The Bluemoon interesting fact thread.

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

The large clock on Carnforth railway station, featured in David Lean's 1945 classic "Brief Encounter" is still there....

1945...? It looks like 1123 to me.

:-)

Yes, very good.............

btw, I backed a horse yesterday at 20 to 1............It came in and twenty past five........




Bernard Manning 1977

 

[dronefromsector7g]

In films, when you see a cow, it's actually black and white sheep taped together. Sheep are cheaper to use.

 

[the god Gerry Gow]

The Travellers Call Pub in Bredbury used to have a sign on the door saying "No Travellers"

 

[BlueBearBoots]

The chicken is the closest living relative to the great Tyrannosaurus-Rex

 

[denislawsbackheel]

...

 

[Lavinda Past]

Corky was the first choice to play the lead role in “The Colour Purple“

And "The Purple Rose of Cairo"

(cue long list of 'purple' films)

 

[rushts]

Derek is the most popular mans name in Burkina Faso.

 

[Le Havre Oswald]

A barcode scanner scans the white bars not the black bars.

 

[mindmyp's_n_q's]

Tiger woods and myself combined earnings from golf are nearly $1billion.

 

[mad4city]

Limerick Lawn Tennis Club is the oldest in the world. Every year, it hosts the South of Ireland Open - which is the second oldest tennis championship in the world. Nobody from our housing estate has ever been a member of LLTC.

The first game of polo, played outside of India was a practice match at the Limerick Young Protestant Men's Association grounds, prior to a royal exhibition in that there London.

The first soviet state after Russia was declared by the Limerick Soviet on April 14th 1919. It lasted a week.

The limerick poem with its aabba rhyming form can be dated back to the Maigue Poets (Croom, Co Limerick) who wrote in Gaelic in the 15th century. - The Oxford English Dictionary do not recognise this fact, in spite of being invited to examine verified documentary evidence at Trinity College Dublin.