nobler Posted May 19, 2010 Share Posted May 19, 2010 Goldfish are from the same family of fish as carp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted May 19, 2010 Share Posted May 19, 2010 David Ginola is an anagram of Vagina Dildo.Bin Dunne. ...is an anagram of "Nun In Bed", which may or may not be the title of a raunchy Vatican-based porno that I may or may not have watched repeatedly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted May 24, 2010 Share Posted May 24, 2010 Carlisle United once had a player/manager who placed himself on the transfer list and sold himself to Sunderland! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted May 24, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted May 24, 2010 Carlisle United once had a player/manager who placed himself on the transfer list and sold himself to Sunderland! Would that have technically kept him as manager of Carlisle? Obviously he would have left or been sacked or whatever, but could he technically have been a player manager for a short time, but for different clubs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted May 24, 2010 Share Posted May 24, 2010 Nope. He was no longer an employee of Carlisle United football club so he was no longer manager either. Carlisle replaced him with some fella called Bill Shankley. The player manager in question was Ivor Broadis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted June 1, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 1, 2010 If King Kong were real, it would have been unable to realistically move, the strength of it's bones being unable to support the enormous weight without snapping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milfner Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 Do you mean unable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted June 1, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 1, 2010 Yes, which is exactly why I said unable. >_> <_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milfner Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 Sneak! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted June 3, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 3, 2010 The GKs of Germany's World Cup squad have less than 10 caps between them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddy Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 Can't remember where I heard this, so can't be 100% sure of it but... Despite Brazil being famous for attacking and Germany for defending Germany have conceded as many goals as Brazil at WC finals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted June 3, 2010 Moderator Share Posted June 3, 2010 Can't remember where I heard this, so can't be 100% sure of it but... Despite Brazil being famous for attacking and Germany for defending Germany have conceded as many goals as Brazil at WC finals. I'd believe that. It's the Barcelona approach to defending. If we have the ball and are attacking you, you can't score on us - despite us actually having quite a shite defence; if you could only get up and attack it for more than 2 minutes per half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 But Germany were conceding goals for two when they were West and East Germany. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted June 5, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 5, 2010 Just about every show on TV, from Walker: Texas Ranger to The Brady Bunch to Doctor Who to The Wire is really the figment of an autistic kid's imagination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted June 5, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 5, 2010 ...I'd love to say I knew what that meant, but instead I just looked at it for a moment looking quite gormless and wondering what the **** it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted June 5, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 5, 2010 ...I'd love to say I knew what that meant, but instead I just looked at it for a moment looking quite gormless and wondering what the **** it was. The final episode of American hospital drama St. Elsewhere implies that the entire series (in the American sense... what British TV calls "series" American TV calls "seasons": "series" means the entire run of the show) is a figment of an autistic kid's imagination. St. Elsewhere producer/writer Tom Fontana later did Homicide: Life on the Street, where an episode featured an investigation of mercy killings by two characters previously on St. Elsewhere, thus implying that H:LotS is also part of that universe of imagination. In The Wire, a reference is made to "Junior Bunk" [Mahoney], a drugslinger in H:LotS, thereby placing The Wire into that universe (one can also controversially make the John Munch connection between The Wire and H:LotS, though David Simon has never confirmed or denied that John Munch appeared in The Wire). By following the characters, props, etc. who cross-over from one show to the next, one can build up the universe up from this. This outlines the connections Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted June 5, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 5, 2010 I did think it was a map of connections between them, but what I know of the shows in it (i.e. not a lot), I didn't know what the connections would be, as it didn't seem to make much sense. I get it now though. Still doesn't mean a lot as I've never watched an episode of I'd imagine nearly all of those shows, but I get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted June 5, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 5, 2010 On the useless trivia front.. The Leidenfrost effect allows you to dip anything, if you're stupid enough, into an exceptionally hot substance for a very short amount of time, and not be burned, provided whatever you put in there is wet. The example used is normally your hand in molten metal. As the water on the hand touches the molten metal it vapourises and insulates the hand very briefly against the heat. I wouldn't recommend trying it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 5, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 5, 2010 On the useless trivia front.. The Leidenfrost effect allows you to dip anything, if you're stupid enough, into an exceptionally hot substance for a very short amount of time, and not be burned, provided whatever you put in there is wet. The example used is normally your hand in molten metal. As the water on the hand touches the molten metal it vapourises and insulates the hand very briefly against the heat. I wouldn't recommend trying it though.Isn't this the explanation for walking on hot coals? The sweat on your feet does the trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted June 5, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 5, 2010 I believe the explanation to hot coals is a combination of them actually not being that hot, comparitively, and the time you spend on the coals is exceptionally little. Your feet get exposed to less heat than you might expect for such a small amount of time it's difficult to get burned by it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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