Odd factoids

[Ming the Merciless]

We also have Sex Bomb invented by Tom Jones of Pontypridd, Wales

 

[bruce1530]

The Harry Bomb was a particularly painful device - a thermal charge coated with sugar. When detonated, it dispersed molten sugar towards its victims, causing first degree burns.

After this lethal lava-like liquid cooled, it was found to be very chewy, and the HariBo was invented.

 

[Drago]

Harry Secombe was most unfortinately named, Secombe being welsh for semen.

Still, he had an easier time at school than Anthony Hopkins, Hopkins being welsh for "pleade flush my head down the toilet and steal my lunch money."

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Research has revealed that the Welsh language evolved due to Wales being the most dyslexic region on the planet.

This explains why, in an alphabet with no J or V, Evans and Jones are the most common names.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Evans and Jones were at the battle for Rouke’s Drift. Both served under Michael Caine. Evans later went on to open a bike shop. Jones went on to come up with the phonetic alphabet starting with Zulu.

 

[Threevok]

A Rouke’s Drift was required to remove the bearings from Cape of Good Hope hubs.

Unsurprisingly, Wiggle had no stock

 

[Drago]

The battle to stop Mickey Rourke drifting was successful, and he now enjoys a reborn film career.

 

[Drago]

Mickey Rourke is the Mother of Mickey Mouse.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Mickey Mouse was at the battle of Roukes Drift. He didn’t take part in the fighting. That would be silly.

 

[PeteXXX]

He actually piloted the steamboat that was attempting to save Micheal Caine and his cohorts.
Sadly, the nearest river was 259 miles away.

 

[Threevok]

The only genuine Welshman in the entire film, was the 896th Zulu from the left (Row 45) in scene 32

 

[ClichéGuevara]

The only genuine Welshman in the entire film, was the 896th Zulu from the left (Row 45) in scene 32

Boringly true fact, most of them weren't Welsh anyway. Even the ones from what we now called Wales, were from Monmouthshire, which wasn't part of Wales at that time. They only sung Men of Harlech as a desperate attempt to trick the Zulu's into believing that they needed to send their men back to protect the sheep.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

B company, 2nd Battalion, 24th Foot: later the South Wales Borderers and now the Royal Welsh are permitted to wear brown trousers on parade in honour of the men who fought at Rourke's Drift and who indeed were the first to sport such attire.

 

[Drago]

The 24th Foot were ironically named. They were a wheelchair mounted cavalry regiment, manned solely with landmine survivors from the infantry units.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The 56th armoured wheel chair division first saw action at the battle of Waterloo. They parachuted in from giant blimps.