[Zoot]

The word 'Berk' actually derived from 'Berkley Hunt', * Rhyming for, well, take a wild guess...

[S4B]

Oooh now I like that one Zooty. Don't get the rhyme though, maybe I'm just too innocent?

errr I'm struggling now, got up too early.

Oh I know

There are over 6 billion dust mites in the average bed!

[Ballbag]

The word slut describes a dirty, untidy, or slovenly woman who is deemed sexually promiscuous in nature and it dates back to the 15th Century.

[S4B]

That's me honey although I neither date back to the 15th Century nor am I dirty (well not in the unwashed sense). My sluttishness is for books (in the main, although I seem to be deveolping an unhealthy taste for this website too! God I need to go back to work!)

fact for Catherine

14% of cat owners say that their cat is more important than their job! (confession: that one I did get from a newspaper a little while back!)

[Yudster]

In Arkansas it is a criminal offence to mispronounce the word "Arkansas".

[Zoot]

It is Illegal to eat Mince Pies on Christmas Day.

[S4B]

They should spell it as it sounds then! muppets. What punishment do you get Yuds? A fine, imprisonment or death?

Charlie Chaplin once won third place in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike competition.

[Yudster]

I can't remember which US state it was, but one passed a law just this year that it is an offence to be in a public place with any part of your underwear showing. I quite like that law, it would be great if all the chavs around here had to pull their trousers up.

[foot-loose]

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.

Console, you are one sexy beast.

[Console]

And that's a fact.

[S4B]

It is Illegal to eat Mince Pies on Christmas Day.

What? Where? Why? I think this is a good thing if true cos I hate mince pies.

SWIMS is the longest word with 180 degree rotational symetry

[MK Chris]

The word 'Berk' actually derived from 'Berkley Hunt', * Rhyming for, well, take a wild guess...

Is that not common knowledge? It can also be pronounced 'Bark', which is the proper pronunciation for the full version.

Charlie Chaplin once won third place in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike competition.

Yeah, I found that funny when I first heard it.

There are lots of silly ancient by-laws that have never been changed, I'm sure somewhere it's legal to shoot a Welshman with a bow and arrow or something. London Hackney cab drivers must carry a bale of hay and sack of oats in the boot.

[S4B]

The bow and arrow thing is bizarre I can't remember where it is however it is legal to hang a Welsman in Chester after dark!

[S4B]

Errr Lottie I think you should check that fact and get back to us! Speaking for the retail world that would mean you could drop something on the floor, pick it up and that wouldn't be stealing? Very dubious.

however it is a fact that
1 year is exactly 365 days 5 hours, 48 minutes and 54.4 seconds and yes Baggie I looked that one up!

[S4B]

Do you believe everything you're told honey?

a grasshopper needs a minimum air temp of 62 degrees farenheit before it can jump! Don't know what that is in new money!

[foot-loose]

each day is something like 23hrs and 56mins long - hence why we get a leap year every four years - to make up for the missing few minutes.

[S4B]

Not from my point of view it wouldn't I stack books on the floor!

Red Haired men are more likely to go bald than anyone else

[MK Chris]

each day is something like 23hrs and 56mins long - hence why we get a leap year every four years - to make up for the missing few minutes.

Yeah, but that makes up for slightly too much of it, so some years ending 00 are not a leap year (though 2000 was). I'm not sure what the rule is for this, but it still means that once every several thousand years we are about a day out or something.

[foot-loose]

each day is something like 23hrs and 56mins long - hence why we get a leap year every four years - to make up for the missing few minutes.

Yeah, but that makes up for slightly too much of it, so some years ending 00 are not a leap year (though 2000 was). I'm not sure what the rule is for this, but it still means that once every several thousand years we are about a day out or something.

Do we not add a second on every now and then - I remember seeing a video of the BBC 24 countdown to a new year and at 1 second to go, they let it run for two seconds - something about the atomic clocks being out by a second...?

A female orgasm is a powerful painkiller due to the release of endorphins.
Found that out yesterday

Were you getting your rocks off at the time?

[Console]

some years ending 00 are not a leap year (though 2000 was). I'm not sure what the rule is for this

It's any century that is divisible by 400 that isn't a leap year.

[S4B]

A female orgasm is a powerful painkiller due to the release of endorphins.
Found that out yesterday as well as the spelling of endorphins not endolphins as I always thought it was.

Great fact lottie

Goes hand in hand with

Chocolate is a great substitute for sex as it releases the same endorphins as the female orgasm! - just imagine a chocolate induced orgasm girls

[Console]

Do we not add a second on every now and then - I remember seeing a video of the BBC 24 countdown to a new year and at 1 second to go, they let it run for two seconds - something about the atomic clocks being out by a second...??

Yes we do, they're called leap seconds. We add a second because of the change of rotational speed of the Earth, but due to the variable nature of this deceleration there's not really a easy to state pattern to when we add these seconds. I think the last one was at the beginning of '06.

[DemonHorse]

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?

yeah because he's really ComicBookGuy from The Simpsons...

A female orgasm is a powerful painkiller due to the release of endorphins.

Hence "I have a headache" NOT being a valid excuse for not having sex

[Console]

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?

yeah because he's really ComicBookGuy from The Simpsons...

Worst deduction, ever!

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

Sir Sandy Dean was the first man to ever say the word "wrongness" and campaigned for it to be in the dictionary right up until his death in 1984.