Answer on a general knowledge quiz.

A friend of my mum's - now sadly passed away - was talking about Dame Edna Everidge and said what a shame it was that she had so many problems with her husband!

I have chuckled at these - my DD - I never quite know where we got her from, given the other boys have real interest in world affairs etc, has come up with some classics over the years

age 14 at a level crossing - i never knew trains had wheels '
age 15
'what? Elton Johns gay??!! ,
'Did Jimi Hendrix play for Chelsea' '
Is Bali where Lemon Barley ( bali) water comes from?
Really? I thought zebras were made up like unicorns
Did you know that Mrs Gills Pie is really called Gillespie?

Honestly I swear her daughter age 2 has more general knowledge that she does !

Actually he'd had a right inguinal hernia repaired so it was bruising. It really made us all laugh though!
I'd heard claimants cite a lot of problems due to removal of benefits, but this one was new to me!

Was there a causal link galen

Wonderful! I wonder if it's a common phenomenon.

Not quite general knowledge but, I had to share this.
'Since my tax credits have been stopped, my penus has turned purple'

petra It's the roads out near B&Q and the A12 interchange that I always have to think about as they cross over each other.

Ditto Absent. I really must make an effort to concentrate on learning these famous names.

I'd never heard of him either JessM but it turns out that I have heard him.

DH just told me that she is a he.

I have no idea who Andrea Bocelli is, let alone the capacity of her various sense organs!

This will only mean something to anyone who knows the Army & Navy roundabout in Chelmsford.
I was working there when they built the bypass. I was working with a man who had worked and lived in Chelmsford all his life.
When the bypass was finished this man came to me one day and asked: How do I get out of Chelmsford now they have built the bypass.

I sent a Christmas card of one of Cheshire's 'black and white' houses to a relation in Sweden. She responded that she never knew there was so much history in Cheshire. And she's one of my more intelligent relatives...

I've only just realised that ducks can fly

Two members of my reading group were on holiday together last year. Gazing out over a cove one evening, one (a teacher in her late 30s) remarked that it was such a shame there wasn't a beach there. She had never realised before that the tide went in and out.

I loved the way she told us this story herself. I'm sure we've all missed some bits of common knowledge somewhere along the line. My family all turned and gawped last Christmas when it became obvious that I had no idea that Andrea Bocelli is blind.

I asked a friend who was going to Benidorm if she had ever been to Spain before and she replied 'I don't know, we fly.' She also never left the hotel grounds.
The only time I stay in my hotel is when I go to Nuweiba on the Red Sea, for a snorkelling holiday, as there is nothing to see outside but sand!

My brother was a merchant seaman. Once, he came back with a mate after several weeks going backwards and forwards to the USA. When they got back to Manchester, his friend invited him to go with him to stay with his mother in Blackpool - 'for the sea air'.

just caught up... bananas I was amazed once when asking my boss how his 2 weeks in Majorca had gone to discover he had stayed inside the hotel, lying by the pool etc for the entire 2 weeks and never ventured out.

A friend of mine went to teacher training school when she was in her 30s. The college was on top of a big hill. Sitting outside one sunny lunchtime with some younger students they saw a solitary duck waddle past.
Student: How did that get here?
My friend: Flew, I suppose.
Student: What? You mean ducks can fly?

I once observed a secondary teacher giving a lesson about the poem The Pied Piper. It became painfully obvious that she did not have a clue that "ermine" was a kind of fur.

These are very funny. I love the pork pie instead of 20 Senior Service.

Years ago I worked in an office and the junior was always sent out at lunch time to get sandwiches for the rest of the office. Asking the boss if he wanted anything was told to get 20 senior service (cigarettes) if they didn't have those to get him anything. On his return the boss shouted "have you got my fags" to which the junior replied they didn't have Senior Service so he had got him a pork pie instead. So maybe a lack off common since is timeless. Grin grin grin

I used to have a guest house in York, and would often get Americans arriving about 6 p.m. and leaving at 9 a.m. the next day. York was in between the 4 nights in London and the 4 nights in Edinburgh.
They would ask what they ought to see, and when we said the Minster some would say they were not religious!
The best putdown I ever heard in the Minster was when an American asked if it was very old, she was told it was older than America.
In the summer you could tell them to walk the walls, but in the winter they closed at dusk, so they were often closed before the guests arrived.
The single nighters would always say that if they'd known how much history there was in York they would have stayed longer.

A friendly young guide on the Shard must have thought I looked stupid. He pointed at the view across London & said, "You know there is a lot of history down there." Luckily lots of tourists had more faith in me & asked intelligent questions that I could answer from gadding about London with grandkids. However lovely I don't think the guides had been much help to them.

A friend of mine was talking to someone she knew about women getting the vote back at the beginning of the 20th century during this conversation, my friend mentioned the word "suffragettes", the person she was having the chat with a woman aged 50 something and English born and bred, asked her who they were as she had never heard of them!

I was amazed that a friend, born before the war, had never heard the term 'baby boomers'. She did not know about 'budgie smugglers' either, but I can understand that. What a strange conversation we must have been having!

I do love it when he does a good sneer, I love it even more when a young person answers the most obscure question..the look of surprise is priceless!

When I was about 18 and working in my first job in London, I joined a firm that was predominantly Jewish, but I didn't know that, although the clues were all around me, in the other employees surnames names' which I now recognise were typically Jewish such as Rosenthal, Lever, Marks, Berg etc. One of the girls I was particularly friendly with and who had left home, but nevertheless her mother would ring her daily, would always ask me if she was off sick not to tell her mother otherwise she would come round with chicken soup. Another lady I worked with always berated me when I went off to buy any new clothes by saying "why didn't you ask me first, Max, (her husband who worked in the rag trade) could have got it for you wholesale". They also favoured strange sandwiches that I hadn't really heard of before "salt beef" However, being a naive Catholic convent girl from the burbs I had never met anyone Jewish before. What really perplexed me was around September time they all started wishing each other "happy new year" Feeling I was living in some strange parallel universe I summoned up the courage to ask my friend why they were doing this in September. She looked at me amazed and said "didn't you know we were Jewish?" I can't believe now that I had absolutely no idea.