Amazing what trivia you pick up watching daytime TV!

PBo
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edited April 2012 in Commuting chat
Lord Nelson lived in a ménage a trois! (watching bargain hunt is a guilty pleasure of mine....)

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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    PBo wrote:
    Lord Nelson lived in a ménage a trois! (watching bargain hunt is a guilty pleasure of mine....)
    The good kind?
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  • PBo
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    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    PBo wrote:
    Lord Nelson lived in a ménage a trois! (watching bargain hunt is a guilty pleasure of mine....)
    The good kind?
    No...he shared an ex prostitute with another bloke....
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    PBo wrote:
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    PBo wrote:
    Lord Nelson lived in a ménage a trois! (watching bargain hunt is a guilty pleasure of mine....)
    The good kind?
    No...he shared an ex prostitute with another bloke....
    Not cool.
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  • SimonAH
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    Plastic Bertrand was a fraud and did not sing "Ca plane pour moi"

    The canary islands were named for the dogs there, there are no canaries on the canary islands.

    Barnacles have the longest penises relative to their bodies in the animal kingdom, and my daughter's bearded dragon has two willies (much like an earwig does) so that there is a spare in case one gets snapped off.

    Next!
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  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    SimonAH wrote:
    Plastic Bertrand was a fraud and did not sing "Ca plane pour moi"

    The canary islands were named for the dogs there, there are no canaries on the canary islands.

    Barnacles have the longest penises relative to their bodies in the animal kingdom, and my daughter's bearded dragon has two willies (much like an earwig does) so that there is a spare in case one gets snapped off.

    Next!
    Jesus....I never knew earwigs and bearded dragons had such dangerous sex lives.

    I obviously missed those editions of bargain hunt
    "so how much will that fetch at auction?"
    "well tim, we've put on a guide price of £40."
    "well the contestants will be happy, as they only paid £20 -which is only a tenner a penis after all...."
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,898
    edited April 2012
    SimonAH wrote:
    Plastic Bertrand was a fraud and did not sing "Ca plane pour moi"

    The canary islands were named for the dogs there, there are no canaries on the canary islands.

    Barnacles have the longest penises relative to their bodies in the animal kingdom, and my daughter's bearded dragon has two willies (much like an earwig does) so that there is a spare in case one gets snapped off.

    Next!

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  • PBo
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    The canary islands were named for the dogs there, there are no canaries on the canary islands.

    There are no dogs on the isle of dogs, only canaries. Apart from canary wharf, where there are no canaries, only dogs....
  • DrLex
    DrLex Posts: 2,142
    SimonAH wrote:
    Plastic Bertrand was a fraud and did not sing "Ca plane pour moi"[...]

    Awwww man! I'll be sad all afternoon now; another idol smashed. And yet he was Luxembourg's entry in Eurovision in the late Eighties.
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  • kelsen
    kelsen Posts: 2,003
    PBo wrote:

    The canary islands were named for the dogs there, there are no canaries on the canary islands.

    There are no dogs on the isle of dogs, only canaries. Apart from canary wharf, where there are no canaries, only dogs....
    What about the Isle of Man?
  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    No men there, not even one called Douglas....
  • Kendal Black Drop
    Kendal Black Drop Posts: 638
    kelsen wrote:
    PBo wrote:

    The canary islands were named for the dogs there, there are no canaries on the canary islands.

    There are no dogs on the isle of dogs, only canaries. Apart from canary wharf, where there are no canaries, only dogs....
    What about the Isle of Man?

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  • Ben6899
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    It's not the best one day race on the calendar, but Fleche Wallone is on Eurosport. That has to be better than "Gash in the Attic".
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  • rick_chasey
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    Ben6899 wrote:
    It's not the best one day race on the calendar, but Fleche Wallone is on Eurosport. That has to be better than "Gash in the Attic".

    I was mocking a chap yesterday who took an afternoon off a while back to watch it live.

    Andy Schleck's gone into the attack for no apparent reason mind.
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  • suzyb
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    Ben6899 wrote:
    It's not the best one day race on the calendar, but Fleche Wallone is on Eurosport. That has to be better than "Gash in the Attic".
    Darn it, I forgot it was on :(
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  • EKE_38BPM
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    PBo wrote:

    The canary islands were named for the dogs there, there are no canaries on the canary islands.

    There are no dogs on the isle of dogs, only canaries. Apart from canary wharf, where there are no canaries, only dogs....
    A former king, Henry VIII I think, used to exercise his dogs there and that is apparently how it got its name.
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  • rick_chasey
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    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Spital Fields is a contraction of Hospital Fields and was the cemetery for a hospital in the area. I think it may have been a plague pit.

    Correct.
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