Odd factoids

[Drago]

Judas Priest is a con merchant. He is merely a lay preacher, and has no qualifications whatsoever as a priest. Read his fake degree carefully, and you'll spot the signature of one Bishop Savile. Jim very clearly fixed it for him, but died before the Pope could do nothing at all about the matter.

Once Judas was released from prison following the discovery of this misdeed, he wrote a song about his experiences, called Breaking the Law.

 

[raleighnut]

Judas Priest is a con merchant. He is merely a lay preacher, and has no qualifications whatsoever as a priest. Read his fake degree carefully, and you'll spot the signature of one Bishop Savile. Jim very clearly fixed it for him, but died before the Pope could do nothing at all about the matter.

Once Judas was released from prison following the discovery of this misdeed, he wrote a song about his experiences, called Breaking the Law.

Well the singer is certainly well qualified.

 

[Drago]

Singer cars were originally Singer sewing machines converted to run on wheels.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Scimitar cars were first used by the Turks under Saladin in the crusades. "The infidel used scimitars" referring to transport rather than weaponry.

 

[bruce1530]

The Singer car company was owned by Pavarotti

 

[Drago]

Pavarotti is really Mama Cass. She faked her own death and assumed the identity of an Italian operatic tenor, which was much more lucrative. This is why there is no recorded reference to Pavarotti prior to 1974.

 

[raleighnut]

Pavorotti's first single "I ate all the pies" was never released dur to copyright issues.

 

[Drago]

Pies were invented by Northerners as a torture implement tomise upon soft southerners. They would be forced to eat pies until they drowned on the gravy, or died of pastry intoxication.

Unfortunately, this backfired when in 1364 the people of the kingdom of Mercia invented the Vindaloo to force feed to captured Yorkshiremen.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

The mathematical symbol π is generally believed to have been discovered by the Babylonians.

This is entirely incorrect.

The concept actually originated from the "All Saxon Countryes Pye Eating Competition" in 794 AD. "Oswald the Obyse of Wessex" and "Harald the Hogge of Saxony" ate each other to a standstill, having consumed "three dozyne pyes of dyverse nature" each. The 37th pie at issue was "of mixed fowle and fisshe", but neither competitor was able to finish the, presumably fowl, concoction.

Ethelred had eaten the lid of the pie, and Harald the sides only. Both sides claimed victory, and no-one could agree the ratio of one to the other. The abbot of Lindisfarne, "Aethelric Alebelly" adjudicated, and decreed "the ratio of the pye is that the sydes are thrice the lydde".

Thus was modern mathematics born, ironically on a mistaken understanding of ratios. Harald was declared winner, Wessex exited the Saxon Union in dudgeon as a result, and eschewed pies forever, reverting to the ancient Breton Iceni cake tradition later confirmed with the coronation of "Alfred the Cake". Pies remained illegal in the British Isles until reintroduced by "William the Pastrycook", later renamed the "Conqueror", in honour of his showstopper "Rampant Stag conquers the Beaver" pie he created for his own coronation. In order to show his erudition and supposed mastery of Greek, he re renamed the Pye the π in celebration but only mathematicians rather than Pye Shoppes complied.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Who ate all the pies 🥧 was a song originally written by Isaac Newton when one fell on his head whilst sitting outside a pub in Accrington

 

[Drago]

William Pastrycook was renamed William Conqueror becaise of the fabulous pies he made filled with delicious hit conkers. Sadly for him, they were highly toxic and 80% of his men died from eating in, leaving the British isles badly underdefended.

This allowed American terrorists to break into the PG tips fsctory in Lincolnshire and burn itnto the ground, an event later known by historians as the Boston Tea Party.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Yorkshire tea is not in fact like other teas. Due to their love of pie, Yorkshire tea is in fact Bisto with a special colouring. Yes, Yorkshire folk drink hot gravy.

 

[Drago]

Yorkshire is, historically, a province of Sarah Lancashire.

 

[raleighnut]

William Pastrycook was renamed William Conqueror becaise of the fabulous pies he made filled with delicious hit conkers. Sadly for him, they were highly toxic and 80% of his men died from eating in, leaving the British isles badly underdefended.

This allowed American terrorists to break into the PG tips fsctory in Lincolnshire and burn itnto the ground, an event later known by historians as the Boston Tea Party.

The Scots thought this was hilarious,

View: https://youtu.be/wWF3S9OgQho

 

[Drago]

On one occasion, Alex Harvey was in a bar fight. He swung a wide right at an opponent, but telegraphed the move so far in advance they had ducked and Harvey's hand smashed into the eall, breaking his wrist.

The injury stopped Harvey from playing the guitar and he missed the 2nd half of hisntour, disappointing his fans and costing him millions in lost income.

In his biography the author, Robert Mugabe, referred to the incident as the Harvey Wallbanger affair. Every year on the anniversary of Harveys death from syphillis fans reenact the incident at the same bar, and created a cocktail in his honour, which inspired by the book, they call the Harvey Wallnanger. It's one part lemonade, one part orange juice, and one part creosote.