Spotty's Little Known Facts

[Zulus Thousand of em]

One of them, Gordon Cooper (if I remember right), had a terrible time because the bag that collected his pee sprung a leak and he was by the end of his mission virtually swimming in a sea of piss droplets. It got so bad he had to lower his helmet visor so as not to keep breathing them in.

I ended up like that on a stag night...


...once.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

One of them, Gordon Cooper (if I remember right), had a terrible time because the bag that collected his pee sprung a leak and he was by the end of his mission virtually swimming in a sea of piss droplets. It got so bad he had to lower his helmet visor so as not to keep breathing them in.

I ended up like that on a stag night...


...once.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

There were only thirteen episodes of Mr Benn.

And I've not seen a single one. It's little known fact until you posted that, I'd never even heard of Mr Benn.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

It's a very little known fact (unless you read the Times today) that a chicken who lived on the Strip in Vegas called Ginger could play noughts and crosses and, when allowed to go first, always won - as much as $10000 a go.
Admittedly going first is a significant advantage in the game, but so is not being a chicken.

[Montreal Wanderer]

It's a very little known fact (unless you read the Times today) that a chicken who lived on the Strip in Vegas called Ginger could play noughts and crosses and, when allowed to go first, always won - as much as $10000 a go.
Admittedly going first is a significant advantage in the game, but so is not being a chicken.

You surprise me. Regardless of who goes first, this game is always tied by correct play. I thought that was a well-known fact.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

It's a very little known fact (unless you read the Times today) that a chicken who lived on the Strip in Vegas called Ginger could play noughts and crosses and, when allowed to go first, always won - as much as $10000 a go.
Admittedly going first is a significant advantage in the game, but so is not being a chicken.

You surprise me. Regardless of who goes first, this game is always tied by correct play. I thought that was a well-known fact.

S/he obviously only played mugs... either showing even more intelligence than I credited it with, or it was an excellent money-spinning scam!
I think the clue might lie in the fact it lived on the Strip.

[Montreal Wanderer]

It's a very little known fact (unless you read the Times today) that a chicken who lived on the Strip in Vegas called Ginger could play noughts and crosses and, when allowed to go first, always won - as much as $10000 a go.
Admittedly going first is a significant advantage in the game, but so is not being a chicken.

You surprise me. Regardless of who goes first, this game is always tied by correct play. I thought that was a well-known fact.

S/he obviously only played mugs... either showing even more intelligence than I credited it with, or it was an excellent money-spinning scam!
I think the clue might lie in the fact it lived on the Strip.

I think it is more a semantic question of understanding the rules. You have to beat the chicken so the chicken wins if the game is a draw because you failed to beat it.

This report is from 2002 - note the language.

A Las Vegas woman beat a chicken at a game of tic-tac-toe Tuesday night and ended up with more than a little scratch.

Barbara Howell of Las Vegas beat Ginger, a chicken specially trained to play the game, Tuesday night at the Tropicana hotel in the "$10,000 Chicken Challenge."

Howell, who lined up three Xs diagonally to walk off with $10,000, is the first person to beat a chicken at the game since it started at the Tropicana in May.

About 500 people play the game a day, said Tropicana spokeswoman Lisa Keim, and all but Howell have lost. It is possible to beat the chicken, she said. It's all in the timing.

"You have to catch the chicken on a bad day," she said.

The game began in Atlantic City in 2001 and was an instant success, Keim said.

"It was so successful we decided to move it here," she said.

The Tropicana is the only hotel on the Strip to offer such a game.

Beating the chicken is more difficult than most people realize, Keim said. There have only been a five winners in Atlantic City. Comedian Phyllis Diller was beaten by Ginger on a national television special in June.

The animal, one of 15 in the Tropicana's Las Vegas coop, was trained in Arkansas by chicken trainer Bunky Boger, who trains chickens for the Tropicana hotels in both Las Vegas and Atlantic City, Keim said.

Ginger's performances are scheduled from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily and a free Winner's Club membership is required. Play is limited to one play per day, Keim said.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Aye. Therefore I both applaud the chicken's intelligence and the subtle 'scam' perpetrated by the humans. Bravo Ginger, Bravo Casinos.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Aye. Therefore I both applaud the chicken's intelligence and the subtle 'scam' perpetrated by the humans. Bravo Ginger, Bravo Casinos.

Watch her in action (though there are 13 Gingers) ay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5MfnF6UyXs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Aye. Therefore I both applaud the chicken's intelligence and the subtle 'scam' perpetrated by the humans. Bravo Ginger, Bravo Casinos.

Watch her in action (though there are 13 Gingers) ay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5MfnF6UyXs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Thirteen, *splutter*, thirteen. The cheating bogotters.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Aye. Therefore I both applaud the chicken's intelligence and the subtle 'scam' perpetrated by the humans. Bravo Ginger, Bravo Casinos.

Watch her in action (though there are 13 Gingers) ay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5MfnF6UyXs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Excellent. Cheers Monty. I love the come on. The only game shown is her losing...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

It is a little known fact that Mr Ed the talking horse couldn't actually talk. No, actually, that is a well known fact. However, everybody who seems to remember Mr Ed recalls him as being a palomino horse (as below)

which is kind of remarkable as the programme was only filmed in black and white and he could have been any shade between chestnut and grey. The fact he actually was a palomino just demonstrates the brain's ability to recognise colour through tonal differences.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

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.

[bobo the clown]

Magnets are fickle b'stards. According to the really very entertaining 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' by Bill Bryson (which I have unabridged on 24 or so cd's and play relentlessly in my car on long, solo, journeys .... over many millions of years north and south magnetic bases will switch completely.

Global warming will be as nothing as that happens.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Magnets are fickle b'stards. According to the really very entertaining 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' by Bill Bryson (which I have unabridged on 24 or so cd's and play relentlessly in my car on long, solo, journeys .... over many millions of years north and south magnetic bases will switch completely.

Global warming will be as nothing as that happens.

But it will help women drivers with their map reading when travelling south (errrr, north).

[a1]

there's a TV programme called " The Sopranos "

[Lost Leopard Spot]

there's a TV programme called " The Sopranos "

That's a little known fact.
Actually I knew there was a TV programme called The Sopranos, although I've never actually watched it.
What I didn't know, and I don't see how anybody could expect me to know, was that a bloke called Tony S was a character in the TV show. Even more amazing is the little known fact that I was expected to know that when somebody said Tony S has died aged 51 I was to somehow magically intuit that of course that meant that the actor James Gandolfini had died aged 51.
It was also a little known fact that when I innocently enquired as to who Tony S was I didn't quite expect to get dogs abuse about it, but you live and learn.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

I was with you Spotty. No fecking clue who.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I was with you Spotty. No fecking clue who.

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

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

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