Did you know that...

[Swatopluk]

Did you know that Saudi Arabia imports sand from Scotland?

[Sibling DavidH]

Yes, I did - saw it on telly.   

DYKT Saudi Arabia has recently imposed a strict export ban on sand, because they're afraid they'll run out?

[Swatopluk]

Did you know that South Africa allows gay marriage but voted to keep LGBT people on the groups-not-excluded-from-genocide-and-related-treatment list at the UN?

[Sibling DavidH]

No, but I'm not surprised.


Did you know that an Iron-Age sheep gave only 14% of the weight of meat on an Iron-Age cow?

_{A.S. Esmonde Cleary, The Ending Of Roman Britain  p.103}

[Griffin NoName]

Was that why Roman Britain ended? The British High Street aint wot it used ter be. (Been watching it on TV).

[Swatopluk]

Did you know that an Iron-Age sheep gave only 14% of the weight of meat on an Iron-Age cow?

Has that changed with modern breeds? There are bulls around so big that images look like photoshopped but your standard sheep still ranges between knee and hip high.

[Sibling DavidH]

Was that why Roman Britain ended? The British High Street aint wot it used ter be. (Been watching it on TV).

It seems it ended because they went into a huge economic decline, nobody can entirely agree why.  Maybe they had a Labour government.  (Dig, dig, only joking.  )

Has that changed with modern breeds?

No idea!  I only threw it in because it's such a quintessentialy silly bit of trivia!

[Swatopluk]

I think think they realized that they were damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't about the chariot taxation. Either they hay* wagons blocked the roads or the battle chariots rolled over you.

*if you were lucky

[Sibling DavidH]

DYKT bees have five eyes?

[Swatopluk]

Did you know that enough Disney employees at the theme parks are so disgusted that their workplace became informally known as Mouseschwitz?
Btw, there is a town named Mauschwitz in Germany.

[Sibling DavidH]

Did you know that  Mozart wrote two canons in 1782, Leck mich im Arsch and Leck mir den Arsch fein recht schön sauber?  Did you also know that these titles are very rude and NSFW?

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

And as canons! It really sounds like him.

[Swatopluk]

The Bona Nox canon contains the line 'scheiß ins Bett daß' kracht'.
But it is pure calumny that he wrote original music for '2 Girls 1 Cup'

[Aggie]

Did you know that  Mozart wrote two canons in 1782, Leck mich im Arsch and Leck mir den Arsch fein recht schön sauber?  Did you also know that these titles are very rude and NSFW?

The rediscovered, probably original text reads:

Leck mire den A... recht schön,
fein sauber lecke ihn,
fein sauber lecke, leck mire den A...
Das ist ein fettigs Begehren,
nur gut mit Butter geschmiert,
den das Lecken der Braten mein tagliches Thun.
Drei lecken mehr als Zweie,
nur her, machet die Prob'
und leckt, leckt, leckt.
Jeder leckt sein A... fur sich.
   

Lick my ass nicely,
lick it nice and clean,
nice and clean, lick my ass.
That's a greasy desire,
nicely buttered,
like the licking of roast meat, my daily activity.
Three will lick more than two,
come on, just try it,
and lick, lick, lick.
Everybody lick his own ass himself.

[ivor]

He was a rock star in his day.   Love that movie Amadeus!