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  • #62
    Rumpy Pumpy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,048 ✭✭✭Rumpy Pumpy


    Over 600,000 transactions are passed between IT and operational systems every hour to keep the electricity supply and distribution network in Ireland up and running.


  • #63
    Bone Cancer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 30 ✭Bone Cancer


    The music in the 'You wouldn't steal a car' ad was pirated for use in the ad.


  • #64
    learn_more
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭learn_more


    Picking up in Coppers is not as easy as ppl say it is.


  • #65
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    95% of jobs created during the Obama administration were short term contracts or part time jobs


  • #66
    learn_more
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭learn_more


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    95% of jobs created during the Obama administration were short term contracts or part time jobs

    Donald Trump pissed all his profits up the wall.


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  • #67
    Cortina_MK_IV
    Registered Users Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭Cortina_MK_IV


    Sylvester Stallone got the part of Rocky by accident.


  • #68
    Cartouche
    Closed Accounts Posts: 248 ✭✭Cartouche


    Google's founders were willing to sell to Excite for under $1 million in 1999—but Excite turned them down.


  • #69
    Tilikum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Tilikum


    Cheetahs originated in North America


  • #70
    sharpey85
    Registered Users Posts: 96 ✭✭sharpey85


    Cartouche wrote:
    Sean Connery turned down the Gandalf role in Lord of the Rings


    He also turned down a contract at Manchester United


  • #71
    Tilikum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Tilikum


    Cortina_MK_IV wrote: »
    Sylvester Stallone got the part of Rocky by accident.

    He wrote it & wanted to play it himself


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  • #72
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    You didnt know that i didnt know any of this earlier


  • #73
    Cortina_MK_IV
    Registered Users Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭Cortina_MK_IV


    Cortina_MK_IV wrote: »
    Sylvester Stallone got the part of Rocky by accident.
    Tilikum wrote: »
    He wrote it & wanted to play it himself

    Exactly... Leading up to the mistake.


  • #74
    Senna
    Registered Users Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    Gmail was orginally "Garfield Mail" (the cat) and owned by Jim Davis, Google bought the name afterwards.
    In Germany you couldn't have a "Gmail" account, it had to be called "GoogleMail" as there was already a company called Gmail who provided the service of recieveing your emails, printing them out and posting them to you, surprise surprise, that company sold the name when their own company tanked.

    Finally, put a + sign anywhere in your Gmail address when you sign up to mailing lists, you will still receive the mail, but Google will organise them. Good way to direct stuff you might not want (or definitely don't want to miss)


  • #75
    prinzeugen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,891 ✭✭✭prinzeugen


    Senna wrote: »

    Finally, put a + sign anywhere in your Gmail address when you sign up to mailing lists, you will still receive the mail, but Google will organise them. Good way to direct stuff you might not want (or definitely don't want to miss)

    Why is this a good idea? Hotmail/Outlook are at this crap as well. The postman does not open and read my mail or make a decision about "what's important" before he sticks it through the letterbox so why the flying feck should google or hotmail??


  • #76
    Satriale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,023 ✭✭✭Satriale


    All modern Polar bears are descended, on their mothers side, from the Irish Brown Bear.


    irish-bear.jpg


  • #77
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,221 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »
    Apples have more genes than a Human.



    This could go on for years.......

    Bollox. I have six pairs. I've never even seen an apple wearing trousers.


  • #78
    xabi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,990 ✭✭✭xabi


    Peanuts aren't nuts.


  • #79
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    xabi wrote: »
    Peanuts aren't nuts.

    You cant leave me feeling that thick tell me more!


  • #80
    gitzy16v
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,093 ✭✭✭gitzy16v


    Noah actually had 3 of each animal on the ark


  • #81
    Tin Foil Hat
    Registered Users Posts: 1,661 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    Masala wrote: »
    More people die every year from kicks from donkeys than die in airline crashes

    * puts all donkeys on the watchlist *


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  • #82
    xabi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,990 ✭✭✭xabi


    jimbobaloobob wrote: »
    You cant leave me feeling that thick tell me more!

    They are Legumes


  • #83
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,656 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Deedsie wrote: »
    Ya, practicalities of a pre existing system. Would be too expensive to change and goodness knows any investment in our rail network has more important priorities. Luckily the public don't have to deal with those measurements, rail operators and engineers.

    Still a ridiculous system.
    One of the Luas lines used an existing rail route.

    We could be here all day :o


  • #84
    Tin Foil Hat
    Registered Users Posts: 1,661 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    You can open a box of photocopying paper by flipping over the strapping and peeling back the loose end.


  • #85
    fineso.mom
    Registered Users Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭fineso.mom


    Tin Foil Hat wrote: »
    You can open a box of photocopying paper by flipping over the strapping and peeling back the loose end.

    Same with briquettes.


  • #86
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,521 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    One of the Luas lines used an existing rail route.

    We could be here all day :o

    And will use another when the extension finishes. The other uses an old canal for a bit.


  • #87
    Sideshow Cecil
    Registered Users Posts: 31 ✭Sideshow Cecil


    gitzy16v wrote: »
    Noah actually had 3 of each animal on the ark

    Danny is that you?


  • #88
    Satriale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,023 ✭✭✭Satriale


    Most cars have an arrow on the instrument cluster that tell you what side the fuel filler cap is on, (the few that dont use the nozzle on the image of the pump to indicate the correct side.)


  • #89
    StupidLikeAFox
    Registered Users Posts: 7,696 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    prinzeugen wrote: »
    Why is this a good idea? Hotmail/Outlook are at this crap as well. The postman does not open and read my mail or make a decision about "what's important" before he sticks it through the letterbox so why the flying feck should google or hotmail??

    I think he is talking about the feature whereby if your email address is prinz@gmail.com then you can put a +whatever in there and it will still end up I your inbox.

    Prinz+1@gmail.com
    Prinz+boobies@gmail.com
    Prinz+gmail@gmail.com

    ...will all end up at the same inbox. Very handy if you want to sign up to something multiple times but still have the same inbox


  • #90
    take everything
    Registered Users Posts: 9,800 ✭✭✭take everything


    The colour green does not exist in parts of China. Scientists believe this to be related to the huge smog problem there.

    Dwarves are illegal in South America.

    Bears can vote in Alaska. Most don't however.

    The letter p was dropped from the alphabet in 1903. An abysmal failure of metrification, it was quickly reinstated after the great secretary revolt later that year.


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  • #91
    Senecio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 971 ✭✭✭Senecio


    Satriale wrote: »
    Most cars have an arrow on the instrument cluster that tell you what side the fuel filler cap is on, (the few that dont use the nozzle on the image of the pump to indicate the correct side.)

    While your first statement is true, unfortunately the second is not. The nozzle side does not indicate the fuel filler cap side.


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