Games & Recreation Pointless Trivia

[Wallaby]

Hull is the only city in Britain named after a part of a ship.

Well, apart from Bow, which is a suburb in London (where the Bow Bells are).

Or Bulwark, in Wales.

There's a Keel in Ireland (maybe it's Keele? Not sure).

 

[Wallaby]

Avon is Old English for river so River Avon is river river

There are 4 River Avons in England, 3 in Scotland, 2 or 3 in Wales, several in Canada and NZ and 5 in Australia (Woohoo!!! Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!!).

 

[wally funk]

That's just bloody confusing!

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Pink Floyd were such fans of Monty Python on TV that their album Dark Side of the Moon funded some of the first Monty Python movie

Led Zeppelin tipped in some cash too.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail was one of Elvis Presley's favourite films that he would watch all the time.

George Harrison helped fund Life of Brian too.

Just about funded it single-handedly. Been described as the most expensive movie ticket ever, as when he was asked why he put up the money he said, "because I wanted to see the movie".

 

[Illinois Nazi]

While on Pink Floyd, they were Dr Who fans as well, or at least David Gilmour was. The Dr Who theme music can be heard in many live Pink Floyd recordings from the early 70's right through to the 90's.

 

[Gough]

Garcia was a big Close Encounters fan, and he used to work the theme tune into some of the jams.

 

[edgie]

Coinciding with the Razors Edge tour, the Soviet Union disintegrated. As a token of thanks for his youthful followers, Boris Yeltsin arranged for AC/DC to add Moscow to the tour. The venue had to be relocated numerous times due to high demand, eventually settling on an airfield. Due to the volatile political and economic climate, the Russian ruble was suffering from severe inflation. For an extremely short period of time, Angus Bucks dropped on the crowd had more value than the ruble itself and were actually used for regular monetary transactions.[1]

 

[Registered User]

Talk about The Right Stuff. Far'k me dead.

During the launch of Apollo 16, astronaut Charlie Duke's heart rate was just over 140 beats per minute, but John Young's was 70!!!!
I could get mine that high just thinking about it!!

And as they were landing on the Moon, Young's heart rate got up to 90; Armstrong's was 150bpm when he landed. I am in awe!! Talk about cool!!! Faark!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Young_(astronaut)

 

[exe ex machina]

men on the moon lol

 

[Wosh]

men on the moon lol

Nasa had to rename the sizes of the apparatus used for male astronauts to pee, from small, medium and large..to large, gigantic and humongous because no one was willing to pick their true size.

 

[wally funk]

Reminds me of a stupid Drew Carey joke: My dick is so big, movie theatre popcorn now comes in Small, Medium, Large and My Dick.

 

[GreyCrow]

Some say Andy Kaufman isn't dead

 

[worbod]

The largest Where's Wally gathering was established in Ireland on June 19, 2011, with 3,872 people "finding" each other for the event.

 

[DroopStDanny]

Tintin is called Tantan in Japanese because TinTin is pronounced ‘Chin chin’ and means penis.

 

[imadodgyumpire]

NZ have just had their most successful Olympics.

 

[Gough]

Edgar Mayne's hundred against South Australia in 1919 was the first first class hundred to be scored with a bat made of Australian willow, W.W. Armstrong's 158 against England in Sydney a year later was the first Test match hundred to be scored with home grown willow.

 

[The old campaigner]

NZ have just had their most successful Olympics.

So have Fiji.

 

[The_Todd07]

Avon is Old English for river so River Avon is river river

Los Angeles translates to The Angels

Therefore the MLB team, The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim can also be called The The Angels Angels of Anaheim

 

[imadodgyumpire]

I'd just like to thank contributors on this tread. Because it helps me contribute to similar thread on other sites.

 

[Marklar_33]

Shits me when people recycle my stories elsewhere

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Shits me when people recycle my stories elsewhere

Wrong thread. https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/things-that-shit-me-part-x-the-tenth-edition.925655

 

[Marklar_33]

Wrong thread. https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/things-that-shit-me-part-x-the-tenth-edition.925655

Yeah...my bad. Yesterday was a long day...

 

[worbod]

In 2006 British artist Lauren Porter knitted a life-size Ferrari. She used 19 km of wool.

 

[GreyCrow]

In 2006 British artist Lauren Porter knitted a life-size Ferrari. She used 19 km of wool.

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It would take 5 minutes at 228km/h to unravel that car

 

[exe ex machina]

In 2006 British artist Lauren Porter knitted a life-size Ferrari. She used 19 km of wool.

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You are the God of Trivia worbod