Comments on: Debunking 600 Incredibly Useless Facts

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:47:05 +0000

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By: Sean O'Brien

Sean O'Brien — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:18:01 +0000

That bit about Hitler comes from a song that was popular with the U.S. GI’s during WWII. I learned the lyrics from my dad, who went through Sicily and up into Italy via Anzio Beach; my girlfriend learned them from her dad, who’d served under General Patton in North Africa. I’d guess that anyone who’s dad was a dogface in the war would know this song.

The song is ‘Colonel Bogey’s March’, and the tune is the one they whistle (as Tommy Smothers said “‘cuz the words are dirty.”)in the movie ‘The Bridge Over The River Quai’.

“Hitler has only got one ball,
Georing has two but very small,
Himmler has something sim’lar,
and poor old Geobbels has no balls at all”

I was an army brat and lived on-base during most of the sixties, and that song was almost as popular with the eight-to-ten set as ‘Great Green Gobs of Greasey Grimey Gopher Guts’.
Makes me wonder if the maroons that “wrote” that book overheard some kid singing and took it from there.

By: Guizmeaux

Guizmeaux — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:13:35 +0000

“A GOLDFISH CAN ONLY REMEMBER THE LAST THREE SECONDS OF ITS LIFE”

Sir,

You’re right – the 3-second-memory thing is bull puckey.

I keep all manner of carp, tench and sterlets. The sterlets are incredibly bright, (and friendly, so easy to train) but all of the fish remember me and the missus as a source of food from day to day. They recognise our footsteps. So that’s at least 24 hours’ memory.

After winter, (when they’re not fed) they remember me in the spring. So that’s at least 4 months’ memory.

But more importantly, mostly they remember the heron that tries to eat them every spring. This means that I have a 30-foot pond full of hard-arse fish with year-long memories who know where dinner comes from.

Think if it as evolution in action.

By: rev jesse

rev jesse — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:40:11 +0000

hahahaha, i think it’d best putting it back in the loo – maybe someone was hoping to run out of loo roll.

By: rob wakefield

rob wakefield — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:01:13 +0000

just shut up and write the fekkin newsletter, its a ray of shunshine in my otherwise dimly lit life.