Odd factoids

[Drago]

Meals on Wheels were originally served on bicycle wheels instead of plates. The oxtail soup fiasco almost bankrupt the organisation.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Back in days of yore, the noblemen had all the best food, which left the off cuts and eyeballs for the peasants.

This meant that every bit of the carcass was valuable, including the bits trimmed off. Each day, the workers preparing the food would diligently clear any cuttings from the floor with a broom. and they'd draw lots to see who won them for tea.

This is the origins of the 'sweep steak' we know today.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Meals on Wheels were originally served on bicycle wheels instead of plates. The oxtail soup fiasco almost bankrupt the organisation.

And eating rice from them with chopsticks was the forerunner of the piano and also the harp.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Back in days of yore, the noblemen had all the best food, which left the off cuts and eyeballs for the peasants.

This meant that every bit of the carcass was valuable, including the bits trimmed off. Each day, the workers preparing the food would diligently clear any cuttings from the floor with a broom. and they'd draw lots to see who won them for tea.

This is the origins of the 'sweep steak' we know today.

...and 'get your arse over here sharpish', of course

 

[Drago]

Chopsticks are thus called as they are the favoured cutlery of sharia law shoplifters who've had the chop, a normal knife and fork being rather difficult to grip with a stump

 

[Tribansman]

'Rumpy stumpy' is the colloquial term for sexual intercourse involving the hard of hands

 

[PeteXXX]

If you see a shoplifter, in the middle east, with a row of stitches around his wrist, it means that he won the appeal.

 

[classic33]

It's impossible to sneeze in whilst asleep due to the brain shutting down the reflex.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

"The Reflex" was a classic bike from Dolan Dolan.

Why people didn't use it remains a mystery to this day.

 

[Drago]

Duran Duran changed their name to Durex Durex following their major sponsorship deal with the prophylactic manufacturer.

 

[Threevok]

Simon Le Bonn started life as a condom tester for Durex, but quit his job - when they asked him to work a week in hand

 

[Drago]

Durex was originally invented as a lightweight, disposable, compact rain hat. However, following the great Mars Bar shortage of 1422, and hence the shortage or Mars Bar wrappers, men started to use them as condoms.

 

[Threevok]

Durex was originally invented as a lightweight, disposable, compact rain hat. However, following the great Mars Bar shortage of 1422, and hence the shortage or Mars Bar wrappers, men started to use them as condoms.

Hence the work rest and play moto

 

[roubaixtuesday]

The RAF motto "per ardua ad astra" is widely, and wrongly, believed to mean "through adversity to the stars".

It was actually copied from a wall of a brothel in Pompeii and is an encouragement to the Roman gigolos: "Stardom through hard-ons"

 

[Threevok]

Before the invention of the airplane, the RAF were known as the RGF