Groucho's Fact Hunt

[deipnosophist]

You are Brendan Rodgers and i claim my prize.

there was an old advert here in NZ/Aus (1970s) which carried punchline 'now, we can all get get some sleep". It attempted to sell a non alcoholic faux spirit, 'Claytons'.

....that's your prize

 

[Tramps_mate]

The discovery of petroleum in the US threatened the livelihood of sperm whale oil chemist Robert Chesebrough.

But curious for opportunity, he travelled to the oilfields of Pennsylvania to discover workers had been soothing their cuts and burns with a residue left on the oil pumps.

Cheseborough would later extract a jelly from the residue, and patented it on May 14, 1878.

He named the product Vaseline, and was such an advocate that he would eat a spoonful of it every day.

Queen Victoria was so taken with Vaseline that she granted Cheseborough a knighthood.

Was it not called petroleum jelly first?

 

[hallamblue]

In 1979 there was a 150th year celebration and the ran every old steam train they could getup and down that section of Rainhill track.
I took pictures from the school field at the back of Whiston Hospital, with a shight camera, of as many as I could, I'll try and dig them out, I doubt they're all there though as Mrs degsy had a sort out ages ago and I think she biffed out all the ones that didn't have the kids in them - women.

I went to that as a kid, be great to see some photos.

 

[degsy]

Was it not called petroleum jelly first?

Who knows

 

[degsy]

I went to that as a kid, be great to see some photos.

Like I said, there are a few in a box somewhere, but mrs degsy had a clean out one time...as they do...could've been prior to a move?...and biffed out any that didn't have one or both of the kids in them...however in the distance they were.
It's on my list of things to do one day

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

This is really btw...fact

 

[Black Belt Jones]

In the movie American Psycho, when the detective (Willem Dafoe) first meets Bateman to question him about a disappearance, the director Mary Harron asked Dafoe to play it three different ways - unsuspecting, suspecting, and certain that Bateman was the murderer. Parts from each take were then spliced together to give the final scene - gives that un-real and unsettling feel that the whole film has.

 

[Tramps_mate]

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This is really btw...fact

Really what?

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Really what?

I meant real.

 

[kev]

The worlds deepest man made hole is over 12.2 Km or 7.5 miles deep.
The 'Kola Superdeep Borehole' is near the Russian border with Norway. Drilling was halted in 1992 due to the temperature reached (180C or 356 F) and the spiralling costs.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

In the movie American Psycho, when the detective (Willem Dafoe) first meets Bateman to question him about a disappearance, the director Mary Harron asked Dafoe to play it three different ways - unsuspecting, suspecting, and certain that Bateman was the murderer. Parts from each take were then spliced together to give the final scene - gives that un-real and unsettling feel that the whole film has.

So Christian Bale has played Bateman and Batman.

 

[kev]

So Christian Bale has played Bateman and Batman.

He stopped using e's

 

[4737carlin]

In the movie American Psycho, when the detective (Willem Dafoe) first meets Bateman to question him about a disappearance, the director Mary Harron asked Dafoe to play it three different ways - unsuspecting, suspecting, and certain that Bateman was the murderer. Parts from each take were then spliced together to give the final scene - gives that un-real and unsettling feel that the whole film has.

Love this info, speaking of Psycho's do you know about the choice of colour of Janet Leigh lingerie in Psycho?

She starts out in white, symbolism for purity and innocence but after her crime of stealing she wears black


Same with her handbag and dress in the office, white to dark once she is a criminal

 

[canuckblue]

The discovery of petroleum in the US threatened the livelihood of sperm whale oil chemist Robert Chesebrough.

But curious for opportunity, he travelled to the oilfields of Pennsylvania to discover workers had been soothing their cuts and burns with a residue left on the oil pumps.

Cheseborough would later extract a jelly from the residue, and patented it on May 14, 1878.

He named the product Vaseline, and was such an advocate that he would eat a spoonful of it every day.

Queen Victoria was so taken with Vaseline that she granted Cheseborough a knighthood.

That tight, was she?

 

[larbert toffee]

So Christian Bale has played Bateman and Batman.

He won't really have made it until he plays @the sniderman