Odd factoids

[Drago]

Henry Ford liked marmite. However, he was very badly dyslexic and when he wrote his shipping list for his butler he accidently wrote 'antisemite'.

The butler did as he was bidden and brought home Adolf Hitler to meet his master.

 

[bruce1530]

"Top Car" was an American animated cartoon produced by Hannah-Barbera in the 1960s, which is still occasionally repeated on BBC2 and Boomerang.

In the UK, the name "Top Car" was already used for another product, so the show was re-titled "Boss Car".

 

[roubaixtuesday]

As well as his mainstream career, Alan Rickman was the all time biggest grossing porn actor, going by the name "Dick Dastardly "

 

[Drago]

Dick Dastardly was in fact a very very nice man, who went on to start in several adverts for the AA.

 

[bruce1530]

Dick Dastardly, being an Alcoholic, was the perfect candidate to advertise for the AA. However, he shouldn't have been driving, and latterly left that to Muttley.

 

[srj10]

Swiss warbler Celine Dion wrote the lyrics to Old McDonald after singing the vowels in her name whilst in the shower.

 

[Drago]

Celine Dion was a qualified engineer working in car suspension systems in her younger days.

Back then she had a bad stammer, so De Dion suspension was named in her honour.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

The Alps are famous for the "Berni Inn" steakhouse chain, an amalgamation of "Bernese Oberland" and "Innsbruck", from West to East across the high Alps.

The chain exited the UK in 1995 after the owners realised following a site visit to the Spalding branch that the manager's claim to enjoy a "commanding view across the glaciers of Lincolnshire" was an embellishment of the reality of their situation - alongside a trunk road and a Q8 petrol station.

 

[bruce1530]

"Berni Inn" steakhouses were originally advertised by Bernie Winters, Bernard Cribbins, and Bernard Manning. To introduce gender diversity, later campaigns were spearheaded by Bernie Nolan

 

[Drago]

Bernie Winters dog, Schorbitz, was in fact a blow dried kitten.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

"Richard the Lionheart" was an invention of William Shakespeare; his actual nickname was "Dick the Pussy" for reasons alas unable to pass the CycleChat filter.

 

[Drago]

Dick the Pussy had a brief but torrid affair with Fanny Bacon, thus giving schoolchildren something to snigger at for centuries to come.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

The little known font, "Serif of Nottingham" was designed by Robin Hood.

 

[bruce1530]

Robin Hood travelled around the forest not, as is commonly assumed, on foot or horseback, but in a Reliant Robin.

 

[Drago]

The Reliant Robin sold a lot better than the Reliant Thrush.