Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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- Inside my skull
The Colour Purple was originally a film about purple carrots.
Odd factoids
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classic33
Leg End Member
Why weren't lemons called yellows then?
roadrash
cycle chatterer
- Location
- sitting on the edge of wigan pier
A question that I have often asked, alongside ….why are apartments so called when they are actually together
classic33
Leg End Member
"Of course, if all those apartments are stuck together to form one big building, one might WONDER why they're called apart —ments! And that's a great question! The word “apartment" comes from the French word appartement and the Italian word appartimento, both of which mean “a separated place." "
Alwaysbroken
Well-Known Member
Sand is called sand because it’s between the sea and the land.
classic33
Leg End Member
And sand on a river bed?
Alwaysbroken
Well-Known Member
Ahh, their called shopping trolleys.
Kempstonian
Has the memory of a goldfish
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- Bedford
That's because bananas had already claimed that name (seeing a gap in the colour market) but they got laughed at because they were blue at the time. By the time they had managed to morph into yellow fruits the lemon had adopted the 'posh' name for yellow.
Bananas went bananas but there was nothing they could do about it.
roadrash
cycle chatterer
- Location
- sitting on the edge of wigan pier
you could say it sent them round the bend 
classic33
Leg End Member
Nuts?
Kempstonian
Has the memory of a goldfish
- Location
- Bedford
No - they were just browned off.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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- Inside my skull
Bananas are transported unripened then artificially ripened before being transported to shops for sale. This is why bananas can often go brown rather quickly if the ripening was done too quickly.
classic33
Leg End Member
One of the first shopping carts/trollies was introduced on June 4, 1937, the invention of Sylvan Goldman,owner of the Humpty Dumpty supermarket chain in Oklahoma. One night, in 1936, Goldman sat in his office wondering how customers might move more groceries.
He found a wooden folding chair and put a basket on the seat and wheels on the legs. Goldman and one of his employees, a mechanic named Fred Young, began tinkering. Their first shopping cart was a metal frame that held two wire baskets. Since they were inspired by the folding chair, Goldman called his carts "folding basket carriers".
In the United States, 24,000 children are injured each year in shopping carts/trollies.
He found a wooden folding chair and put a basket on the seat and wheels on the legs. Goldman and one of his employees, a mechanic named Fred Young, began tinkering. Their first shopping cart was a metal frame that held two wire baskets. Since they were inspired by the folding chair, Goldman called his carts "folding basket carriers".
In the United States, 24,000 children are injured each year in shopping carts/trollies.
Alwaysbroken
Well-Known Member
Injured trying to extract the fat f&£@rs from the trolley seat?
Sorry, that’s not a fact but I’m new here
