Odd factoids

[Drago]

Quentin Tarantino:

Feargal Sharkey:

I rest my case.

 

[Dave7]

Smash was made by smashing potatoes close to the speed of fat in the large potato collider

Originally made by.... . .......
Cadbury's.
I was there in 1967 when the first batches were produced.

 

[TVC]

Originally made by.... . .......
Cadbury's.
I was there in 1967 when the first batches were produced.

If you can remember it you weren't really there, man....

 

[Drago]

Originally made by.... . .......
Cadbury's.
I was there in 1967 when the first batches were produced.

Wow! Hanging round on Cyclechat puts me in the presence of Gods!

 

[Dirk]

Originally made by.... . .......
Cadbury's.
I was there in 1967 when the first batches were produced.

I once had tea and biscuits in the board room at Cadburys in Bournville.

 

[machew]

The Taser got its name from a fictional invention in a children's series sci fi books.

Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle

 

[Tim Hall]

Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle

Tick, vg.

 

[machew]

The Motto of the French Navy is To the water, it is time!
Or in french... a l'eau, c'est l'heure..

 

[Drago]

Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle

Spot on. Thomas A Swift Electric Rifle. Alas, Taser is now a brand name, and they're very quick to threaten legal action against folk who refer to other electric shock devices by the generic name of Taser.

 

[classic33]

Originally made by.... . .......
Cadbury's.
I was there in 1967 when the first batches were produced.

Cadbury's did white chocolate?

 

[classic33]

Wow! Hanging round on Cyclechat puts me in the presence of Gods!

Ay M'lord.

 

[classic33]

There are 350 million bars of Dairy Milk chocolate sold every year. That’s nearly a million a day.

 

[Dirk]

[QUOTE 5077722, member: 45"]Our school had an annual invite to the cinema at Cadbury's at Christmas to watch Children's Film Foundation shorts.[/QUOTE]
I used to go to the Cadbury's cinema most lunchtimes in the mid 70s. They used to show films, in half hour segments, spread over each day of the week. Sometimes I would go to their swimming pool for a quick few lengths instead.

 

[Dirk]

[QUOTE 5077819, member: 45"]Men's or ladies'?[/QUOTE]
I don't recall them being segregated at the time.

 

[classic33]

The first swimming club was the Maidstone Swimming Club, established in Kent, England in response to people drowning in the River Medway.

The Titanic was the first ocean liner to have a swimming pool.