COLD DARK ROOM

[Tidgy's Dad]

78.6% of statistics are made up and not real.

78.4% actually.

 

[Lyn W]

78.6% of statistics are made up and not real.

Well I'm 99.9% sure that I am going to be in bed in the next 15 mins.
So I will have to leave you kids to have fun.
Don't behave yourselves too much I want some smiles waiting for me tomorrow.
Take care all and nighty night.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Do lemmings jump off cliffs ?

 

[Lyn W]

Do lemmings jump off cliffs ?

Cliff's what?

 

[Lyn W]

I'm definitely going now - see you tomorrow
Bye bye!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Cliff's what?

Tour bus?
Night, Lyn, see you tomorrow.

 

[Moozillion]

Do lemmings jump off cliffs ?

No! Totally a modern myth, started by Disney!!!!

 

[meech008]

Hello friends! How is everybody?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

No! Totally a modern myth, started by Disney!!!!

That's right, though it has some basis on old legends.
The people of those cold climes couldn't understand how in the early spring there were only a few lemmings about and by midsummer there'd be thousands of them. So they had stories and legends that told of them 'falling out of the sky'.
Now, as Bea says, Disney got the wrong end of the stick and thought it meant jumping off cliffs.
So for their 1958 nature documentary "White Wilderness" they rounded up thousands of lemmings and drove them over the edge of a cliff to make good TV . The voice-over pronounced how the survivors which ended up in the river would be drowned. That bit at least was probably true.
The Film won the Oscar that year for Best Documentary and the rest is 'history'.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Hello friends! How is everybody?

Hi, Michelle.
Have a coffee.
Just trying to work out a classification for monocotyledons.

 

[meech008]

It's a little late for coffee I think, how about a ginger beer? I brought enough to share. How was everyone's day?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

It's a little late for coffee I think, how about a ginger beer? I brought enough to share. How was everyone's day?

That'd be nice thanks.
Good day, nice and relaxed as usual.
Yours?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Who invented the steam engine?

 

[Cowboy_Ken]

Who invented the steam engine?

Some bastard with more water than he knew what to do with I'm thinking.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Some bastard with more water than he knew what to do with I'm thinking.

Actually, yes.
Without giving away the full answer, the inventor and his mates went down the pub one night, got drunk and left the steam engine going.
It exploded and destroyed several buildings. Water was not in short supply there.

 

[meech008]

Thomas Savery?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Oh, dear, wifey wants an early night.
See you all in the morning, I hope.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Thomas Savery?

Before i go then, a good answer but no.
People think of Stevenson or Trevithick( first high pressure stem engine and steam locomotive), the latter causing the explosion I mentioned, but Savery's still wasn't actually the first.

 

[johnsonnboswell]

Yep, 4 times higher than the USA and 3 times higher than the UK and it's neighbouring countries.
And nobody knows why.

Insufficient lithium

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Insufficient lithium

I actually just read that in 2004 it was still number one, with 16 times more suicides per 100,000 than than US.
Lithium?
is that right.
help!
Wifey's got me........................................................................................