The tell us something we don't know thread

[Interpol Shrimper]

If Brooklyn wasn't one of the 5 boroughs of New York City, it would be the 4th biggest metropolitan area in the USA!

 

[Clinton Baptiste]

I've just had a nice relaxing dump.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Eminem sampled Chas & Dave's music on a Labi Sifre song for his ditty "My name is..."

Not so trendy now eh kids!

 

[C C Csiders]

And ER....

And er what?

Anyway, Alan Dale wasn't he the minstrel with Robin Hoods Merry Men.

There is no word in the Albanian language for tinsel.

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

There is no word in the Albanian language for tinsel.

Same as Welsh, where there's no direct translation of "It's my round!"

 

[DTS]

Scottish peoples urine comes out the same colour as Iron Bru.

 

[Napster]

there's no French word for shallow

 

[MK Shrimper]

There is no word to rhyme with orange.

 

[Vange Shrimper]

Essex is the most populated county in England.

Basildon has the highest average number of underage mothers compared to the average of the whole of England. Oh dear...

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Basildon has the highest average number of underage mothers compared to the average of the whole of England. Oh dear...

Does it, blimey? I thought that "honour" belonged to Doncaster or Rotherham (or some other god-foresaken place in South Yorkshire)!!!

 

[Vange Shrimper]

Does it, blimey? I thought that "honour" belonged to Doncaster or Rotherham (or some other god-foresaken place in South Yorkshire)!!!

Oh how I missed dodging the buggies in Basildon when I was in Cheltenham for 3 years!! :rolleyes:

 

[Uncle Leo]

There is no word to rhyme with orange.

Not quite. The surname Gorringe (as in Chris, former Chief Exec of the All England Club) rhymes with orange.

 

[Uncle Leo]

The Hawthorns (WBA) is the highest altitude ground in the Premier and Football Leagues

 

[Vange Shrimper]

The Hawthorns (WBA) is the highest altitude ground in the Premier and Football Leagues

Grimsby has the lowest altitude - only 2ft above sea level.

 

[C C Csiders]

The British Jury in the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest gave ABBA's Waterloo nul points.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Kenneth Williams appeared in more Carry On films than anyone else

 

[Napster]

San Diego was discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course in German means a whale's vagina.

 

[Vange Shrimper]

Wherever a person is standing in the state of Michigan, they are within 85 miles of one of the Great Lakes.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

In German, there is no direct translation for the word "fluffy".

However, they do have the word "Schadenfreude" - literally "Shame-joy", which is a word which describes the malicious enjoyment of someone else's misfortune.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Not quite. The surname Gorringe (as in Chris, former Chief Exec of the All England Club) rhymes with orange.

Ok smarty, I want to see a song with "Gorringe" in the lyrics!