Tell me something interesting
Go on, I dare you
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 14:18, 103 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I ran a duck over
On Saturday.
( Cawl, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 14:22, Reply)

This will shock you.
The comedian Stan Boardman used to fancy my mum.
( girlinthehole, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 14:23, Reply)

I thought the Noble Gasses
Were, by their very nature, stable?
So why would it have a half-life?
None of the other noble gasses are radioactive, are they?
Why, dammit?

(I'm not very good at chemistry, be kind...)
( Cawl, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 14:26, Reply)

The number of people injured by sharks
Is rather less than the amount of Americans injured by toilets.
( Kroney, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 14:28, Reply)

ok then
I have appeared on win lose or draw with the god that is big bob mills
(Halfy By light alone, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 14:31, Reply)

@Kaol
They're not "stable" in the atomic sense of the word. They're just unreactive.

The "noble" nature of the gases is down to their electron configuration. The instability of this new element is due to its enormous nucleus.

Edit / afterthought: I don't know whether the other noble gases have radioactive isotopes*, but if they did, this would also be due to the make-up of their nuclei.

*_{The Oscillating Gibbon would probably know. Where is he today?}
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 14:33, Reply)

you want some more?
all snakes are left handed.

there are more grains of sand in the gobi desert than there are chairs

If a goat ever stops swimming forward it will evolve into a hyper intelligent gaseous being
(Halfy By light alone, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 14:33, Reply)

interesting stuff
pray, continue
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 14:35, Reply)

Hmm...
Torchwood is an anagram of Doctor Who

Sorry, bit of a crap attempt, and it's common knowledge anyway
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 14:35, Reply)

^ It may also be the first program
to peddle vast quantities of Welsh Homoeroticism.

(But then I've never watched much regional Welsh telly...)
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 14:37, Reply)

Nuns keep cheese sandwiches under their veils
FACT.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 14:38, Reply)

Torchwood
Was the code name assigned to Doctor Who when the series was first green lit to come back. To ensure that scripts didn't fall into the wrong hands or anything, they came up with the anagram.

Once they realised they had a hit on their hands, they thought 'Fuck it. Torchwood - that sounds good, lets make it a series'.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 18 Aug 2008, 14:39, Reply)

^ Apparently Irish nuns can be relied upon to have bottles of whiskey in their convents
(If stories about my girlfriend's aunt are anything to go by.)
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 14:40, Reply)

I didn't know that torchwood is an anagram of doctor who
not that I have really ever watched either of them

some mates and at uni in Cardiff used to watch this programme on S4C called Pam Fi Du which was a bit like grange hill, but partly in welsh

the title means Why me God?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 14:40, Reply)

Ah thanks!
Is alpha emission "the emission of an alpha particle"?
(If I remember correctly, alpha radiation is a proton and a neutron. And it gets stopped by skin, so it's not dangerous outside the body, but fucks you hard if it gets inside)
( Cawl, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 14:44, Reply)

Yes, the whiskey is there for when the priest visits
and also for 'medicinal' purposes.


When I was at school my mum exchanged recipes for homemade versions of Baileys with one of the old nuns there - Sr.Ita actually, she was rather like Hitler when it came to uniform, but not as nice. You'd be sent home and they'd 'phone your parents to tell them that your uniform was wrong - very, very strict it was.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 14:45, Reply)

I like kittums
But then, I'm hardly in a minority am I?

Proper fact: Tourette's is related to Stan Laurel.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 18 Aug 2008, 14:46, Reply)

@Kaol
Almost: it's two protons and two neutrons

Edit: ancrenne - do tell us more...
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 14:46, Reply)

cheese
was invented by a latvian cowbell maker in 1925

there are at least 14 men and 3 women who would like to make a smutty comment about the post up there from Ancrenne.

We have 31 packets of cookies in our dept
(Halfy By light alone, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 14:50, Reply)

'Noble' refers to chemical reactivity, not radioactivity.
All the noble gases (Helium, neon argon, krypton, xenon, radon) have radioactive isotopes. In fact, all of radon's isotopes are radioactive.
(The Oscillating Gibbon is eating curried squid, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 14:54, Reply)

^ I presume I've been counted as one of those 14
I like cheese.

