I bet you didnt know that

Ted_YNWA

py2006 wrote:

I can't say it

Break it down
Semi quin centennial
Half 5 century

Fourier

py2006 wrote: »

I can't say it

Don't worry, he's just absorbed in his sesquipedalian loquaciousness.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Fourier wrote: »

Don't worry, he's just absorbed in his sesquipedalian loquaciousness.

Easy for you to say...

jonski

Fourier wrote: »

Don't worry, he's just absorbed in his sesquipedalian loquaciousness.

Thats easy for you to say .

Mr. Justice got there before me

py2006

Fourier wrote: »

Don't worry, he's just absorbed in his sesquipedalian loquaciousness.

Funnily enough, I could say loquaciousness easier :P

Realt Dearg Sec

py2006 wrote: »

retalivity wrote: »

A 250th Anniversary is called a Semiquincentennial.

Its also a very satisfying word to say.

I can't say it

Two-hundred-and-fiftieth

Capt'n Midnight

For those of you going through Windows update,

The F-35B fighters need a software upgrade too, to Block-4.


It's going to cost $16 Billion.

mzungu

Possibly the ultimate slow news day. On the 18th April 1930, the news bulletin (at 20:45) announcer said "There is no news" and piano music was played for the rest of the 15 minute bulletin.

thesandeman

mzungu wrote: »

Possibly the ultimate slow news day. On the 18th April 1930, the news bulletin (at 20:45) announcer said "There is no news" and piano music was played for the rest of the 15 minute bulletin.

A bit like Joe Duffy when the phone lines broke down. He played The Corrs for ten minutes on Liveline.

flas

thesandeman wrote: »

A bit like Joe Duffy when the phone lines broke down. He played The Corrs for ten minutes on Liveline.

While flagallating himself with barbed wire asking anybody close to him to tell him their suffering

ohnonotgmail

thesandeman wrote: »

A bit like Joe Duffy when the phone lines broke down. He played The Corrs for ten minutes on Liveline.

Does he not think his audience suffer enough?

pavb2

In Italy they fold their pizza slice in half before eating it, it stops you burning the roof of your mouth on the toppings.

(Credit to the purple tin)

New Home

Yes but as soon as you bite into it the filling oozes out, and you still burn your mouth. I'd say it's more to keep the slice straight as you bite into it, and to stop the topping from falling.

Still... Pizza!!!

thunderdog

Europe and America (in terms of tectonic plates) are moving apart from each other at the same rate per year that your fingernails grow.

thunderdog

Europe and America (in terms of tectonic plates) are moving apart from each other at the same rate per year that your fingernails grow.

py2006

thunderdog wrote: »

Europe and America (in terms of tectonic plates) are moving apart from each other at the same rate per year that your fingernails grow.

I believed you the first time

Kat1170

thunderdog wrote: »

Europe and America (in terms of tectonic plates) are moving apart from each other at the same rate per year that your fingernails grow.

Or closer together depending on where you are

Skylinehead

Kat1170 wrote: »

Or closer together depending on where you are

Not in reference to each other, where you are has no bearing on the measurement

bonzodog2

Nixonbot wrote: »

Not in reference to each other, where you are has no bearing on the measurement

But if you were in the Pacific Ocean, they would be approaching slowly

wally79

bonzodog2 wrote: »

But if you were in the Pacific Ocean, they would be approaching slowly

He must be a flat earther

Kat1170

bonzodog2 wrote: »

But if you were in the Pacific Ocean, they would be approaching slowly

This ^^^^^^^^^

wally79 wrote: »

He must be a flat earther

Nah, then they would just fall off, some might say that would be no bad thing :D

Napoleon never knew dinosaurs existed.

Lady Haywire

Deleted User wrote: »

Napoleon never knew dinosaurs existed.

On a similar theme, dinosaurs never knew Napoleon existed.

mzungu

Deleted User wrote: »

Napoleon never knew dinosaurs existed.

Lady Haywire wrote: »

On a similar theme, dinosaurs never knew Napoleon existed.

Contrary to popular belief, he was not that vertically challenged (five foot six which was average for the time) it was British propaganda that portrayed him as small. The rumour started in his lifetime.

He wrote a romance novel called Clisson et Eugénie.

Ineedaname

mzungu wrote: »

Contrary to popular belief, he was not that vertically challenged (five foot six which was average for the time) it was British propaganda that portrayed him as small. The rumour started in his lifetime.

He wrote a romance novel called Clisson et Eugénie.

It also came from the fact that at the time a French foot was different to a British foot. In France he would have measured at 5'2 as opposed to 5'6 in Britain.

On top of that he surrounded himself with his elite guards who were all over 6 foot. These things combined to make him sound shorter than he actually was.

Fourier

Napoleon wasn't fully fluent in French, having grown up speaking Corsican (very close to Standard Italian). His written French in particular was ambiguous and hard to understand. This was probably responsible for his loss at El Arish in Egypt, where the generals had difficulty understanding his orders.

Source: The Campaigns of Napoleon, David G. Chandler

Fourier

Fourier wrote: »

Napoleon wasn't fully fluent in French, having grown up speaking Corsican (very close to Standard Italian). His written French in particular was ambiguous and hard to understand. This was probably responsible for his loss at El Arish in Egypt, where the generals had difficulty understanding his orders.

Source: The Campaigns of Napoleon, David G. Chandler

And on that point, Eric Hobsbawm observed years ago the astonishing fact that,

in 1789 50% of the French people did not speak it [French] at all, and only 12 to 13% spoke it 'fairly' – in fact, even in oïl language zones, out of a central region, it was not usually spoken except in cities, and, even there, not always in the faubourgs [approximatively translatable to "suburbs"]. In the North as in the South of France, almost nobody spoke French.' Hobsbawm highlighted the role of conscription, invented by Napoleon, and of the 1880s public instruction laws, which allowed to mix the various groups of France into a nationalist mold which created the French citizen and his consciousness of membership to a common nation, while the various "patois" were progressively eradicated. (A History of French)

Shemale

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Defoe is also responsible for one of the great continuity errors in literary history, when Robinson Crusoe stripped naked, swam out to his ship and filled his pockets with biscuits.

Maeby he is a never nude?

Capt'n Midnight

Deleted User wrote: »

And on that point, Eric Hobsbawm observed years ago the astonishing fact that,

Tullio De Mauro, an Italian linguist, has asserted that in 1861 only 2.5% of the population of Italy could speak Standard Italian.

Liamalone

The last bellybutton survey saw a dead heat, 50% inny, 50% outty.