Did you know that...

[Roland Deschain]

Did you know that I used to work with this guy?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00v5h0z/The_Imran_Yusuf_Show/

*sorry if you 'Murkins can't access it.

[Sibling DavidH]

Hmm.  That must have been a laugh.

[Griffin NoName]

What did you do? Prop up his ego?

[Roland Deschain]

Hmm.  That must have been a laugh.

He left not long after I started there, but what I do remember is laughing a lot.

What did you do? Prop up his ego?

He was a few desks away from me in a different sub-department. I found his show funny, as I do his stand-up.

[Swatopluk]

Did you know that in 1854  the 16t Cornish fishing boat Mystery set sail from Newlyn (Cornwall) for Australia with a crew of 7 and arrived in Melbourne after 115 days (including a one week stay at the Cape of Good Hope)?

[Pachyderm]

The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Periwinkle Blue.

[Sibling DavidH]

DYKT Hitler really did have only one testicle, after the other one was shot off in the battle of the Somme in 1916?

[Swatopluk]

The only source for that is the Russian autopsy report that is unfortunately rather biased, e.g. it tried at first to deny that Hitler shot himself because poison seemed more 'appropriate' than the 'honourable' bullet (Hitler used both as far as we can tell).

Btw DYKT the (in)famous text for the Colonel Bogey march existed before said report became known in the West?

[Griffin NoName]

Shame some other parts weren't shot off too.....

Heloo Patchy, nice to see you.

[Swatopluk]

Well, then Germany might have had just 'normal' fascism (it does not look as if there were other options in the 30ies except, with low probability, Stalinism). It was a mistake to end the war in 1918. It should have been either in late 1914 (with a status quo ante solution) or in summer 1919 (with a 1945 without the Russians). Both would have been better in the long term.

[Griffin NoName]

The 1/2 life of the radio-active content of a banana is 1.25 billion years?

[The Meromorph]

The 1/2 life of the radio-active content of a banana is 1.25 billion years?

That is the most incandescently useless piece of information that I have ever encountered! 
Well done, sweet Sibling! Bloody well done!

[Sibling DavidH]

That is the most incandescently useless piece of information that I have ever encountered!

No, it's not.  Now we know how long to leave bananas until they're totally safe to eat.

[Roland Deschain]

Somewhere in the distant future...

"Captain Zarquon, we have the results back from the banana, and it's safe to eat."

"At last, after us guardians spent 10 billion years protecting and nurturing this dangerous fruit, it is time to awaken the God David."

"Awaken the God David. Long may he sleep."

*sound of gears and locks well-oiled for eons builds to a crescendo, followed by a loud BANG!*

"YOU HAVE AWOKEN ME! IS IT TIME?"

"Yes my lord, it is time. The shields held, but the ten outer shells have been changed many times from the gamma ray damage."

"THIS IS GOOD. YOU HAVE DONE WELL, MY YOUNG APPRENTICE. BRING ME THE BANANA!"

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Did you know i'm wearing odd socks today?

[Sibling DavidH]

Is that a matching pair of strange socks, or two unmatched normal socks, or two unmatched strange socks?