Odd factoids

[Ming the Merciless]

On average the coldest day of the week (in the UK) is Saturday.

 

[Drago]

Cold didn't exist until the fall of the Vikings. Say what you like about them, they kept the place warm.

 

[NorthernDave]

At the outbreak of World War 2, dogs were banned from barking by Act of Parliament in case they gave away the position of troops to invading Germans.

 

[Drago]

Germans were also banned. It was 1945 before the ban was repealed.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Germans were also banned. It was 1945 before the ban was repealed.

Especially if they tended sheep.

 

[classic33]

Sheep have very good memories. They can remember at least 50 individual sheep and humans for years.

They do this by using a similar neural process and part of the brain that human use.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Waitrose do not deliver to the Tan Hill Inn. This is despite it featuring in their latest snowed in advert.

 

[Andy_R]

Classic33 is very good at googling.

 

[Threevok]

Since having pins installed, Kevin Bacon's foot is no longer loose

 

[Andy_R]

Waitrose do not deliver to the Tan Hill Inn. This is despite it featuring in their latest snowed in advert.

Nobody delivers to the Tan Hill Inn...have you been there, it's like "American Werewolf in London" (A lot of people believe it was the Slaughtered Lamb in that film, but it wasn't, that was a pub in Crickadam, Wales)..."Don't go on the moors after dark". However, the Tan Hill Inn has the highest recorded number of lock-ins due to bad weather...

 

[Drago]

Kevin Bacon contains real bacon.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Kevin Bacon contains real bacon.

Now you are telling porkies

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Kev in Bacon was a line from the prosecution case.

 

[Dirk]

Strangely enough, after 6 glasses of French Rose wine, 2 beers, 4 glasses of Merlot, 2 glasses of Sauterne and 3 doubles of Rum...... I'm feeling slightly pissed.

 

[classic33]

Nobody delivers to the Tan Hill Inn...have you been there, it's like "American Werewolf in London" (A lot of people believe it was the Slaughtered Lamb in that film, but it wasn't, that was a pub in Crickadam, Wales)..."Don't go on the moors after dark". However, the Tan Hill Inn has the highest recorded number of lock-ins due to bad weather...

T'aint that bad!