Odd factoids

[Drago]

Elton John's real name is Elton Belton. Of course, thisnwas a source of much hilarity.

During one summer holiday visit to New York he became an ardent admirer of American lavatories, and took the surname 'John' in their honour.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Elton John's real name is Elton Belton. Of course, thisnwas a source of much hilarity.

During one summer holiday visit to New York he became an ardent admirer of American lavatories, and took the surname 'John' in their honour.

Heady days, heady days

 

[bruce1530]

Elton John's real name is Elton Belton. Of course, thisnwas a source of much hilarity.

The Jam (see earlier posts - a “Marmalade” tribute band) could not stand Elton John, indeed one of their songs (“Elton Rifles”) is inspired by their desire to shoot him.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Rod and Elton are the love child’s of Elvis

 

[Drago]

Rod Stewart's real name is Jock O'Stewart. His nickname was Rod after his peretually erect penis, and he anglicised his last name in the hope of better record sales.

 

[raleighnut]

Rod Stewart's real name is Jock O'Stewart. His nickname was Rod after his peretually erect penis, and he anglicised his last name in the hope of better record sales.

Sadly his penis is so small that it looks like a normal bulge in his strides, he even took to wearing trousers 2 sizes smaller to change this appearance but it just made his arris look bigger.

View: https://youtu.be/b8e7bo0Y_Zk

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Tao Geoghegan-Hart is actually a centaur, the product of an illicit liaison between the Irish rugby player Simon Geoghegan and a deer.

His cycling ability is less surprising when you consider both the elite sporting heritage and the use of four legs, allowing him to swap and rest a pair whenever fatigue starts to bear.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

There are over a million asteroids orbiting Birmingham.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

There are over a million haemorrhoids orbiting the M25.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

There’s a black hole in the centre of Accrington

 

[Bonefish Blues]

...through which one falls in a maelstrom of warping of the time-space continuum.

Finally coming out just by Tesco Leighton Buzzard.

 

[Drago]

There are no buzzards in Leigton Buzzard. The bird from which the town took its name turned out to be a sparrow. Later investigation revealed that the witness who'd claimed to see a buzzard, Leighton Bullpois, was an alcoholic compulsive liar. However, the Council had spend several hundred pounds on signs and deemed to to expensive to revert to the second choice name, Bradley Dodo.

 

[Drago]

Dodo's are not extinct. They have simple been renamed 'turkey'.

 

[Drago]

Turkey was named by its discoverrd, Bernard Matthews. Its a bootiful place.

 

[classic33]

The next time you happen across turkey poop — which happens all the time, — take a closer look at it. If the droppings are shaped like a “J,” they were left there by a male turkey. Spiral-shaped poo? The culprit is female.