Rofl'ing all over the place here! 
Groucho's Fact Hunt
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well there you got me...sometimes saying morph and get added to...
In best QI fashion, holds up picture of Elephant, maybe...Nobody Knows
The Cowboy
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Which is cool with me. All I was ever saying was that the link between the two didn't really make sense.
Aaah
like that other internet favourite 'once in a blue moon' I'm not havin with this 2 full moons in a calendar month guff either.
The earliest record of this is late 30's pre WW2 in a Maine(?) Almanac, but this was a common saying to me as a kid in the late 50's
I don't think, what with the lack of mass communication devices/media AND the war that that saying would meander it's way into common practice, from that source, so quick
Over to the Panel...
Technically that would only be correct if you used 'The Republic', as 'Southern' Ireland would literally mean the south part of 'Ireland', which obviously couldn't be more Northerly than the 'Northern'!
In Northern Ireland we refer to the Republic as the South and ourselves as the North.The South do the same.
Whistlin' Dixie
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Some famous Americans who were roommates at uni.
Al Gore & Tommy Lee Jones
Christopher Reeve & Robin Williams
Frances McDormand & Holly Hunter
Stanley Tucci & Ving Rhames
Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson
Al Gore & Tommy Lee Jones
Christopher Reeve & Robin Williams
Frances McDormand & Holly Hunter
Stanley Tucci & Ving Rhames
Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson
Really? Didn't know that!
Ben Johnson's 9.79 not even in the top 30 quickest 100m times.
5 of the 7 athletes who took part in that race have been embroiled within a drugs scandal, with the race being called the 'dirtiest in history'. Even dirtier than the time Paula Radcliffe soiled herself in a marathon
The Cowboy
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My word, that's tempting. But no.
Eleven plus two is an anagram of twelve plus one .
My head has just gone rolling figuring out how simple and obvious it is.
Great fact. I applaud it.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
The following clubs have reached the F A Cup Semi Final :
Swifts (3 times)
Shropshire Wanderers
Darwen
Marlow
Small Heath Alliance
Glasgow Rangers
Crewe Alexandra
Derby Junction
Swifts (3 times)
Shropshire Wanderers
Darwen
Marlow
Small Heath Alliance
Glasgow Rangers
Crewe Alexandra
Derby Junction
Oh my, is this what it's going to be like for the next 10 weeks?