Odd factoids

[Bonefish Blues]

Especially when he hammed up the serenity of the location.

That's how invidious Porker Porn is these days, sadly. That's where the term gammon comes from by the way - red-faced middle-aged blokes who have been pig-pleasuring.

 

[Drago]

Pigs are in fqct nothing more than a form of dwarf albino hippopotamus.

 

[Tribansman]

Skip-alternative 'Hippo' bags are named after the entrepreneurial duo that invented them: Derek River and Martin Horse

 

[Drago]

Richard Harris was A Man Called Horse. The film was originally to be called a man called Hamster, but rumours surrounding Richard Gere's fondness for the rodents forced a change to the script.

 

[PeteXXX]

Richard Gear's nickname was Top. Hamster liked it so much that he stole it and sold it to J Clarkson for a fortune!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Top Gear was originally a shady character in Only Fools and Horses.

 

[Drago]

Top Gear was originally conceived as a Top Trumps type card game, but instead of being based upon cars and their stats it was base upon different varieties of heroin,

 

[bruce1530]

Richard Harris was A Man Called Horse.

This was a typographic error. The film was originally to be called "A Man Called Horace", and was a legal drama about Horace Rumpole of the Bailey.

 

[bruce1530]

It has never been confirmed that Richard Harris, Rolf Harris and Anita Harris are actually the same person, but they have never all been seen in the same room.

 

[raleighnut]

Top Gear was originally conceived as a Top Trumps type card game, but instead of being based upon cars and their stats it was base upon different varieties of heroin,

Anyone else remember when Top Gear was presented by Angela Rippon

View: https://youtu.be/bCLCmOIJLto

 

[raleighnut]

Top Gear was originally conceived as a Top Trumps type card game, but instead of being based upon cars and their stats it was base upon different varieties of heroin,

Anyone else remember when Top Gear was presented by Angela Rippon

View: https://youtu.be/bCLCmOIJLto

 

[Drago]

Angela Rippon invented the Raspberry Rippon ice cream. However, a mis-spelling on the first batch of packaging means it is now known as Raspberry Ripple.

 

[raleighnut]

Angela Rippon invented the Raspberry Rippon ice cream. However, a mis-spelling on the first batch of packaging means it is now known as Raspberry Ripple.

It's a good job they didn't change another letter too

 

[PeteXXX]

It's a good job they didn't change another letter too

Raspberry Riddle was another option as a letter changing name, but too many questions were being asked....

 

[Drago]

Questions were inventwd by the labour party in 1241 AD, as an annoying alternative to simply doing as they were told.