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14th Oct 2007, 3:23 PM #1Pip Madeley Guest
Quite Interesting
Let's have our own version of QI on PS! This is the thread for any interesting facts you may have to share. Hopefully we'll all learn something at the end. I'll start us off...
There were 61 billion web searches made in August, over half of which were powered by Google.
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14th Oct 2007, 6:21 PM #2
George Bernard Shaw is the only man ever to been awarded both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar - Al Gore doesn't count because the Oscar was awarded to An Inconvenient Truth, not to him.
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14th Oct 2007, 9:25 PM #3Pip Madeley Guest
Katy Manning played Yvette in 'Allo 'Allo last year. It is a fact, Controller.
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18th Oct 2007, 7:59 PM #4
The horse does not have a gall bladder.
Bazinga !
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18th Oct 2007, 8:17 PM #5
In the 1500's.
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odour. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.
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18th Oct 2007, 8:19 PM #6
Why didn't they just get married in May right after their bath then?
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18th Oct 2007, 8:22 PM #7
Because it was raining! They saved the water for the bath!
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1st Apr 2008, 3:00 AM #8wibbly-wobbly,timey-wimey
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16/3/1968 was the first occasion the doctor is seen using his sonic screwdriver ep arc 42 fury from the deep, according to DW episode guide mark campbell
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1st Apr 2008, 5:48 PM #9
"Tomorrow Never Dies" was supposed to be called "Tomorrow Never Lies" but someone wrote it down wrongly and the studio preferred the incorrect version.
Dennis, Francois, Melba and Smasher are competing to see who can wine and dine Lola Whitecastle and win the contract to write her memoirs. Can Dennis learn how to be charming? Can Francois concentrate on anything else when food is on the table? Will Smasher keep his temper under control?
If only the 28th century didn't keep popping up to get in Dennis's way...
#dammitbrent
The eleventh annual Brenty Four serial is another Planet Skaro exclusive. A new episode each day until Christmas in the Brenty Four-um.
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1st Apr 2008, 6:45 PM #10Pip Madeley Guest
Pulp b-side "Tomorrow Never Lies" was intended to be used as the theme to the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies. The song was ultimately rejected in favour of a song by Sheryl Crow, and was renamed after the film's working title.
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1st Apr 2008, 7:10 PM #11
In the meantime David Arnold had got KD Lang to record a theme for the film, unawre that the producers had approached Sheryl Crow, and so Surrender (Tomorrow Never Dies) is played over the end credits. It's a great song too- better than Ms Crow's effort.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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1st Apr 2008, 7:27 PM #12
An arcade game in the 1980s called Continental Circus should have been called Continental Circuits but for a phone call misheard by the company who mass produced the arcade cabinets.
Geoff
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1st Apr 2008, 7:42 PM #13
On the same theme, "Donkey Kong" was of course a mistranslation of the Japanese "Monkey Kong", a name which makes a lot more sense.
Dennis, Francois, Melba and Smasher are competing to see who can wine and dine Lola Whitecastle and win the contract to write her memoirs. Can Dennis learn how to be charming? Can Francois concentrate on anything else when food is on the table? Will Smasher keep his temper under control?
If only the 28th century didn't keep popping up to get in Dennis's way...
#dammitbrent
The eleventh annual Brenty Four serial is another Planet Skaro exclusive. A new episode each day until Christmas in the Brenty Four-um.
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2nd Apr 2008, 4:42 AM #14wibbly-wobbly,timey-wimey
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2nd Apr 2008, 5:09 PM #15Captain Tancredi Guest
Several species of plant grow in the ruins of the Colosseum in Rome which are unknown elsewhere in the world. Their seeds were transported to Rome inside the digestive systems of the animals used in the games, and subsequently took root when the animals did their business in the underground cages. In the 2000 years since the games took place, the wild counterparts of the plants in question have mutated or been out-competed, while their Roman counterparts remain as they were 2000 years ago.
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2nd Apr 2008, 5:15 PM #16
P.H. Vazak received an Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay despite being a dog. He didn't win.
Dennis, Francois, Melba and Smasher are competing to see who can wine and dine Lola Whitecastle and win the contract to write her memoirs. Can Dennis learn how to be charming? Can Francois concentrate on anything else when food is on the table? Will Smasher keep his temper under control?
If only the 28th century didn't keep popping up to get in Dennis's way...
#dammitbrent
The eleventh annual Brenty Four serial is another Planet Skaro exclusive. A new episode each day until Christmas in the Brenty Four-um.
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30th Apr 2008, 4:42 PM #17
In 2007, the most borrowed author from UK public libraries was James Patterson.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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30th Apr 2008, 6:31 PM #18Captain Tancredi Guest
You can have lots of fun with book statistics. The year Delia Smith's Christmas came out, it was the top selling book in Britain by a country mile.
Oddly enough, it was also the most returned book the following January...
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31st Jul 2008, 10:49 AM #19Pip Madeley Guest
Here's a QI fact:
Seventh series of QI confirmed
QI, the hit intellectual panel game starring Stephen Fry and Alan Davies, has been commissioned for a seventh series. This somewhat-given commission allows the programme to continue on its 26-year-long project of covering every letter of the alphabet.
The sixth series, covering topics beginning with 'F' has been recorded and is due to be broadcast this autumn. Meanwhile Series 'G' will be recorded and broadcast next year.
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31st Jul 2008, 10:50 AM #20Pip Madeley Guest
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31st Jul 2008, 1:37 PM #21
Gordon Blows, editor of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society magazine TARDIS, once misheard the title of Image of the Fendahl, thinking it to be called The Island of Fandor.
For every fail, there is an equal and opposite win.
...Oh, who am I kidding?
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31st Jul 2008, 2:57 PM #22
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...which for many years was thought to be a Who story that was dropped prior to production.
Yesterday was the anniversary of the release, in 1932, of Flowers And Trees, produced by Disney. It was the first cartoon released in Technicolour, and the first cartoon to win an Oscar.
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31st Jul 2008, 3:18 PM #23Pip Madeley GuestGordon Blows
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31st Jul 2008, 6:28 PM #24
Only in the privacy of his own home.
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