Topic: Gulleysucker's 'well I never knew that' thread

[liverbloke]

"Mind your P's and Q's" comes from the print industry when letter blocks were placed upside down. Those letters were the ones that got mixed more than any other.

heard it was 'pints and quarts' - when the barkeep was cleaning tables in ye olden days

but seems that both are plausible

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/mind-your-ps-and-qs.html

[jambutty]

^^

[AndyInVA]

"Mind your P's and Q's" comes from the print industry when letter blocks were placed upside down. Those letters were the ones that got mixed more than any other.

Really ??

I always thought it was a suggestion to mind your manners

Mind your please and thank Q’s

P’s and Q’s

[liverbloke]

skip if you're having a sarnie

but human hair is used in the production of bread

Amino acids (also known as L-cysteine), used to extend the shelf-life of commercial supermarket breads, are “commonly synthesized” from human hair.

[liverbloke]

there are only 12 notes in music (basically) so you're thinking 'so that's why i hear the same melody in different songs by different artists'

but the permutations on how many different ways those notes can be played (including also repeated notes, duration and amplitude) is.............

1,042,682,221,795,737,600

so oasis haven't tried hard enough really

[Nitramdorf]

Just found out the "Its happening." gif isnt Johnny Ball. My mind is blown.

[Crosby Nick]

Just found out the "Its happening." gif isnt Johnny Ball. My mind is blown.

Have you seen the Ron Paul “Think of a number” gif?

[Nitramdorf]

Have you seen the Ron Paul “Think of a number” gif?

 

[jambutty]

If you have yet to discover the deliciousness of catfish filets, don't postpone joy.

[Alan_X]

ive been led to believe thats where the expression"dead ringer " comes from.

Dead ringer is an idiom in English. It means "an exact duplicate" or "100% duplicate", and derives from 19th-century horse-racing slang for a horse presented "under a false name and pedigree"; "ringer" was a late nineteenth-century term for a duplicate, usually with implications of dishonesty, and "dead" in this case means "precise", as in "dead centre".[1] [2]

The term is sometimes said to derive, like "saved by the bell", from a custom of providing a cord in coffins for someone who has been buried alive to ring a bell to call for help, but this appears to be a folk etymology.[1][2]

From Wiki.

When we played footie in the park, opposing teams would sometimes bring on a "ringer" - someone obviously either professional or semi-professional. It doesn't really make sense to link it to coffins...

[rob1966]

Dead ringer is an idiom in English. It means "an exact duplicate" or "100% duplicate", and derives from 19th-century horse-racing slang for a horse presented "under a false name and pedigree"; "ringer" was a late nineteenth-century term for a duplicate, usually with implications of dishonesty, and "dead" in this case means "precise", as in "dead centre".[1] [2]

The term is sometimes said to derive, like "saved by the bell", from a custom of providing a cord in coffins for someone who has been buried alive to ring a bell to call for help, but this appears to be a folk etymology.[1][2]

From Wiki.

When we played footie in the park, opposing teams would sometimes bring on a "ringer" - someone obviously either professional or semi-professional. It doesn't really make sense to link it to coffins...

I thought it came from when the campanologist fell from the Notre Dame cathedral and died from massive head injuries. The locals thought initially it was Quasimodo, but soon realised it wasn't him, but he was a dead ringer.

[liverbloke]

I thought it came from when the campanologist fell from the Notre Dame cathedral and died from massive head injuries. The locals thought initially it was Quasimodo, but soon realised it wasn't him, but he was a dead ringer.

that story does have a ring to it

[jambutty]

"Yipee Ki Yay motherfucker"

The original phrase was "Yippee eye owe ki yea", from Ghost Riders in the 30's

They saved a lot on license fees.

[jambutty]

[jambutty]

The night before Sam Giancana was about to be grilled in Court about the Bay of Pigs, someone, allegedly Anthony Spilotoro (Joe Pesci's 'Casino' character), snuck into his house and put 3 in the back of his head as Sam made sausage and peppers.

The diminutive bootblack was later made the Boss of Las Vegas before his brother Michael's malfeasance led to their mutual demise.

'The Ant' (from pissant) was only killed to prevent anticipated revenge for his brother.

And yes, he did do Geri McGee.

[jambutty]

Paul Simon's Mrs. Robinson song was originally Mrs. Roosevelt.

[moondog]

Paul Simon song Mother and Child Reunion was inspired by a Chicken omelette.

[Terry de Niro]

Paul McCartney's/The Beatles Yesterday was originally called Scrambled Eggs.

[jambutty]

Lee Dixon said he never won a header in 22 seasons.

[bradders1011]

Sailors wore gold earrings as a form of ID (many were inscribed) so their bodies could be identified and also as a form of life assurance to pay for funeral costs.

[rafathegaffa83]

Persil was the world's first commercially available laundry detergent that combined bleach with the detergent. It's name derives from two of its original ingredients (Sodium Perborate and Sodium Silicate). However, it goes by alternative names in some markets in part because of the difficulty of pronouncing the name.

[Terry de Niro]

If you say Jesus backwards it sounds like Sausage.

[jambutty]

A small group of sharks is a shiver.

[So… Howard Philips]

Petrichor is that fresh smell you get when rain falls on hot ground.

[Barneylfc∗]

A small group of sharks is a shiver.

What's a large group called?

[So… Howard Philips]

What's a large group called?

Swim like fuck?

[Peabee]

What's a large group called?

Shiver me timbers.

[jambutty]

What's a large group called?

A skool.

[BarryCrocker]

Paula Abdul did the choreography for 'Coming to America' and 'Big'.

[jambutty]

The space between your eyebrows is your glabella.

[Terry de Niro]

The space between your eyebrows is your glabella.

The space between a woman's vagina and anus is called the perineum, otherwise known as a chin rest.

[So… Howard Philips]

The space between a woman's vagina and anus is called the perineum, otherwise known as a chin rest.

And I never knew that was where the infamous post childbirth “stitches” were inserted until I heard my mother, wife and daughter having a ‘who’s had the worst childbirth’ competition.

[jambutty]

Cin cin!

[bradders1011]

The space between a woman's vagina and anus is called the perineum, otherwise known as a chin rest.

See also:

barse
gooch

As expressed in: "I love the Boxing Day fixtures, there's so much football between Christmas and New Year during the Christmas Gooch."

[BarryCrocker]

The space between a woman's vagina and anus is called the perineum, otherwise known as a chin rest.

I thought it was called a Twitter. As in, between your twat and your shitter.

[farawayred]

The space between a woman's vagina and anus is called the perineum, otherwise known as a chin rest.

Twitter - the space between the twat and the shitter

Edit: Damn, beaten to it... I should read all the pages before replying

[ToneLa]

The space between a woman's vagina and anus is called the perineum, otherwise known as a chin rest.

You suggesting, as a dude, you don't have one? 

[jambutty]

The Code of Hammurabi (1754 BC) declares that a man must provide sustenance to a woman who has borne him children so that she can raise them:

137. If a man wish to separate from a woman who has borne him children, or from his wife who has borne him children: then he shall give that wife her dowry, and a part of the usufruct of field, garden, and property, so that she can rear her children. When she has brought up her children, a portion of all that is given to the children, equal as that of one son, shall be given to her. She may then marry the man of her heart.[3]

[jambutty]

Edge Hill is thought to be the oldest working railway station in the world.

[BarryCrocker]

Edge Hill is thought to be the oldest working railway station in the world.

Wouldn't Lime Street be the oldest considering a train left there to pass through Edge Hill?