9. Rather ashamed to admit that I hadn't a clue what this was before visiting the link - and this comes from someone who lived in Tanfield Lea (just north of Stanley, west of Chester-le-Street) before Middlesbrough and has parents hailing from the Jarrow/Whickham/Annfield Plain area. Presumably rapper comes somehow from rapier.
16. Sounds like a good combination to me.
23-24. Remarkable. I would never have expected that this might happen without your evidence that it does.
51-52. Me too, though probably to a slightly lesser extent than you in the latter case.
63. Must it be prose? Must it be fiction? (Apologies if "Must it be non-fiction?" is a more appropriate question.)
90. There was a BBC doc about this a year or two trying to purport that giant pandas are really hardcore mofos. But they always look wuvwy, don't they? (Cue the icon...)
97. Do you open presents on Xmas Eve (I know some folk who do) or is it just the anticipation of the day to come?
Great stuff! My on-again, off-again ambition to come up with a hundred similarly wacky facts is more on-again and less off-again than it was fifteen minutes ago. You're setting the bar very high, though!
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Date: 2002-12-17 06:52 pm (UTC)9. Rather ashamed to admit that I hadn't a clue what this was before visiting the link - and this comes from someone who lived in Tanfield Lea (just north of Stanley, west of Chester-le-Street) before Middlesbrough and has parents hailing from the Jarrow/Whickham/Annfield Plain area. Presumably rapper comes somehow from rapier.
16. Sounds like a good combination to me.
23-24. Remarkable. I would never have expected that this might happen without your evidence that it does.
51-52. Me too, though probably to a slightly lesser extent than you in the latter case.
63. Must it be prose? Must it be fiction? (Apologies if "Must it be non-fiction?" is a more appropriate question.)
90. There was a BBC doc about this a year or two trying to purport that giant pandas are really hardcore mofos. But they always look wuvwy, don't they? (Cue the icon...)
97. Do you open presents on Xmas Eve (I know some folk who do) or is it just the anticipation of the day to come?
Great stuff! My on-again, off-again ambition to come up with a hundred similarly wacky facts is more on-again and less off-again than it was fifteen minutes ago. You're setting the bar very high, though!