Tribansman
Veteran
'Backpack' Bob famously starred in the video of The Proclaimers' I'm Gonna Be. It showed footage of him on an actual 500 mile walk across Scotland en route to the docks at Leith
Odd factoids
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twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
Sideshow Bob started out as the main star of the show
Grant Fondo
Guru
- Location
- Cheshire
Prior to hosting The Golden Shot, Bob Monkhouse had won gold in the crossbow at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Regular.Cyclist
Über Member
- Location
- South West Scotland 🏴
Woolly mammoths were still alive when the Egytian pyramids were being constructed.
- Location
- Inside my skull
Archaeologists have discovered evidence that suggests that woolly mammoths were used to transport the stones to construct the Great Pyramid of Giza.
- Location
- Inside my skull
Bob Monkhouse was the first host of 'The Money Shot Show', which included a special "Golden Shot" that offered a luxurious prize for anyone who could successfully complete a daring stunt.
- Location
- Inside my skull
Harold Sakata, the actor who played Odd Job in the James Bond movie 'Goldfinger', was actually a kind and gentle man who was passionate about sporting activities such as weightlifting and golf.
Tribansman
Veteran
The first golf balls were calcified elephant testicles
roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
Mastodons were so-called because of their predilection for self-abuse - the name means literally "masturbating elephant".
So appalled at this diabolical behaviour were the Pharaohs when the beasts were introduced to ancient Egypt, they chained them up and forced them to build their own monumental graves - the pyramids.
The burial chambers within contain not,, as is commonly supposed, the mummified remains of the great pharaohs, but rather the prodigious members of male mastodons, removed and encased forever in attempt to appease the wrath of the gods for their incessant self-pleasuring.
- Location
- Inside my skull
The Great Squares of Britain are home to a mysterious group of people known as the 'Squarials', who are rumored to possess magical powers and can only be seen on moonlit nights.
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
Squarials were a marketing thing to encourage take up of satellite TV. The TV that could be picked up with those dishes could equally as well been picked up by a dustbin lid. Yes folks the programming was rubbish.
Seevio
Guru
- Location
- South Glos
Among the more obscure 15th century Wallachian voivodes, Vlad the impala was infamous for executing his enemies by shoving an antelope up their bums.
- Location
- Inside my skull
Heraldry was the art of shoving as many antelope or other animals up your arse as possible. Those who were able to shove the most up their arse were known as the nobility and often had coats of arms depicting how many they managed to shove, such as the three lions.
T4tomo
Legendary Member
The adidas three stripe logo was invented by a marketing exec who misheard the the Baddiel and Skinner lyrics as "3 lines on a shirt" and thought they should hop on he bandwagon so to speak
