tamthebam Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 Royal Union St Gilloise take their name in part from the St Gilles area of Brussels St Gilles is named after St Gilles or Giles Who is the Patron Saint of Edinburgh and is doing a good job giving divine intervention to his football team and upsetting half the population of our rival city, Glasgow 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 Not exactly a fun fact, but I just found out that the very English sounding badger look-a-like and disastrous Tory Chancellor Norman Lamont was born in Shetland and went to school in Musselburgh. His formal title is Baron Lamont of Lerwick. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 (edited) 10 minutes ago, welshbairn said: Not exactly a fun fact, but I just found out that the very English sounding badger look-a-like and disastrous Tory Chancellor Norman Lamont was born in Shetland and went to school in Musselburgh. His formal title is Baron Lamont of Lerwick. And his dad pronounced the family surname "LAH-mont". It was Peerie Norrie* who changed it to "Lah-MONT" because he thought it sounded less common. * Dictionaries of the Scots Language:: DOST :: (dsl.ac.uk) Edited August 4, 2022 by GordonD 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 1 hour ago, GordonD said: And his dad pronounced the family surname "LAH-mont". It was Peerie Norrie* who changed it to "Lah-MONT" because he thought it sounded less common. * Dictionaries of the Scots Language:: DOST :: (dsl.ac.uk) There was a previous Norman Lamont, I think unrelated, born in Bute and gored to death by a bull on his Trinidadian sugar plantation. Quote Sir Norman Lamont, 2nd Baronet (7 September 1869 – 3 September 1949) was a Scottish Liberal Party politician, sugar planter in Trinidad, and a recognised authority on agriculture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Norman_Lamont,_2nd_Baronet 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 43 minutes ago, welshbairn said: There was a previous Norman Lamont, I think unrelated, born in Bute and gored to death by a bull on his Trinidadian sugar plantation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Norman_Lamont,_2nd_Baronet Presumably a recognised authority on arable agriculture as opposed to health and safety in cattle farming 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 In the film, "The Railway Children", the part of 11 year old Phyllis is played by 20 year old Sally Thomsett. As part of her contract, she was not allowed to tell anyone her real age, be seen smoking or drinking, dating her boyfriend or driving her sports car. She was 2 years older than her co-star Jenny Agutter who played her big sister. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Tattiescone Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 Horace Wells, the man who discovered modern anesthesia, committed suicide after a failed demonstration of nitrous oxide cast his life into a spiral, where he closed his practice, became addicted to chloroform, and threw acid on prostitutes while inebriated. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 Nowhere in the bible does it state that Satan rules Hell. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 Queen of the South is not the only football team named on the bible. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Ferguson's Hat Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 But they are the diddiest. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 4 hours ago, scottsdad said: Nowhere in the bible does it state that Satan rules Hell. I’ve an excellent book “the birth of satan” which describes how the concept of satan grew over time. Well worth a read. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 On 04/08/2022 at 10:26, welshbairn said: Not exactly a fun fact, but I just found out that the very English sounding badger look-a-like and disastrous Tory Chancellor Norman Lamont was born in Shetland and went to school in Musselburgh. His formal title is Baron Lamont of Lerwick. Presumably the cvnt was at Loretto and not Musselburgh High ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlipperyP Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 31 minutes ago, mathematics said: I’ve an excellent book “the birth of satan” which describes how the concept of satan grew over time. Well worth a read. I've got a few friends that would never read the book, but do his work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 1 hour ago, Florentine_Pogen said: Presumably the cvnt was at Loretto and not Musselburgh High ? Aye, likely where he lost his Shetlandic brogue. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagane Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 6 hours ago, Arch Stanton said: Queen of the South is not the only football team named on the bible. Think I've read somewhere ,wolves and arsenal are in it.any more? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 16 minutes ago, dagane said: Think I've read somewhere ,wolves and arsenal are in it.any more? Hearts? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 2 hours ago, mathematics said: I’ve an excellent book “the birth of satan” which describes how the concept of satan grew over time. Well worth a read. In the beginning there was made up shite which begat more made up shite. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 What's the ice cream company mentioned in the bible? Spoiler Walls of Jericho 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theatom Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 43 minutes ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said: What's the ice cream company mentioned in the bible? Reveal hidden contents Walls of Jericho Lyons of Judah ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 And Moses owned a motorbike, because the roar of his triumph was heard throughout Israel. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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