"F**k my Hat, I didn't know that!" Amazing things you've only just found out

[Jockice]

I had no idea it was exactly the same day either!  I only became aware recently of UK "Dennis" actually being "Dennis the Menace" in the States.  In Spain, the character is called "Daniel el Travieso" (Naughty Daniel), and my Spanish wife thought it very strange that her description of "Dennis the Menace" didn't even vaguely match with my idea of how he looked.

I wonder if the two characters' names came from some kind of common inspiration?  Was the word "menace" trending on Twitter around that kind of time?

No. Twitter didn't exist in the 1950s! Now can someone post the 'that's the joke' meme please?

New page preposterous tales now then now then.

[biggytitbo]

The disclaimer This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental was put at the end of all fictitious US films after an exiled Russian Prince, Felix Youssoupoff sued MGM claiming defamation over a film they made about Rasputin saying he should know how the monk had died being one of the people who murdered him to death:

https://forgottenhistoryblog.com/rasputin-is-the-reason-for-work-of-fiction-disclaimers-in-movie-credits/

Actually was a recently rediscovered first page of the bible.

[Andy147]

Americans who acquire the nickname "Skip" do so because they have been given their grandfather's first name. The name has "skipped" a generation.

Likewise, "Trey" (as in Parker) or "Trip" if they are the third with the same name.

[shiftwork2]

So James Bond III out of The Red Hand Gang and, it appears, all manner of 70s US telly, was Trip Bond?  Because I don't think there's ever been a cooler name than that.

_{I am making the sizeable assumption that he was christened James Bond.}

[Cerys]

his other daughter, Charley's twin sister Telsche, played the Lady Of The Lake

Isn't it a bit unusual for twins to have an age gap of a decade of so?

[buzby]

Isn't it a bit unusual for twins to have an age gap of a decade of so?

Sorry, wrong sibling and film - Daisy Boorman is Charley's twin sister. Daisy and Telsche appeared in Zardoz together as two of the Eternals.

[phantom_power]

The latest episode of Gotham was directed by ex-Radio 1 DJ Tommy Tonderai

[biggytitbo]

If you travel North (assuming the earth is a globe), you will eventually be going south, but if you go east you will always be going east.

[Dr Rock]

No, you'd get to the North Pole and be unable to move. Trust me, I've done it a few times.

[Depressed Beyond Tables]

If you travel North (assuming the earth is a globe), you will eventually be going south, but if you go east you will always be going east.

Remind me never to go hiking with you.

[idunnosomename]

The earth is a globe. Go post that in the obvious things thread

[olliebean]

If you travel North (assuming the earth is a globe), you will eventually be going south, but if you go east you will always be going east.

What if you go north-east?

[Colin Sanction]

What if you go north-east?

You end up in Hartlepool, which is the end of the earth.

[Dr Rock]

What if you go north-east?

You spiral round the globe until you hit the North Pole at the top, and then you can't move, You could keep going east, with one hand on the pole but that wouldn't be north-east, so you're stuck. Every single time.

[gib]

(assuming the earth is a globe)

i love you, man

[George White]

I had no idea it was exactly the same day either!  I only became aware recently of UK "Dennis" actually being "Dennis the Menace" in the States.  In Spain, the character is called "Daniel el Travieso" (Naughty Daniel), and my Spanish wife thought it very strange that her description of "Dennis the Menace" didn't even vaguely match with my idea of how he looked.

I wonder if the two characters' names came from some kind of common inspiration?  Was the word "menace" trending on Twitter around that kind of time?

I think there was a music hall song called Dennis the Menace, not to be confused with the Rosemary Clooney song, a cash-in on the US comic strip that my gran would sing to me whenever I read the Beano.

[biggytitbo]

North, East etc are stupid on a globe anyway, north for someone in the UK is a completely different direction to north for someone in Africa or Australia. Our association with north and up is also completely imaginary.

[George White]

http://retromash.com/2017/03/03/that-time-when-a-teenage-paul-gambaccini-and-george-r-r-martin-appeared-in-the-fantastic-four/  Paul Gambaccini and George RR Martin were rival teenage fanboys.
Knew that they were both serial letter writers, but not that they had a rivalry.

[gib]

North, East etc are stupid on a globe anyway, north for someone in the UK is a completely different direction to north for someone in Africa or Australia. Our association with north and up is also completely imaginary.

If it really were a globe then if you went to the tip of south america your compass would have to point down at the floor for it to point to the so called north pole.

[Dr Rock]

What would happen if you kept going left?

[Shit Good Nose]

Just found out Rami Malek is American.  All these years, ever since I first saw him in Night At the Museum, I thought he was English.

[Dr Trouser]

What would happen if you kept going left?

Corbyn innit?

[not friend]

The etymology of bees is beezlement.  Weird, huh?

[Dex Sawash]

What would happen if you kept going left?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDuz2erwCtg&list=PL-leOGnyCr2Q-smMNCtUPKwq5Ypvn_-Ja

[The Lurker]

In Nigeria, Dundee United is a slang term for an idiot due to their disastrous tour there in the 70s.

[Jockice]

Myself and my girlfriend live at the same house number in different houses. My sister has recently moved house and she now lives at the same number too.

[ollyboro]

In Nigeria, Dundee United is a slang term for an idiot due to their disastrous tour there in the 70s.

Clearly a film waiting to be made, right there. "The Arabs And The ???" Dunno about the rest of the film's title. Are we post-racist yet?

[Ferris]

In Nigeria, Dundee United is a slang term for an idiot due to their disastrous tour there in the 70s.

That's amazing.

[DrGreggles]

Myself and my girlfriend live at the same house number in different houses. My sister has recently moved house and she now lives at the same number too.

I've lived in 5 different houses and they've all been numbered either 12 or 14.

[canadagoose]

In Nigeria, Dundee United is a slang term for an idiot due to their disastrous tour there in the 70s.

Hahaha, that's made my day. I'll remember that one.