Odd factoids

[Grant Fondo]

Zippy's pal Bungle was originally played by Sammy Hagar prior to joining Montrose in 1973.

 

[T4tomo]

Pink is a big fan of Prog rock and wanted King Crimson as a support act, but they refused as they thought their styles would clash..

 

[classic33]

Zippy earned his nickname by never doing his flies up properly.

Buttons get his for similar reasons?

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Buttons get his for similar reasons?

Chocolate Buttons got the name from Mr Cadbury putting his pants on backwards

 

[PeteXXX]

'Choccy' was Jenson Button's nickname.

 

[welsh dragon]

On average slow worms live to be 30 years old. The oldest was 50 years old.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Fast worms live fast and die young.

 

[PeteXXX]

The easy way to tell one end of a worm from the other is to put it in a bowl of flour and wait for it to frat.

I know this falls down once you realise it could be a sneeze, but let's not bother with that little factlet!!

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

A worm screw is an engineering marvel. Oh wait I'm supposed to tell a fib...............

 

[roubaixtuesday]

The "Worms Crew" refers to the colonies of deadly steel-eating spider mites that race worms, riding them in the dead of night.

The famous Victorian engineer Englebert Kingdom Brouhaha trained the vicious blighters to eat in a spiral, creating the "Worms Crew" device, later misunderstood as the homophone "Worm Screw".

 

[Ming the Merciless]

A worm screw is an engineering marvel. Oh wait I'm supposed to tell a fib...............

If you add plastic into this, it’ll fit right in.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Worm holes are made via worm screws and enable vast distances in 3 dimensional space to be made in seconds.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Medieval artists knew all about 3 dimensions, but stuck to 2D to save on paint.

 

[PeteXXX]

When I were a lad 2d would buy me four ha'penny chews.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

When I were a lad 2d would buy me four ha'penny chews.

Corr grandad - you must be really, really young. I got 8 farthing chews for 2d in the good old days