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Whilst listening to Radio 4 this morning I found out that Claudia Winklemans mom is Eve Pollard. Not very interesting and I'm sure there are a few blondes who already knew it.
So I thought of creating this thread just to highlight some of our common ignorances.

Here are 2 that I've only just recently found out.

Eve Pollard is Claudia Winklemans mother.

Gary Oldman's sister is Laila Morse (Mo Harris from Eastenders).

bobAlike and Celtic weren't separated at birth.

;)

You cant become a professional roulette player

Couple of similiar threads to this already.

Here is one I made earlier:  :) http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=53499.0 (http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=53499.0)

Some great ones in there. Tighty's license plate and toaster debate spring to mind.

I'm glad you brought that up, I thought there was a thread on blonde but couldn't find it.

The toaster one was a classic

We are siamese twins joined at the head that's why we have no hair.

Sherlock Holmes famously didn't know that the Earth revolved around the Sun until Dr Watson told him.

There's no shame in not knowing something; only shame in not being prepared to know more.

Tyrone from Birmingham who played in the first LNP series said he was a roulette pro.

He is currently sewing mailbags though...

Derren Brown is gay.

The Pope's a Catholic and bears shit in the woods...

Alan Carr too!

Next you'll be telling me graham Norton is too.

Well, I honestly never knew derren brown was, looked at a pic of him when I got told then thought. Hmmm, its obvious now.

Charlie Chaplin wrote the song 'Smile'

Minnesota Fats was Etta James' father

My Mother still won't have it Dr.Christian is gay .

The very thin long legged spiders you get in garages mostly, have enough venom to kill you stone dead - they just cant bite through human skin

You're thinking of a Daddy Long Legs, I believe.

I believe he is. But the daddy long legs in the UK are different to the ones which the original myth is based on. I saw a child eat a UK daddy long legs and he was fine.

This explains it a bit better:

http://spiders.ucr.edu/daddylonglegs.html (http://spiders.ucr.edu/daddylonglegs.html)

On another note, what are female daddy long legs called?

Didn't realise arts and crafts was a design period like art deco.  Too much bargain hunt.

Well, I never knew that!

Mike Tyson is part Irish.

Well, I never knew that!

Pringles have only got flavouring on one of the sides.

On the same theme as the OP, Mark Durden-Smith's mum is Judith Chalmers.

If his olds had married he'd be Michael Gerard Kirkpatrick!

The way he gets pissed and knocks about women I thought it was agiven? oooooh.

The way he's American, I thought it was a given.

Well I never knew that

A crocodiles face is ten times more sensitive than humans fingertips.

This thread has such great potential for made up facts à la Stuart Maconie in the NME in the 80s.

"David Bowie invented Connect 4"
"Bob Holness played saxophone on Baker Street"

And so on.

Here's one for you Tal.

Joe Pesci invented the blow job.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/47/Home_alone.jpg/220px-Home_alone.jpg)

It was during Home Alone and not Casino as widely thought.

Bobalike won a poker comp.

That's a lie.

If you rotate the front plate on a stapler the staples go outwards instead of inwards!

If you go onto google and type in 'google gravity' search on 'i'm feeling lucky' your webpage will fall apart. Literally.

Well, I never knew that.
:)

When the government have a COBRA meeting to dicuss some sort of emergency COBRA actually stands for Cabinet Office Briefing Room A

Lucky it wasn't room B.

Groucho Marx was given the name "groucho" by the guys in his poker school.

He used to carry his cash in a small pouch which was attached to a cord and worn around his neck under his shirt as a security-measure, these pouches were known as grouch-bags.

Didn't realise how easy it is to clip chickens wings!  We have a rogue chicken that keeps escaping so I've kept them in for the last few weeks whilst promising the Mrs that I'll get it sorted.  Well I Youtube'd it and it's dead easy.  Another job taken care off :)  Should post it in the Man Job thread too.

I didnt know Stephen fry was gay
Just thought he was super posh

I'm not a chicken wing clipper, i'm the chicken wing clipper's son

<3 the Ho.

Laila Morse (OP) is an anagram of Mia Sorella (Italian for My Sister) - suggested by Gary Oldmans then girlfriend Isabella Rossellini, when she was looking for an Equity name.

The actors that play Barney (How I met your Mother) and Sheldon (Big Bang Theory) are both Gay, but not a couple.

Bill Clinton didn't sign one new or change any current law in two terms as US president.

In 1993 UK Vinyl album sales dipped to 0.3 million Units in 2011 they were 3.6 million.

In 2012 a single required approx 6000 sales in a week to make the Top 40 - the same figure was over 100,000 units in 1969.

hmmmm seems unlikely


EDIT:
Good place to start http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Bill_Clinton#Major_legislation_signed
what was your source?

Its from an old Mark Thomas set I think.  I will try and dig it out over the weekend.
Technically the US president does not make any laws its the senate - but I think the actual fact is around any "Bill" signed by Clinton was overturned by the Senate. 
Not the most vigerous defence of a fact ever or maybe the best source will try harder next time .  . .

I thought it was like the fact 'Maggie Thatcher was never given a key to 10 Downing Street'.

No one is; the door only opens from the inside.

The wording matters - if the wording had been that Clinton didn't make any laws then there could be a case for it but as it was about laws he had signed then obviously it's demonstrably untrue.

And I think the Senate only overturn laws from the other House before they get to the President to sign - so if he's signed it, then it's become law.

