Interesting facts

[FeelixTC]

Nobody has the average number of legs.

You're gonna have to explain that one?

Ok; most people have two legs. Some have only one and, bless them, some people have none.
The 'average' number of legs per person will, therefore, be something like 1.999999999 and nobody has 1.99999999 legs.

[FeelixTC]

What was the first man-made object to move faster than the speed of sound?

[Agrippa]

The average number of legs is something like 1.999 due  to one legged and no legged people.
In statistics this is where averages don't reflect the big picture. Imagine 10 people
in a pub , nine earn about £25,000- £30,000 a year and one is a footballer earning
£5,000, 000 this would make their average earnings about  £520,000 each,
clearly misleading.

[Agrippa]

What was the first man-made object to move faster than the speed of sound?

The tip of a whip, I believe,handy for flogging a dead horse...

[Agrippa]

Another interesting fact, the kilt was invented by an Englishman...

[PLD]

Nobody has the average number of legs.

That depends on which "average" you use...

The arithmetical mean will indeed by 1.99 ish

The Mode (most commonly occurring value) will be 2.
The Median (middle value if you line everyone up in order) will also be two...

Classic GCSE level Maths question...

[Bob Tidbury]

The reason an Englishman invented the kilt was to freeze the nether regions of the Scots and so win the war.
Bob

[FeelixTC]

Nobody has the average number of legs.

That depends on which "average" you use...

The arithmetical mean will indeed by 1.99 ish

The Mode (most commonly occurring value) will be 2.
The Median (middle value if you line everyone up in order) will also be two...

Classic GCSE level Maths question...

True - But I try not to let facts get in the way of a good gag

[Trainfish]

Nobody has the average number of legs.

You're gonna have to explain that one?

Ok; most people have two legs. Some have only one and, bless them, some people have none.
The 'average' number of legs per person will, therefore, be something like 1.999999999 and nobody has 1.99999999 legs.

What if my big toe fell off? Would I then have 1.999999999999 legs? Also, in these parts it is rumoured that people from Calne have either 6 toes or webbed feet. Does this take them over the count of 2 legs?

[Agrippa]

Another interesting fact, the comedian  Frank Carson shot and killed an Israeli
terrorist during the British administration in Palestine.

Hence the catchphrase "It's the way I fell them".....

[railsquid]

Nobody has the average number of legs.

You're gonna have to explain that one?

Given that there will be a small proportion of people with one or fewer legs, the average will be one-point-something, a value hard to express in legs. Unless you start counting people missing only part of one leg, then it becomes tricky defining what a fraction of a leg is - do you go by weight, or length, or volume? Definitive answers on the back of an post-paid envelope containing a five pound note as an administrative fee to the Railsquid Foundation for the Promotion of Trivia, 232a Freaky Woowoo Drive, Trumpton.

[Agrippa]

You can't mix discrete and continuous numbers, in other words you haven't a leg to stand on....

[FeelixTC]

The expressions;
"Fed up"
"Codger"
"Hoodwinked"
"Under the thumb"
"Baited Breath"
"Cadge"
"Larking Around"
"Feather in your cap"
"Booze"
"Gorge" and
"Rouse" are all derived from Falconry

[austinbob]

Nobody has the average number of legs.

You're gonna have to explain that one?

Ok; most people have two legs. Some have only one and, bless them, some people have none.
The 'average' number of legs per person will, therefore, be something like 1.999999999 and nobody has 1.99999999 legs.

You could have slightly less than 2 legs if one is shorter than the other!

[scotsoft]

You lot have far too much time on your hands