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Children - Fun Facts

Rainbow Children's Program Innuendo - NOT Fake But A SPECIAL Version!!

February 4th 2009 20:50
end of the rainbow
Rainbow was a British children's television series, running between 1972 to 1992, and planned out as the British equivalent of Sesame Street.

In 1979, the cast and crew of Rainbow performed an Adult version, as shown below, solely for the viewing eyes of the staff for Christmas. It was never intended for public viewing, however in 1997, the Channel 4 programme TV Offal showed it, jokingly, as "the pilot episode".

The clip has since attracted many millions of viewers around the world on sites such as YouTube, leading people to believe that the episode was broadcast as a regular episode.

If you've never seen this before, then it's a must see - I had tears coming out of my eyes from laughing so hard the first time I saw it. And even if you have seen it, it's still funny as in my opinion!
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Great Britain's Last EXECUTION!

January 17th 2009 12:20
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German spy Josef Jakobs was the last person executed on British soil on the 15th of August 1941 by firing squad.

The chair that he was executed in currently belongs to the Leeds Museum, however before it made it's final journey, a number of the executed man's relatives arrived, asking to see the chair.
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Inhererited Characteristics/Traits AKA - CAN YOU ROLL YOUR TONGUE????

January 8th 2009 10:59
tongue rolling
You may have a vague recollection of coming across this in high school science - particularly if you did biology and genetics.

There is a set of traits that we all as human beings have one or the other of. These are known as inherited traits or characteristics. Depending on which traits your parents have determines your outcome, but it is a 50/50 split as to whether you inherit a particular trait or not..
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Christmas Babies

December 8th 2008 10:27
Here is a short list of famous people who happen to have been brought into this world on Christmas day.

Marcus Trescothick - cricketer - 1975
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Predicting The Biggest Movies Hits For 2009!

November 17th 2008 13:45
best movies 2009
The UK's Times Online like to make predictions on what they imagine will be the biggest movie hits of the upcoming year. By their estimation, here is a small selection of their choices for the top 50 in 2009.

47: Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian, where again the museum will spring to life at night, this time without the liveliness of Robin Williams but still involving Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Owen Wilson and Ricky Gervais.
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Writer Apologises To 6 Year Old For Below Par Story

October 14th 2008 09:25
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Beatrix Potter of Peter Rabbit fame once received a letter from a 6 year old child who wrote of his disappointment with her latest tale, the Tale of Pigling Bland.

The author then wrote a letter of apology to the child explaining that even though she had been quite ill at the time, her publishers had twisted her arm into producing her annual Christmas book.
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FUNNY T-SHIRT SLOGANS

September 25th 2008 09:30
* At My Age, Getting Lucky Is Finding My Car in the Parking Lot.

* Cancel My Subscription -- I Don't Need Your Issues.
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8 - The LUCKIEST NUMBER???

August 12th 2008 16:40
Well we know that the Chinese in particular consider the number 8 to be a lucky number, so I wonder what their opinions on the little girl born in this story would be??

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In Fergus Falls USA, a baby was born to the Hauer family.
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What Children Think Of The Sea!

July 15th 2008 10:30
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A number of primary schools were doing a project on "The Sea." The children were asked to draw pictures or write about their experiences.
Teachers then compared the results and put together some of the 'better' ones.

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Update

May 20th 2008 08:40
Just so you know what's going on, I haven't been around for a while due to various issues, one of which is the steadily decreasing health of our family dog, who was left in the care of good friends back home while we were transferred overseas for a couple of years.

As the situation becomes progressively worse with the strong possibility of having to explain to our children why we may indeed need to put our beloved family friend 'to sleep', I of course am not really in a position to keep this blog up-to-date as of the moment


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PAYING For The Simple Convenience Of Using the TOILET!!!

February 16th 2008 22:30
toilet
Sometimes you wonder exactly what you pay your taxes for!

The other day we visited the old Viking and Roman town of York, UK.
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Santa Claus/ Father Christmas/ St Nicholas - A Man Of Many Names.

December 15th 2007 00:05
Santa Claus/ Father Christmas/ St Nicholas/ Kris Kringle, whatever name you call him, this is one man of which it can be said he has many names.

Depending on the country you're in, he could very well be called more than one name. In Australia he's usually referred to as Santa Claus, but occasionally other names pop up.
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The LIGHTER Side of SCRABBLE!!!

August 3rd 2007 00:35
* In 1996 a woman was charged with assault when she struck her husband over the head with a Scrabble board.

* A resident in an old people’s home was thrown out when she admitted she didn’t play Scrabble.
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A Coincidental Life!

July 24th 2007 00:45
We’ve all heard amazing stories of coincidence involving identical twins separated at birth, but some, like this example, really do make you wonder.

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Two twin boys were born in Ohio, adopted by different families and completely unknown to each other, were both named James.
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