But that is just off the top of my head so I'm willing to concede there might be a better source which contradicts that and supports your 'defence'.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFgdhZGLJrY

Described as a unique and original idea.

Here's a very old Benny Hill clip.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU4wSfYTcMA

Those old clips reminded me of this fella. I bet not too many on here remember Dick Emery.
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAybwftoaTE

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ8HjDRrHt0

In regards to the Champagne ' Moët & Chandon' , Moët is actually pronounced “mow-ette” not “mow-eh”.

Claude Moët was born in France in 1683; however, his name is not French, it is Dutch

That's not the reason thou

You are making the mistake of using "&"

They can't say Moët et Chandon with the et being "ay" hence it's mow et ay Shan don

Whenever I have ordered bottles I  have never used the full title, Only the 'Moet' part. Which I have always pronounced “mow-eh”  found out last night I have been saying it wrong all these years .

http://lucire.com/2002/0530ll0.shtml

I blame Freddie Mercury.

I vaguely remember one particular series he did where each each episode was a different murder scenario of some sort.  I was only a kid at the time but the one I remember was a vicar being blown up during his sermon.

It's not one of his better known creations, but it's the one I remember him for, as I was a bit too young for the more famous stuff.

Speaking of Dick Emery, I popped over to YouTube after my last post.

Does this character look familiar to anyone?

Can now be found hosting a popular poker show from the satellite.

Even in those days, with virtually nothing on the telly, Dick Emery was pretty crap. Just the same jokes repeated week after week after week after week.

that is fun!

must be joking?




Here's some randoms off the top of my head
Richard Gere's middle name is Tiffany

The highest mountain is actually below sea level.

To be considered 'literate' in mandarin, you need to know between 3-5k characters, however over 30k exist in 'common' usage.

One of the first FOI requests for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office was genuinely "how much ferrero roche do you buy worldwide each year using taxpayers money"
(that was well spent tax payers money finding out.... #wpsir)

There is one episode of "Only Fools and Horses" where the van doesn't say 'Trotters independent trading' - instead it says 'Trotters international trading'.

There are two landlocked by landlocked countries in the world - Uzbekistan and Lichtenstein.

The Caspian Sea, is a lake.

Vietnamese has 14 different tones for most words

Mandarin has 4 tones

(im remembering this from a while back, might be a little sketchy on exact details, but the theory is correct - apparently)
Theoretically you could travel forward in time... if you could create a train that could travel around the world 17 times /minute then over '10 years' on the train for you, it would actually have been 100 years in the outside world.  - or something... :D


too tired, going to bed.

The tallest mountain might be below sea level, but the highest, by definition certainly isn't.

What, you mean like Little Britain or that "Am I bovvered" bird?

Exactly. I agree with you that things haven't changed. There has been a lot of repetition in many comedy programmes, but it was extreme in his case. I blame him for programmes like The Fast Show and the ones you mention.

When accessing the bbc news website in America there are loads of advertisements.

I am pretty sure BBC America or whatever TV channel it is over there is commercial too. It must be one of their best revenue streams.

how is the holiday going?

Thin

Obviously the Clinton line was BS but this has to be as well surely? Only 4 singles in the history of British music have sold more than 2m copies.

Q) How many copies does a title have to sell to be a hit?
A) This obviously varies annually and from month-to-month. But, in a typical 2006 week...

Singles: A number 1 record has sold around 30,000 copies per week. Sales of around 13,000 have been sufficient to hit the top 10. A title selling over 2,500 copies would make the Top 40. These figures have approximately halved since 2002 - more at the no.1 position.

Ok so far but only arrived last night. Had a lovely Italian meal where the service was exceptional and frankly puts a lot of restaurants in England to shame.

It's the only time my name can be associated with the word thin Lee.

There is always
http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=56169.0

Just discovered yesterday that Jeremy Vine and Tim Vine are brothers.

I bought a juicing machine a while back and started experimenting with various ingredients with Beets being one of them. This may sound really daft but I never knew that Beets were actually purple once you cut into them. I don't know why but I just assumed the colour was added when the vinegar was added.

Bit of a revival

Quite surprised to read in the parking thread from Ironside that blue badges cost £40.  Seems excessive. I can get a bit of a charge but £40 seems a bit OTT.  I assume that's per year? 

I didn't realise until this week that schools paid council rates.  That seems illogical too.

Not all schools, private schools don't...   

Really?  Now that's just plain wrong isn't it?    I'm even more shocked now.

Do you think that Schools should not have to pay Graham ?

I don't think so no.  Mainly because of the way schools are funded in the first place.  They're given money from the councils who then take it away?  Schools always seem to be having funding issues.  I only found out because it's been in the news that council rates are increasing by a lot this year and it was mentioned that schools will suffer.   There should be certain places that don't pay - schools, NHS Hospitals, Fire Stations etc etc - I don't know if the others pay rates or not, but they shouldn't be if they are.

It's even more strange that private schools are exempt.

I think all charities are exempt, so they can't pick and choose the charities.  It would be easier to just exclude all schools from business rates.  As far as I know, free schools are exempt too, which makes no sense if other state schools aren't. 

Ron Pearlman and Linda Hamilton played the title roles in the 80's TV series Beauty and the Beast.

Just learned a day ago that Jared Leto is also a member of band called Thirty seconds to Mars.

Julia Roberts and Eric Roberts are siblings