"TOUGH" Trivea

[JasonL]

50 cent used to be round

 

[Darlyn]

50 cent used to be round

Still is, he's working on his new album

 

[solar 17]

I'm related to Mary Reibey! She's my x5 great aunty!

l have read her biography what a lady to be proud of.
.......solar 17 (baden)

 

[slim6y]

A foot is NOT 30cm for god's sake... You can keep Russel Crowe and in fact, we might throw you a few more...

Pavlova is definitely a kiwi invention... as is the Hamilton Jet....

But the Chinese Gooseberry is definitely an exotic (like the apple) but made perfect... like me!

Oh... Back to the foot... 1 foot is 30.48cm - geeez... GET IT RIGHT! I wouldn't accept 1 sig fig as an answer - I'd lke at least 4 sig fig to make it fair!

Though I'd accept 30.5cm...

BTW - centimetres is spelt this way - not centimeters which is incorrect. A meter is a thing that you can read from, like an electricity meter and a metre is a unit of measure which is the exact distance light will travel in 1/299,792,458 of a second!

 

[HonestPirate]

Hahha when I realised you'd replied Slim I suddenly remembered what side of the ditch you live on !!!!!!!!!!! I'll swap you Russel Crowe and Split Enz for pavlova, and I'll let you steal the gooseberries from Jackie Chan.

 

[slim6y]

Both NZ and Australia have produced some GREATS!

NZ will always have Lord Rutherford of Nelson
Sir Edmund Hillary
and the guy from the Nek Minute youtube videos!

 

[slide]

now things are hotting up..

Nz can have russell crowe back.

no thanks. There was a strict no returns policy clause on the adoption papers

crowded house
dragon
karmichael hunt
sir joh
split enz
footrot flats
pavlova

kiwi fruit ?

you forgot secret agents deans and cooper in the wallabies

both nz and australia have produced some greats!

agreed

 

[cement]

So .... who invented fush and chups??

 

[HonestPirate]

Pretty sure Jesus has the copyright on that one- him and his boys would head out, bring back a coupla snapper and crack open some bread. Good times. I wasn't there; but I read about it somewhere....

 

[slide]

So .... who invented fush and chups??

Some guy who lived on the opposite side of the Tasman to the guy who invented fesh n cheps and thinks the number after 5 is sex

 

[Ramsayi]

you forgot secret agent cooper in the wallabies

You can have him back no questions asked.Hell we would probably be willing to pay NZ good money to do so.

 

[HonestPirate]

Some guy who lived on the opposite side of the Tasman to the guy who invented fesh n cheps and thinks the number after 5 is sex

Pretty sure there's another number that comes just before coitus.

 

[Leasdraco]

Is this where someone makes a bad taste comment about how a kiwi likes a sheep in the grass? Oh wait...

 

[slim6y]

Is this where someone makes a bad taste comment about how a kiwi likes a sheep in the grass? Oh wait...

As this is a TRIVIA post - I'll post something 'trivial':

Stats taken from: Myth 8: NZ has 3 million people and 60 million sheep - Population and Sustainable Development

"According to the latest Agricultural Production statistics, released by Statistics New Zealand's Agricultural Production team, there were 40.1 million estimated resident sheep at 30 June 2006."

"There were 132.6 million sheep in Australia in 1994, but this had fallen to 101.3 million a decade later, with the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics's Agricultural Census putting the figure at 91.9 million sheep at 30 June 2006."

Now, to make this even more trivial - Australia has 2.3 times the amount of sheep that NZ has. Other than NZ actually has grass to graze them on, your comment is clearly stereotypically incorrect!

Kiwi's like their sheep anywhere!

I can't get over these terrible stereotypes... They're awful!

Here's another bit of trivia:

Ask yourself this - has there ever been more people in the world than RIGHT now?

Well, some fellow believes that this is complete and utter rubbish - there was well over twice the amount of people on Earth at one stage....

 

[-Peter]

Research points to a NZ cook book that has meringue with fruit as being the first pav though I cant verify if they actually refer to it as a pavlova in the book but the first pav as we know it was purported to have been made at the Palmerston Hotel in Darwin. Not Palmerston NZ.
For the record, NZ gave us the chicken. Where you pick up your boarding pass and chicken your bags at the airport.

 

[Leasdraco]

Kiwi's like their sheep anywhere!

I can't get over these terrible stereotypes... They're awful!

All tongue in cheek of course-my partner is a kiwi,fierce rivalry hehe

 

[dihsmaj]

One foot is 30.48cm, not 30cm, get it right.

 

[Retic]

They were thought to have originated in England, the first fish and chip shop opened in London around 1850.

So .... who invented fush and chups??

He was Scottish.

i dont think the Australian National Anthem is even Australian is it? Didn't a pom write it ?