based on kigelia stat there is more moss per sq inch in swindons cracked pavements than in the whole of the faroe isles and if you were to place all of the used chewing gum removed from swindons cracked pavement it would build a road bridge from Swindon to Telford capable of supporting 50 articulated lorries all at once Fact
Hitler instructed the Luftwaffa that not one single bomb was to drop on Swindon during the war the reason being that he had a pen friend who lived in Swindon from his younger days - a true fact
Swindon fans are the only ones in the country (with the possible exception of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Utd fans) who have never sung 'give us an S...' this is because in Swindon it is considered unlucky to say 'Double U'. Someone said it once and thirty seconds later they were run over by a shire horse called Errol that had escaped from a nearby field.
My geeky bit of knowledge on Swindon... Swindon is the home of the Research Councils which is a Government vehicle set up to fund University Research. There are 7 Research Councils made up of EPSRC, BBSRC, STFC, NERC, MRC, ESRC and AHRC. It's now also home to the TSB (Technology Strategy Board). They invest around £2.8 billion in research covering the full spectrum of academic disciplines from the medical and biological sciences to astronomy, physics, chemistry and engineering, social sciences, economics, environmental sciences and the arts and humanities.
I dread to think how many times I've had to go there over the last 8 years of working in London Universities. The only part of Swindon I've ever seen is the Railway Station and the footbridge that runs directly from the platforms to the Research Council buildings. Interestingly, the building looks like a mini pentagon.
Everyone remembers that it was a dog called Pickles that managed to find The Jules Rimet Trophy in 1966. What is less well known is that the Kent Challenge Cup was recovered by a dog called Swindon in 1952. Swindon, a cross between a border collie and a poodle, found the cup only hours before the 1952 final between Erith & Belvedere and Herne Bay was due to kick off.
If you rearrange the letters of Swindon during British Summer Time then it spells 'Winds No', but if you rearrange the letters during Greenwich Mean Time it spells 'Winds On'
Unique as the only medieval cathedral of any importance that no trace whatsoever remains, the vanished Cathedral of St Zvlkx remains one of the strongest tourist attraction of the Swindon area.
Satellite data since 1998 indicates the bulge in the Earth's gravity field at the equator is growing, and scientists think that the ocean may hold the answer to the mystery of how the changes in the trend of Earth's gravity are occurring.
Before 1998, Earth's equatorial bulge in the gravity field was getting smaller because of the post-glacial rebound, or PGR, that occurred as a result of the melting of the ice sheets after the last Ice Age. When the ice sheets melted, land that was underneath the ice started rising. As the ground rebounded in this fashion, the gravity field changed.
"The Earth behaved much like putting your finger into a sponge ball and watching it slowly bounce back," said Christopher Cox, a research scientist supporting the Space Geodesy Branch at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
Currently, the Earth has an additional significant upward bulge located adjacent to an area in the town centre of Swindon, in the United Kingdom. According to New Scientist magazine, no. 2347, this bulge could account for a particularly boring style of football demonstrated by the local football team, Swindon Town, which plays in the English Football league, Division One.
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and is a decendent of the famous white horse that was used at wembley
I dread to think how many times I've had to go there over the last 8 years of working in London Universities. The only part of Swindon I've ever seen is the Railway Station and the footbridge that runs directly from the platforms to the Research Council buildings. Interestingly, the building looks like a mini pentagon.
Escalators have been banned in Swindon since the Valentines Uprising of 1987 and any that remain are just metal staircases.
Lux Interior (of The Cramps) is buried under a fountain which was constructed outside the only chip shop in Swindon.
*only some of this may in fact be true
Mickey Mouse wears a Danny Wilson wrist Watch. Fact!!!
I bet you wish he was your manager though
Smashing
DONS WON'T WIN
FACT
You used to be able to buy beer direct from Arkell's brewery in your own plastic polypin container.
Swindon is the biggest town in Wiltshire but Trowbridge is the county town.
DONS NIL...YAWN
Top 6 now...say we are going up, say we are going up...
Before 1998, Earth's equatorial bulge in the gravity field was getting smaller because of the post-glacial rebound, or PGR, that occurred as a result of the melting of the ice sheets after the last Ice Age. When the ice sheets melted, land that was underneath the ice started rising. As the ground rebounded in this fashion, the gravity field changed.
"The Earth behaved much like putting your finger into a sponge ball and watching it slowly bounce back," said Christopher Cox, a research scientist supporting the Space Geodesy Branch at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
Currently, the Earth has an additional significant upward bulge located adjacent to an area in the town centre of Swindon, in the United Kingdom. According to New Scientist magazine, no. 2347, this bulge could account for a particularly boring style of football demonstrated by the local football team, Swindon Town, which plays in the English Football league, Division One.
Ha ha look what you started!
true. Bit scatological but at least they got the idea.
If you google Hitler Pen pal swindon - this thread is number 1
I plan to purchase a 'what would Bert do' t-shirt this very afternoon from a stall outside the Merlin.