Post something you learnt today thread

[boo]

i learned all about serbian christmas traditions.....oh wait, that was yesterday...

[ddebil]

That most of the people I come across on FB are weirder than I am!

[Flying pig437]

more a case of what I didn't learn really...Eddie Izzard's real sirname. I'd always thought Izzard was a pun on having a hard on. It's not. It's his actual real surname

[drafsack]

You can clean the burned on soot on the glass door of a log burner by dipping some newspaper in water, dabbing it in the wood ash and rub the resultant paste on to the glass. Within no time all the burned on soot is gone - even the stuff thats been there for years.

[Hudini]

Richard Wright played on a B.B. King album.

[oldhippy]

Jethro. The West Country comedian is utter CRAP. He tells recycled rubbishy jokes which I heard 30 odd years ago.

[Stephen]

Jethro. The West Country comedian is utter CRAP. He tells recycled rubbishy jokes which I heard 30 odd years ago.

welcome back oldhippy

[Flying pig437]

Bobby Fischer wrote this letter to..

Dear Mr. Osama bin Laden allow me to introduce myself. I am Bobby Fischer, the World Chess Champion. First of all you should know that I share your hatred of the murderous bandit state of "Israel" and its chief backer the Jew-controlled U.S.A. also know [sic] as the "Jewnited States" or "Israel West." We also have something else in common: We are both fugitives from the U.S. "justice" system.

[snifferdog]

That frozen tennis balls don't bounce

[rosm]

All the above except the frozen tennis balls post...

[snifferdog]

That at one stage in the 19th century, they used sperm oil in lighthouses

[rosm]

What did they use it for?

[snifferdog]

For the lamps. It was oil from sperm whales

[ddebil]

That somebody is developing a bizarre obsession with lighthouses.....

[snifferdog]

That somebody isn't quite right about that