mjmooney Posted April 8, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 8, 2021 Just now, BOF said: In fairness I'd say that's the dream of every product manufacturer if you can do it. I don't apply fairness to that word removed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted April 8, 2021 Moderator Share Posted April 8, 2021 41 minutes ago, BOF said: Happy Thatcher death day Ah what a surreal night in Liverpool that was, smiles and friendly faces in every pub you visited bumping into people you hadn't seen for years and where the hell everyone found those fireworks in April is still a mystery There was hardly a car on the road and people were spilling out of every pub you passed We had to use our immense knowledge of back street boozers just to stand a chance of getting served Also, the line "I'm off out for a drink love, Thatcher's dead" was universally accepted 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted April 8, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 8, 2021 6 minutes ago, bickster said: Ah what a surreal night in Liverpool that was, smiles and friendly faces in every pub you visited bumping into people you hadn't seen for years and where the hell everyone found those fireworks in April is still a mystery There was hardly a car on the road and people were spilling out of every pub you passed We had to use our immense knowledge of back street boozers just to stand a chance of getting served Also, the line "I'm off out for a drink love, Thatcher's dead" was universally accepted The day she was kicked out of Number Ten in tears, my then boss took us all down the pub and stood a round of Thatcher's Ruin cider. The office Tory was turn between his 'principles' (sic) and his natural inclination to arselick. The latter naturally won out and he sat there with an obviously forced smile while we all whooped it up. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted April 8, 2021 Moderator Share Posted April 8, 2021 2 hours ago, bickster said: Also, the line "I'm off out for a drink love, Thatcher's dead" was universally accepted Y'know ... she is still dead so that should still work. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted April 13, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 13, 2021 This is probably a much more well known fact (considering there appears to be a book about it) but I only found out yesterday... JFK, Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis all died on the same day, it seems within a couple of hours of each other. I’d imagine that the VT deadpool thread would have exploded that day. I thought it was quite hectic when the deaths of Jonathan Miller and Gary Rhodes were confirmed on the same day. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's Your Round Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 15 minutes ago, Mark Albrighton said: This is probably a much more well known fact (considering there appears to be a book about it) but I only found out yesterday... JFK, Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis all died on the same day, it seems within a couple of hours of each other. I’d imagine that the VT deadpool thread would have exploded that day. I thought it was quite hectic when the deaths of Jonathan Miller and Gary Rhodes were confirmed on the same day. And of the three, Aldous Huxley had by far the best way to go. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Xela Posted April 13, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 13, 2021 9 hours ago, Mark Albrighton said: This is probably a much more well known fact (considering there appears to be a book about it) but I only found out yesterday... JFK, Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis all died on the same day, it seems within a couple of hours of each other. I’d imagine that the VT deadpool thread would have exploded that day. I thought it was quite hectic when the deaths of Jonathan Miller and Gary Rhodes were confirmed on the same day. Interesting I had a quick look to see if any other instances of famous people dying on the same day. There was a few interesting ones Orson Welles & Yul Brynner Jean Cocteau & Edith Piaf Milton Berle, Dudley Moore & Billy Wilder The most interesting, for me, was, John Adams & Thomas Jefferson. The 2nd and 3rd Presidents of the United States... both died on Independence Day in 1826. They both worked on the Declaration of Independence exactly 50 years earlier. 5 years later on Independence Day 1831, James Monroe, the 5th President, also died. The 4th President, James Madison, had the temerity to not make it until July 4th... going on June 28th instead, in 1836 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theunderstudy Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 On 13/04/2021 at 18:58, Xela said: Interesting I had a quick look to see if any other instances of famous people dying on the same day. There was a few interesting ones Orson Welles & Yul Brynner Jean Cocteau & Edith Piaf Milton Berle, Dudley Moore & Billy Wilder The most interesting, for me, was, John Adams & Thomas Jefferson. The 2nd and 3rd Presidents of the United States... both died on Independence Day in 1826. They both worked on the Declaration of Independence exactly 50 years earlier. 