Edit: Afternoon, Gibbon!
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 14:55, Reply)

@BGB
The comedian Stan Boardman used to fancy my mum.

Ken Dodd fancied my mum. 100% FACT.
(Rakky (forgot her password) The muffin maverick, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 14:56, Reply)

Cool!
Thank you Mr. Gibbon, Crow and Geordie.
( Cawl, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 14:57, Reply)

Apparently
Geese are used by Inuits as a method of contraception*




*accuracy is debatable
(The Oscillating Gibbon is eating curried squid, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 14:59, Reply)

As contraception?
Or more as a sort of chastity belt?
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:00, Reply)

@Ancrenne
there are probably 14 men and 3 women logged in and reading this board, and more than likely 100% of them thought "hmm now that is a nice mental image to have"
(Halfy By light alone, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:02, Reply)

what?
how did you know about my monkeys? are you stalking me?

tinfoils to the ready boys, we have been rumbled, to the bananacave pronto!
(Halfy By light alone, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:05, Reply)

With the combination of a corset
And Gibbon's Inuit Goose Contraceptive / Chastity Belt idea, I've now got some very strange mental images.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:06, Reply)

@Rakky
I think my mum got the better deal : )
( girlinthehole, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:08, Reply)

Just as exciting as the Torchwood / Doctor Who thingy...

Erinsborough, the area in the wank soap 'neighbours' was so called because it is an anagram of the word 'neighbours'...

...only it isn't. They thought they were being dead clever and they fucked it up.

Bell-fucking-ends
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:10, Reply)

hmm ok
but only if you are telling the truth.

doffs tinfoil hat and leaves bananacave.

some pointless facts about the town i grew up in.

It has the oldest YMCA building in the UK

It has one of only three remaining types of a certain pane glass window

It is named after one of the most expensive commodities in the middle ages.

A shiny penny to the first person who can tell me the towns name.
(Halfy By light alone, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:11, Reply)

Halfy
Is it Saffron Walden?
( Cawl, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:14, Reply)

My contribution
Would be that I am related to JM Barrie who done wrote those books about that there Peter Pan fellow. Fact.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:14, Reply)

Kaol wins a sniny penny
!!
(Halfy By light alone, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:15, Reply)

Come deliver it
I'm on the Shirehill industrial estate!!!
( Cawl, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:15, Reply)

Erm...
I was taught rugby at school by 3 teachers who have all become well known for different reasons

Ian McKie - www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article347182.ece (well, he claimed that was him)

Ian Robinson - news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/6925257.stm

Mike Slemen - findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19950922/ai_n14007746

Twas a good school, anyone else go there?
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:17, Reply)

I dunno the town...
But contrary to popular belief stained glass windows do not "run" but due to imperfect methods of making panes there would often be an end that was thicker that would be placed at the bottom for stability.

Also the Isle of Wight is the smallest county for half of the year at high tide however at low tide Rutland is slightly smaller.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:17, Reply)

really?
small world!
(Halfy By light alone, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:18, Reply)

my goodness we are full of interesting facts
Exeter is home to the world's narrowest street (it's got a name and a sign and everything)


it smells of piss
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:19, Reply)

Halfy,
Yes, really!
I sense a pint coming on!

EDIT, yes, that narrow, narrow street was full of piss and broken glass.
( Cawl, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:20, Reply)

Kaol: you went down it?
I can only rarely find the fucker!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:21, Reply)

I should really do some work...
However I do recall reading somewhere that calling someone who you perceive to be technologically behind the times a "philistine" is ironic as the Philistines were technologically and socially very advanced for their time.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:22, Reply)

Yeah!
ancrenne knew where it was!
( Cawl, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:22, Reply)

I sense a
mini-bash coming on!
(Halfy By light alone, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:22, Reply)

Stairs
Stairs were invented by Jonathan Edward Stairs because he found lifts too convenient.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:24, Reply)

All life starts out at conception as female.
100% FACT


I think!
( girlinthehole, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:25, Reply)

ancrenne,
The beer festival is nearer me than him :p
( Cawl, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:26, Reply)

*tries to think of other interesting things*
*fails*


there have been some good ones though.

