Groucho's Fact Hunt

[Philw]

Was looking up Robert Warzycha the other day, and came across quite an interesting fact...or it might not be like...


He was one of only thirteen players not from the British Isles to play on the opening weekend of the FA Premier League along with Jan Stejskal, Peter Schmeichel, Andrei Kanchelskis, Roland Nilsson, Eric Cantona, Hans Segers, John Jensen, Anders Limpar, Gunnar Halle, Craig Forrest, Michel Vonk and Ronnie Rosenthal

Give it a few years and it'll be only 13 English players on the opening day...

 

[summerisle]

The last film Keith Moon watched before dying of a drug overdose was The Abominable Dr. Phibes.

 

[PITA]

The last film Keith Moon watched before dying of a drug overdose was The Abominable Dr. Phibes.

How do you know that?
The thread below was only started in 2008.
https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/last-film-you-watched.9167/

 

[summerisle]

How do you know that?
The thread below was only started in 2008.
https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/last-film-you-watched.9167/

http://spookyisles.com/tempsite/2015/02/19-things-you-never-knew-about-the-abominable-dr-phibes/

 

[larbert toffee]

The last film Keith Moon watched before dying of a drug overdose was The Abominable Dr. Phibes.

How do you know that?
The thread below was only started in 2008.
https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/last-film-you-watched.9167/

Because @summerisle is wired to the Moon.

 

[PITA]

Because @summerisle is wired to the Moon.

Good point and let's hope he remains so. He is one of my favourite posters.

 

[larbert toffee]

Good point and let's hope he remains so. He is one of my favourite posters.

He's one of mine as well but don't tell him.

 

[PITA]

He's one of mine as well but don't tell him.

I won't if you don't.

 

[summerisle]

Good point and let's hope he remains so. He is one of my favourite posters.

 

[Bilko]

the French flag is of equal proportions, 1/3rd each colour. however the French Ensign is of disproportionate sizes, 30%,33% and 37%, as below, this is too make the flag appear to be of equal size when on the back of a ship.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Wycliffe's bible, 1382, contains the first written instance of the word bollocks.

Leviticus 22, 24: Al beeste, that kitt and taken a wey the ballokes is, ye shulen not offre to the Lord

 

[Bilko]

the word Vagina originates from latin for sheath or scabbard.

 

[TheFinnFan]

Just learned theres salmiac pumped into our tab water here in finland

 

[Brisan123]

When Pope John Paul II visited Ireland in 1979, he said mass in Phoenix Park to 1.25 million people - one third of the population of the republic at that time.

I was there

 

[Black Belt Jones]

George Formby, filthy-minded shredder of the banjolele, was the biggest star in the UK in the 1940s. Estimated earnings of over £100000 per year, a staggering sum in those days. On his death in 1961, 750000 people lined the streets of Warrington for his funeral procession.