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Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 25 Dec 2010, 12:48
by Monkberry
Bobby Fischer wrote a letter to Bin Larden

Dear Mr. Osama bin Laden allow me to introduce myself. I am Bobby Fischer, the World Chess Champion. First of all you should know that I share your hatred of the murderous bandit state of "Israel" and its chief backer the Jew-controlled U.S.A. also know [sic] as the "Jewnited States" or "Israel West." We also have something else in common: We are both fugitives from the U.S. "justice" system.

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 25 Dec 2010, 12:49
by GoogaMooga
Monkberry wrote:Bobby Fischer wrote a letter to Bin Larden

Dear Mr. Osama bin Laden allow me to introduce myself. I am Bobby Fischer, the World Chess Champion. First of all you should know that I share your hatred of the murderous bandit state of "Israel" and its chief backer the Jew-controlled U.S.A. also know [sic] as the "Jewnited States" or "Israel West." We also have something else in common: We are both fugitives from the U.S. "justice" system.


is this for real? :?

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 25 Dec 2010, 15:00
by Monkberry
GoogaMooga wrote:
Monkberry wrote:Bobby Fischer wrote a letter to Bin Larden

Dear Mr. Osama bin Laden allow me to introduce myself. I am Bobby Fischer, the World Chess Champion. First of all you should know that I share your hatred of the murderous bandit state of "Israel" and its chief backer the Jew-controlled U.S.A. also know [sic] as the "Jewnited States" or "Israel West." We also have something else in common: We are both fugitives from the U.S. "justice" system.


is this for real? :?


it's on wiki which might not mean much but as far as i know it's real and considering some of the anti-semetic and anti-american stuff he came out with it's not surprising. He was cock-a-hoop when 9/11 happened as you can hear in this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyT3p22RZf8&playnext=1&list=PLB1D9A0C548C0DB1C&index=7

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 25 Dec 2010, 18:27
by BlueMeanie
I learnt that people will believe anything they read on Wiki! ;)

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 25 Dec 2010, 18:37
by Minnie the Minx
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Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 25 Dec 2010, 21:49
by Monkberry
BlueMeanie wrote:I learnt that people will believe anything they read on Wiki! ;)


what yo u on about? Bobby fisher was well known for being outrageous towards the end of his life so it's perfectly beliveable he'd write that. Didn't you watch the y/t link?

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 26 Dec 2010, 04:35
by TG
I learned that John Lennon was the best man at Peter Boyle's wedding. Who knew? ( Well, I suppose someone here did bit not I).

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 26 Dec 2010, 07:32
by BlueMeanie
Monkberry wrote:
BlueMeanie wrote:I learnt that people will believe anything they read on Wiki! ;)


what yo u on about? Bobby fisher was well known for being outrageous towards the end of his life so it's perfectly beliveable he'd write that. Didn't you watch the y/t link?


I also learnt that some people can go online without their sense-of-humour gene.

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 26 Dec 2010, 16:19
by Underwater
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Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 26 Dec 2010, 16:21
by B
^^^^^^^

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 26 Dec 2010, 16:35
by The Great DeFector
I learned, thanks to QI, that there's such a thing as space lawyers. Basically if any debris hits a satellite and it can be traced, the owner of the debris can be sued. How they trace it i simply don't know.

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Posted: 01 Jan 2011, 15:30
by Monkberry
Peter Wyngarde says the line 'An obscure body in the SK system, your majesty. The inhabitants refer to it as the planet Earth. How peaceful it looks.' in The Orb's Earth (gaia).

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 01 Jan 2011, 21:00
by Minnie the Minx
Mexican hot chocolate appears to be what we would call 'an acquired taste'.

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 01 Jan 2011, 23:43
by Witchypoo
That the musical We Will Rock You is a huge cheese fest! :lol:































But I still enjoyed it :oops:

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 02 Jan 2011, 00:16
by The Modernist
Markie Xmas Everyone wrote:I learned, thanks to QI, that there's such a thing as space lawyers. Basically if any debris hits a satellite and it can be traced, the owner of the debris can be sued. How they trace it i simply don't know.


It certainly gives a novel twist to fly tipping. I've got an old satellite box and hi-fi I want rid of. Sending them up in space seems an excellent idea if I can find a way of circumnavigating the lawyers.

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 03 Jan 2011, 10:16
by Monkberry
2hb on Roxy music's debut album is about Humphry bogart and not pencils as I'd always thought. (i think i only played it a few times when i had the album about 20 yrs. ago so that's my excuse)

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 03 Jan 2011, 10:32
by Velvis
Markie Xmas Everyone wrote:there's such a thing as space lawyers.


Okay Photoshoppers. Have at it.

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Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 04 Jan 2011, 15:15
by Monkberry
Scarlett Johansson has done an album of Tom Waits covers

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 04 Jan 2011, 15:22
by Nolamike
Minnie the Minx wrote:Mexican hot chocolate appears to be what we would call 'an acquired taste'.


:shock:

It's the best thing ever! My daughter, who generally has an aversion to anything spicy ( :( ), finds this to be one of her favorite flavors at the gelateria down the street from our house.

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 04 Jan 2011, 19:59
by Monkberry
Wilfred Brambell recorded a song abut the Beatles break up called Time marches on.
Also acc. to wiki he was 'openly derogatory towards New Zealands cathedrals'.
and he was arrested for cottaging in 1962!!