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Nov 2017
7:12am, 11 Nov 2017
5,112 posts
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NDWDave
Blofeld the Bond villain is named after the father of the Cricket commentator
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Nov 2017
9:03am, 11 Nov 2017
5,673 posts
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Wobbling
...because Ian Fleming went to school with Henry ‘my dear old thing’ Blofeld’s dad and Fleming decided it was the most evil sounding name he’d ever heard.
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Nov 2017
2:24pm, 13 Nov 2017
31,717 posts
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GlennR
Virus is the Latin word for slime.
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Nov 2017
5:52pm, 14 Nov 2017
29,865 posts
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Night-owl
The hole puncher is 131 years old
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Nov 2017
1:26pm, 17 Nov 2017
7,335 posts
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GordonG
That liver explodes if you reheat it in a microwave. a lot.
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Nov 2017
1:31pm, 17 Nov 2017
7,336 posts
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GordonG
[…and further to the Bond fact above, it’s likely that Fleming chose 007 as Bond’s code because – somewhat disappointingly – this is the number of the coach service that goes from London to where Fleming lived on the Kent coast for a while. And still is to this day…]
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Nov 2017
1:58pm, 17 Nov 2017
29,890 posts
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Night-owl
(Gordon did you learn this about liver from personal experience)
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Nov 2017
3:43pm, 17 Nov 2017
15,623 posts
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ChrisHB
What the numbers mean that the dentist calls out while prodding your gums (0=ok, 4=you should be ashamed of yourself).
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Nov 2017
9:52pm, 18 Nov 2017
15,625 posts
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ChrisHB
(With reference to Greggs' contrived "scandal" to get lots of cheap publicity)
That "Lord Jesus" written backwards spells sausage roll (susejd rol).
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Nov 2017
12:02pm, 21 Nov 2017
7,340 posts
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GordonG
[night-owl - yes, but at least my work colleagues ended up with a newly-cleaned microwave afterwards!]
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