Odd factoids

[classic33]

Ivors(The Locomotive), fondest dream is to sing with the Grumbly and District Choral Society.

 

[Drago]

Ivor the Engine was in fact battery powered.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Richard Tiffany Gere, the Hollywood actor, is a transsexual who added 'Richard' at the age of 19 as there were more parts for leading men.

 

[classic33]

Richard Tiffany Gere, the Hollywood actor, is a transsexual who added 'Richard' at the age of 19 as there were more parts for leading men.

You could/can get leading men spare parts!

 

[Drago]

Burt Reynolds, the most masculine man that ever lived, is the only know offspring born as a result of two male bodybuilders mating.

 

[Lozz360]

Houseflys and bluebottles suffer from arachnophobia

Arachnophobia is the irrational fear of spiders. If you were a housefly or bluebottle then the fear of spiders would be rational. Just saying.

 

[classic33]

The classic Fray Bentos Steak & Kidney Pie was originally launched in 1961.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Fray Bentos pies were developed in the 60s by the government as a way of stockpiling food that could survive a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Millions of pies were manufactured and stored in underground depots for emergency use. Production stopped in 1991 with the fall of the Berlin wall but hungry, depressed, lonely single men continue to enjoy the dubious pleasure of the "food of last resort". Experts estimate there are sufficient stocks to last well into the 2030s.

 

[colly]

The classic Fray Bentos Steak & Kidney Pie was originally launched in 1961.

Yes, and it's still in orbit.

 

[Drago]

Fray Bentos pies were developed in the 60s by the government as a way of stockpiling food that could survive a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Millions of pies were manufactured and stored in underground depots for emergency use. Production stopped in 1991 with the fall of the Berlin wall but hungry, depressed, lonely single men continue to enjoy the dubious pleasure of the "food of last resort". Experts estimate there are sufficient stocks to last well into the 2030s.

Unfortunately, the USSR failed to also stockpile can openers.

 

[FishFright]

Unfortunately, the USSR failed to also stockpile can openers.

This was a catastrophic error with lead to mass appendage haemorrhaging, hence the saying - " In Soviet Russia the can opens you"

 

[classic33]

The Can Opener Was Invented 83 Years After Canned food.

 

[Drago]

Canned food was invented as a means for posh people to protect their food from marauding peasants. Can openers cost £1, four years wages for the average peasant, so the wealthy knew their food was safe.

 

[gaijintendo]

They put Jack Daniels in square bottles so it doesn't roll as far when the bus stops.

 

[classic33]

A bike can stay upright on its own.

Providing the bike is moving at a speed of miles per hour or more, it will stay upright as it zooms along without its rider.