[fish heads]

No it means there are a significant number of people who have only one leg, or none, for whatever reason. That makes the average number of legs per person less than 2 - unless there are loads of people who have 3 or 4 to balance it out. The average number of legs per person is probably something like 1.9999999 or whatever, but it'll be less than 2

[fish heads]

What console said 2 seconds before me basically

[S4B]

Jeremy Paxman was turned down as a contestant for University Challenge when he was a student!

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona
For some California grass.

True story.

[S4B]

The word queue is the only word in the english language that is still pronounced the same way when the last 4 letters are removed

[Console]

The word Aitch is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the first 4 letters are removed.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

*applauds*

[S4B]

The word Aitch is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the first 4 letters are removed.

I will also applaud that!

Sol Campbell's first name is actually Sulzeer

[Walter Sobchak]

Sir Walter Raleigh WASN'T the first person to bring tobacco to Britain.

[S4B]

Ooh I like that one. Who was?

a Zambian man divorced his wife after he found a frog in a cup of tea she gave him

[foot-loose]

It's a math thing. The most common number of legs a human on this planet has is two, but there are some with legs missing (either through some sort of amputation, or a birth defect), so when you add up all the legs, and divide by the number of people, you get a number less than two (something like 1.999...). There are of course a few people that have to be difficult and have more than two legs to try and balance it out, but their numbers aren't significant enough to overcome the number of people with less than two legs.

Ahh fair enough. I dont tend to think of people to the nearest decimal place...



All things written in a forum are proved correct if you finish your post with the word "fact" in capital letters.

FACT.

[S4B]

one last one before I go to bed

The Poet William Wordsworth could only sleep standing up!

[Zoot]

is it mars a day Console?

No, it was actually a reference to Mars, the Roman God of War. The name Wednesday is derived from a Latin phrase meaning Mercury day (Mercury being the Roman God of Business (I think)) and so 'jokingly' I chose a different God, one that starts with the same letter and is also a name of a planet.

A another useless bit of trivia, I've just checked Wikipedia and Marsday is actually what Tuesday is derived from (I thought Thursday was derived from it, but I checked and it obviously wasn't), so I now vote we change Wednesday to Xenaday.

R D R R Bart, Har De Har Har!

[Console]

I never liked that joke, no real mathematician would split up a squared number into its component parts, and then split them up even further by putting the derivative of 'R' in the middle of them; it's just silly. Also, why were they doing a derivative of 'R' when using 'X' is the convention in most cases; the only time you'd reasonably use 'R' is if you were creating circles, but then you wouldn't really care about the gradient of it (and I'm not entirely sure it can be derived anyway). Besides, for the derivate to be R^2 DR, the formula of the graph would have to be Y = (R^3 / 3) + c (they possibly state this in the show, I can't remember), which is obviously a curve and not a circle.

[S4B]

Console you really are a geek!

The blood in the shower scene in the original Psycho movie was actually chocolate syrup

[Zoot]

Congratulations Console, you've just broken your own record for being pedantic.
Do you go to TV Conventions and mention these mistakes at Q and A sessions?

[S4B]

I wouldn't be at all suprised if he did Zoot.

Ancient egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats

[Console]

Console you really are a geek!

Thank you!

Do you go to TV Conventions and mention these mistakes at Q and A sessions?

No, although I'm sure someone else brought it up.

[Console]

Water is blue; is that less gobbledygook for you?

[Zoot]

Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, Brian Jones and Pigpen all died when they were 27

[S4B]

Water is not blue it's to do with sunlight absorbtion that makes it appear blue.

However here's a true colour fact!

In the 18th century all carrots were either purple or white. Dutch farmers decided to cultivate orange crops as it's their national colour

[Console]

Water is not blue it's to do with sunlight absorbtion that makes it appear blue.

Common misconception; water is actually blue in hue.

[S4B]

Hmmm but only very slightly.

Tuesday is the most productive day of the working week - all downhill now then guys!

[Ballbag]

Slut are you just spouting from a book?

[S4B]

No. I actually know lots of little gems! As I said yesterday you underestimate me! How was the free night out?

In Italy a man can be arrested if he wears a skirt in public