Games & Recreation Pointless Trivia

[worbod]

Baby eels are called elvers.

 

[Freofalcon]

Baby eels are called elvers.

Thread delivers.

 

[Gough]

The first known recording of Joe Cocker singing is him doing Georgia on my Mind, which is somehow perfect.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Israel has attempted to qualify for the FIFA World Cup through three confederations having been a past member Asia, a current member of Europe and via Oceania (non member) when no one else would play with them.

In doing so they've played qualifying matches against teams from every continent except North America.

Goalkeeper Lutz Pfannenstiel played club football on every continent.

He also died on the field before being revived, once stole a penguin to keep as a pet, was found guilty of match fixing and played for 25 clubs.

Now retired and is Head of Scouting for Hoffenheim.

 

[Scotland]

Lutz Pfannestiel. The name alone is worth knowing. What a lad.

 

[worbod]

In Thailand people have water fights to celebrate New Year's.

 

[Gough]

Adrian Mole just turned 50.

 

[HairyO]

Peanuts are neither peas nor nuts.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Adrian Mole just turned 50.

I wonder if he's still obsessed with the size of his dick.

And where is Pandora today, and Barry Kent?

 

[the fly]

Adrian Mole just turned 50.

based on the earlier or the later books?

 

[Gough]

based on the earlier or the later books?

He turned 14 in the first bit of the Secret Diary which was set in 1981.
Mole is on literature's great antiheroes imo, I was devastated when Sue Townsend died, because so did he.

 

[worbod]

There is an Italian artist who paints portraits of famous people on fingers.

http://www.amusingplanet.com/2012/10/portraits-of-famous-people-on-fingers.html

I pity the fool who doesn't enjoy this.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Jeanne Calment, the oldest person ever verified at 122 years, 164 days, outlived a 115 year old (Charlotte Marion Hughes, 1877-1993) and a 109 year old (Augusta Bunge, 1879-1989.)

As you can see, Hughes outlived Bunge herself.

The 3 of them outlived Charlie Chaplin and Pablo Picasso, both of whom were born in the 1880's and died in the 1970's.

Sidenote: Augusta Bunge was the matriarch of the most generations (7) alive at once.

 

[worbod]

There is a particular fleshy item, usually 10 to 12 centimetres in length, which is known to turn white if left in the dark for a long period of time.
It is commonly known as a goldfish.

 

[PhatBoy]

Jeanne Calment, the oldest person ever verified at 122 years, 164 days, outlived a 115 year old (Charlotte Marion Hughes, 1877-1993) and a 109 year old (Augusta Bunge, 1879-1989.)

As you can see, Hughes outlived Bunge herself.

The 3 of them outlived Charlie Chaplin and Pablo Picasso, both of whom were born in the 1880's and died in the 1970's.

Sidenote: Augusta Bunge was the matriarch of the most generations (7) alive at once.

My grandma turns 107 in September. She'll smash Calmente to pieces.

 

[Gough]

107 is mighty impressive, mine got to 94, and 91 before checking out, it's lovely if you're lucky enough to get to know your grandparents as adults. I was talking to my Nan one day when she casually mentioned she went to a rally where she saw Hitler speak in the 1930s. Please not my Nan was not a fascist. She was a Catholic.

 

[GeelongFTW]

lol my great-grandma is younger than your grandmothers. (80-odd)

 

[Gough]

My great grandfather was 64 when my Gran arrived, he'd be 179 now.

 

[PhatBoy]

lol my great-grandma is younger than your grandmothers. (80-odd)

My mum's oldest sister is 84 and regularly has to re-assure people that she doesn't have dementia when they look at her funny when she tells them she is going to visit her mother.

 

[worbod]

The first choice of a name for Disney's Hannah Montana was Alexis Texas, but it was already taken by a pr0n star.

 

[akkaps]

The first choice of a name for Disney's Hannah Montana was Alexis Texas, but it was already taken by a pr0n star.

That hasn't stopped pornstars naming themselvess after celebs and characters.

 

[ioppolo]

The first choice of a name for Disney's Hannah Montana was Alexis Texas, but it was already taken by a pr0n star.

Didn't need to finish reading the post to know where that was going.

 

[Forward Press]

France and the Netherlands share a land border - but not in Europe.

 

[Procrastinator35]

France and the Netherlands share a land border - but not in Europe.

Antarctica?

 

[CJApples87]

Antarctica?

South America.