smpar Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Adolf Hitler was a season ticket holder for Rapid Vienna before his commitments with the armed forces and politics. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie95 Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Hitler was apparently a massive fan of the Scottish coast line, in particular the Ayrshire coast. It is estimated that the whole of Arrans economic income during the Second World War, came from Germany. Hitler even donated money for Irvine to build the infamous Magnum Leisure Centre. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 "Mägnüm Leisure Centre" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 The first four fourteen four hundred episodes of Coronation Street were an adaptation of James Joyces's magnum opus Ulysses. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 The strikethrough text effect will be added to the P&B mobile app in 2016. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 It is a legal requirement within the UK that American Whiskey / Bourbon imports must be contained within rectangular-type bottles, in order to help distinguish it from bottles of Scotch whisky. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim O'Grady Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 The foldaway car has not been invented yet but it will have been by Japan. Grimbo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dee_62 Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Until Jimmy Carter took office in1977, the official seal of the president of the United States was an actual seal. The most famous being Torka, the seal used by Nixon pre Watergate. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 The foldaway car has not been invented yet but it will have been by Japan. Grimbo The foldaway brothel however has been invented by the Japanese thanks to their perfection of the ancient art of whori-gami. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dee_62 Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Contrary to popular belief, geese don't fly South for the winter. Since 1941, Canadian Geese have spent their off season near the Magnum Leisure Centre on Arran. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ya Bezzer! Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Arran means 'Island of the burnt, overly crispy roll'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Space Invaders were invented by David Icke. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross. Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Space Raiders were invented by Dave Beasant. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweaty Morph Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Space Raiders were invented by Dave Beasant. The Space Raiders alien on the front of the packets was modelled on former St Johnstone, Dunfermline and Livingston footballer David Bingham. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Eating too many packets of Football Crazies once drove Paul McStay so crazy that he shit himself crazy during a Celtic v Motherwell match in 1985. Celtic still sing about it to this day. And they fed football crazies to Paul McStay, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 As recently as the 1990's, superstitious fishermen hung pickled onions around the doors of public libraries in order to assure their pocket watches would keep good time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Librarians can in Scotland officiate wedding ceremonies on library grounds during opening hours. On ships with libraries, librarians legally outrank captains. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Librarians can in Scotland officiate wedding ceremonies on library grounds during opening hours. On ships with libraries, librarians legally outrank captains. They say the Battle of Midway was won as the Japanese Admiral was due 2p on an overdue copy of The Bible and could not face the humiliation. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Also on a Naval theme, the phrase 'Brass Monkeys' comes from Admiral Nelson's obscure and secret sexual deviancy where he encased monkeys in brass then molested them. 'Shiver me timbers' is another practice involving frozen logs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 They say the Battle of Midway was won as the Japanese Admiral was due 2p on an overdue copy of The Bible and could not face the humiliation. Off topic, but this is the 2nd time in ~ a week that a P&Ber has replied with something random that I've just been watching/doing. Stalkers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgSB72PiUAQ Dry but fascinating, and infuriatingly only the first part is available. On topic, 29% of the US hits on Japanese ships are unaccounted for, and are believe to have come from rebel Nazi u-boats. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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