5 years later on Independence Day 1831, James Monroe, the 5th President, also died. The 4th President, James Madison, had the temerity to not make it until July 4th... going on June 28th instead, in 1836 THAT is my type of fact. I knew Jefferson died on the 4th of July but I didn't know Adams did. I'd love to find out more of these "died on the same day" connections. There was the whole Kennedy/Lincoln assassination similarities thing I remember 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted April 16, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 16, 2021 I know it’s a reasonably well known fact but I still love the happenstance of Edwin Booth pulling Robert Lincoln out from under a train. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 16, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 16, 2021 Evel Knieval (real name Robert Knieval) got his name because he was once in prison for the night. The guy in the cell next to him had the surname Knofel (pronounced K-nawful) and was a bit of a troublemaker, so the guards had nicknamed him Awful Knofel, and Robert used the same idea 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted April 16, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 16, 2021 I found out last night that back in the thirties, Colonel Sanders ran a petrol station. A rival station owner, Matt Stewart kept defacing Sanders’ advertisements, so Sanders and a colleague confronted Stewart. This being the USA, it naturally turned into a gunfight. Stewart first shot and killed the colonel’s mate, while Sanders also pulled out a gun and shot Stewart in the shoulder. The subsequent jailing of Stewart helped take out the competition. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 (edited) That there is a Straw Hat day (15th of May) when it was considered to be socially accepted to switch from your bowler hat. And that there was a Straw Hat Riot in New York in 1922 when some men continued to wear the said hat after the date that was considered not acceptable to wear it (15th September). Edited April 16, 2021 by The Fun Factory 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 4 hours ago, Stevo985 said: Evel Knieval (real name Robert Knieval) got his name because he was once in prison for the night. The guy in the cell next to him had the surname Knofel (pronounced K-nawful) and was a bit of a troublemaker, so the guards had nicknamed him Awful Knofel, and Robert used the same idea been watching taskmaster have we? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 30, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 30, 2021 There is pretty concrete evidence that "The Goonies" and "Back to the Future" happened on the exact same day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrusr Posted April 30, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 30, 2021 10 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: There is pretty concrete evidence that "The Goonies" and "Back to the Future" happened on the exact same day 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Stevo985 Posted April 30, 2021 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2021 14 minutes ago, cyrusr said: The "present day" in Back to the Future was famously October 26th 1985. That's the date shown in the De Lorean as the present. This was a Saturday. We know that the Goonies takes place on a Saturday as the kids are all out of school and it's mentioned fairly early on that it is Saturday. We also know that it was October, because a calendar on the wall of one of the bedrooms is turned to the October page. Also, in a later scene, the kids find a recent newspaper with a picture of the criminal family the Fratellis on the front. This newspaper is dated 24th October 1985 so it must be set after that date. The only Saturday in October that year that occurs after the date on the newspaper is October 26th 1985 Great Scott! 13 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 1 hour ago, Stevo985 said: The "present day" in Back to the Future was famously October 26th 1985. That's the date shown in the De Lorean as the present. This was a Saturday. We know that the Goonies takes place on a Saturday as the kids are all out of school and it's mentioned fairly early on that it is Saturday. We also know that it was October, because a calendar on the wall of one of the bedrooms is turned to the October page. Also, in a later scene, the kids find a recent newspaper with a picture of the criminal family the Fratellis on the front. This newspaper is dated 24th October 1985 so it must be set after that date. The only Saturday in October that year that occurs after the date on the newspaper is October 26th 1985 Great Scott! You got too much time on your hands man! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Seat68 Posted April 30, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2021 I never enjoyed or got Goonies. I watched it once and thought it was a bit shit. 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 1 minute ago, Seat68 said: I never enjoyed or got Goonies. I watched it once and thought it was a bit shit. I think you were maybe a bit too old for it? It's an adventure film with kids, set in the 80s, you'd have been too busy wanking over Thatcher to pay attention to that "kiddie shit" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 4 minutes ago, Seat68 said: I never enjoyed or got Goonies. I watched it once and thought it was a bit shit. I think it was a generational thing, if you were an 80’s kid then chances are you love it, born any other time and it probably doesn’t resonate. It’s one of my all time favourite childhood films and I can still enjoy it today even. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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