Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

My BIL has a colony of micro bats living in his four vehicle carport garage. They do a great job keeping the insects down. Cute too.
People should get over the vampire bat rubbish and admire bats for their way of life.

My son has a colony of them that live in the roof above the pergola at his place.
They fly off just on dark every night,one after the other,out a small gap under the roof flashing in one corner.
An amazing sight to see.

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

I bet you have a tv in your bedroom.....

No, actually, but we do have books.

Originally Posted by scarry

My son has a colony of them that live in the roof above the pergola at his place.
They fly off just on dark every night,one after the other,out a small gap under the roof flashing in one corner.
An amazing sight to see.

I'm not sure if this is the right place to mention that bats are famous for their love of oral sex, both opposite gender and same sex. Apparently there is a lot of love going around in the colonies.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

My grandfather.......
Family history is interesting.

My Old Man was standing alongside the SS Fort Stikine when it went BOOM, in Bombay harbour during WW2. - 1944. Up to that time, was the biggest explosion in world history.
Some years later, another ammunition ship took the record.

Incidentally, he survived .... The bloke standing with him wasn't so lucky.
Only last year I discovered that he'd also been a spy for the Brits, pre-war and had been..."robustly interviewed" by the Japanese when he'd (innocently?) taken his cargo ship into a Jap port some years before.

Then there was the funeral of a an elderly female friend of ours, some years ago.
Surprise mourners in the form of two senior British diplomats conveying the Government's Respects. Turns out this delightfully eccentric, ex-manager of a Secretarial School was one of the Bletchley Park Code-breaking mathematicians !

Yes, Family history IS interesting...

Originally Posted by superquag

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Yes, Family history IS interesting...

My brother is currently researching the history of our paternal grandmother. It seems that in 1892, at age 15, having grown up in and around Orange, she got a job as governess on a station between Walgett and Carinda. He is trying to confirm, but it seems likely that she was a "pupil-teacher" at the school she presumably left to go to this job. In the 1890s this was the normal pathway to teaching, and may partly explain why her three oldest children became teachers (with university degrees).

Originally Posted by Homestar

“Our company is not for sale!” - Said every CEO right before their companies sale...

"It's not for sale" because it's already sold?

One of my wife's relatives started researching a branch of her family a while back. He discovered a grandfather who had been a travelling salesman in Tasmania and had four families scattered around the state! Must have been a good salesman.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

One of my wife's relatives started researching a branch of her family a while back. He discovered a grandfather who had been a travelling salesman in Tasmania and had four families scattered around the state! Must have been a good salesman.

Your wife is a he? I've met her and she seemed very feminine.