Odd factoids

[roubaixtuesday]

Queen Victoria was conceived in the Queen Vic pub carpark after a knee trembler with Freddie Mercury and Victoria Secret.

 

[bruce1530]

Queen Victoria was named after her Mother’s favourite sponge cake

 

[Drago]

Accy's sponge cake is made from the sponge padding from the seats of written off Fiat 500s.

 

[bruce1530]

The Fiat 500 was thus named because it has a half-life of 500 days. After 500 days, half of the cars manufactured will have decayed into rust, after 1000 days, 75% will be gone.

 

[Drago]

Fiat was originally founded to manufacture portaloos, the initials meaning Fit In Another Turd.

 

[bruce1530]

The TV series "Starsky and Hutch" is unique(*) in that although over 500 episodes were made, they all had essentially the same plot.

• A crime is committed, and Starsky & Hutch are assigned to work on the case.
• They "go undercover", driving around at high speed in the most distinctive car in the city.
• They have no success, go back to police HQ and Big Captain Dobey shouts at them.
• They go to Huggy Bear's bar.
• Huggy says "I ain't no grass, but the word on the street is that it was that dude over there"
• Chase ensues, bad guys captured
• Return to Starsky/Hutch's apartment, where slightly amusing incident happens involving women/singing/cardigans.

(*) not quite unique. Scooby Doo scripts were also identical from show to show.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Fiat was originally founded to manufacture portaloos, the initials meaning Fit In Another Turd.

Fiat secretly used similar construction techniques stolen from the Portaloo, which resulted in a court case when Portaloo's parent company Poo-2-Go got wind of it. Legal experts said the shoot really hit the fan in that case. Ultimately the case was settled and the Judge said he would discharge it. Portaloo really cleaned up.

 

[bruce1530]

The owner of the Portaloo company is Michael Portillo.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

"Death in Paradise" is unique amongst long running TV shows in that the plot is absolutely original every episode, described as "a masterpiece worthy of Dostoyevsky" by Salman Rushdie.

Unfortunately, the UK only pays for the cheap tribute show to the original screenplay, "Death in Parodies". So we get an identical plot every week, paid for by the tourist board of Guadeloupe to promote their island.

 

[bruce1530]

Michael Portaloo originally wanted to call his blue, police-box-sized portable toilet a "Turdis".

 

[roubaixtuesday]

The song thrush, Latin name "Turdus turdus"* has the largest poo weight to body weight ratio of any known animal.

*Google it if you don't believe me!

 

[Drago]

The Tardis was originally called the Turdis, as the prop was constructed from a Portiloo Portaloo.

However, when the communist party BBC decided Dr Poop was to be a kids programme and thus on before the 2100hrs watershed (then known as the water flush) the programme and time travel device were thusly renamed.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Being "flush" - having lots of money is a mediaeval term from the profession of night soil collector.

If their round had deposited and flushed away a lot of shite to collect, the collector would be rich selling it to farmers as fertiliser, so was "flush".

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

A Royal Flush was worth a lot to the Master of the Stool

 

[Drago]

Royal Jelly is made from the grunge found between Prince Andrews toes. Because he doesn't sweat it doesn't wash away on its own.