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You may have thought Sir Paul McCartney was the richest music millionaire.

Apparently not.

That honour goes to Clive Calder.

It was him who discovered Britney Spears
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Japanese people get through 25 billion pairs of disposable chop sticks each year.

Thats a lot of sushi'ing
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NBS has bought the rights to develop and screen a US version of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Apparently all 50 states will compete against each other.

Can you imagine ?
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Cloud seeding, putting chemicals into clouds to create rain was apparently used in the 1976 drought.

Don't think it'll be used this summer
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Originally posted by Biker Pat Biker Pat wrote:

Apparently all 50 states will compete against each other.

There ya are now Teresa, dust off the dancing shoes and get out that microphone. Can just picture ya ( well sorta picture ya !)

" And now,the moment you've all been waiting for, representing The great state of Ohio, standing on a box........it's the one and only.........................."

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.... singing what's another year.......
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...........or Lonely Sky.

Ya could do a duet with Pete.

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Originally posted by Rolo Rolo wrote:

...........or Lonely Sky.

Ya could do a duet with Pete.

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Why Pete would you not sing with Moi?
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Cause I am Irish and I am not Yank  and its a Yankie competition
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Erotomania.

That's the name of the condition in which a person holds a delusional befief that someone is in love with them.

Guess it started in the Grove 
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In India ... land of the Sacred Cow...there are 220 million vegetarians.

Thats about 20% of the population.

Wonder what Ireland's percentage is?

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What are the differences between African and Asian elephants? Its not just the size of their ears as we were told in school

 

African elephant
(Loxodonta africana)

Asian elephant
(Elephas maximus)
 
African elephant
Asian elephant

Weight

4000 - 7000 kg

3000 - 6000 kg

Shoulder height

3 - 4 Meter

2 - 3.5 Meter

Skin

More wrinkled

Smoother

Number of ribs

Up to 21 pairs

Up to 20 pairs

Highest point

On the shoulder

On the back

Size of the ears

Bigger,
reach up over the neck

Smaller,
do not reach over the neck

Shape of the back

Concave

Convex or straight

Shape of the belly

Diagonally downward in the direction of the hind legs

Either almost straight or sagging in the middle

Shape of the head

Not crumpled from the front to the back, no humped structures, no dent

Crumpled from the front to the back, with humped structures on the top of the head, forehead dented
 
Head of a african elephant
Head of a asian elephant
Teeth

Lamella profile of the molars diamond-shaped

Lamella profile of the molars strongly compressed
 
african molar
asia molar
Tusks

Existing with both sexes. Bigger with the males

Males in many cases having tusks. Females having only rudimentary or no tusks

Lower lip

short and round

long and taper
Food

Mainly leaves

Mainly grass

Trunk

With more rings, less hard

With less rings, hardereifer

Trunk end

With two fingers

With one finger
 

Trunk of a african elephant

trunk of a asian elephant
Toenails

Foreleg 4 or rarely 5
Hind leg 3 or rarely 4

Foreleg 5
Hind leg 4 or rarely 5

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Did you know the following records were banned from radio.

1. "Ballad Of John & Yoko" by the Beatles banned by RTE as it contained the lyrics "crucify me".

2. "Stop Stop Stop" by the Hollies was banned as it referred to a guy getting excited watching a belly dancer. I kid you not

3. "God Save The Queen" by the Sex Pistols was banned  by Auntie Beeb for obvious reasons  but still got to No 1.

4. "Je T'Aime..." was banned also for reasons I'll never know

A radio station in UK is stopping playing James Blunt songs as they are fed up listening to them. It appears his songs are the most requested.

Anybody else remember any banned songs?

 


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One in 4 smokers use roll ups.
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Professional referees can run 13 Km's during an average football game.
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Apparently it takes 354,000 scrap tyres to make a mile of re-cycled road.
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Music can help reduce chronic pain by more than 20% and can alleviate depression by up to 25%.

Any wonder the Grove was a place where nobody hurt and we were all high
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Originally posted by Biker Pat Biker Pat wrote:

Anybody else remember any banned songs?

No, but I could name a stack of stuff that should be banned.

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Originally posted by Rolo Rolo wrote:

Originally posted by Biker Pat Biker Pat wrote:

Anybody else remember any banned songs?

No, but I could name a stack of stuff that should be banned.

Rolo.

OK Rolo - spill the beans, it sounds like there's a story there.
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