It looks like C... and myself will have to change our plans for tomorrow because the BBC weather forecast is for rain. We cancelled our original plans for today because of the lousy weather (which earlier in the week was forecast to be sunny.)

What's the point of the BBC providing five day weather forecasts when they're not reliable?

My own favourite isn't on this list. I don't know which film it's in, but Moneypenny coments to Bond that she always knew he was a 'cunning linguist'.

Dr No (1962)
Bond: Moneypenny! What gives?
Miss Moneypenny: Me, given an ounce of encouragement.

Goldfinger (1964)
Bond: Do you expect me to talk?
Goldfinger: No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.

Pussy Galore: My name's Pussy Galore
Bond: I must be dreaming

Thunderball (1965)
Fiona: Aren't you in the wrong room, Mr. Bond?
Bond: Not from where I'm standing.

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Bond: I tend to notice little things like that - whether a girl is a blonde or a brunette.
Tiffany Case: Which do you prefer?
Bond: Either, as long as the collar and cuffs match...

[Tiffany Case opens the door almost nude]
Bond: That's quite a nice little nothing you're almost wearing. I approve.

Live And Let Die (1973)
[Bond removes prosthetic arm from train window]
Solitaire: Now what are you doing?
Bond: Just being disarming, darling.

Moonraker (1979)
(As Bond undertakes zero-gravity sex)
Minister Of Defense: My God! What's Bond doing?
Q: I think he's attempting re-entry sir…

Never Say Never Again (1983)
Fatima Blush: Oh, how reckless of me. I made you all wet.
Bond: Yes, but my martini is still dry. My name is James.

A View To A Kill (1985)
Bond: Well my dear, I take it you spend quite a lot of time in the saddle.
Jenny Flex: Yes, I love an early morning ride.
Bond: Well, I'm an early riser myself.

Goldeneye (1995)
Xenia Onatopp: You don't need the gun.
Bond: Well, that depends on your definition of safe sex.

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
[In bed with his language tutor]
Bond: I always enjoyed learning a new tongue.

By Ed Holden, Movie Editor - Feedback - Discuss - Blog
Published 8 November 2006

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning

The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.

The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won\'t be able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after such a large amount.

Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.

The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone just knows the first one.

During World War II, IBM built the computers the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps.

The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.

The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.

Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.

Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.

The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever.

The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and eat 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year.

Men can breastfeed babies

There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which you have probably never heard of.

Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to human beings and animals than to other plants.

In some (maybe all) Asian countries, the family name is written
first and the individual name written second

Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of cocaine in 1860

A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.

Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States.Long Beach, WA

The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.

The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named "El Pueblo la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula"

9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.This isn't true; Joseph Swan did.

Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

The Population of the world can live within the state boundaries of Texas.

Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e."

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is not considered an insult! Despite the expensive food, tipping is welcome as in any other country.

Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.

The largest pumpkin weighed 377 pounds.

The largest cabbage weighed 144 pounds.

Pinocchio was made of pine.

Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.

A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.

There was once a town in West Virginia called "6."

The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.

Napoleon made his battle plans in a sandbox.

Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.

The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.

Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.

There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.

The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.

"Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.

On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.

Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.

2,500 lefties die each year using products designed for rightists.

Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.

On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.

Blue and white are the most common school colors.

Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.

In a normal lifetime an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.

A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.

America's best selling ice cream flavor is vanilla.

Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.

Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.

The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.

The bulls-eye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.

The doorbell was invented in 1831.

The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928.

Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.

There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.

Napoleon was terrified of cats.

The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.

The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.

The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935.

The oldest known vegetable is the pea.

Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.

The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.

The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.

France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.

The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is "feedback."

The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.

George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.

Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.

The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.

Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.

The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.

The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.

The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.

Goldfish swallowing started at Harvard in 1939.

Dry fish food can make goldfish constipated.

The stall closest to the door in a bathroom is the cleanest, because it is the least used.

Toilet paper was invented in 1857.

Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States.

Before Prohibition, Schlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago than anyone else, except the Catholic church.

If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

Kermit the Frog is left-handed.

Nondairy creamer is flammable.

The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Hupmobile.

If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

It's rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breathalyzer to read 0.

The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual queen.

The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."

Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is Number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.

When Saigon fell, the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio.

The pet ferret was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.

The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.

The most common speed limit sign in the United States is 25 m.p.h.

At any one time, there are 100 million phone conversations going on in the United States.

The world's record for continuous pogo stick jumping is 41 hours.

The Ottoman Empire once had seven emperors in seven months. They died of (in order): burning, choking, drowning, stabbing, heart failure, poisoning and being thrown from a horse.

You can make edible cheese from the milk of 24 different mammals.

Sir Isaac Newton, who invented Calculus, had trouble with names to the point where he would forget his brothers' names.

In medieval Thailand, they had moveable type printing presses. The type was made from baked oxen dung.

By law, employees do not have to wash hands after sneezing.

The average American consumes enough caffeine in one year to kill a horse.

More American workers (18%) call sick on Friday than any other day of the week. Tuesday has the lowest percent of absenteeism (11%).

Enough beer is poured every Saturday across America to fill the Orange Bowl.

A newborn expels its own body weight in waste every 60 hours.

Whales die if their echo system fails.

Florida's beaches lose 20 million cubic yards of sand annually.

Naturalists use marshmallows to lure alligators out of swamps.

It takes a ton of water to make a pound of refined sugar.

Weevils are more resistant to poisons in the morning than at night.

Cacao, the main ingredient of chocolate is the most pest-ridden tree in the jungle.

In deep space most lubricants will disappear.

America once issued a 5-cent bill.

The average person can live 11 days without water.

In 1221 Genghis Khan killed 1,748,000 people at Nishapur in one hour.

