Spotty's Little Known Facts

[Montreal Wanderer]

Charles Dawes, US VP to Calvin Coolidge, not only won the Nobel Peace Prize but also wrote the music to Tommy Edwards' No. 1 hit It's All In The Game. However no-one knew his first name on Pointless today, most undeserved.

Perhaps because he was generally known as Helen Maria Dawes.

[Gary the Enfield]

Charles Dawes, US VP to Calvin Coolidge, not only won the Nobel Peace Prize but also wrote the music to Tommy Edwards' No. 1 hit It's All In The Game. However no-one knew his first name on Pointless today, most undeserved.

... & his brother sold tellies.

The question was to get the first names of pairs of presidential candidates and their running mates. Must admit Martin was the first name that popped into my head when I saw Coolidge/Dawes (well apart from Calvin)!

See, I couldn't get past thinking Rita and George.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

It is a little known fact but "You are Lucky to still be alive this morning"
NASA's Swift satellite discovered a Large Gamma-Ray Burst object last night in Andromeda galaxy. The actual event occurred over two and a half million years ago, but the gamma rays are flooding past as I type. Basically 500 solar masses collided with about 40 solar masses of antimatter going FOOM!
We are currently on the far side and beneath the galactic disk (or off-axis as it's called) and so we have been shielded by the disc of our own galaxy from the vast majority of the gamma rays otherwise we'd all be dying of radiation sickness right now.

For more, read here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/28 ... andromeda/

[bobo the clown]

^^^ Imagine what that will do to the weather .... or is it climate ?

[LeverEnd]

^^^ Imagine what that will do to the weather .... or is it climate ?

I'm just waiting for the gamma taxes.

[Bruce Rioja]

Look what gamma rays did to the otherwise mild-mannered scientist, Bruce Banner. Proper nawty stuff is that!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Yep. You'd want to snatch you cojones away from a beam of gamma rays pretty damn fast, and that's a fact.

[Montreal Wanderer]

The air pollution in London is worse than Beijing. I didn't know that.

[Gary the Enfield]

The air pollution in London is worse than Beijing. I didn't know that.

(cough)

I don't suffer from hay fever but do find myself catching a breath when in London proper. Now I know why.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

The air pollution in London is worse than Beijing. I didn't know that.

I read an article recently that I've just done a quick search on and cannot find that outlines this very point. Apparently, Boris has lied to us and cheats with where he sets up his air pollution instruments. All carefully calculated to delude the poor wheezing public into believing official figures that show air pollution in London to be a little bit deadly, when in reality it's lethal.

[Gary the Enfield]

The air pollution in London is worse than Beijing. I didn't know that.

I read an article recently that I've just done a quick search on and cannot find that outlines this very point. Apparently, Boris has lied to us and cheats with where he sets up his air pollution instruments. All carefully calculated to delude the poor wheezing public into believing official figures that show air pollution in London to be a little bit deadly, when in reality it's lethal.

feck do you care?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

The air pollution in London is worse than Beijing. I didn't know that.

I read an article recently that I've just done a quick search on and cannot find that outlines this very point. Apparently, Boris has lied to us and cheats with where he sets up his air pollution instruments. All carefully calculated to delude the poor wheezing public into believing official figures that show air pollution in London to be a little bit deadly, when in reality it's lethal.

feck do you care?

If when. I go down to the Big Smoke, f'rinstance to peruse a volume in the magnificent rare books room at the British Library, I'd prefer it if I came out alive

[Lost Leopard Spot]

The air pollution in London is worse than Beijing. I didn't know that.

I read an article recently that I've just done a quick search on and cannot find that outlines this very point. Apparently, Boris has lied to us and cheats with where he sets up his air pollution instruments. All carefully calculated to delude the poor wheezing public into believing official figures that show air pollution in London to be a little bit deadly, when in reality it's lethal.

feck do you care?

If when. I go down to the Big Smoke, f'rinstance to peruse a volume in the magnificent rare books room at the British Library, I'd prefer it if I came out alive

Plus you might not know it but such things as winds exist. And on certain days the shit that constitutes the air in London is dumped en masse onto us Peaklanders, and we get to wheeze, blow black snot, and scrape our dissolving eyes out too. Fun innit.

[bobo the clown]

The air pollution in London is worse than Beijing. I didn't know that.

(cough)

I don't suffer from hay fever but do find myself catching a breath when in London proper. Now I know why.

So .... diesel is full of shite. Who'da known ?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

The air pollution in London is worse than Beijing. I didn't know that.

(cough)

I don't suffer from hay fever but do find myself catching a breath when in London proper. Now I know why.

So .... diesel is full of shite. Who'da known ?

It's a little known fact. The Victorians used to snort it at health spas.


EDIT: that's obviously not TRUE, Dan.

[Dujon]

I worked for twenty-odd years in Sydney's CBD. The streets are narrow and the buildings lining them tall. Some days the air was transparent to the eye but on most days there was a constant blue haze of fug noticeable when looking fifty or a hundred metres down a street. What I failed to understand was those so-called fitness fanatics who popped out of their place of employment each lunch break and proceeded to jog/run/play football around the streets and in the parks. What were they thinking?

Spotty, I need your help here. There must be a sensible answer which involves a little known fact.

[LeverEnd]

I worked for twenty-odd years in Sydney's CBD. The streets are narrow and the buildings lining them tall. Some days the air was transparent to the eye but on most days there was a constant blue haze of fug noticeable when looking fifty or a hundred metres down a street. What I failed to understand was those so-called fitness fanatics who popped out of their place of employment each lunch break and proceeded to jog/run/play football around the streets and in the parks. What were they thinking?

Spotty, I need your help here. There must be a sensible answer which involves a little known fact.

Probably ingested even more filth by warming up first like Prufrock. Imbeciles.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I worked for twenty-odd years in Sydney's CBD. The streets are narrow and the buildings lining them tall. Some days the air was transparent to the eye but on most days there was a constant blue haze of fug noticeable when looking fifty or a hundred metres down a street. What I failed to understand was those so-called fitness fanatics who popped out of their place of employment each lunch break and proceeded to jog/run/play football around the streets and in the parks. What were they thinking?

Spotty, I need your help here. There must be a sensible answer which involves a little known fact.

Probably ingested even more filth by warming up first like Prufrock. Imbeciles.

I concur.

And sorry Dujon, but I have no little known facts regarding physical exercise under polluted skies.

[Gary the Enfield]

I worked for twenty-odd years in Sydney's CBD. The streets are narrow and the buildings lining them tall. Some days the air was transparent to the eye but on most days there was a constant blue haze of fug noticeable when looking fifty or a hundred metres down a street. What I failed to understand was those so-called fitness fanatics who popped out of their place of employment each lunch break and proceeded to jog/run/play football around the streets and in the parks. What were they thinking?

Spotty, I need your help here. There must be a sensible answer which involves a little known fact.

Probably ingested even more filth by warming up first like Prufrock. Imbeciles.

I concur.

And sorry Dujon, but I have no little known facts regarding physical exercise under polluted skies.

I think if you are generally healthy there will be little to no short term effect. Asthmatics who run (and I know a few) would suffer on particularly 'smoggy' days. The only difference I would foresee would be people breathing through their mouths and therefore taking air deeper into their lungs during hard exercise rather than through their nose and being (partly) filtered when breathing normally.

[TANGODANCER]

THE FONZ NEVER RODE A MOTORBIKE!

Henry Winkler,the 70's/early 80's king of cool, when asked what was his favourite motor bike, said,: " I never rode a motorbike. I was pretty good at cleaning one and sitting on it, but I never rode it..!" Now there's a little known fact and a bubble burst...