Spotty's Little Known Facts

[Lord Kangana]

I've heard that c. 650 people have died so far. I bet more people die putting their trousers on in a morning or clearing snow off their drive in winter. A tragedy for people infected and their families, but please can we retain some perspective?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I've heard that c. 650 people have died so far. I bet more people die putting their trousers on in a morning or clearing snow off their drive in winter. A tragedy for people infected and their families, but please can we retain some perspective?

Tut Tut. It's in the Little Known Facts thread - by its very nature perspective must be skewed for them to be little known... so No, we cannot retain some perspective! be orf with you.

[Lord Kangana]

Ah, ok.

Well in the spirit of things...

AAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. We're all going to die.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Ah, ok.

Well in the spirit of things...

AAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. We're all going to die.

That's better. Now find out where Hoboh stashes his guns.

[Prufrock]

It's proper Armageddon terrifying shizz isn't it?! Hoped after it went quiet that meant it had gone away.

And Bruce, it's defo the one where there were rumours going around that you'd be so ill you'd vomit up your stomach which had been eaten away, but I think it was a sort of 'it's so bad this sounds sort of possible' made up bit.

[TANGODANCER]

Playing a Boney M album I remembered this and looked it up: 30 December 2010

Bobby Farrel the eccentric frontman of Boney M, died in St Petersburg yesterday on same date and in the exact same town as mad Russian monk Rasputin - who was the subject of the band's 1978 top three single. The cause of his death is still unclear.

[Gary the Enfield]

Playing a Boney M album I remembered this and looked it up: 30 December 2010

Bobby Farrel the eccentric frontman of Boney M, died in St Petersburg yesterday on same date and in the exact same town as mad Russian monk Rasputin - who was the subject of the band's 1978 top three single. The cause of his death is still unclear.

It'll be drowning. Or poisoning. Maybe gunshot wounds, stabbing, choking or suffocation.

[Andy Waller]

Playing a Boney M album I remembered this and looked it up: 30 December 2010

Bobby Farrel the eccentric frontman of Boney M, died in St Petersburg yesterday on same date and in the exact same town as mad Russian monk Rasputin - who was the subject of the band's 1978 top three single. The cause of his death is still unclear.

It'll be drowning. Or poisoning. Maybe gunshot wounds, stabbing, choking or suffocation.

He did't sing a note did he? Wasn't all the male singing eg "He's crazy like a foooooool", sung by the guy that produced them?

[bobo the clown]

Playing a Boney M album I remembered this and looked it up: 30 December 2010

Bobby Farrel the eccentric frontman of Boney M, died in St Petersburg yesterday on same date and in the exact same town as mad Russian monk Rasputin - who was the subject of the band's 1978 top three single. The cause of his death is still unclear.

It'll be drowning. Or poisoning. Maybe gunshot wounds, stabbing, choking or suffocation.

He did't sing a note did he? Wasn't all the male singing eg "He's crazy like a foooooool", sung by the guy that produced them?

Rasputin was a crap singer ... even hymns. Rubbish. Could barely belt out "Oh, Come All Ye Faithful" even with the rest of the choir. He was told to stand at the back and me-maw.

Useless.

Fact.

[KeyserSoze]

The largest clock face in London is...not St Stephen's Tower (was going to say Big Ben, but some not-right would go 'uhhhhhhhhh that's the name of the bell ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh')

it's this fella, a few minutes down the road

[thebish]

shell mex house?

[thebish]

Allegedly, the Royal Liver Building clock is bigger - which makes it the biggest clock face in the UK? possibly... (I think there are 4 of them - but they are much further away - higher - than the shell mex - so appear to be much smaller on the Father Ted clock-face-size principle!)

[KeyserSoze]

shell mex house?

indeedy.

[Bruce Rioja]

The largest clock face in London is...not St Stephen's Tower (was going to say Big Ben, but some not-right would go 'uhhhhhhhhh that's the name of the bell ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh')

Not-right? fecking not-right? I'd have been well within my rights, you slapdash 4ucker!!!

[KeyserSoze]

Also, learned yesterday in a pub quiz that the dot over the i and j is called...a tittle.

[thebish]

Also, learned yesterday in a pub quiz that the dot over the i and j is called...a tittle.

oooh - i didn't know that... as in "jot and tittle"? what's the "jot"?

[KeyserSoze]

The largest clock face in London is...not St Stephen's Tower (was going to say Big Ben, but some not-right would go 'uhhhhhhhhh that's the name of the bell ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh')

Not-right? fecking not-right? I'd have been well within my rights, you slapdash 4ucker!!!

it's all the bloody same!

[KeyserSoze]

Also, learned yesterday in a pub quiz that the dot over the i and j is called...a tittle.

oooh - i didn't know that... as in "jot and tittle"? what's the "jot"?

I thought jot just meant something very small. As ever, I consult the great book of wiki:

The word tittle is scarcely used. Its most prominent occurrence is in the Christian Bible at Matthew 5:18: "For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled" (KJV). The quotation uses them as an example of extremely minor details. The phrase "jot and tittle" indicates that every small detail has received attention.

In the Greek original translated as English "jot and tittle" are found the words iota and keraia (Greek: κεραία).[2] Iota is the smallest letter of the Greek alphabet (ι). Alternatively, it may represent yodh (י), the smallest letter of the Hebrew and Aramaic alphabets. "Keraia" is a hook or serif, possibly referring to other Greek diacritics, or possibly to the hooks on Hebrew or Aramaic letters, (ב) versus (כ), or additional marks such as crowns (e.g. the Vulgate apex) found in the Torah. A keraia is also used in printing modern Greek numerals.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Also, learned yesterday in a pub quiz that the dot over the i and j is called...a tittle.

I believe a tittle has a more general sense of any small mark or check in writing, including said dot.

[bobo the clown]

Also, learned yesterday in a pub quiz that the dot over the i and j is called...a tittle.

I believe a tittle has a more general sense of any small mark or check in writing, including said dot.

So he's right then !