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  • The dot of the letter i and the letter j is called a tittle.
  • 52% beats 48%

    Yadrutas is Saturday backwards

    Those two posts add up.
  • edited July 2016
    cafcfan said:

    Kylie Minogue is an anagram of You like minge.

    The Kylie is a variety of boomerang in the Western Australian Aboriginal language.
    MrOneLung said:

    Have you not heard of the Panama Canal ?
    It is quite big....

    If you are travelling from the Pacific Ocean into the Caribbean Sea along the Panama Canal you are travelling in a North Westerly direction.
    How does that one work ?

    Edit - just looked at a map - crazy !
  • edited July 2016
    se9addick said:

    cafcfan said:

    Kylie Minogue is an anagram of You like minge.

    The Kylie is a variety of boomerang in the Western Australian Aboriginal language.
    MrOneLung said:

    Have you not heard of the Panama Canal ?
    It is quite big....

    If you are travelling from the Pacific Ocean into the Caribbean Sea along the Panama Canal you are travelling in a North Westerly direction.
    How does that one work ?
    Because that part of the Pacific is under the Carribean Sea but separated by Panama the runs from west to east across it. If it was a clock the Panama Canal starts at 5 and finishes at 11.
  • se9addick said:

    cafcfan said:

    Kylie Minogue is an anagram of You like minge.

    The Kylie is a variety of boomerang in the Western Australian Aboriginal language.
    MrOneLung said:

    Have you not heard of the Panama Canal ?
    It is quite big....

    If you are travelling from the Pacific Ocean into the Caribbean Sea along the Panama Canal you are travelling in a North Westerly direction.
    How does that one work ?
    Because that part of the Pacific is under the Carribean Sea but separated by Panama the runs from west to east across it. If it was a clock the Panama Canal starts at 5 and finishes at 11.
    image
  • se9addick said:

    cafcfan said:

    Kylie Minogue is an anagram of You like minge.

    The Kylie is a variety of boomerang in the Western Australian Aboriginal language.
    MrOneLung said:

    Have you not heard of the Panama Canal ?
    It is quite big....

    If you are travelling from the Pacific Ocean into the Caribbean Sea along the Panama Canal you are travelling in a North Westerly direction.
    How does that one work ?
    Because that part of the Pacific is under the Carribean Sea but separated by Panama the runs from west to east across it. If it was a clock the Panama Canal starts at 5 and finishes at 11.
    image
    Look at a map you'll see what I mean
  • I before E except after C, now that's just weird.
  • 2% of fans have renewed their season tickets! Hey, making up stats works both ways love! :smiley:
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  • There's more chance of me picking any word in the 7 Harry Potter Books and you guessing which word, what book and what page than there is of someone winning the lottery.
  • Richard Osman's (Pointless) brother is Suede bassist Mat Osman
  • There's more chance of me picking any word in the 7 Harry Potter Books and you guessing which word, what book and what page than there is of someone winning the lottery.

    Wand, book 4, page 438, what do I win?
  • sam3110 said:

    There's more chance of me picking any word in the 7 Harry Potter Books and you guessing which word, what book and what page than there is of someone winning the lottery.

    Wand, book 4, page 438, what do I win?
    A lucky dip, have another go.
  • The country Brazil was named after the nut, not the other way around.
  • Angela Eagle had porridge for breakfast.
  • The country Brazil was named after the nut, not the other way around.

    Apples were named after New York
  • 1) carrots don't help you see in the dark.

    2) my mum is a lying cow.

    That's how you can tell it's going to rain when you go on holiday in this country and you see the cows in the fields laying down
  • I'm blaming predictive text and the heat
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  • I'm blaming predictive text and the heat

    You made that up
  • Skoda is Czech means shame.
  • Bacon, pork and ham all come from the same animal.

    Unless you're shopping in Tesco.
  • Richard Osman's (Pointless) brother is Suede bassist Mat Osman

    Loved that "Crazy Horses" song, puppy love was cr@p nothing to do with dogs!
  • 1) carrots don't help you see in the dark.

    2) my mum is a lying cow.

    That's how you can tell it's going to rain when you go on holiday in this country and you see the cows in the fields laying down
    Unless it's already rained really heavily, and they're lying down because they'd drowned....
  • There are more ways to order a pack of playing cards than there are atoms on earth.

    There are more bridges in Berlin than Venice.
  • Until the citrus fruit known as an orange was introduced to England, there was no word for the colour orange. Hence, anything that was, in fact, what we now call orange, was considered red.

    Example: the "red" breasts of a robin, which is, clearly, orange.
  • Gary Ballance was out for 1 having faced 0 balls according to the scorebook when Yorkshire played Durham at Scarborough in 2014.
  • Chizz said:

    Until the citrus fruit known as an orange was introduced to England, there was no word for the colour orange. Hence, anything that was, in fact, what we now call orange, was considered red.

    Example: the "red" breasts of a robin, which is, clearly, orange.

    Someone saw QI this week.
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