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Onan was a biblical character in the Book of Genesis, and was the brother of er%u2026 er%u2026 damn it, can%u2019t remember.
Anyway God killed Onan%u2019s brother and instructed Onan to impregnate his brother%u2019s wife on the Tamar bridge (still can%u2019t remember his name). For some extraordinary reason Onan kept whipping it out at the crucial moment and %u2018spilling his seed on the ground%u2019. Idiot! It was the biggest anticlimax in the whole history of anticlimices. So God killed him too. Next: I love a happy ending |
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FFS!
It refused to post and I got booted out of the forum for 10 minutes. But I see it's posted anyway, albeit six minutes too late! and WTF! Why doesn't it print dots and apostrophes any more? |
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see it's happening to you too
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I'm going to try that one again. No-one else seems to be having this problem (apart from Boggle). I'll take out the consecutive dots and see if that makes any difference.
Onan was a biblical character in the Book of Genesis, and was the brother of er, er, damn it, can't remember. Anyway God killed Onan's brother and instructed Onan to have a bit of how's your father with his brother's wife on the Tamar bridge (still can't remember his name). For some extraordinary reason Onan kept whipping it out at the crucial moment and 'spilling his seed on the ground'. Idiot! It was the biggest anticlimax in the whole history of anticlimices. So God killed him too. Next: I love a happy ending |
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Thelma Sadd was engaged to Con Tented, but she wasn't sure where the relationship was going. When she ment Albert Happy she knew what love was all about.
The first person she told was her mum in this text.. 'I love A. Happy, ending it with Con. x x ' Next: Another contrived, yet amazing fact. |
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Stan Cannon persuaded comedy partner Oliver Ball to change their surnames for their act, because they just didn't seem botanical enough. When reading of this, Oliver Hardy remarked "That's another contrived, yet amazing fact you've got me into!"
Next: Little and Large |
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'Little and Large' was the propsed title of a Steinbeck novel until Sid and Eddie took out an injunction, so he changed to to 'Of Mice and Men' which is an altogether better title anyway.
Next: East of Eden |
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Just to the East of Edenbridge in Kent, out on the road to Hever Castle, is an old mill now converted to a pub where if you ask the barmaid nicely she%u2019ll take you upstairs for a jig-a-jig for just ten pounds (ask for Kate and say Moody sent you).
Next: Progressive Rock |
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There are several types of rock....
1). Hard rock - from which cafes are built. 2). Slow rock - epitomised by Eric Clapton. 3). Progressive rock - handed out in sticks at Lib/Dem Party conferences with a picture of Nick Clegg running through the middle of it. Next: Volcanic ash. |
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Volcanic ash is a kind of tree capable of surviving extremes of heat and that you find growing near volcanoes like Eye Ef Le Clittler Clottle in Iceland. Volcanic ash trees have been known to stop aircraft engines. The mountain ash causes similar problems for aircraft.
Aircraft and trees don%u2019t mix, fact. In a recent Air Crash Investigation episode, a tree brought down an Airbus A300. These shows all start the same: scenes of happiness with a voiceover that begins - %u201CThe Mendez family. They are going on holiday to visit the children%u2019s grandparents in Grenada. For 4 year old Natasha it is her first time on a plane. The whole family is excited and Natasha%u2019s parents have saved for years for this holiday. But soon, the trip of a lifetime will turn into a terrifying nightmare in which they, and the other 297 people on board, will die horribly in the worst, most gruesome, most badly acted accident in aviation history. NTSB investigators will soon uncover damning evidence that bad maintenance, design flaws, pilot error, a bomb, poor air traffic control and a tree are all to blame for the loss of Ageing Airlines Flight 537 and all on board%u201D. Next: Mayday |
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The contributors to the Amazing Fact Chain Letter are in clear and present danger of giving up their aim in life ie contributing to the Amazing Fact Chain Letter, due to the ravaging effect the 'new and improved forum' is having on the MIGHTY boggle's apostraphied contributions.
So much so that they have sent out a mayday signal to 'The great eyeball in the sky,' the all powerful Betfair moderator. ''' ... ''' it goes. So far there has been no reply, but for a faint crackle and the ghosts of Stevie Strikes, Lady Penelope and bert hovering over the beam of five light years of it's existence. Next: The Perishers |
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One of the great things about being a Time Lord is that I can collect a few amazing facts from the future. One such fact concerns the first artificial intelligence robot to be sold commercially.
(apologies for using the past tense but I^m writing this after the event) The robot mostly worked exceptionally well. However, the solar-powered battery unit kept malfunctioning, so they adapted one of those miniature, single-cylinder petrol engines used to power remote-controlled model aircraft. It was a bit noisy, but it did the job. The talking robot had a vast vocabulary and could hold a conversation on any subject from quantum physics to making the perfect cheesecake. It finally went on sale in January 2032 to a gullible public eager to purchase any new technology now that mobile phones and personal computers were illegal, and the internet had been shut down. Hundreds of thousands of Petrol Engined Robots (PER) were sold across the globe. But then disaster struck. The millennium bug which had been lying dormant all those years had somehow managed to infect the robot^s artificial brain and activate itself. In the end, the only thing the robots would say was ^^Hello Peeps. I^m a robot, innit^^. Not that anyone could really hear what it was saying above the noise of the petrol engine power unit; which by now was really starting to piss people off in the same way that the vulvazulu had during the 2010 World Cup finals. There was no choice but to recall all the robots and give everyone a full refund. The robots went down in history ignominiously as The PERISHERS (Petrol Engined Robots Imitating Sir Harry Enfield^s Role as Stavros) and most of them perished along with the company which made them. I^ll save the story of how Harry Enfield managed to get a knighthood after they^d been abolished for another time. Next: Lee Enfield 303 |
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Lee Enfield was the son of a blacksmith from Dartford. He was born on the 16th March 1895 at 3 minutes past 3. Unfortunately he died quite quickly due to what has become known nowadays as 'cot death'. His father was desperate for him to be commemorated and so he asked his best friend, who was an arms manufacturer, to name one of his products after him.
