Odd factoids

[Drago]

The Professor Umo affair was a strange one.

Umo was an astronomer, but Russell Grant misheard this to be asteologer and had the professor murdered in the mistaken belief hat he would be a rival. This was called the Professor Umo Affair, often shortened the Profumo Affair.

 

[PeteXXX]

A Fair was where travelling folk used to meet to swap horses, goldfish in plastic bags and tales of Julian Clarey around a camp fire..

 

[Drago]

The term 'camp' came about because at the drop of a hat Julian Clarey would erect a tent and start a fire.

 

[PeteXXX]

Julian Clarey is often confused with Julian Assange due to his propensity for solo activities in the Equadorian embassy.

 

[Drago]

Julian Assange is Santa Claus, and the Equadorian Embassy is his grotto. The big pules of reindeer sheet in the street outside are the giveaway.

 

[Drago]

Santa is Satan's new identify following his gender reassignment surgery.

 

[PeteXXX]

Apparently, there are now 100 genders..
Where were the other 98 when I was in my youth?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The Profumo Affair was an Irish travelling circus that entertained the ancient grizzly bears of Sherwood. Afterwards they’d share a picnic together of Gingerbread.

 

[bruce1530]

In Scotland, "GingerBread" is a protected designation. Champagne must come from the Champagne region of France, Arbroath Smokies come only from Arbroath.

GingerBread can only be called "GingerBread" if it is baked by a person with naturally ginger hair. If baked by a person with any other colour of hair - even if dyed - then it is known as "HennaEnhancedBread".

In more affluent areas- notably those served by Waitrose - GingerBread production has practically ceased, with a corresponding increase in the manufacture of StrawberryBlondeBread.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Ginger was invented in China and then via selective breeding the Scottish ginger gene came about.

 

[bruce1530]

"Ginger Jean" was a Scottish singing star, who regularly performed at the Glasgow Alhambra in the 1930s.

 

[Drago]

The 1930's were notorious for being the decade that Hitler rose to power.

It was also the decade that Michael Barrymore threw his first pool party.

In many quarters these two facts are not viewed as coincidence.

 

[Chris S]

American women refer to their periods as 'full stops'.

 

[Drago]

American women are actually men in skirts. This is only discovered recently when Gwyneth Paltrow was spotted using a gents urinal standing up.

 

[PeteXXX]

Urinals were meant to be fitted horizontally, not vertically.
This made the game of Highest Up The Wall more challenging, and wetter.