Did you know,that:
A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.
Anyone else know any utterly useless facts?
my middle name's Edward
when your round someones house and there's a few people and suddenly everyone stops talking and the room goes silent then you realise that everyone has stopped talking...
thats called a...
"wimbaway"
and as soon as you realise its a "wimbaway"
then its over.
And theres me thinking a wimbaway was a crap chorus to a crap 80's record.
SIFI
...In 1980, the Yellow Pages accidentally listed a Texas funeral home under frozen foods! 
...the Coop have a Top Ten of songs used at funeral services:
I would never have known what a "wimbaway" was unless I read it here. That's because I have a sister in law called Janet and a Mother in Law called Margaret.
Try explaining the concept to them and you're on a loser, that's for sure. 
anyone know what a WIMWAM is ??
My dog's got no nose.
How does he smell?
Come on, nearly 3 hours and no-one has posted the obvious reply?
Did you know that farts are infact mainly an incredibly thing rubbery plastic substance and not just a gas.
PS
quote:Originally posted by ps:
Come on, nearly 3 hours and no-one has posted the obvious reply?
Which just goes to show what a mature, sober set of people view these boards !!!!!
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Regards
Keith
quote:By Alan Roberts at work:
My dog's got no nose.
quote:By John Willett:Answer: Awful!!
How does he smell?
(Sorry to throw your theory out of the window Keith. )
A Gigasecond lasts 31.7 years. (I know someone who celebrated his by writing to the Times about it).
A furlong per fortnight is 10 cm/minute (not a lot of people know that).
.......that I just rediscovered what it's like to be newbie on a forum.
I got smart ar**, brief, non-helpful replies to my serious question 
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I think I'll de-stabalise them by referring in detail to Sir Joseph Whitworth in an irrelevant yet well padded rebuttle .
Gavin
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Gonna let us in on where you were treated like this, Gavin?
If the time on this posting is not 17.23 the clock's wrong!
quote:Originally posted by Chirpy:
Gonna let us in on where you were treated like this, Gavin?
Yes.......but not today.......
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Gavin,
Do tell pleeeeeeaaaaaassssseeeee.
Paul
quote:Originally posted by Chirpy:
Gonna let us in on where you were treated like this, Gavin?
Here:-
http://www.bridephoto.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=002249
Taken as a whole it doesn't seem that bad after all.
The first two replies where not what I wanted to hear ;(.
But they where what I had feared 
So I spat my dummy a bit when I posted here 
But this morning I have mellowed 
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Gavin
BTW Did you know that the phrase "Often a bridesmaid but never a bride" actually comes from an advertisement for Listerine mouthwash. The text was written by Milton Feasley and first appeared in 1925. The advertisement was so successful that it ran for more than ten years.
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quote:Originally posted by Hedgehopper:
If the time on this posting is not 17.23 the clock's wrong!
it's always wrong by anything from 7 minutes to an hour and 7 minutes.
quote:Originally posted by Chirpy:
Quote:
By Alan Roberts at work:
[b]My dog's got no nose.quote:By John Willett:Answer: Awful!!
How does he smell?(Sorry to throw your theory out of the window Keith.
B***** perverse bunch. No response to ps for 3 hours but only 7 minutes to disprove my claims. You soon find out who your friends are round here 
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Keith
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McGuffin (n):
Invented by Alfred Hitchcock as the name for the reason behind a scene or action on film. The viewer doesn't see it but the actors have to know it (or at least the director does). It's the (unseen) previous situation that the film-maker bears in mind when starting a scene or action.
McMuffin (n):
English muffin: enriched wheat flour, water, yeast, sugar, salt, vegetable oil shortening, (soybean oil, canola and/or cottonseed oil), corn meal, corn flour, calcium propionate, calcium sulphate and may contain the following in various proportions: monocalcium phosphate, baking powder, white vinegar, ammonium chloride, ascorbic acid, semolina, protease enzyme, diacetyl tartaric esters of mono and diglycerides, potassium sorbate, calcium iodate, calcium carbonate.
Michael Caine used to work with his dad at Billingsgate Market? Not a lot a people know that! 
(I found that out on a Thames river cruise last week.)
"Church Circle" in Farnborough, Hampshire is one of only two circular roads in the country... anyone know where the other one is?
and no... roundabouts don't count...
mark.
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quote:Originally posted by Chirpy:
A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.
How's that pronounced Chirpy? Here in the home counties we'd probably say the "a" as an "a" sound. But a short hop around the world to australia - home of all things where you say the same word twice but it still only means one thing - they'd probably say "wolla wolla"...
in a similar way to "wagga wagga" (a small town between sydney and melbourne) which is pronounced "wogga wogga" or just "wogga" if you really wish to annoy the residents...
mark.
quote:Originally posted by cstv:
"Church Circle" in Farnborough, Hampshire is one of only two circular roads in the country... anyone know where the other one is?and no... roundabouts [b]don't count...
mark.
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m25
quote:Originally posted by cstv:
"Church Circle" in Farnborough, Hampshire is one of only two circular roads in the country... anyone know where the other one is?
[url=http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=466446&y=368179&z=1&sv=church+circle&st=6&tl=Church+Circle,+New+Ollerton,+Newark,+Nottinghamshire,+NG22&searchp=newsearch.srf&mapp=newm ap.srf]Church Circle[/url] in New Ollerton, Newark, Nottinghamshire?
John
But that's THREE!!!
i think i've been conned by my friend who lives there...
although the M25 may not count - i'm willing to let it claim the worlds only circular car park though!!!
There-and-back-again Lane, Bristol ?
Circle Gardens, Merton Park, in the London Borough of Merton.
Ray Liffen
it turns out then, that not many people know that, because it may not be true... oh well...
aparantly the french have no specific word for "ape" they just call them all monkeys...
And if, in France, you ask for "prunes, s'il vous plais" you get plums because plum=prune whereas prune=pruneaux.
Oh well, back to work.
In the 60s, when
(a) the BBC was involved with the communcations network for the RSGs (Regional Seats of Government) and
(b)you could find out the time by dialling TIM on a public telephone
the special handsets in control rooms were known as the 'Clean Feed of TIM'.
Not a lot of . . . oh well, back to work
Ray