I like being able to ask random things on the off topic board and get good answers
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:29, Reply)

beer?
where?

when?

my summer holiday is the Cambridge real ale festival!!
(Halfy By light alone, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:30, Reply)

Erm...
You could stay in the oldest YMCA in the country :p

Or with me...
( Cawl, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:33, Reply)

Erm,
There's no record ever been set for the fastest time from the north pole to the northernmost permanently inhabited settlement on earth.
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:33, Reply)

@anncrenne, Kaol
Yes, if you're going to the Chappel Beer Festival there's a Holiday Inn roughly four miles from the festival itself

www.dilos.com/hotel/4281

The festival itself takes place right next to mainline station (Chappel), which runs special trains right up until last orders. If you get the train from Chappel to Marks Tey (3 miles) then the Marks Tey hotel is your best bet - literally half a mile from Marks Tey Railway station:

www.marksteyhotel.co.uk/

I'll update some maps etc on the calendar page thingy.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:35, Reply)

are you going to set the record Ed?
I'd like to set a record for something meaningful
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:35, Reply)

Oh and yesterday I found out
that Europeans generally have longer noses than Africans because a longer nasal passage meant colder northern air breathed in could be warmed and humidified.

I also read somewhere that there was suggestion that Neanderthals may have used some sort of physic communication system based on skull shape. However I may have been reading a sci-fi novel so best not to quote me on that...
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:38, Reply)

@Halfy
http://www.b3ta.com/calendar/event/14506
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:39, Reply)

I was going to get all 'rah-rah'

About the over usage of QI facts in the above...

But I'm a nice guy so I won't.

Also, the fact that I recognise so many facts from QI only proves the much less interesting fact that I watch too much QI...and should get a life. Fact

Has anybody mentioned about how many moons earth has yet?
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:39, Reply)

Poof
Isn't it "loads" 'cos of all the artificial satellites?
( Cawl, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:42, Reply)

Hmm
I tend to know useless facts and then see them on QI... they must be probing my brain at night.

How about a good scrabble word of "Syzygy" for when you have no vowels.

Edit: for the moons I thought 2?
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:42, Reply)

@vipros
probably but that's not the point. it's about raising as much money as possible for the charities :)
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:50, Reply)

My town has the worlds shortest street.

I can hug it ALL.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:51, Reply)

@p'flake
isn't it the case that the number is constantly changing as the earth moves in its orbit and various bits of mini-asteroid etc are captured by the earths gravitational field?
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:52, Reply)

@Kaol
A moon is defined as a natural satellite though so all the shit we put up there doesn't count.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:58, Reply)

vaguely interesting
gorillas can't swim. Cats can but don't like to (except the Turkish Lake Van cat, which loves to swim).

Oh, and one of my ancestors was tried as a witch. They drowned her, she sank and proved her innocence. Which was nice, except she was dead. Ooops.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Mon 18 Aug 2008, 16:04, Reply)

@ed
good on you

people who set records or break them for the sake of that alone and daft

where do we sponsor you?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 16:08, Reply)

TWW
My previous cat swam like an otter. Might have been something to do with living on a boat that did it...

Everynow and again you'd see a kitty drifting past with paws sticking out the watter like a fluffy mine that had failed the practical stage of the test.

Sorry B3tan kitty lovers.

As an aside, I am clearing my loft and have just found a pair of cowboy boots. Jesus - I was actually let out in public like that?
(osok Rebel without a clue, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 16:12, Reply)

osok
what size are they, and what do they look like?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 16:15, Reply)

@vipros
Check out www.duesouth2009.com - it's only a holding page at the moment; we've got a photocall at the snozone(sp?) in Milton Keynes sometime between now and mid-September and then the official launch party (being attended by our patron (Sir Ran Fiennes) and Kate Silverton (eye candy for yours truly)) will be aboard HMS PRESIDENT on September 17th.

We're attempting to raise £100,000 for three charities, Combat Stress (www.combatstress.org.uk), SSAFA (www.ssafa.org.uk) and MAG (www.maginternational.org) with the added wee "USP" that this exped is being entirely self-funded.
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 16:15, Reply)

Osok
Cowboy boots? Really? You know the rule - pictures or they don't exist. What else you choose to wear (or not) is entirely up to you ....

