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It's that time again folks, time for another not-this-thread-again threads!

Today I'm kicking it off with "It's a doozy". I learned this many, many years ago and for some reason I just stuck.

In the old days there was a car company called Deusenberg Automobiles in the US. They made some of the finest machines of the time and had every bell and whistle you could imagine. They soon got the nickname "Doozy" which implied that they were the dog's danglies. This is where the term "it's a doozy" came from, it originally referred to a car :)

Your turn!
 
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Although our scientists and astronomers observed many planets with many moons for many centuries, we've never encountered moon like Earth moon. Its size is unique in terms of moon to planet ratio and nearly perfect dimensions to distance ratio to be able to eclipse the sun as seen from the surface of our planet.
 
The traditional pasty was designed to be a meat and veg meal that miners could eat easily whilst underground. The thick crust edge was used to hold the pasty with dirty hands without it falling apart and then it was discarded afterwards.

(Or so I once saw on TV once!)
 
There are tabs in the ends of most foil roll boxes/packets which you can push into the tube to make it turn when pulling foil out.
 
Diddums said:
In the old days there was a car company called Deusenberg Automobiles in the US. They made some of the finest machines of the time and had every bell and whistle you could imagine. They soon got the nickname "Doozy" which implied that they were the dog's danglies. This is where the term "it's a doozy" came from, it originally referred to a car :)
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This appears to be one of those where there's half a dozen potential origins, which nobody can authoritatively claim as being correct.
 
Feef said:
This appears to be one of those where there's half a dozen potential origins, which nobody can authoritatively claim as being correct.
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Evidently :(

Still, I like cars and I like words so this is the one I'm picking :p
 
Diddums said:
It's that time again folks, time for another not-this-thread-again threads!

Today I'm kicking it off with "It's a doozy". I learned this many, many years ago and for some reason I just stuck.

In the old days there was a car company called Deusenberg Automobiles in the US. They made some of the finest machines of the time and had every bell and whistle you could imagine. They soon got the nickname "Doozy" which implied that they were the dog's danglies. This is where the term "it's a doozy" came from, it originally referred to a car :)

Your turn!
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Wouldn't that be pronounced Doy-zen-bear'g? So shouldn't it be "it's a doyzee"? :p
 
The earth is actually flat, shaped like a pizza and dinosaurs where made extinct when an asteroid hit and flipped the planet over.

They all flew off into space and no dinosaur bones were ever found.
 
TallPaul1878 said:
The earth is actually flat, shaped like a pizza and dinosaurs where made extinct when an asteroid hit and flipped the planet over.

They all flew off into space and no dinosaur bones were ever found.
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Really? This is the best you can do? Come on man, I've seen 4 year olds come up with better material.
 
BuffetSlayer said:
The traditional pasty was designed to be a meat and veg meal that miners could eat easily whilst underground. The thick crust edge was used to hold the pasty with dirty hands without it falling apart and then it was discarded afterwards.

(Or so I once saw on TV once!)
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One end of it was sweet and the other was savoury. It also had the miners initials on the pastry, they didn't eat that bit and it was thrown into the corner for the Knockers. *some of my family is Cornish, so I've got all sorts of odd things in my head like that*
 
The concentration of vitamin a in an adult polar bear liver would kill a human, if consumed.
 
During the famed attack on and capture of Aqaba in 1917 T. E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) accidentally shot the camel he was riding in the back of the head. Strangely enough, they chose not to include that bit in the film.
 
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