FACTS OF LIFE

PaulH

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Found this on another site, enjoy! :D

FACTS OF LIFE FROM PETER KAY

* Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones.

* At the end of every party there is always a girl crying.

* One of the most awkward things that can happen in a pub is when your
pint-to-toilet cycle gets synchronised with a complete stranger.

* You've never quite sure whether it's ok to eat green crisps.

* Everyone who grew up in the 80's has entered the digits 5378008 into a calculator.

* Reading when you're drunk is horrible.

* Sharpening a pencil with a knife makes you feel really manly.

* You're never quite sure whether it's against the law or not to have a fire in your back garden.

* Nobody ever dares make cup-a-soup in a bowl.

* You never know where to look when eating a banana.

* Its impossible to describe the smell of a wet cat.

* Prodding a fire with a stick makes you feel manly.

* Rummaging in an overgrown garden will always turn up a bouncy ball.

* You always feel a bit scared when stroking horses.

* Everyone always remembers the day a dog ran into your school.

* The most embarrassing thing you can do as schoolchild is to call your teacher mum or dad.

* The smaller the monkey the more it looks like it would kill you at the first given opportunity.

* Some days you see lots of people on crutches.

* Every bloke has at some stage while taking a pee flushed half way through and then raced against the flush.

* Old women with mobile phones look wrong!

* Its impossible to look cool whilst picking up a Frisbee.

* Driving through a tunnel makes you feel excited.

* You never ever run out of salt.

* Old ladies can eat more than you think.

* You can't respect a man who carries a dog.

* There's no panic like the panic you momentarily feel when you've got your hand or head stuck in something.

* No one knows the origins of their metal coat hangers.

* Despite constant warning, you have never met anybody who has had their arm broken by a swan.

* The most painful household incident is wearing socks and stepping on an upturned plug.

* People who don't drive slam car doors too hard

* You've turned into your dad the day you put aside a thin piece of wood
specifically to stir paint with.

* Everyone had an uncle who tried to steal their nose.

* Bricks are horrible to carry.

* In every plate of chips there is a bad chip.
 
You always feel a bit scared when stroking horses.
can you blame me, the one time I was trying to pet a horse it bit my chest lol :D

PS: 5378008 should be s 5318008 (don't ask lol)

great find!
 
electron said:
PS: 5378008 should be s 5318008 (don't ask lol)
I was wondering about that. I thought maybe they approached things differently in England.

Does anyone else always notice when it's 11:34 on their digital clocks?
 
Ok you stumped me - what is 5318008? In the 70's we used LED calculators (old TIs) to spell 4377 (hell) but I can't figure anything to spell with these numbers.
 
well, you got the logic right, but your mind must not be in the gutter :D
5378008 flipped upside down becomes BOOBLES, which stumped me
5318008 flipped upside down becomes BOOBIES

71077345 becomes SHELLOIL
0.7734 becomes HELLO
 
ah those were the days, I made a huge dictionary with all possible combinations back in the 80's (so that statement was right on lol). No wonder I was awarded 'geek status' ;(
 
electron said:
ah those were the days, I made a huge dictionary with all possible combinations back in the 80's (so that statement was right on lol). No wonder I was awarded 'geek status' ;(
Another reference to the 80s. It was definitely a 70s thing for me.
Bruce L said:
In the 70's we used LED calculators (old TIs) ...
I think I was probably over it by the time I got my first TI (a TI-30, of course, with the blue plastic (fake denim) belt holster). I don't remember what the first calculator I used was (and it was used to do this stuff too), but it was one my dad brought home from work occasionally.

Here's a link to the first calculator I actually had to use at home:
Rockwell 9TR (www.vintagecalculators.com)
The 9TR is the exact model - I was surprised that I found a web page with the old green calculators that I remember so well. They were sold at True Value hardware stores (ca 1975). I can even tell you where the store is located (if it's still there).

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OK, it looks like there is still a True Value hardware store/lumber yard there like I remember. But it looks like it's got a new name (I don't remember the old one). I used to go there on Saturdays with my dad.
Dreyer's Lumber
 
We always demonstrated our calculator intelligence by doing the old "71077345"

ShELL OIL
 
Electron:

ah those were the days, I made a huge dictionary with all possible combinations back in the 80's (so that statement was right on lol). No wonder I was awarded 'geek status' ;(

Come on now, you were in diapers then!
 
hell yeah, if I wouldn't know better, I would swear my mother wore a t-shirt with the "intel inside" logo while she was expecting me, but since I am an AMD guy, I doubt it ;)
 
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