Games & Recreation Pointless Trivia

[Rod Stroker]

This is true, however Family Guy first aired in 1999.

Maybe he meant American Dad instead?

 

[Rod Stroker]

Google's founders were looking for buyers back in 1999... web company Excite were interested, but baulked at the USD$1m asking price.

Page and Brin then offered the company for $750k, but Excite again declined, believing it was over the odds.

15 years later: Google Inc is worth $364 billion.

Dang.

Yeah this is folklore in the industry for monumental cockups.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Yeah this is folklore in the industry for monumental cockups.

I think it's officially the biggest business cockup in history.

 

[Gough]

Yeah this is folklore in the industry for monumental cockups.

Up there with the Decca Records exec who rejected The Beatles opining that guitar bands were on the way out.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Or my wife's great-uncle, who missed a regulation stumping of Len Hutton when he'd made just 40 of the 364 he would finish with...

 

[Illinois Nazi]

And the head of the US Patent Office (around about 1900, can't recall the exact year) who declared that "everything which can be invented has been invented".

 

[Gough]

Or my wife's great-uncle, who missed a regulation stumping of Len Hutton when he'd made just 40 of the 364 he would finish with...

Your wife's great uncle in Ben Barnett? Lame (or not so IMO) claims to fame thread worthy.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Your wife's great uncle in Ben Barnett? Lame (or not so IMO) claims to fame thread worthy.

I may have already put it in that thread - I know I've mentioned it on BigFooty before. It may even have been your good self that corrected me when I erroneously stated it was a dropped catch rather than missed stumping.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Or my wife's great-uncle, who missed a regulation stumping of Len Hutton when he'd made just 40 of the 364 he would finish with...

That is awesome.

Great lame claim to fame as Gough said.

 

[worbod]

Gene Simmons released a version of When You Wish Upon a Star in 1978.

 

[treefingers]

Mike Pyke is on the Canadian team on Rugby '06 for Xbox and Ps2.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

All the gold mined in the history of world would make up only one 20mx20mx20m cube.

 

[The_Reaper]

Mike Pyke is on the Canadian team on Rugby '06 for Xbox and Ps2.

Jonathan Trott is South African in either the 2007 or 2008 version of the cricket games

 

[Doss]

In some computer cricket game I was playing years and years ago (I'm talking about 2001), Shane Warne and Paul Rieffel put on a partnership of 625 for the eighth wicket. Rieffel made 318, Warne 382.

That fact has changed the world to the degree of precisely nothing.

 

[Cruyff14]

Gough will crack a fat over that.

 

[Gough]

Gough will crack a fat over that.

Gaming has never much been my thing, last console I owned was Super Nintendo, which I stil have somewhere. I liked treefingers Mike Pyke thing though, only man with a try against the ABs in a Test and a premiership medal.

 

[Quivorir]

I actually bought a cricket game today Gough

 

[Gough]

I actually bought a cricket game today Gough

Do you need the rules explained?

 

[RedmanWasHere]

The Canary Islands are named after Dogs.

The bikini was named after the Bikini Atoll.

The theme song to Cops (Bad Boys) was done by Inner Circle and NOT Bob Marley.

 

[The Passenger]

The bikini was named after the Bikini Atoll.

The chick who modelled the first bikini was still alive a couple of years ago. remember reading it in some article. never bothered to check that fact, and no idea if she's still alive.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Here's a footy one. The Wakelin twins (Darryl and Shane) don't share the same birthday.

http://australianfootball.com/players/player/Shane+Wakelin/13368

Wakelin's identical twin Darryl Wakelin played alongside him at St Kilda. Wakelin was born on 12 August 1974. Darryl was born on 11 August as he was born a number of minutes before midnight and Shane was a born a number of minutes after midnight...

 

[Quivorir]

Do you need the rules explained?

Nah mate, just gotta hit the ball. Not that hard.

Although I did learn you can only do two bouncers an over before they become a wide...Why?

 

[pekay-norwest]

The suburb of Glenelg has the rare distinction of being spelt the same forwards and backwards.

And Tumut, Southern NSW

 

[Norwegian Blue]

The theme song to Cops (Bad Boys) was done by Inner Circle and NOT Bob Marley.

There are people who don't know this?

It sounds nothing like Bob Marley.

 

[The Passenger]

Here's a footy one. The Wakelin twins (Darryl and Shane) don't share the same birthday.

Twins born 87 days apart

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...s-apart-ireland-guiness-record_n_3186135.html

I'm not sure if they survived but I think they made it through the worst of it, so should be good.