I bet you didnt know that

Realt Dearg Sec

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

But she didn't win the Irish Open that year as well which was the point, I think?

Well the Irish Open was never a Grand Slam title. Conor was saying Laver won all four Grand Slams that year and no other player has ever done it since (and he happened also to be in the Irish open that year). Then mzungu pointed out he is not the last player to do, Graf was. laver was presumably the last man to do it.

Snotty

The first person to win Olympic gold in tennis basically just showed up and won.

John Pius Boland was vacationing in Athens during the 1896 Olympics and his friend, who was on the organizing committee, signed him up for singles tennis. Boland won, then entered the doubles event with the guy he beat in the first round of singles, Friedrich Traun of Germany, and they won that too.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Deleted User wrote: »

The second oldest tennis tournament in the world, after Wimbledon, is the Irish Open. It was considered pretty much the biggest tournament after Wimbledon before WWI, and was the first to feature men and women singles and doubles. As recently as 1962 it was big enough to draw the superstars when it was won by Rod Laver in the year he won all 4 grand slam tournaments...a feat no other tennis player has since achieved (although he did it again in 1969).

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Well the Irish Open was never a Grand Slam title. Conor was saying Laver won all four Grand Slams that year and no other player has ever done it since (and he happened also to be in the Irish open that year). Then mzungu pointed out he is not the last player to do, Graf was. laver was presumably the last man to do it.

Maybe I'm reading it incorrectly but he didn't say it was a grand slam title, just that it was formerly a big enough tournament that Rod Laver played in it and won it in the year that he also won the grand slam in 1962. Which he did again in 1969, grand Slam plus Irish open?

Realt Dearg Sec

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Maybe I'm reading it incorrectly but he didn't say it was a grand slam title, just that it was formerly a big enough tournament that Rod Laver played in it and won it in the year that he also won the grand slam in 1962. Which he did again in 1969, grand Slam plus Irish open?

From my reading, the second time he did "it" just refers to winning the four grand slams, not winning the Irish Open. The "feat" being referred to is the four grand slams, it is a separate point to the one about the former importance of the Irish Open.

That's my reading of it at least.

Chancer3001

W.B Yeats' younger brother Jack won Ireland's first Olympic medal (Ireland as a free state)

He won us an Olympic medal.....for painting .

Chancer3001

In the 1900 Olympics they had pigeon shooting as an Olympic event. With actual live pigeons.

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Chancer3001 wrote: »

W.B Yeats' younger brother Jack won Ireland's first Olympic medal (Ireland as a free state)

He won us an Olympic medal.....for painting .

He won a Silver and, the same year, Oliver St. John Gogarty won a Bronze for literature.

Realt Dearg Sec

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

Chancer3001 wrote: »

W.B Yeats' younger brother Jack won Ireland's first Olympic medal (Ireland as a free state)

He won us an Olympic medal.....for painting .

He won a Silver and, the same year, Oliver St. John Gogarty won a Bronze for literature.

Gogarty was a well regarded satirist in his day, and he was also a gifted athlete, particularly as a swimmer (said to have rescued a man from drowning in the liffey), as well as a prominent surgeon. He was somewhat unfortunate that he ended up being overshadowed by his one time roommate and preeminent literary genius of his age in James Joyce, so that his depiction as buck Mulligan in ulysses, as a loud mouth and a blow hard, a man who would betray friend and country for the approval of a foreigner, is now the basis of most people's estimation of him, if they heard of him at all.

Roger_007

The rich may be getting richer...........but so are the poor!

Widdershins

Nincompoop derives from non compos mentis

Grayson

Snotty wrote: »

Oh it still happens and there are reported cases from all around the world in the last few years. Won't list example here, but Google waking up in a morgue.
And that is with today's medical expertise, in days gone by, they knew dead bodies could infect the healthy so there was no reason not to bury someone straight away, especially the poor.


