Factoids

[waynetta]

The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

[felt-tip]

thats me buggered then.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Take up spinning, your thumb will become a span's width at least.

[waynetta]

No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.

[Brendan]

Lozenge

[Brendan]

Pilfer

[TheArtfulDogger]

Brendan Wrote:

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> Lozenge

That's Silver sorted - what about Orange and Purple ?

[Brendan]

Turtle

[felt-tip]

furball

[waynetta]

I don't think any of those examples actually rhyme boys, do you?

[waynetta]

Al Capone's business card said that he was a used furniture dealer.

[felt-tip]

burp-hell

[Jah Lush]

Kerry Katona and Katie Price have had more pricks than a second hand dartboard.

['bout now]

Hirple, to walk with a limp.

Copyright QI

[Loz]

waynetta Wrote:

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> No words in the English language rhyme with

> orange, silver or purple.

Depends on what you calss as a word. Gorringe - an area in South London - does.

[waynetta]

Orange minge.

Kinda disproving my own factoid.

[DulwichFox]

There are only 2 words in modern English usage that end in 'gry'

Angry and Hungry

and one more that sounds like it does.

What is that word.???

[felt-tip]

agree

[felt-tip]

disagree - 2

[Loz]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> There are only 2 words in modern English usage

> that end in 'gry'

>

> Angry and Hungry

>

> and one more that sounds like it does.

>

> What is that word.???

I would guess the answer is 'agree'?

[TillieTrotter]

Rhythmn is the longest English word without a vowel.

[woofmarkthedog]

"A welcome present for friends at the front"

This was the slogan used by Harrods to sell a gift set during 1916.

The pack designed with first world war soldiers in mind contained cocaine, morphene, syringes and needles.

Ah, they were the good old pre "Goat Meat" days

W**F

[waynetta]

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

[waynetta]

If you feed a Seagull Alka Seltzer it's stomach will explode.

[DulwichFox]

The answer to this very old puzzle is indeed Agree

But only when the question is spoken.

NOT when it is written. as Agree does not end in GRY

The riddle:- http://www.fun-with-words.com/word_gry_angry_hungry.html