The Pub trivia thread

8 years ago?!??!!! fookin hell!! i hadnt bought a ticket, me mate just turned up on the sunday am, we're all trollied, tells us the deal with the old by-law and we set off.
mint day.

If you cut the head of a cockroach it doesn't kill em but instaed they'll die of starvation about 9 days later. aliens from outer space I tell thee

football is actually illegal in this country. "back in the day" they used to play with the heads of their enemies and the law has never been changed.

In Latvia it is illegal to oscillate your buttocks in public

Yeah was the back end of the summer of 1997, was a wicked day out remember just dropping my first little un and the next thing i know theres a bomb scare.

the highest freestanding structure in europe is in a field outside wakefield...

aye i remember that. we were sitting on the walkway up to the bridge when that happened. was mint coz every1 just moved so slowly. they seemed to believe it was legit but just didnt give a shit!!!!

foreign sheep baa with a slight twang to their voice

every male in england between a certain age (cant remember now) is required to do daily archery practice supervised by the local clergy.

Two of your facts have been about Buttocks, this is too high a percentage to be coincidence.

Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F

I know Ive made all of mine up thought it would be more fun if i did

delphia921> what site are you getting the Phrase meanings from? I love out like that....... Has anyone noticed the use of "Sling yer hooks" (boarding hooks) on the film "Master and Commander"

The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... thus the saying.

The brain only actually reads the first and last letter of a word, so the remaining middle letters can be in any order and you would still be able to read the word as normal!!!

The snow you get on regular TV when it's not tuned to anything us left over background radiation from the big bang

thanks to Lucy for this one

At least 2 people die every year from vending machines falling on them.

All American boys are circumcised at birth.

I found this out when I whipped my tackle out and my American bird said "EEEEEW!! whats that"

King George I of England could not speak English. He was born and raised in Germany and never learned to speak English even though he was King from 1714 to 1727. He left the running of the country to his ministers thereby creating the first government cabinet.

It defo killed the magic!