House Bartender Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 The Hyundai logo is supposed to represent two people shaking hands. Pretty obvious, depending on what your hands look like. On the other hand (ha), Mitsubishi are bit more sophisticated. "Mitsu" means three (I'm told) and these are three oak leaves of the Yamauchi* Clan. And "bishi" is a rhombus. Something to do with other clans too, but I guess the above is fascinating enough. * one of them due to sign for Celtic in the summer nae doot. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 August Horch was the founder of a car company. His last name is the German word for "listen". Any guesses which company? Spoiler Audi (the Latin word for Listen) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 20 hours ago, House Bartender said: The Hyundai logo is supposed to represent two people shaking hands. Pretty obvious, depending on what your hands look like. On the other hand (ha), Mitsubishi are bit more sophisticated. "Mitsu" means three (I'm told) and these are three oak leaves of the Yamauchi* Clan. And "bishi" is a rhombus. Something to do with other clans too, but I guess the above is fascinating enough. * one of them due to sign for Celtic in the summer nae doot. One of Misubishi' s predecessor companies was founded by Thomas Blake Glover from Fraserburgh, who also started the Kirin beer company as well as being credited with playing a large part in modernising 19th century Japan. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophia Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 On 10/02/2022 at 13:09, Bairnardo said: I recently learned that all the curling stones in the world come from the Ailsa Craig I'm betting it wasn't someone from Trefor in North Wales that told you 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name is Moon 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 The clean shaven drummer from Z Z Top was, of course, Frank Beard. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 (edited) On 27/06/2021 at 06:06, hk blues said: If you put 1 grain of rice on a chessboard square on Day 1, 2 on the next square on Day 2, 4 on Day3 and so on it would only take 54 days to have more rice on the chessboard than is produced each year. You'd run out of chessboard way before that Edited March 1, 2022 by coprolite 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 1 hour ago, coprolite said: You'd run out of chessboard way before that You would also have people at the supermarket saying "why do you need so much rice?" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 1 hour ago, coprolite said: You'd run out of chessboard way before that There would still be 10 empty squares 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 3 hours ago, coprolite said: You'd run out of chessboard way before that 1 hour ago, Arch Stanton said: There would still be 10 empty squares You guys took 8 months to figure this out - and you still can't agree! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 2 minutes ago, hk blues said: You guys took 8 months to figure this out - and you still can't agree! I don't want to just dive in two footed without being very sure of my facts 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 1 minute ago, coprolite said: I don't want to just dive in two footed without being very sure of my facts Sensible. Very sensible. It's probably too soon but how do you feel about the Russian invasion of Ukraine? The 2014 one I mean, obviously. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 27 minutes ago, hk blues said: Sensible. Very sensible. It's probably too soon but how do you feel about the Russian invasion of Ukraine? The 2014 one I mean, obviously. .. and while we are at it, what about the news that the Beatles have split up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 Just now, Fullerene said: .. and while we are at it, what about the news that the Beatles have split up. Why couldn't you Let It Be? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 1 hour ago, hk blues said: You guys took 8 months to figure this out - and you still can't agree! I can't agree with something that's wrong 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 The first TV show to use "googled" as a verb was Buffy the Vampire Slayer 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 16 minutes ago, scottsdad said: The first TV show to use "googled" as a verb was Buffy the Vampire Slayer When the Coughing Major won £1,000,000 on "Who wants to be a Millionaire", he had correctly answered that 10 to the power 100 was known as a Googol. The name Google was derived as a variation of this word. Cough, cough. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted March 5, 2022 Author Share Posted March 5, 2022 YouTube started off as a dating site. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 Amazon started off as an online bookshop. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiffRaff Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 Tinder started off as a Hipsway song. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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