There are 35 million digestive glands in the stomach.

In 1800 on 50 cities on earth had a population of more than 100,000.

More steel in the US is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.

It is possible for any American citizen to give whatever name he or she chooses to any unnamed mountain or hill in the United States.

King Henry III of France, Louis XVI of France and Napoleon all suffered from ailurophobia--fear of cats.

Before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and stuffed with feathers.

Clocks made before 1687 had only one hand, and hour hand.

The motto of the American people, "In God We Trust," was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.

More Americans have died in automobile accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.

The ampersand (&) was once a letter of the English alphabet.

The principality of Monaco consists of 370 acres.

There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script.

During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian man who had a beard was required to pay a special tax.

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. treasury.

The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters (I was thankfully corrected by a friend: The Hawai'ian alphabet has 13 letters, A, E, I, O, U, H, K, L, M, N, P, W, ' (which is called an okina).

Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

The amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000.

City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong.

State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.

Percentage of Africa that is wilderness--28%. Percentage of North America that is wilderness--38%.

Average number of days a German goes without washing his underwear: 7.

Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%.

Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man: 50%.

Cost of raising a medium size dog to the age of 11: $6,400.

Average people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.

Average lifespan of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

The only President to win a Pulitzer Prize: John Kennedy for "Profiles in Courage."

The youngest Pope was 11 years old.

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.

First novel ever written on a typewriter: "Tom Sawyer."

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

The main library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades--King David, Clubs--Alexander the Great, Hearts--Charlemagne and Diamonds--Julius Caesar.

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one leg front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all 4 legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th. The last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are useable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

The first airline, DELAG, was established on October 16, 1909, to carry passengers between German cities by Zeppelin airships. Up to November 1913, more than 34,000 people had used the service.

Titanic was running at 22 knots when she hit the iceberg

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. 'UP' indicated the direction of the bubbles

Francis Scott Key was a young lawyer who wrote the poem, 'The Star Spangled Banner', after being inspired by watching the Americans fight off the British attack of Baltimore during the War of 1812. The poem became the words to the national anthem

Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know your there

The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep
Inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver in 1836.

It has been recommended by dentists that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (two meters) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush!

In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose

It is possible to drown and not die. Technically the term 'drowning' refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.

The first known heart medicine was discovered in an English garden. In 1799, physician John Ferriar noted the effect of dried leaves of the common foxglove plant, digitalis purpurea, on heart action. Still used in heart medications, digitalis slows the pulse and increases the force of heart contractions and the amount of b lood pumped per heartbeat.

Dry cereal for breakfast was invented by John Henry Kellogg at the turn of the century

During World War II, a German U-boat was sunk by a truck. The U-boat in question attacked a convoy in the Atlantic and then rose to see the effect. The merchant ship it sank had material strapped to its deck including a fleet of trucks, one of which was thrown in the air by the explosion, landing on the U-boat and breaking its back

Jeremy Bentham, a British philosopher who died in 1832,left his entire estate to the London Hospital provided that his body be allowed to preside over its board meetings. His skeleton was clothed and fitted with a wax mask of his face. It was present at the meeting for 92 years.

Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.

Methane gas can often be seen bubbling up from the bottom of ponds. It is produced by the decomposition of dead plants and animals in the mud.
There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible.

The E. Coli bacterium propels itself with a 'motor' only one-millionth of an inch in diameter, a thousand times smaller than the tiniest motors built to date by man. The rotation of the bacterial motor comes from a current of protons. The efficiency of the motor approaches 100 per cent.

Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.

At - 40 degrees Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.

Pet superstores now sell about 40 percent of all pet food

One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.

In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.

There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.

Less than 3% of Nestlé's sales are for chocolate.

The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change

More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products

It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk

The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph

Less than one per cent of the 500 Chinese cities have clean air, respiratory disease is China's leading cause of death.

The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the population growth

The X's that people sometimes put at the end of letters or notes to mean a kiss, actually started back in the 1000's when Lords would sign their names at the end of documents to other important people. It was originally a cross that they would kiss after signing to signify that they were faithful to God and their King. Over the years though, it slanted into the X

Nova Scotia is Latin for 'New Scotland.'

The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol. It's from England.

The collecting of Beer mats is called Tegestology.

Even though it is widely attributed to him Shakespeare never actually used the word 'gadzooks'.

Only 2 blue moons (the saying 'only once in a blue moon ' refers to the occurrence of two full moons during one calendar month) are to occur between now and 2001. Those times are January 1999 and March 1999

There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet

"Naked" means to be unprotected. "Nude" means unclothed

Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when al original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case stored smaller, 'lower case' letters
In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.'

I've had a good morning shopping at Kwik Save.

Four Cornish pasties 39p.
Two minced beef and onion slices 29p.

Yesterday I was at the fish market late in the afternoon and managed to get well over a pound of fish pieces for only 30 pence. I just threw them in with some roasted Mediterranean vegetables and microwaved the lot.

Very tasty, and quite healthy I should think.

There was this guy who wanted to become a monk and copy the ancient scriptures of the bible. So he became a monk and went to the monastery to see if he could get the job.

He got the job and the priest gave him scriptures to copy. He found out that he was copying from a copy and asked why he couldn't copy from the originals because somebody could have made a mistake while copying.

The priest replied, "Because the originals are too valuable." So the monk asked if he could at least see the originals and the priest agreed to just let him see them.

The priest took the monk down to the vaults where all of the original scriptures were, showed them to the monk, and left him to his silence. The priest was waiting by the door for about an hour and finally decided to go check on the monk.

When he got down to the vaults he saw that the monk was banging his head against the wall and asked what was wrong.

The monk replied, "It said celebrate!"