And so entered into the British Army its most famous rifle the Lee Enfield 303, which remained standard issue until 1957. Next: Swarfega |
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Thought I'd have a go at a movie for swarfega:
http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/movie-uk-58258ae0eb3938357e13e896b81b4a2d.html Next: Lights, Camera Acton. |
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 Excellent Boggle. |
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In the early days of movie-making, Directors would issue the commands Lights, Camera, Act on my cue%u2026 and then they%u2019d make some sort of signal for the actors to start moving.
Some bright spark eventually came up with the idea of saving time by simply calling Action instead of Act on my cue%u2026 And that%u2019s a fact. Next: Fay Wray |
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'Lights, Camera Acton!' was a public information film released by Acton Council in 1968 to promote the delights of the borough and to improve tourist trade. It was a dismal failure, not least because Acton was and remains a miserable dump.
Next: Bomb sites. |
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Cheers, great fun aren't they? Enjoyed the ones of sparky's thread so much I thought I'd try. Just wish they were about a minute longer.
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First time it's happened to me that! Oh well GL with the double header boggle...
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Yeah they are great fun. I knocked one up yesterday afternoon. Most enjoyable.
Sorry about that Colly.  Fay Wray Bomb Sites  |
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After actress Olivia De Haviland contributed to the war effort by designing and building the Mosquito fighter/bomber out of old wooden films sets and comedy writer Dennis Nordern designed the B17's secret bomb sight, jealous King actress Fay Wray thought she%u2019d like to get in on the act.
As it turned out, the Fay Wray bomb sight was actually so good it could knock a giant gorilla off of a skyscapper at 10,000ft, as shown in the movie King Kong. Next: Harold Lloyd. |
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A great 'Bombay' Boggle!
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The following is an extract from my favorite Harold Lloyd film.
Next: Polish migrant workers |
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Health and safety considerations, likely action under the Human Rights act, the desire to maintain good relations with
our European neighbours and, most of all, spiralling costs mean that this week the government will abandon plans to polish migrant workers. Next: Brasso |
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Brasso was an Utterly fictional TV series set in a Lancashire mining town during the 1930s.
The two main characters were a couple of likely lasses who scraped a living by polishing knobs. Next: Personal services |
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When King Walter of Upper Bohemia fell out with Prussian Duke Gottlieb over the version of Mass to be practised in their cathedrals they contacted Pope Urban IV over which personal services were the right version of the mass. Pope Urban said the personal services of King Walter were correct and became known as the "Bohemian Rhapsody" which several centuries later was turned into a smash hit by British pop group Queen.
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Just at the bend in the river as you chug slowly northwards at 4mph out of the village of Lunche-on-Meat sits the quaint olde English pub, The Duck^s Arse, where the annual Pork Pie Throwing Championship is held every August. Tens of people come from miles around to take part in this ^jolly goode funne^ activity whilst consuming vast quantities of ale and taking the piss out of the morris dancers.
Next: Country bumpkin |
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Due to the extremely high level of inbreeding in the more secluded rural areas it was found that when a country dweller bumped into another they would usually be kin.
Next: Kissing cousins. |
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Robin Cousins, Olympic Gold-medalist figure skater, was known within the sport as 'Kissing Cousins' due to the way he insisted on kissing his opponents before their turn to skate and throwing a triple-sulko if they failed to reciprocate.
Next: Arsemelting Curry |
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Arsene Wenger's latest signing is Johannes Curry. Bought from Arctic Circle side Spitzbergen where the temperature reaches minus 370 degrees centigrade, he arrived at the Emirates still frozen, but quickly warmed up following a rub down from his new manager, prompting this headline on the Gunners website: 'Arse melting Curry'
Next: French Cricket |
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French crickets taste best if sautéed in butter and garlic with coriander and nutmeg, and served with a few fried onions.
Here's one I prepared earlier: http://tinyurl.com/38tyd7f Next: Haute cuisine |
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Mueller to Haute (pronounced Ggghotter) Haute to Cuisine (pronounced Kwieziener) 1-0
Schweinsteiger to Haute, Cuisine! 2-0 Rummenigge to Breitner to Seeler to Haute..Cuisine!! 3-0 Next: Four One |
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Montana Four-1 was the working title of a pilot for an American TV cop series starring Jack Lord and James and MacArthur.
But it was a bit cold in Montana so they moved to Hawaii. Next: Surfing safari |
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Latest news:
Surfing, safari or camping out in the Northumberland countryside - Police today issued a statement that they believe Raoul Moat may be doing one of these three things, as he bids to become Britain’s first holidaying murderer. Next: The net is tightening |