Tell Me Something I Don't Know

[cinema guy]

Nick Alkamade survived a 20000 feet fall from a burning Lancaster bomber during WW2. His parachute was damaged so he opted to jump out of a burning plane without a parachute rather than die in the fire. He crashed through pine trees and landing in a deep snow drift. He didn't break any bones.

He was captured but had a hard time convincing the Germans his story was true.

[fireheart]

There's a time for swearing!

During the episode of Modern Family where Lily starts using the f-word over and over, she was never actually asked to say it and actually said "fudge" during filming. They simply dubbed it over with the censor bleep (from memory)

During the filming of "Meaning of Life", they actually said "...on the end of my SOCK" during the "Every Sperm is Sacred" sketch and dubbed "cock" in later. On top of that, the kids who were singing the song had no clue what they were actually singing about later

[Kit-Ginevra]

Chyler Leigh from Grey's Anatomy,must have really wanted her big break at 15.Cast in the awful Kickboxing Academy,her love interest was...her real-life brother.

[fireheart]

Among the versions of Monopoly are:

-Gayopoly (different gay hangouts from the US and the use of a triangular board)
-Anti-Monopoly (I've seen this one)
-"Vegas" monopoly (uses green felt board, wood panelling and gold/siilver pieces)
-Grateful Deadopoly.
-A South Australian version. Two actually. (These are typically sold as charity things)
-An AFL monopoly (no-really. You purchase bleachers as houses and stadiums as hotels )
-A hardware store chain version, a department store version.
-Two of the competing football clubs in my state each have their own monopoly boards.

Apparently in the UK, there is a drinking game where people follow the monopoly board and somehow get drunk. O.o

The original Monopoly tokens actually represented the rich and the working class. I'll let you guess which was which.

[crazylegs]

Apparently in the UK, there is a drinking game where people follow the monopoly board and somehow get drunk. O.o

It's all explained here http://monopolypubcrawl.org.uk/

[fireheart]

It's all explained here http://monopolypubcrawl.org.uk/

Oops, I did mean pub crawl. I has the dumb now.

[sms001]

Nick Alkamade survived a 20000 feet fall....

That is just awesome.

[fireheart]

In the 1930's, a man named Sir Edward Hayward became inspired by the Toronto Santa Claus parade and the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade and decided to start his own pageant.
That pageant? It's now known as the Adelaide Christmas Pageant or the Credit Union Christmas Pageant.

It originally started in 1933 with 8 floats and 3 bands. This year's pageant had over sixty floats, 11 dancing groups, fifteen bands, nine "walking floats"*, 1 DJ and 3 choirs**.

The pageant has a royal family: previously it consisted of the Pageant Queen and the princesses, over the last 4-5 years they've since included Pageant Kings and princes. These are people who work for the sponsor of the pageant and will travel to schools and places where people can't access the pageant easily. They have their own float and the King and queen will welcome Santa afterwards.

The pageant also has its own mascots-Nipper and Nimble, which are two giant rocking horses. The kids that ride them are usually 3-7 year-old girls who have parents working for the credit unions.

One year Santa passed out at the end of the pageant from the 40-degree heat. (they've since modified the santa suit so that he's kept cooler)

The Adelaide Gang Show (Scout/Guides theatrical performing group) will always participate in the pageant as they are sponsored by the credit union. Their roles will include clowns, "twirly" kids and then behind the scenes stuff.

*-a walking float is a group of people who will dress up or who will wear a "costume" of some kind, but they aren't being pulled along by a car or anything and aren't part of a "dance troupe" or "band." One example that springs to mind is a float called the "Naughty/Nice" machine, which was being pushed along by clowns. A non-example of a "walking float" is a group of precision team dancers.

**-the choirs tend to have their own floats. One float is the combined Adelaide Young Voices (girl/boy choir) that looks like a giant storybook and the singers are in one page of the "book". Very cute

[fireheart]

In the video game Nancy Drew Danger By Design, there's a character called minette. In the Russian version, they had to modify the name. Why? Because apparently in Russia, "Minet" translates to fellatio....

[wolfie]

Admiral Chester Nimitz (WW2) and presidents Andrew Jackson and Bill Clinton were born after their respective fathers died.

[Jester]

Wolfie, my family has a weird version of that last one going on. To wit, no one has known their paternal grandfather in generations.

Dad's dad did not know his paternal grandfather because he was brought to this country by his parents at the age of 4, so never met the guy.

Dad never met his grandfather, because he died before Dad was born.

I never met Dad's dad because he died five years before I was born. He's the guy I was named after.

And while I have no plans of having children, if I ever do, they wouldn't be able to meet my Dad, since he died in 1981.

And the beat goes on....

[AnaKhouri]

My hometown is the place where Jay Gatsby met Daisy Fay.

[fireheart]

Another weird fact that I didn't know about until tonight.

The TV series "What's with Andy?" was created by a Canadian company and set in the United States.

The books it was based off of were written by an Australian author and set in Australia

[mathnerd]

My oldest son was born in Mt. Airy, NC, the town that Andy Griffith based "Mayberry" off of for the "Andy Griffith Show".

[crazylegs]

Entonox, an analgesic gas comprising of a mixture of nitrous oxide and oxygen, separates at 5C, meaning that when ambulances are store outside the cylinder must be inverted at least 5 times to mix the contents else the patient will receive pure nitrous oxide, an anaesthetic gas.