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Steve NordRunner Apr 2021 10:17am, 2 Apr 2021 607 posts	0 Steve NordRunner After a bad case of Johnson's fluid it's wise to soothe it with some of the baby powder.
swittle Apr 2021 11:30am, 2 Apr 2021 74,294 posts	0 swittle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-NtP-euKI
ChrisHB Apr 2021 4:11pm, 2 Apr 2021 20,802 posts	0 ChrisHB That the sun can be the same colour as the moon, and with a suitable scattering of cloud in front of it, can appear also to be mountainous.
Night-owl Apr 2021 8:17pm, 2 Apr 2021 36,081 posts	0 Night-owl I probably knew it but forgotten till today, but Watership Down when released at the cinema was given a U certificate
swittle Apr 2021 12:30pm, 4 Apr 2021 74,351 posts	0 swittle That Marwa Elselehdar, Egypt's first female ship's captain, was blamed for blocking the Suez canal. "...At the time of the Suez blockage, Ms Elselehdar was working as a first mate, in command of the Aida IV, hundreds of miles away in Alexandria..." bbc.co.uk
Eynsham Red Apr 2021 5:50pm, 4 Apr 2021 7,440 posts	0 Eynsham Red That I would get to 5:45pm today and still not have opened my Easter Egg. Apple pie and ice cream for tea so it might not get started until tomorrow 🤔
FESE443 (AllShare) :-) Apr 2021 9:16pm, 4 Apr 2021 5,531 posts	0 FESE443 (AllShare) :-) [21:15 here, ER. But we have had Christmas pudding ]
McGoohan Apr 2021 10:48am, 6 Apr 2021 49,120 posts	0 McGoohan There is a town in Poland, Ząbkowice Śląskie, that is called Frankenstein in German. It has a ruined castle, so there really is a Castle Frankenstein. en.wikipedia.org The town also has a Leaning Tower en.wikipedia.org
WtnMel Apr 2021 12:44pm, 6 Apr 2021 2,138 posts	0 WtnMel [McG's post didn't immediately make me think of Young Frankenstein, Frau Blucher and I didn't then hear whinnying horses in my head ]
GordonG Apr 2021 2:38pm, 6 Apr 2021 8,538 posts	0 GordonG That when you use a new credit card for the first time at Sainsbury's to get petrol, and you select 'pay at the pump', Sainsbury's will charge your card £99 as a 'security measure' regardless of how much petrol you bought, then pay back the balance in a couple of days when you pass their security checks.