Odd factoids

[roubaixtuesday]

"Spiral shaped poo" was the original name for the band "inspiral carpets".

Their seminal work "This is how it feels" originally featured the line "This is how it feels when your poo means nothing at all".

Their record company decided it was just too silly, hence the far more mainstream "inspiral carpets"

 

[Drago]

Record companies are not companies at all. They are simply fronts for Mafia money laundering operations.

 

[bruce1530]

The Money Launderer was invented by Hotpoint in 1936.

 

[Seevio]

The money launderer was the product that saved Hotpoint from bankruptcy after a string of expensive flops such as the coin grater, the penny toaster and the cash mangle.

 

[Drago]

The mangle was invented by antipodean actor Mark Little, who named it after his Neighbours character, Joe Mangel.

 

[bruce1530]

The invention was invented by Henry VIII. Before that, there were no inventions.

 

[Drago]

Henry the 8th's first invention was the fat man dress. The fashion was revived by Dom DeLuise in the 80's.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Talking about cash mangles, of course it's common knowledge that all money, both coins and notes, is dirty and round until the Chief Cashier money launders it and puts it through the cash mangle.

 

[bruce1530]

The cash mangle was developed to support the first credit squeeze.

 

[raleighnut]

Talking about cash mangles, of course it's common knowledge that all money, both coins and notes, is dirty and round until the Chief Cashier money launders it and puts it through the cash mangle.

Cash is a concept to keep the poor in check

View: https://youtu.be/vf1OKWxu4ig

 

[Drago]

Poor people were invented by Warren Buffet in 1251AD, in order that rich people wouls have someone to lord it over.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Medics say that overindulgence at a warren buffet can cause indigestion, stomach ulcers, circulatory problems and type 2 diabetes.

 

[Drago]

Type 2 diabetes takes its name from the VW Type 2 van. It seems that VW had falsified the sugar emissions, causing many drivers to develop the illness.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

To get the thread back on track!!

In WW1 after a Zeppelin raid, one of the Zeppelins was damaged and ditched in the North Sea. A passing trawler refused to save the crew (contrary to the early Geneva Convention) and as a result they all perished. How do we know this? One of the crew put a message in a bottle, naming the ship and where it sailed from, and the bottle was was washed ashore in Sweden some months later. There were calls from the Germans to prosecute the trawler skipper for a war crime, but given the anti German feeling (Zeppelin raids were the first instance of strategic bombing) there was no action taken. Apparently even the Bishop of London said leaving the German baby killers was understandable!

 

[Bonefish Blues]

That fact is a modern myth. In fact the Germans cunningly pulled the plug on the North Sea so they could stage a land invasion of Great Britain and fish were collected by horse and cart, not trawlers.

Unfortunately nobody told the crew of U457 who were somewhat surprised when a small boy walked out from Lowestoft with a tray of tea and biscuits his mum had made and knocked on the conning tower.