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Old 07-09-08, 09:59 PM   #1041
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Although Northern Ireland is part of Great Britain, due to EU madness, the EU identifier on Northern Irish number plates is "NI" not "GB". The reason for this is that they didn't want to discriminate against the Irish.
Sounds like euro sensibility to me, we nearly got SCO on our plates too but there wasn't the demand for it, in NI there was.
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Old 11-09-08, 08:12 AM   #1042
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in WW2 butchers used to inject water into sausages to make them look bigger and fatter, this had the effect of making them explode violently when cooked. this is why they are called bangers and where the practice of prícking them to let the water out and thus preventing them exploding came from
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Old 11-09-08, 08:44 AM   #1043
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In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."
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Old 11-09-08, 05:23 PM   #1044
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Old 12-09-08, 12:56 PM   #1045
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The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times

(not as good as the pope one admittedly)
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Old 12-09-08, 10:07 PM   #1046
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The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times

(not as good as the pope one admittedly)
And this would be so that it can see Tinkers trying to steal it`s shoes ?
Beats having to install a Datatool on the Donkey "Hmmm now where does this bit plug in?"
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Old 12-09-08, 10:40 PM   #1047
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If you choose not to decide you still would have made a choice.
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Old 13-09-08, 02:13 AM   #1048
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The big bang thing might take five years before a big bang. So we might be drawn into a blackhole sometime in the next five years without warning?

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Old 13-09-08, 08:33 AM   #1049
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apparently black hole have some sort of effect on time in their immediate surroundings so they would warp the space time continuum (seriously) so the five years would feel like much much longer in some places and less in others. . .

my head hurts!
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Old 14-09-08, 11:25 PM   #1050
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my fact for the day is ........Gravity Sucks
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