Friday Facts - Featuring Flatley

I learned recently that Michael Flatley won the 1975 Chicago Golden Gloves at 135lbs.

Is this common knowledge? I was surprised but couldn't find a way to shoehorn it in anywhere on here... until now.

If you have any facts or trivia that you want to get off your chest, this is your thread.

The only rule is that it should be in some way connected to the previous fact posted. So the one following this should ideally have something about Flatley, Chicago, Golden Gloves, 135lbs etc. Hopefully more of a link than someone won something once anyway... you get the idea.

This could go anywhere, it could go nowhere, but hopefully we'll learn something.

First fact again:

Michael Flatley won the 1975 Chicago Golden Gloves at 135lbs.

That's:

Michael Flatley won the 1975 Chicago Golden Gloves at 135lbs.

Off you go.

Crikey, at one stage Flatley was earning $1,600,000 a week!!! Legs were insured for $40,000,000!!!!

seanmichaels wrote:Crikey, at one stage Flatley was earning $1,600,000 a week!!! Legs were insured for $40,000,000!!!!

Good fact Michaels!

Bruce Springsteen, whose song Born in the USA was used as entrance music by Floyd Mayweather, has insured his voice for $6,000,000.

The Silver Ghost is insured by Rolls Royce for $40,000,000 and has done 500,000 miles

Beaten to the punch!!

Il Gialloblu wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:Crikey, at one stage Flatley was earning $1,600,000 a week!!! Legs were insured for $40,000,000!!!!

Good fact Michaels!

Bruce Springsteen, whose song Born in the USA was used as entrance music by Floyd Mayweather, has insured his voice for $6,000,000.

While the south-east of the UK had an arid May, the north and west were very wet. There was less than 25% of normal rainfall in parts of East Anglia, but Cumbria and the Western Highlands had three times their average.

Australia's Anthony 'The Man' Mundine lost 4 times in 48 fights. This represents a losing rate of less than 25%.

Mundine played 83 times for rugby league side St George Dragons, who were founded in 1920.

On October 11 1920, Georges Carpentier (who wasn't a Saint) became world Light-Heavyweight champion, defeating Battling Levinsky by a knockout in four rounds, at Jersey City.

Thanks wiki.

In March 2004, Audley Harrison became WBF Heavyweight Champion, defeating Richel Hersisa by a knockout in four rounds, at Wembley Arena.

Of the 17 WBF titles available, 10 are currently vacant.

Searching WBF on google brings up a Glasgow based chartered surveyors firm before the World Boxing Foundation.

If you google WBF Credibility you get some tosh about bananas

http://www.fao.org/economic/worldbananaforum/wbf-aboutus/about/en/

"Yes! We Have No Bananas" is the title of a novelty song by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn from the 1922 Broadway revue Make It Snappy.

In 10 years, it is claimed by French scientists that there may be no bananas. Panama disease and black Sigatoka are 2 fungus types devastating plantations. It appears they are yet to find resistance in any type of banana.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2003/jan/16/gm.science

Off topic slightly but when I click onto this thread I've just gotten Banana adverts.

AlexHuckerby wrote:Off topic slightly but when I click onto this thread I've just gotten Banana adverts.

You're not a member of the WBF (World Banana Forum) are you?

seanmichaels wrote:

AlexHuckerby wrote:Off topic slightly but when I click onto this thread I've just gotten Banana adverts.

You're not a member of the WBF (World Banana Forum) are you?

I'm not that Bananas

The pollinator populations have been on the decline for the last 30 years and 20% of the UK's cropped area is made up of pollinator dependent crops.

In other words there are not enough Bees and we're screwed!

seanmichaels wrote:In 10 years, it is claimed by French scientists that there may be no bananas. Panama disease and black Sigatoka are 2 fungus types devastating plantations. It appears they are yet to find resistance in any type of banana.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2003/jan/16/gm.science

That article is from 2003, 10 years ago.

So we should have no bananas now.

But I have one in my dinnerbag.

Union Cane wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:In 10 years, it is claimed by French scientists that there may be no bananas. Panama disease and black Sigatoka are 2 fungus types devastating plantations. It appears they are yet to find resistance in any type of banana.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2003/jan/16/gm.science

That article is from 2003, 10 years ago.

So we should have no bananas now.

But I have one in my dinnerbag.

We should have all died of Bird Flu or something shouldn't we?

And the world was meant to end last month.

The next end of the world is predicted as 2020 according to wiki. Got a few years yet.

Il Gialloblu wrote:Searching WBF on google brings up a Glasgow based chartered surveyors firm before the World Boxing Foundation.

See, I knew us surveyors were popular...

Union Cane wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:In 10 years, it is claimed by French scientists that there may be no bananas. Panama disease and black Sigatoka are 2 fungus types devastating plantations. It appears they are yet to find resistance in any type of banana.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2003/jan/16/gm.science

That article is from 2003, 10 years ago.

So we should have no bananas now.

But I have one in my dinnerbag.

Make sure you enjoy it then.

What will Mrs Michaels use if bananas are not around... Best be hoping that story is wrong Seany...

Lumbering_Jack wrote:What will Mrs Michaels use if bananas are not around... Best be hoping that story is wrong Seany...

Certainly not me. She's been 'off games' for a long time now. Hip trouble.

seanmichaels wrote:

Lumbering_Jack wrote:What will Mrs Michaels use if bananas are not around... Best be hoping that story is wrong Seany...

Certainly not me. She's been 'off games' for a long time now. Hip trouble.

Did you bag yourself a rich older bird?

The oldest known bird in the US, a Laysan albatross named Wisdom, has been spotted with a chick.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9419000/9419812.stm

If you think life is bad. How would you like to be an egg?

It takes 4 minutes to get hard but only two to go soft.

Lumbering_Jack wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:

Lumbering_Jack wrote:What will Mrs Michaels use if bananas are not around... Best be hoping that story is wrong Seany...

Certainly not me. She's been 'off games' for a long time now. Hip trouble.

Did you bag yourself a rich older bird?

8 years difference and she earns 3x my salary

Union Cane wrote:The oldest known bird in the US, a Laysan albatross named Wisdom, has been spotted with a chick.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9419000/9419812.stm

Norman Wisdom is fondly remembered in Albania, as is Lord Byron who used to live at Newstead Abbey which is really close to where I'm from.

I once got stung by a bluebottle jellyfish in byron bay. Had to lash on my own leg but it didn't make a difference. Full of hippies and pot heads that plcae. Oh, and Paul Hogan owns a bar there - got chucked out of it as I was in a party with a couple of loud mouthed Americans.

Byron Stingily is an African American R&B and house-music singer born in Chicago, Illinois, known for his falsetto voice. He is now a principal at a school in Chicago.