Odd factoids

[Ming the Merciless]

Peter Perv got his first TV break in the Wacky Races. After an affair with Penelope Pitbull went wrong he left the show to start the show Blue Peter. The show was called Blue Peter because he was so down in the dumps. He changed his surname from Perfect to Perv as it was thought the former would generate too many jokes in school playgrounds in the 70s.

 

[bruce1530]

After leaving Wacky Races, Peter Pervy became a star of numerous porn movies, generally playing a window cleaner or gas repair man. He only applied for the role in “Blue Peter” after misinterpreting the title.

 

[Drago]

@Accy cyclist Applied for a role in Blue Peter, playing the part of a window cleaner who's clothes fell off and who was then ravished by the lonely housewife. However, he was so entranced by the noble profession that is window cleaning he devoted his life to the professuon and its study. He subsequently retired at the age of 28 as his doctor warned him he was only one house wife away from death by sexual exhaustion.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

After @Accy cyclist retired as a window cleaner, he took a job as a postman. The film the Postman always rings twice is about his subsequent life.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

After @Accy cyclist retired as a window cleaner, he took a job as a postman. The film the Postman always rings twice is about his subsequent life.

@postman didn't ring at all. He was straight in there everytime.

 

[postman]

@postman didn't ring at all. He was straight in there everytime.

Postman emptied his sack twice a day.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Postman emptied his sack twice a day.

Into the River Ouse, causing the great floods of Yorkshire.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

All postmen are zombies, it being shorthand for posthumous man.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Apart from grumpy postmen whose scientific name is Posthumorous Man.

 

[Drago]

Men never used to deliver the mail. Senders would nail it to a wooden post and wait for a passer by heading in the right direction to take it and deliver it. These helpful souls were soon named "post" men. Even the women.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Letters sent by the king were affixed to the post with a nail. It subsequently became known as the Royal Nail.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Emptying the sack was a phrase used when all the French Letters were dumped in the river, following the battle of Waterloo.

 

[Drago]

French letters were written on old cheese wrappers. This is because inflation is so bad in France that all the paper is needed to print trillion franc bank notes, each worth about 13 pence.

 

[Jenkins]

The rear foglight on a 90's Vauxhall Corsa was only fitted to ensure they fulfilled the legal requirement of two rear lights.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

The fog light on an Austin Allegro was so named because it always fogged up.