Fascinating Facts and Trivia

(10-11-2018 12:51 )Skyline Wrote:  Transport for London's Lost Property Office has been open since 1933 and regularly has around 200,000 items found on taxi's, trains, buses and trams, among the most unusual items left have been a 14ft boat, breast implants, human skulls, a vesectomy kit and 2 urns.

How would you lose a 14ft boat in the back of a black cab?

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Well kelly unless someone has a 14ft taxi!...that's a dam good question :But I'm presuming that would be on the train

(10-11-2018 18:37 )Skyline Wrote:  ^
Well kelly unless someone has a 14ft taxi!...that's a dam good question :But I'm presuming that would be on the train

I am still trying to get my head around the fact that someone actually forgot they had a 14ft boat with them-okay I get umbrellas, false teeth, books etc because they are smaller and easy to mislay but a 14FT BOAT!!

The German word for a mobile phone is HANDY as in Wo ist mine handy (where is my phone?)

Did you know that the pop group Crowded House had a song out years ago called 'Weather With You' and to promote it they decided to send a copy of the song to everywhere in the world that an address mentioned in the song "57 Mount Pleasant Street" How much it cost them I have no idea but it was quite a good wheeze.

(10-11-2018 18:47 )GreenMachine Wrote:  The German word for a mobile phone is HANDY as in Wo ist mine handy (where is my phone?)

Ich weiß nicht, wo hast du dein Handy verloren?

I had one once but the wheels came off

(11-11-2018 01:32 )GreenMachine Wrote:  I had one once but the wheels came off

You had wheels on your mobile phone? Now that must have been a big phone...

You might gather from that I don't Sprechenzie Deutsche(let alone spell it) only going by an episode of QI where Stephen Fry mentioned it.

In her correspondence to friends the Queen Mother used to sign off her letters with " Tinkerty Tonk old fruit and down with the Nazis"