On a similar note.
The Lazarus syndrome is an actual medical phenomenon where people are resuscitated but it fails to get their circulation going (and so the pulse) , but once they give up on resuscitation, blood circulation begins again. For that reason medical procedure is to not certify death until atleast 10 minutes after resuscitation has failed.

there's a guy in japan who can revive people hours after their death

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/apr/06/sam-parnia-resurrection-lazarus-effect

In Parnia's ideal world, the way that people are resuscitated would first take in the knowledge that machines are much better at CPR than doctors. After that, he suggests, the next step is "to understand that you need to elevate the level of care". The first thing is to cool down the body to best preserve the brain cells, which are by then in the process of apoptosis, or suicide.

At the same time, it is necessary to keep up the level of oxygen in the blood. In Japan, this is already standard practice in emergency rooms. Using a technique called an ECMO, the blood of the deceased is siphoned out of the body, put through a membrane oxygenator and pumped round again. This buys the time needed to fix the underlying problem that caused the person to die in the first place. If the level of oxygen to the brain falls below 45% of normal the heart will not restart, Parnia's research shows. Anything above that and there is a good chance.

Potentially, by this means, dead time can be extended to hours and there are still positive outcomes. "The longest I know of is a Japanese girl I mention in the book," Parnia says. "She had been dead for more than three hours. And she was resuscitated for six hours. Afterwards, she returned to life perfectly fine and has, I have been told, recently had a baby."

partyguinness

Guisippe Bergomi played at 4 World Cups for Italy, collected a winners and a 3rd place medal between 1982 and 1998 (missed 94) but he never played in a WC qualifier.

I figured that out myself a good few years ago and put it in Wikipedia. Then some bastard came along afterwards rewrote the paragraph and deleted mine to claim all the credit...:mad:

partyguinness

Two of the best known Christmas songs that did not in fact make #1 in the UK:

Fairy Tale of New York by the Pogues (beaten by the ****ing Pet Shop Boys- defo anti-Irish conspiracy)

Last Christmas by Wham beaten by Live Aid

Tayschren

Worldwide, women earn US$18 trillion but spend US$28 trillion

Grayson

Wibbs wrote: »

The script on the CocaCola Bottle was based on a script Spensorian(sp?) used in the US in the late 19th century for business and other professional correspondence. The guys starting the company thought it would lend a certain gravitas to their product. Others thought similarly at the time. The only other one still around and was used for the same gravitas reason is the Ford logo script.

There's an urban legend I heard that the tail off the C in the Coca Cola was designed that way to mimic the curve in the coke bottle.

However a quick google shows that it's not the case.

The 1887 logo is this


But the bottle wasn't designed until 1916. And the inspiration for the bottle shape was a coco bean.
The reason they needed a distinct bottle was because they had competitors who copied their logo (Koka-Nola, Ma Coca-Co, Toka-Cola and even Koke). They tried changing logo's but the bottles were often stored on big barrels of cold water to keep them chilled and labels just fell off. So they got their own bottle design that competitors couldn't copy.

http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/the-story-of-the-coca-cola-bottle

Professor Moriarty

Coca Cola was originally sold as a tonic and contained a small amount of cocaine until 1903 .

the beer revolu

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

Coca Cola was originally sold as a tonic and contained a small amount of cocaine until 1903 .

Doesn't everybody know that?

Widdershins

There are no tigers in Africa.

valoren

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

Coca Cola was originally sold as a tonic and contained a small amount of cocaine until 1903 .

In 1919, when the current incarnation of Coca Cola had it's IPO, if you bought one share for $40 and reinvested the dividend that single share would be worth over $9.8 million today.

MagicIRL

The great football club FC Barcelona would not exist today if it wasn't for an Irishman, Paddy O'Connell.

During the Spanish Civil War, the football league was suspended and Barcelona were in huge debt. It was he who brought the club on a tour of North America (incl. Mexico) which generated enough revenue that it saved the club from bankruptcy.

