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You couldn't make this stuff up....
federica
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This discussion was created from comments split from: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!.
All submissions have to be verifiable, true and real, with an enormous sense of irony thrown in. Game on....
All submissions have to be verifiable, true and real, with an enormous sense of irony thrown in. Game on....
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This is Conchita Wurst:
![](http://www.independent.ie/incoming/article30253600.ece/ALTERNATES/h342/Eurovision003.jpg"")
This is what was said about her:
This is who said it.
You couldn't make this up.
The SpyMaster who founded the organisation that was to become MI6, discovered that semen could be used as invisible ink.
His name was Mansfield Cumming.
You couldn't make this up.....
There is a cow in New Zealand that has been found to have a specific gene that actually enables her to produce semi-skimmed milk.
Her name is Marge.
You couldn't make this up.
Maybe you know this already. But there is a word for someone who's name matches their profession, aptronym. For example William Wordsworth, poet and advocate for British copyright law. Or Jules Angst, a psychiatrist focusing on anxiety.
The inverse is an inaptronym, like Larry Playfair a hockey player known for fighting.
The head of the Dutch pilot's association a few years ago was a Mr. Brick (Baksteen in Dutch), which is not quite an inaptronym as the name is only linked to the profession through a proverb
The CEO for the non-profit Food for the Poor is Robin Mahfood.
You really can't make that one up.
There is a recently retired Australian politician called Richard Face.
I suppose it's marginally better than being called Richard Head...
Mona Lott ....No doubt somewhere in the world there's a Mona Lott who works in the complaints department
Michigan state representative Peter Pettalia voted to repeal the motorcycle safety law that requires helmet use. He died yesterday in a motorcycle crash.
Then find one. That's what this thread is about. Real-life ironies.
Ironies that could all have the post-script - "you couldn't make it up".
It was a recipe for disaster.....England's world famous Spaghetti Junction, a notoriously convoluted merging of several major roads and motorways in the Midlands, was blocked on Wednesday when a truck shed 20 tonnes of pasta and bolognese sauce - Odd Spot, The Age, Sept 14.
I once worked with a school teacher called Mr. Bore.
He was wearing a helmet though.
I remember in the Phillipines there was a important Catholic clergyman. I think that he was ethnically Chinese. His name was Cardinal Sin. I am not joking.
In the Atheism Plus movement there was a dude named Richard Carrier.
That's kind of like the pot calling the kettle black isn't it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_involving_the_United_Kingdom
Not to mention
http://listverse.com/2014/02/04/10-evil-crimes-of-the-british-empire/
Maybe we could have a back and forth between who's worse?
English gentlemen invented lots of useful things though, cricket, wellingtons and cucumber sandwiches for example.
I didn't post it to indicate America was any worse or better than the British. The original Americans were mainly ex-colonial Brits anyway...Right? And if I could have found a meme or illustration that pulled the UK up in the same way, I would have posted it. It just shocked me to think this was so.
It's not a pissing contest, @person.
And now, for regular viewers, back to topic.
Ah yes, I recently got involved in a futile argument with a friend of my wife's on Farcebook about whether Kiwis or Aussies were more racist than each other. A right royal waste of time!
I know: Fartbook - you couldn't make it up!!
Farcebook, the spawn of the devil!
This new book seems to offer insight into why Nazis were so crazy. Cocaine chewing gum ... ?
[lobster faints] Ay Caramba!
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/25/blitzed-norman-ohler-adolf-hitler-nazi-drug-abuse-interview
Dicks - could not make it up ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-IX
... wonder what Trump is on ...
The course of World History, and the fate of countless millions of people, lay in the hands of what can only be described as squalid, depraved drug addicts.
Thereby hangs a sombre lesson.....
John Goodenough, whose work led to the lithium-ion battery
15 October 2016 Last updated at 12:13 BST
Professor John Goodenough's work led to the
invention of the rechargeable lithium-ion battery,
which is part of almost every portable electronic
device.
Now 94-years-old and professor of engineering
at the University of Texas at Austin, Goodenough
talks to the Today programme's John Humphrys
about Samsung's problems with batteries
catching fire, why he has never won a Nobel
Prize and why he dislikes the mobile phone.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37666626
Donald Trump running for President of the United States of America ...
and Boris Johnson becoming Britain's foreign secretary....
Oh well...As they say "A change is as good as a holocaust holiday "
Just watched 'hypernormalisation' on BBC Iplayer. Reality is made up, is the central message [lobster faints].
https://www.list.co.uk/article/85421-tv-review-hypernormalisation-by-adam-curtis-bbc-iplayer/
It is long, nearly three hours BUT being on iplayer, you can watch in bits. [Fair warning: It is compelling. Your brain may melt. In my case that is fine, never use it much anyway ...
]
When I heard that 30% of Americans did not believe that they had landed on the moon - it was all fake ... Que? I decided to take the most ridiculous proposition I could find and argue its reality. Did I mention that the Eiffel Tower does not really exist ...
http://web.archive.org/web/20060715191705/http://pages.britishlibrary.net/lobster/et/
It was an interesting process. I released the page just after the NY twin tower plane bombs. In order to create convincing propaganda, you have to believe it to some degree. Very dangerous process/place, very near to the edge of sanity ...
Could you make this stuff up? ... plan b, stay in the moment ... it might be more 'real' ...
Ken Burns has said that after the American Empire falls, it will be remembered for its only two contributions to world culture. Baseball and Jazz.
And baseball is derived from a game called rounders which was invented...In England, and was originally called... Baseball.
Wonder Woman is no longer a UN ambassador. Maybe real woman are more appropriate ...
America doesn't seem to have any 'appropriate women' other than the wife of the bloke who just quit the White house... oh and that marvellously witty blonde gay comedienne who has her own great show, now....
(Oprah is over-done, by the way. And Dr Ruth definitely doesn't count....)
You would have thought they choose Harley Quinn, given the size of the furore. And I can kind of see Wonder Woman is not so appropriate, after all she is a supernatural being. Why not choose someone like Ms. Marvel, who at least has a human background? That is, if it has to be a comic book hero...
hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia...
Is 'the fear of long words'.
Stammer and stutter are difficult words to speak, for those with a stammer or a stutter.
Dyslexia is difficult to spell and
Rhotacism is the inability to properly pronounce the letter 'r'. (it comes out more as a 'w'.)