Pete in Lincs Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 So....is that why Napoleon kept one arm inside his jacket, he was keeping the bottle warm? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhouse Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 My great, great, great, great, great and great, great, great, great, great, great grandfathers saw one of Mozart's early London performances. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 22 hours ago, Bonhoff said: Do you realise that we're now 20 years after Space 1999 and we still don't have Eagle Transporters.... Because they kept trashing the them Trevor 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noelh Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 Old one but the six degrees of separation is true. I'm connected to Hitler. Simply, a work colleague was a Lancashire man, really nice guy, (he got a lot of grief from our Yorkshire colleague). Anyway his Mother was a Sudetenland German. She saw Hitler when he annexed Czechoslovakia. She saw Hitler in his Mercedes when he passed by. Anyway thanks to a minor career as an extra in various movies. I'm also connected to various movie stars and US presidents. Also the Queen, via Prince Charles. Who much to their disgust of my boys visited a rival school here in Galway. It's a small world really. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 6 minutes ago, noelh said: Old one but the six degrees of separation is true. I'm connected to Hitler. Simply, a work colleague was a Lancashire man, really nice guy, (he got a lot of grief from our Yorkshire colleague). Anyway his Mother was a Sudetenland German. She saw Hitler when he annexed Czechoslovakia. She saw Hitler in his Mercedes when he passed by. Anyway thanks to a minor career as an extra in various movies. I'm also connected to various movie stars and US presidents. Also the Queen, via Prince Charles. Who much to their disgust of my boys visited a rival school here in Galway. It's a small world really. I’ve met someone who got a gong from the Queen. That means that I’m three away from the Dalia Llama and Nicolaie Ceausescu. Trevor 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noelh Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 26 minutes ago, Max Headroom said: I’ve met someone who got a gong from the Queen. That means that I’m three away from the Dalia Llama and Nicolaie Ceausescu. Trevor Absolutely. Mad isn't it? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tzulscha Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 33 minutes ago, noelh said: Old one but the six degrees of separation is true. I'm connected to Hitler. Simply, a work colleague was a Lancashire man, really nice guy, (he got a lot of grief from our Yorkshire colleague). Anyway his Mother was a Sudetenland German. She saw Hitler when he annexed Czechoslovakia. She saw Hitler in his Mercedes when he passed by. It's a small world really. Hey that puts me five steps away from you. I shook hands with a german tank commander who once shook hands with ol' Adolph himself. My mother went to college with 'Vinegar Joe' Stilwells daughter so that makes me four steps from Chiang-Kai-Shek. It's all related... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noelh Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 2 minutes ago, Tzulscha said: Hey that puts me five steps away from you. I shook hands with a german tank commander who once shook hands with ol' Adolph himself. My mother went to college with 'Vinegar Joe' Stilwells daughter so that makes me four steps from Chiang-Kai-Shek. It's all related... Amazing really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogsbody Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 When my Dad was in the RCN during WW2, his ship was visited by Prince Phillip and he spoke to Dad about Dad's nice beard. Wow! that's only 2 degrees from the Royal Family. Chris 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lasermonkey Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 A few years ago, whilst bored at work, I did a band "family tree". One of my old bands is connected to many of my favourites, sometimes by a surprisingly short number of steps. Whilst I'm quite proud of the few degrees of separation between me and the likes of The Chameleons, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Cocteau Twins and The Cure, I'm not so sure about Swing Out Sister! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardie Posted October 19, 2019 Author Share Posted October 19, 2019 Well I have a particularly peculiar one. I am distantly related to one president of the United States on both the maternal and paternal lines as he is distantly related to my father on his mother's side and a lady on my mother's side (my great, great, great, great grandfather's sister) married into his family on his father's side. On my father's side I am also descended from Neill of The Nine Hostages (king of Tara, Ireland), apparently my Islay family (MacNeill) have been proved to be linked genetically to this dynasty which backs up the claimed origin of the clan name. On my mother's side I am part Ulster Scots which I had absolutely no idea of, my mother's father's family had lived in Donegal from the 1600's after settling from Ayrshire but decided to leave Ireland for good in the latter half of the 1800's. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Ah, so they found the return part of the ferry ticket then? 1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorby Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 11 hours ago, noelh said: Old one but the six degrees of separation is true. I'm connected to Hitler. I've not thought about it like that before. That puts me four steps away from Hitler. My dad worked with a bloke who chucked a brick at Mosley during the battle of Cable Street. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noelh Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Well Beardie, apparently you're in good company as millions of people are apparently related to Niall of the nine hostages. He had a lot of sons. Assuming he even existed. But whoever it was that donated that Y chromesone he certainly left a legacy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
593jones Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 15 hours ago, Tzulscha said: It's all related... I blame the Illuminati. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnT Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 On 16/10/2019 at 23:45, Beardie said: The Heat Death is only one of the options. Another is that the Universe will reach a point where it starts to slow down and then go into reverse. It has even been hypothesised that, not only will the universe will start to shrink and accelerate back towards the primeval atom but also that time itself will go in reverse. No point in building the stash then. At least though we could build them and then sell them on after they disassemble and go back onto the sprues in their shrink wrapped boxes 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardie Posted October 20, 2019 Author Share Posted October 20, 2019 I must admit that I don't look forward to when my life goes into reverse. I don't want to have to go through all those motions again backwards! 😲 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullbasket Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 26 minutes ago, Beardie said: I don't want to have to go through all those motions again backwards Yuk!! Fancy having to go through motions....backwards or forwards. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noelh Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 4 hours ago, Bullbasket said: Yuk!! Fancy having to go through motions....backwards or forwards. Yes there was a episode of Red Dwarf where they ended up in a universe that was reversing. The Cat needed to attend to a call of nature. 💩 It didn't end well. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cngaero Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 My only claim to fame is that I was in the same class at school with Sting's brother Phil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaddad Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 On 10/19/2019 at 3:59 AM, Tzulscha said: This is certainly true but on the other hand we DO still have a moon. You know they never talked about what happened to the Earth after we managed to blow the moon out of orbit... It was knackered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaddad Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 On 10/19/2019 at 5:39 PM, Graham T said: ..I've lost track of where I was going with this....... You're not the only one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaddad Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 There's some serious random babbling going on here & it's not just mick4350. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardie Posted October 22, 2019 Author Share Posted October 22, 2019 OK here's another little factoid from Astro physics...… Every bit of iron in the universe is the result of dying stars! Iron is the heaviest element that can be created by fusion in a star and, by the time the star is fusing Iron it has pretty much run out of fuel and is about to collapse in on itself and go super nova. All the heavier elements are believed to be created within supernovas. Now for a really shiny one... One of the biggest supernova's ever witnessed in the universe is believed to have produced more Gold than the entire mass of the Earth. I have heard many people theorise that Aliens have visited our planet in search of water or gold or even because we have nuclear weapons. In a universe where gold can be found in trillions of tons after supernovae have popped, water in one form or another is virtually everywhere and quasars can fire out a trillion, trillion times the power of our biggest nuclear weapons in a second all those theories are just ridiculous. The only reason aliens would have for visiting Earth is sheer curiosity or for a good laugh at the primitive residents. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwidave4 Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 1 hour ago, Beardie said: The only reason aliens would have for visiting Earth is sheer curiosity or for a good laugh at the primitive residents. I recall many decades ago someone much more clever than I suggested that aliens would never visit Earth. The logic was somewhat along the lines that in order to get here they would have to be cleverer than us, and anybody cleverer than us would already know what we were like, and therefore have no desire to come here. 7 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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