The Little Known Facts Thread

[SootySport]

On ‎21‎/‎05‎/‎2017 at 20:08, Stuart Faulkner - Shows & Events Coordinator said:

Occasional tables are in fact tables 100% of the time and not just occasionally.

I have to disagree with you there----------sometimes they are engine stands or workbenches.

[pistonbroke]

Charlie Chaplin once won 3rd place in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest 

[SootySport]

I don't look like Sooty.

[CraigHew]

Fish never get thirsty

[Andy Banks]

2 hours ago, SootySport said:

I don't look like Sooty.

Only in your own opinion Bernie.

[Olliebeak]

A flat washer dropped while working on the car will always roll under the car and stop just out of reach in the centre. 

[Stu Faulkner]

1 hour ago, Olliebeak said:

A flat washer dropped while working on the car will always roll under the car and stop just out of reach in the centre. 

And a nut dropped in an engine bay will disappear into another dimension. 

[Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO]

 

Continuing the 'dropped nut' theme.

If you are working on your car on a sloping street, a dropped nut will roll uphill and into a grid.

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

18 hours ago, Paul Hurdsfield said:

 

Continuing the 'dropped nut' theme.

If you are working on your car on a sloping street, a dropped nut will roll uphill and into a grid.

Oh that old chestnut. A dropped nut will not only roll uphill to a grid, it will roll around obstructions to get to one. In fact, there's something about being screwed on to a Westfield that seems to allow fasteners to become sentient over time, I'm sure!

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

The definition of Sod's Law is that every piece of wire/wood/pipe/string etc., that you carefully cut to a specific length, will always be a half inch too short.

[SootySport]

22 minutes ago, Man On The Clapham Omnibus said:

The definition of Sod's Law is that every piece of wire/wood/pipe/string etc., that you carefully cut to a specific length, will always be a half inch too short.

Just cut it 1/2" longer, sorted!

[pistonbroke]

The longer the stocking is the closer the bottom is to the top 

[Marcus Barlow - Show and Events Co-ordinator]

Buzz Aldrin was the first man to pee on the moon

[John K]

It takes longer to say the abbreviation "double you, double you, double you" than it takes to say the original "world wide web"

[Kingster]

41 minutes ago, John K said:

It takes longer to say the abbreviation "double you, double you, double you" than it takes to say the original "world wide web"

But it's shorter to type SA than it is to say Smart A***!

edit: @John K  that one has to be my favourite so far, but as a web developer I just don't get why so many people still use "www" at all these days!