Odd factoids

[Drago]

Paris is indeed gay. It's been having a gay affair with Berlin for years behind Madrid's back.

 

[raleighnut]

Paris is indeed gay. It's been having a gay affair with Berlin for years behind Madrid's back.

Isn't that Fankfart

 

[Drago]

Fankfart's farts have been silent ever since it started dating Paris.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Dudley Moore was one of Ken Dodd‘s Dudley Men.

 

[Andy_R]

The script writers of the original Star Wars movie wanted Yoda to be called Layheeho

 

[Drago]

Star Was was originally going to be set in Grimsby.

 

[bruce1530]

Christmas Crackers were invented by Michael Aspel, who at the time was the host of “Crackerjack”. They were conceived for the Crackerjack christmas show as a rival to Blue Peter’s Advent Crown.

 

[Drago]

Christmas Crackers were originally filled with Jacob's Cream Crackers.

 

[raleighnut]

Christmas Crackers were originally filled with Jacob's Cream Crackers.

Cream Crackers contain no Cream (Well at least I hope they don't)

 

[Drago]

When Bruse, Clapton and Baker formed Cream, they were originally going call it Custard. Howver, the thread of a lawsuit from Birds was enough tomake them change their minds.

 

[guitarpete247]

The Byrds invented custard with a little help from Bob Dylan. It was always served in a tambourine.

 

[Drago]

Bob Dylans real name was Bob Bagpuss. However, during a visit to Britain in 1927 to learn to speak English properly, he became a rabid fan of the Magic Roundabout and took the name Dylan accordingly. His children, Florence and Zebedee, were not so enampured with the show.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Families often have strange Christmas traditions, but so do countries.

In Wales, it's traditional for anyone named Dai to give joke presents instead of proper ones. It's also traditional on the day after Christmas to punch anyone named Dai hard in the face as a result.

Hence "Boxing Dai"

 

[raleighnut]

Families often have strange Christmas traditions, but so do countries.

In Wales, it's traditional for anyone named Dai to give joke presents instead of proper ones. It's also traditional on the day after Christmas to punch anyone named Dai hard in the face as a result.

Hence "Boxing Dai"

I used to work with a Welsh guy whose name was 'John Thomas'

 

[roubaixtuesday]

"Welsh Guy" or "Guillaume du Pays-Bas" to give him his full title, conquered Wales in 1065.

Upstaged by his Cousin "Guillaume le Conquérant", a year later, Guy never forgave him, renamed him "William the Bastard", and went around for the rest of his life with a huge chip on his shoulder.

Ironically, he fathered thousands of bastards with the Welsh peasantry, whose offspring inherited his chip, which explains the Welsh to this day.