Odd factoids

[Threevok]

Adidas stands for "all droppings I discard around Shropshire"

 

[Drago]

And After Dinner I Dump In Shropshire.

The Poshshire tourist board were jolly upset by this and came up with DUNLOP - Don't Undertake Now Laying One in Poshshire. This seems to have worked, and us Poshshire residents are very analy retentive.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Laxatives are banned in Poshshire

 

[Chris S]

Russ Abott had a hit with the Joy Division song 'Atmosphere'.

 

[Chris S]

JC was once caught having his sausage warmed up by Diane Abbott (allegedly)

There's no allegedly about it, he flashed her naked body to his comrades. Very PC.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1...-abbott-love-affair-general-election-2019-spt

 

[Drago]

Jeremy Corbyn is from an old cockerney family. The family name was Corblimey, an old Jewish name. Upon starting his politcal career as a zampolit for the KGB it quickly became apprent that this was too kosher a name for a budding antisemite like him, so he Russocised it to Corbynski.

Comrade Cornbynski had been working as an adviser to the woosy lightweight Idiot Amin at Entebbe Airport, when he was lucky to escape with his life following the famous raid by the Sayeret Matkal. Now wanted by the Kidon, who never forgive or forget, Corbynski fled to the UK, wherehe anglicised his name to Corbyn and was hired as head of the labour party as a prank by Michael Foot.

 

[Tribansman]

Michael Foot was born Michael Feet. When his twin, Michelle, sadly passed away, he changed his name by deed poll.

 

[Drago]

Deed polls were originally called Indeedy Polls, named as they were by their inventor, Steve Wright.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Steve Wright can be inflated and used as a food defence in emergency.

 

[PeteXXX]

Steve Wright was incorrectly named when he took the DJ job on the BBC in 1963. He was actually the wrong person, not the right one!

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Steve Wright was for a while thought to be a doppelganger, but that title was removed when a small boy pointed out that he bore no resemblance to a DJ.

 

[Tribansman]

Famous DJ Fatboy Slim adopted his moniker to raise awareness of eating disorders in young men

 

[PeteXXX]

'Young man there's no need to feel down' was the provisional title for 'YMCA' by The Village People but it was considered too long a name to perform in Semaphore.
In fact, there was a 7th member, a vicar, who was waving his arms so fast that one actually flew off and he had to retire!

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Nelson never learned semaphore due to a misunderstanding at Naval college when he thought he was instructed to communicate only in metaphors during battle.

He was killed after issuing the famous order "Ethereal wraiths in the midwinter hearth!" which the Victory's powder- monkeys failed to interpret as "FIRE!"

 

[Drago]

Lord Nelson famously lost his arm in combat.

After that he was known as Half Nelson.