Our loft contains at least a metric tonne of useless crap. It's a miracle the house hasn't caved in.

Edit: Ed's page duly bookmarked. Even if I think he's certifiable, I still admire him for doing it!
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Mon 18 Aug 2008, 16:15, Reply)

Cowboy boots?
Cool!

What size are they?
( Cawl, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 16:16, Reply)

I'm knackered now
Having just tried them on and then - crucially- got them off again without assistance.

Black leather, lined, in surprisingly good nick after 15 years solitary confinement - just need a good wax & polish. Size 8 (I know, dwarf feet but I take a nine and they'd run out...and I needed a pair for my graduation).

Yes, that's right, I wore them at my graduation *shames*
(osok Rebel without a clue, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 16:21, Reply)

bah, my dreams of free internet cowboy boots are crushed
under my size 11 feet....

and now I have a damned team meeting
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 16:23, Reply)

I wish I'd
Worn cowboy boots to my graduation.

I've never found any in a 13 though *frowns*
( Cawl, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 16:24, Reply)

Size 11 and 13 ????
Safe to say you chaps have a very good grip on the world then?

Don't ever stand on my size fours, please!
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Mon 18 Aug 2008, 16:26, Reply)

Useless Fact...
I have size 8 feet. I was called boat feet and clown feet for much of my school life *cries*
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 16:29, Reply)

Interesting fact
Vipros and I have the same name.*
And the same blood-type.**

*True
**Not True
( Cawl, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 16:31, Reply)

Not just interesting, quite frightening too

Doctors do not regard chocolate as a food group, or even an essential nutrient.

I mean, how bloody dare they?

TGB: Size 8 isn't all that big. My feet are just small.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Mon 18 Aug 2008, 16:32, Reply)

I only go to Brantano
Or order them off ebay now as "trendy" shoeshops only seem to go up to a 7 or an 8 in the shit styles.

Got a lovely pair of stripy rocketdogs off ebay for a tenner the other week only worn once.

mmm shoes...
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 16:37, Reply)

Al
That isn't that small, you're in proportion, it's not like you're a million feet tall.
( Cawl, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 16:38, Reply)

When drunk I once told...

Makosie from Big Brother 67 or 68 to fuck off.

Only it wasn't Makosie, it was just some poor girl who had similar hair.

*apologises*
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 16:40, Reply)

Talking of shoes
Does anyone remember those weird lace grabbers things that were around in the early 90s? They were normally a face of some kind and you put the laces in the mouth and shut it to stop them coming undone?
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 16:47, Reply)

@ Grammar Badger
I think are on your own there.

Fact: The worlds oldest living tree is in Sweden. It has been growing for 9,950 years.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Mon 18 Aug 2008, 16:53, Reply)

I remember

Curly elasticated laces that tied themselves.

They were wizard!
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 16:54, Reply)

@Ancrenne
Wow that's a big love of shoelaces that guy has! DM's are like Converse bitch to break in but once you do the comfiest shoes ever.

@Al Yesterday I got excited I found a polishing mop that I can attach to my cordless drill.

Bow biters... yes I had Garfield ones :)
Edit: They have cookie monster ones on ebay.... is it wrong I really want them?
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 17:08, Reply)

*weeps*
For the last few days I've been poring over paint charts, trying to pick a new colour for our bedroom .... and I'm enjoying it.

*embraces the dork side*
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Mon 18 Aug 2008, 17:10, Reply)

Ian there
can't get enough of shoelaces can he.

I love that site.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Mon 18 Aug 2008, 17:10, Reply)

Home time for me :)
Have a good evening everyone :)

For reasons I am unsure of I am going to go see the Lostprophets at B/ham Academy.... woo.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 17:15, Reply)

Kaol
we may have the same blood type....
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 17:15, Reply)

How did I miss this thread?
Poop.

Anyway, contrary to popular belief, a duck's quack does echo.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 17:28, Reply)

Hello DiT
how are you?

I'm well, thanks, have a fab night!
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Mon 18 Aug 2008, 17:30, Reply)

Ello TWW!
It's been a while!

I'm very well thank you, how are you? :)

I'm off home in a mo, have a lovely evening!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 17:33, Reply)