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are you sure that is useless???

In Albania, as the Communist govt crumbled about 20 years ago, Ak-47's were cheaper than a loaf of bread at one point.

""are you sure that is useless???""

depends on if you eat a lot of bannanas

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How strange that they should have problems with very small street gangs. Or do you mean they have very FEW street gang problems?

The sieben dwarfs?

New Zealand used to have the record for consecutive Test wins in men's rugby (17 wins in a row), but this was surpassed in 2010 by, er, Lithuania.

NZ v Lithuania... The All Blacks v What do the Lithuanians call their team?

There is no proper clinical term for eye boogers*.





*Or whatever you may call it; "sleepy sand," "eye goop," "sleep," or "sleep dust."

Is it not rheum?

Rheum may be a component but according to Dr. Sherleen Chen, director of the cataract and comprehensive ophthalmology service at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston, she has yet to find a technical term for the wee crusties.


*source: http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/31/7544456-are-yours-crusty-or-wet-the-truth-behind-eye-boogers-ew

Finland have the worst national rugby team in the world according to the IRB's rankings

http://www.irb.com/rankings/full.html

Hang on, thre may not be an official word for it (eye stuff), but what is wrong with 'Mugeary'? (Liff II)

I have copies of The Meaning of Liff books, but they just didn't have as much appeal for a kid that grew up in Texas.

Sorry Count Zero, but I do not understand why not! Genuinely. Does the humour not travel, or is it that most of the place names used are British? or what? I'd really like to know as I think Liff is brilliant and consistently find applications for a lot of the words!

Anyway, if you do not want to derail this thread, answer me on my PS.

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The Welsh word for School is the same as the word for Ladder. (Ysgol)

It was still funny, but I think if the town names were even recognizable as town names, I would have enjoyed it better.

Aha- so basically, it does not travel well?

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The major exports of Lichtenstien are Wigs and False Teeth.

Painting your face in a black and white checkerboard fashion is an effective way of "pixelating" yourself out of cctv footage.

Hey! Borderline useful stuff there

Enough! Only ever useful in extremely specific situations that a mere .000001% of the human population will ever find itself in is still effectively useless. You don't need to call them out every time.

You are right, of course

A useless fact to apologise:
The Monal Lisa was not painted on canvas, but on a poplar panel.