Odd factoids

[Dave7]

Don't be silly Drago.

And there I was....believing him.

 

[Dave7]

A true one here (off a TV prog and verified by google).
In WW1 British pilots had an average life span of 15 days from arrival.
The planes were so basic and unreliable that allied forces lost 14,000 pilots......out of which approx 8,000 died in training.
They came to be known as the suicide squad.

 

[bruce1530]

Kentucky Bluegrass is in the Yellow Pages.

Kentucky Bluegrass is the stage name of Edna Sprockett, a well known Country and Western singer, who is regularly cited as being one of Dolly Parton’s main influences.

 

[classic33]

HP Sauce and Heinz ketchup are cousins.

“One in four of all UK households get through at least one bottle of HP every single year. That’s something like a total of 27.5m bottles per annum.”

 

[Fnaar]

Grass upon which no light falls is without colour.

If a clump of grass exists in a forest where nobody actually sees it, does a Chinese butterfly make any noise with one hand clapping?

 

[classic33]

If a clump of grass exists in a forest where nobody actually sees it, does a Chinese butterfly make any noise with one hand clapping?

That's a falsie. Butterflies don't have hands.

 

[NorthernDave]

HP is the daddy of brown sauces.

Unlike Daddies, which isn't.

 

[Dave7]

That's a falsie. Butterflies don't have hands.

Have you ever seen a Chinese butterfly.
I saw them when on my 4 year long walking trip around the world in 1946. I seem to recall them having little teenie weenie hands.

 

[Fnaar]

Have you ever seen a Chinese butterfly.
I saw them when on my 4 year long walking trip around the world in 1946. I seem to recall them having little teenie weenie hands.

Proof!!!!

 

[colly]

The order of insects own as Lepidoptera, were so named by the eminent Leopold Dopt. Dopt was a keen amateur butterfly chaser who decided it was, in his words, 'about bloody time things were formalised'.
His decendents to this day deny all knowledge of him.

 

[Drago]

Leopold Dopt was responsible for hunting 106 species of butterfly to extinction.

 

[Tim Hall]

I owe my knowledge of the meaning of the word "sericulture" to Sheffield based popsters "The Human League" who used it in the lyrics of "Being Boiled".

 

[classic33]

A group of butterflies is sometimes called a flutter.

Butterflies use their feet to taste, not a tongue like we do.

 

[bruce1530]

The theme song to the 70’s sitcom “Butterflies” was sung by Claire Torry, who also sang the vocals on a classic album track that should be in every music connoisseur’s collection.

 

[classic33]

The Archers, on air since 1951, uses a theme tune that's even older - Barwick Green, a maypole dance taken from a suite called My Native Heath, written in 1924 by Yorkshireman Arthur Wood.