Odd factoids

[Ming the Merciless]

Radio two is actually one end of a worm hole , the other end is in the 1980s

 

[Drago]

Jeremy Vine is a worm and looks like a hole.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

The reason that pubs in Britain have such weird names goes back to medieval times when most people were illiterate, but could recognize symbols and pictures. This is why they have names like Boot and Castle, or Fox and Hound.

 

[Dirk]

 

[Drago]

The reason that pubs in Britain have such weird names goes back to medieval times when most people were illiterate, but could recognize symbols and pictures. This is why they have names like Boot and Castle, or Fox and Hound.

Li,e my local, the Pitchfork and Yokel, and the Goat and Vasectomy.

 

[bruce1530]

Algorithms were invented by Al Gore.

 

[Dave7]

Famous Grouse whiskey has never actually contained any Grouse.
AND.....Black and White whisky has never been black and white.....it has always been the standard amber whisky colour.

 

[Drago]

Early versions of Famous Grouse contained grouse, but not famous ones.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Famous Grouse whiskey is made in the sheds of rural Irish people from fermented and distilled Barnacle Geese and sold to an unsuspecting world as the real thing.

 

[bruce1530]

Famous Grouse whiskey is made from of rural Irish people

Nope, that’s Shamus Grouse

 

[classic33]

The Glenfiddich Whisky bottle is triangular in shape to represent the three pillars of whisky making: air, water and barley.

 

[classic33]

The Scottish Whisky Regulations of 2009, divides Scotland into two protected localities (Campbeltown and Islay) and three protected regions (Highland, Lowland, and Speyside).

 

[classic33]

John ‘Johnnie’ Walker was a grocer in Kilmarnock, Scotland in the mid-1800s who specialised in blending tea before he decided to start blending whisky.

 

[bruce1530]

The Glenfiddich bottle is triangular because it is made in the Toblerone factory.
Or is it the other way round?

 

[Drago]

Johnnie Walker married Annie Walker, who became the first landlady mof the Rovers Return. She later went on to invent the potato crisp.