He's affectionately known as Don Patricio O'Connell among Barcelona fans.

He also led Real Betis to their one and only La Liga win after saving Barcelona from the brink of extinction.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/european/paul-oconnell-bust-recognised-real-betis-la-liga-barcelona-legend-a7608691.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_O%27Connell_(Irish_footballer)#FC_Barcelona

Professor Moriarty

the beer revolu wrote: »

Doesn't everybody know that?

They do now.

Snotty

Grayson wrote: »

There's an urban legend I heard that the tail off the C in the Coca Cola was designed that way to mimic the curve in the coke bottle.

However a quick google shows that it's not the case.

But the tail off on the logo used now does mimic the traditional bottle shape??

MonkeyTennis

Samuel Beckett Drove Young André the Giant to School: A True Story

Curly Judge

Edward Patrick Francis Eagan was the only human to win a gold medal in both the Summer and Winter Olympics in different sports.

Capt'n Midnight

Philip Noel-Baker won an Olympic Medal for the 1500 metres.


And a Nobel Prize.

Tigger

Widdershins wrote: »

There are no tigers in Africa.

there are a good few tigers in Africa

Capt'n Midnight

Widdershins wrote: »

There are no tigers in Africa.

Laziz now lives in South Africa. :P

Capt'n Midnight

Samuel Beckett convinced Apsley Cherry-Garrard to write his memoirs.

"The Worst Journey in the World."

It's a book that takes a while to get going. But it sneaks up on you. Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised. When it's warm the ice melts and you sleeping bag and clothes get wet. When it's -60 and your tent has blown away and sunrise isn't for weeks , well like they say an adventure isn't fun while it's happening.

Greybottle

The Lion is known as the King of the Jungle, but they don't live in jungles and never have. They prefer open Savannah or thin woodlands.

They used to be widespread in Europe, but were extinct well before the time of Jesus. The last "European" lions died out in present day Georgia around the time of Brian Boru, though close relatives of them existed in Iran up until the Second World War.

They are almost extinct in Western Africa, only surviving in properly sustainable numbers in East and Southern Africa and in one large reserve in India.

Mountainsandh

Grayson wrote: »

There's an urban legend I heard that the tail off the C in the Coca Cola was designed that way to mimic the curve in the coke bottle.

However a quick google shows that it's not the case.

The 1887 logo is this


But the bottle wasn't designed until 1916. And the inspiration for the bottle shape was a coco bean.
The reason they needed a distinct bottle was because they had competitors who copied their logo (Koka-Nola, Ma Coca-Co, Toka-Cola and even Koke). They tried changing logo's but the bottles were often stored on big barrels of cold water to keep them chilled and labels just fell off. So they got their own bottle design that competitors couldn't copy.

http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/the-story-of-the-coca-cola-bottle

The man who claims to have first bottled Coca-Cola was Joe Biedenharn, in Vicksburg Mississippi. There's a little museum I visited there, where you can see the old style fountains sodas used to be dispensed from.
There were lots of different flavours, and they got to the dispenser in a syrup form.

The summers were hot, and it occurred to Joe that only his urban clients could avail of the soda fountain. He thought there was a market there to distribute fresh sodas to the country folks on his delivery rounds, and he was already bottling soda water, so he wrote to Coca-Cola and with their agreement, went ahead and bottled it.

Biedenharn used standard soda bottles at first, but then he had to rethink the design as there was a rubber seal that changed the taste of Coke after some time. So he went for a straight edge bottle, and some of these had the Coca-Cola logo (not on a label, on the glass).
Shortly after that Coca-Cola decided to have their own distinct bottles as your post explains. According to the Vicksburg museum site the Coca Cola guy said : "we need a bottle which a person can recognize as a Coca-Cola bottle when he feels it in the dark.”

http://biedenharncoca-colamuseum.com/bottle.htm