Spotty's Little Known Facts

[Gooner Girl]

Never heard of him either...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Never heard of him either...

That's awsome. I promise not to fart for a month.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

It's a little known fact why Il Pirate has a ticket for a Fall concert as his avatar. In fact it is so little known that I haven't got a clue.
But an equally little known fact is that I've seen the Fall in concert quite a few times. The very first time I saw them was at Erics on a Friday back in November 1978.
It just goes to show what a very very very small world we live in.

[Gooner Girl]

Never heard of him either...

That's awsome. I promise not to fart for a month.

Good. Squeeze those buttocks and hold it in.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

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( 1 hour 19 minutes. A personal best. )

[Montreal Wanderer]

I was with you Spotty. No fecking clue who.

That makes me feel slightly less odd/special needs/social outcast. But only slightly less.

I might be able to increase the number of us clueless outcasts. The Mrs is due in from work soon and I suspect she is clueless too

I have never watched the show, though I had certainly heard of it. I did google Tony S to find out who had died.

[Zulus Thousand of em]

I've never seen The Sopranos - but I am reliably informed that it's very good.

[thebish]

I've never seen The Sopranos - but I am reliably informed that it's very good.

we've enough for an I-haven't-seen-the-Sopranos support group...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I've never seen The Sopranos - but I am reliably informed that it's very good.

we've enough for an I-haven't-seen-the-Sopranos support group...

My name is Lost Leopard Spot, and I haven't seen the Sopranos...

[Harry Genshaw]

There's some good acts on there but I'm not sure I'd be going back to that venue after what happens on opening night

[Lost Leopard Spot]

There's some good acts on there but I'm not sure I'd be going back to that venue after what happens on opening night

It was consensual Harry, don't worry

[Always hopeful]

I've never seen The Sopranos - but I am reliably informed that it's very good.

we've enough for an I-haven't-seen-the-Sopranos support group...

My name is Lost Leopard Spot, and I haven't seen the Sopranos...

I haven't seen it either.

[Bruce Rioja]

I've never seen The Sopranos - but I am reliably informed that it's very good.

we've enough for an I-haven't-seen-the-Sopranos support group...

My name is Lost Leopard Spot, and I haven't seen the Sopranos...

I haven't seen it either.

Nor I

[Dujon]

What's the annual sub for membership of the "I've never heard of the character Tony S. from the show titled The Sopranos" club? If it's less than a farthing let me know, otherwise don't bother.

It's also little known that the Maunder Minimum conundrum has not as yet been satisfactorily explained although hypotheses abound.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

What's the annual sub for membership of the "I've never heard of the character Tony S. from the show titled The Sopranos" club? If it's less than a farthing let me know, otherwise don't bother.

It's also little known that the Maunder Minimum conundrum has not as yet been satisfactorily explained although hypotheses abound.

My interest has been aroused, I'm off to look up the Maunder minimum conundrum and make it a little bit better known.

[malcd1]

It is a little known fact that throughout its entire recorded history (1831-2001) the Magnetic North Pole has lain in Canada. It is an even less well known fact that the Magnetic North Pole has recently (last year or this) sped up and asked for political asylum in Russia.

Not only that but no one actually knows which way the earth is oriented. We may be in the southern hemisphere and Australia and New Zealand are in the Northern Hemisphere. Someone just decided hundreds of years ago and we have no way of proving one way or the other.

I also have never seen The Soprano's.

[Il Pirate]

It's a little known fact why Il Pirate has a ticket for a Fall concert as his avatar. In fact it is so little known that I haven't got a clue.But an equally little known fact is that I've seen the Fall in concert quite a few times. The very first time I saw them was at Erics on a Friday back in November 1978.
It just goes to show what a very very very small world we live in.

1. Only that I saw the Fall quite a few times all over the place (literally!); & the Smiths supported them on more than one occasion. ( As did the cure, echo & bunnymen, Joy Division & many others back in the day). And back in the day, ( i do hate that phrase), people used to say 'who the f*ck are these Smiths then ?' How times change.

2. It is very, very, very small. But not as small as Eric's. It was a proper dump.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

2. It is very, very, very small. But not as small as Eric's. It was a proper dump.

I agree. A proper dump. I loved the place.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

It is a little known fact that Chaka Khan was NOT a King of the Zulus. Where I live it is, however, a well known fact that when this answer is accepted in pub quizzes it enrages me. Last night was but the latest example, with a pub quiz taking place which I had singularly failed to register for which found me dishing out information to the team next to me gratis (I’m kind like that).
Question 15 of 20 was: Which famous King of the Zulus features in Rider Haggard’s novel King Solomon’s Mines?
I cheerfully informed the neighbouring team that Zulus failed spectacularly to appear anywhere within the covers of that book and therefore I was stumped as to what the answer might be.
Four of the seven teams present however answered Chaka Khan, and the knobwelly that ran the quiz accepted that answer even though his ‘official answer’ was Shaka Khan!!!

I was outraged.
Four things, knobwelly.
First: (although I’ve had to look this up since to confirm my suspicions) Zulus did not appear in King Solomon’s Mines and no king of said tribe is mentioned. There is a native African tribe modelled on the Zulu in the book – the Kukuana (who speak the made up language isiZulu), who live in Kukuanaland (a completely made up location), and ruled over by a (purely fictional) King Twala.
Second: The actual kings of the Zulu in real life were Shaka, Dingane, Mpande, and Ceteswayo.
Third: Khan is a title for a ruler in Turkic and Mongolian languages and also used by Persians, Punjabis, and Pashtuns for chiefs and noblemen. It is also a surname used in various Asian nations, and through the diaspora of peoples has recently spread to most parts of the world. Khan is not a name or title used by Zulus.
Fourth: Chaka Khan is a feckin’ singer. Her only connection to royalty is that she is known as the Queen of Funk. She is an American. She has as much to do with Zulus as my back passage, i.e. zero.

(PS during the course of my research I discovered that Zulus had briefly, in the past, invaded Northampton )

To summarise then

does not equal

[Bruce Rioja]

It's a little known fact that Spotty, Il Pirate and I are the only three people on earth to have seen The Fall without having then been recruited to the band!