Groucho's Fact Hunt

[Joey66]

Mice hate cheese the best thing for a mouse trap is chocolate or peanut butter they love the stuff -
Rats will eat anything so any thing in a larger trap is ok
I had to kill many mice in my plant nursery or my green house at home in my younger days poison is to cruel also the humane traps are useless as any rodent will seek heat when icy cold outside they like to nibble on anything to sharpen teeth hence my plants got chewed to bits!

 

[terry nodder]

Trees sleep at night.

Well hey it'd be a bit odd if they slept during the day.

Thanks terY

 

[Groucho]

Well hey it'd be a bit odd if they slept during the day.

Thanks terY

They pointed lasers and noted slumping etc.

 

[deipnosophist]

A quick look at wiki says it was the tallest storied building in Europe.

as an aside, 'storied' is American spelling. In UK, NZ etc we'd spell it 'storeyed'

...although, I suppose given it's a building with rich history, it might be termed 'storied'.

 

[The Cowboy]

as an aside, 'storied' is American spelling. In UK, NZ etc we'd spell it 'storeyed'

...although, I suppose given it's a building with rich history, it might be termed 'storied'.

Fair enough. Wasn't intentional, I think that was how I read it on screen when looking it up.

 

[Paul w]

There was once cheetah racing at romford dog track.

 

[Groucho]

You can see the back of an owls eye through its ear.

 

[larbert toffee]

You can see the back of an owls eye through its ear.

 

[Groucho]

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Knew I'd seen it somewhere

 

[Rsoles]

Trees sleep at night.

Mrs @Tree13 doesn't not while I am with her while mr is away anyhow

 

[Paul w]

The man who invented the frisbee on his death was cremated and his ashes were moulded into frisbees to give given out to his family and friends to play with.

 

[larbert toffee]

The man who invented the frisbee on his death was cremated and his ashes were moulded into frisbees to give given out to his family and friends to play with.

Is that true Paul or are you spinning us one?

 

[Paul w]

Is that true Paul or are you spinning us one?

Like it.

 

[Brendan Janus]

Port Vale are named after a house !

 

[Ashtonian]

The series Futurama was so well made that only things spotted years later show you how much love went into that show.

In the first episode made, fry is pushed into the cryochamber and is frozen for 1000 years. Towards the end of the shows overall run (series 6 or 7) it ends up telling you that a little creature introduced in season 2 or 3 called nibbler was the one who had gone back and pushed fry into the cryochamber.

Sounds all very crap so far right? Silly storyline for the sake of it to fill the series?

go back to that first episode, remember they were even cancelled at one point for years. but go back and see that episode again, when fry is pushed there is a shadow on the wall, the same shaped shadow as....nibbler!

that is how much love they put into futurama, even some little details that didn't even get shown for 10+ years was in there the whole time!