Odd factoids

[Ming the Merciless]

Terry toweling nappies were invented 3 days after Adam and Eve had their first child. At first they used the trusty fig leaf but Eve quickly told Adam "I am fed up being up to my elbows in sh*t.....you can change the next one. So being a man he immediately invented Terry nappies.
And before anyone queries this fact, they were originally called Cain & Abel nappies but then the third child, Terry was born.

Terry went on to invent the chocolate orange and shortly thereafter was diagnosed with diabetes.

 

[Dave7]

Have you a Rose Alley nearby, or live near/on Lily Lane?

Your first thought may be that it's named after a person. Second thought, after the flower maybe.

You'd be wrong on both. "Plucking a rose" & "Guilding a lilly" are both euphenisms for having a pee. So both would be popular spots for relieving the bladder.

Not so sweet smelling after all.

That is a slight misquote. Shakespear said/wrote it first. He wrote something to the effect of.....
"The beautiful lilly needeth no guilding but taketh no note of a certain Classic33 as he doeth indeed taketh the pith"

 

[NorthernDave]

Terry toweling nappies were invented 3 days after Adam and Eve had their first child. At first they used the trusty fig leaf but Eve quickly told Adam "I am fed up being up to my elbows in sh*t.....you can change the next one. So being a man he immediately invented Terry nappies.
And before anyone queries this fact, they were originally called Cain & Abel nappies but then the third child, Terry was born.

Terry went on to invent the chocolate orange and shortly thereafter was diagnosed with diabetes.

Terry Towelling was originally planned as the name of the lead character in popular ITV show "Minder".
However the name was changed to Terry McCann shortly before filming started to increase the appeal of the show to Scottish viewers.

 

[Drago]

Arthur Daley was written as a not of a comedy role, nickname Monthly Daley, but a well known manufacturer of pocket diaries threatened to sue.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Arthur Daley was written as a not of a comedy role, nickname Monthly Daley, but a well known manufacturer of pocket diaries threatened to sue.

Arthur Daley is the father of Tom Daley. Tom did not want to go into Arthur's trade , hence why they stopped filming the documentary Minder.

 

[Threevok]

Arthur Daley was originally going to be cast as a Left Wing Socialist.

But in a last minute u-turn - he was all right

 

[Ming the Merciless]

When dinosaurs roamed the earth the moon had active volcanoes.

 

[classic33]

That is a slight misquote. Shakespear said/wrote it first. He wrote something to the effect of.....
"The beautiful lilly needeth no guilding but taketh no note of a certain Classic33 as he doeth indeed taketh the pith"

Oh ay, no mention of Rose Alley I notice!

 

[raleighnut]

Oh ay, no mention of Rose Alley I notice!
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Australian edition?

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

When dinosaurs roamed the earth the moon had active volcanoes.

Dinosaurs were the cause of volcanoes on the Moon. It was only when Dinosaurs became extinct that the Moon quieted.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Sir Bernard Lovell first spotted dinosaurs on the surface of Mars in 1931.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Sir Bernard Lovell first spotted dinosaurs on the surface of Mars in 1931.

The Lovell telescope is at Jodrell Bank.

 

[classic33]

Sir Bernard Lovell first spotted dinosaurs on the surface of Mars in 1931.

Jim Lovell never got to the moon. Close, but not quite close enough to count.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Jim Lovell never got to the moon. Close, but not quite close enough to count.

It was whilst smoking his cigar that the explosion happened hence the phrase "Close but no cigar"

 

[Dave7]

Cigars were invented to give Clint Eastwood something to smoke in Hang 'em High. Originaly he used Woodbines but he finished each one before he could shoot all the baddies so they needed something that lasted longer.