Luxury non-Titanic facts

[Doctor Cheery]

Favouritism.

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MARDY MUSTARD!

[Sir William]

Thank you Mr Chairperson, you have of brought a matter of considerable importance to our notice.

What is the collective noun for Mad Shed prizes?

[Runaway]

Aren't you going to grant the Chairman a prize, Doc?

[Doctor Cheery]

Aren't you going to grant the Chairman a prize, Doc?

Eventually...

[Sir William]

What is the collective noun for Mad Shed prizes?

There is no need for one.

[Sir William]

Wear you all awear that cuckoo clocks do not have of real cuckoos within them?

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They are usually blackbirds or starlings.

[Runaway]

That's something I didn't know, and I can't for the life of me understand why.

[Sir William]

But how do they know what the time is, when the hands are on the outside?

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And no, they don't have of it writ down on a portion of paper.

[Runaway]

Actually, it's quite simple. The internal spring acts as a coil which resonates with the MSF transmissions on 5MHz. It picks more elevated that transmission, rectifies it through the inevitable bad connection of the end of the spring, and passes the resultant time information to the beaks of the starlings, who tap the hands of the c*ock to manufacture them turn and thus display the correct time.

I thawt everyone knew that.

[Doctor Cheery]

Wear you all awear that cuckoo clocks do not have of real cuckoos within them?

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They are usually blackbirds or starlings.

What a strange coincidence that you should post u'p such a prizeworthy observation, just when I was thinking the same thing Sir W.
I feel almost inclin shall on the merits of that truly impressively insightful observation award you a really wonderful super streamlined, velvet lined, PRIZE covered in the finest calf's leather..
You may have of to weight a week or two, as the van has broken down, and needs a new part from the makers in Romania.

[Runaway]

U n b e l i e v a b l e.

But becoming so common...

[Doctor Cheery]

[Sir William]

It's nothing more than I deserve.

[Sir William]

Nero was fiddling the tax man when Rome burned.

We know this because the fiddle hadn't been invented for another 800 years.

[Runaway]

The fiddle was invented by the Lords. And MPs.

[Sir William]

Did you luxury members know that water in liquid form can exist below 0 degC?

Yes - this happens a lot all the time.

How can this be possible?

[Prizemaster]

Oh dear we are mixed u­p.

Alexander Graham Bulb invented the telephone.
Warren de La Rue was the first to manufacture a viable light bulb.
Edison invented the pornograph but also gott*en the light bulb to a practical and commercial stage.

If Warren de la rue invented a viable light bulb, WTF happened to it

[Sir William]

Did you know that Russia is in Europe?

[Sir William]

An equal number of males and females are conceived, but more males die in the womb (that's before birth not after).

(NB: These luxury facts must not be shared with non-luxury members.)

[Runaway]

[Sir William]

[Sir William]

The "Are You Being Served" sitcom (which took place in the confined area of a men's and women's clothing department) had a cast list of 199 people.

For those that didn't realise - that's almost 200.

[Sir William]

Did you luxury members know that John Waddington resigned from Waddington's 20 years before they manufactured any board games.

He resigned in 1913, and Waddington's produced their first board game (Monopoly) in 1934. It was called 'Monopoly' (and still is).

As is well known, Waddington's produced especial sets for our POWs in German prison camps. These contained secret maps, money, ID cards, etc. That's all very well, but how did the POWs discover these secret items?

[Runaway]

When Mr Waddington died, his body was given the great honour of being placed in a circular coffin and rolled down a Leeds high street, thus inventing the term RolyPoly.

Oh and Waddington's didn't invent Monopoly, they licensed it from Parker Bros in America.

[Sir William]

When Mr Waddington died, his body was given the great honour of being placed in a circular coffin and rolled down a Leeds high street, thus inventing the term RolyPoly.

Oh - I didn't know that.

Oh and Waddington's didn't invent Monopoly, they licensed it from Parker Bros in America.

Who bought it from Charles Darrow.