but it closed in 1885. Various schemes to exploit its extra territorial status and restore its prosperity included a casino and making it the global headquarters of Esperanto. It was seized by Germany in World War One then dissolved and awarded to Belgium by the Treaty of Versailles. It’s last surviving citizen died in 2020.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_Moresnet |
They’ll play Spurs in the UEFA Conference III next season. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 00:31 - Jan 29 with 469 views | NewBee |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 00:08 - Jan 29 by hubble |
Mr Sheen's post about 'Neutral Moresnet' made me think of Konigsberg, another one of those geopolitical anomalies that not a lot of people know about (as Michael would say). Now known as Kaliningrad, it is the capital of the Russian province of the same name, that exists wholly outside of Russia, sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania along the Baltic Coast. Must be weird living there. I read this about getting there by car:
"The road system is extensive in the Kaliningrad region; however, they are not always well-maintained, and sometimes it is hard to get around because of absence of signage indicating directions/destinations (especially in the city). On large roads, signs are displayed in Cyrillic and Roman letters.
"Driving rules are generally the same as in most European countries, but many do not follow the rules, especially during rush hour in the city. Beware of the traffic police because they like to stop foreigners and often expect bribes."
I'd quite like to visit it. [Post edited 29 Jan 0:14]
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Kaliningrad was one of the host cities in the 2018 World Cup Finals in Russia. It staged 4 games, incl England 0 v 1 Belgium, in a brand new 34.5k capacity stadium built specially for the tournament:
(I strongly suspect Putin was making a political statement by having them included as a host.)
After the Finals, the stadium became the home of the region's main club Baltika FC, who eventually gained promotion to Russia's top tier last season, after 25 years in the second.
Every away game involves a long flight, as much as 12 hours duration if playing in the East - don't know the Russian for "Is that all you take away?" | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 01:26 - Jan 29 with 443 views | fraserc |
Interesting. It was featured in a book called "Necropolis: London and its Dead" by Catherine Arnold. I'll have to check it's sources! | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:31 - Jan 29 with 271 views | DavieQPR |
WD40 is not an oil and the WD stands for Water Displacement. |  | | |
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