Pop Myths then

[Greedo]

My 3 are:-

Bob Holness from Blockbusters played Sax on 'Baker Street'

Marc Almond OD'd in the 80's and had his stomach pumped and they found a pint of sperm in his stomach

Prince had ribs removed so he could suck his own kn0b!

What's your favourite?

 

[Sittingduck]

Marilyn Manson was in the Wonder Years

 

[longers]

That Elvis isn't dead.

 

[Yellow Fang]

That Captain Pugwash's crew were Master Bates, Seaman Staines and Roger the cabin boy. Is it certain this isn't true? I remember wondering at the time why one was a master and the other was a seaman. I want irrefutable proof.

 

[Rob S]

That Captain Pugwash's crew were Master Bates, Seaman Staines and Roger the cabin boy. Is it certain this isn't true? I remember wondering at the time why one was a master and the other was a seaman. I want irrefutable proof.

It was Tom the cabin boy and Master Mate. Don't remember seaman staines (or anyone like that name).

 

[4F]

That "The Cure" were good.

 

[Tim Bennet.]

U2 are the only thing standing between us and the end of life as we know it.

 

[Smokin Joe]

That Dave Dee was the first police officer on the scene after Harry Roberts killed three colleagues / The Great Train Robbery / The murder of Jack the Hat McVitie, or any other major event of the sixties.

 

[gavintc]

That Captain Pugwash's crew were Master Bates, Seaman Staines and Roger the cabin boy. Is it certain this isn't true? I remember wondering at the time why one was a master and the other was a seaman. I want irrefutable proof.

Even if not true, you should not let truth get in the way of a great story.

 

[Hover Fly]

"Roger the ship's boy" was in Swallows and Amazons.

 

[Hover Fly]

And "Master Bates" (Charley Bates) was in Oliver Twist.

 

[Night Train]

There was a thunderbirds episode where some bank robbers had broken into a safe and werewinching themselves along a line so as to not set off the alarms by touching the floor.
As they went past rows of numbered deposit boxes there was one numbered C11NT or CUN7 can't remember which but you know what I mean.

 

[Ghost Donkey]

That Captain Pugwash's crew were Master Bates, Seaman Staines and Roger the cabin boy. Is it certain this isn't true? I remember wondering at the time why one was a master and the other was a seaman. I want irrefutable proof.

I used to work with a camera man who claimed to have worked on captain pugwash (not the kind of bloke who bull*****ed or had any reason to) and he stated it was false.

 

[Noodley]

There was a thunderbirds episode where some bank robbers had broken into a safe and were winching themselves.

surely not

 

[Smokin Joe]

I used to work with a camera man who claimed to have worked on captain pugwash (not the kind of bloke who bull*****ed or had any reason to) and he stated it was false.

The creator successfully sued a newspaper for running the story.