I love random facts

[Carwash]

Rod Stewart* played the harmonica on "My boy lollypop" by Little Millie.


* This is as disputed as the earlier one about Bob Holness being the first person to play James Bond. Once these "facts" pass in to the collective conscience though, people do get very defensive about being challenged on them.

Didn't Billy Connolly play on Gerry Rafferty's 'Baker Street'? I'm sure I read that somewhere...

 

[PaulB]

Didn't Billy Connolly play on Gerry Rafferty's 'Baker Street'? I'm sure I read that somewhere...

I know Connolly was in the Humblebums with Gerry Rafferty so he could well have done. I think there's another Bob Holness rumour about that though isn't there? I have heard on several occasions that Holness played the sax on Baker Street but I remain to be convinced.

 

[bonj2]

here's a few to get started

Statues of a war/battle with the person on a horse
* If the horse has all 4 legs on the ground the person fought in that battle
* If the horse has one front leg raised then he was injured in that battle
* If the horses 2 front legs are raised then he died in that battle.

Bollocks: http://www.snopes.com/military/statue.asp

 

[Kovu]

Model T Fords were available in a variety of colours, not just black.

The Model T Fords weren't available in black until a certain date I think as well.

 

[bonj2]

Frank Sinatra played the saxaphone on the Beatles record, A Day in The Life.

That's another one that's bollocks.

 

[PaulB]

They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. I think it's bollocks.

 

[bonj2]

The penis of the Golden Web Orb Spider snaps off during sex.

I don't know, but I suspect this to be also bollocks.

 

[Carwash]

They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

Of course it is - otherwise you'd have to punch through the ribcage.

 

[PaulB]

Of course it is - otherwise you'd have to punch through the ribcage.

It still makes me sick when I hear that high-pitched whine of the saw as they cut through the sternum to get to the heart. And then when they expand the retractors and pull open the whole chest! Yuk!

 

[And]

I know Connolly was in the Humblebums with Gerry Rafferty so he could well have done. I think there's another Bob Holness rumour about that though isn't there? I have heard on several occasions that Holness played the sax on Baker Street but I remain to be convinced.

Raphael Ravenscroft played sax on Baker Street.

 

[buggi]

When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months

that's a myth. skin shrinks back making the hair appear like it's growing.

Egyptian statues always have left leg first, as if they are marching to battle ("left, right, left, right etc etc)

 

[Smokin Joe]

Raphael Ravenscroft played sax on Baker Street.

I knew a whore who had sex in Baker Street.

 

[DJ]

Linda McCartney owned two pink Massey Ferguson tractors!

 

[PaulB]

Linda McCartney owned two pink Massey Ferguson tractors!

And didn't Linda McCartney fund the last British cycle team who competed in the TdF? I know she certainly funded one team in the Tour but am unsure as to whether it was the last one.

 

[DJ]

There is a proper name for the back of the knee.

is it "the back of the knee"?