Odd factoids

[Threevok]

Both McDonalds and Burger King deliberately employ people with small hands, to hold their products in TV adverts.

In fact, such modelling is quite a lucrative business (providing you don't get paid cash in hand) and many former models have gone on to bigger and better things - including becoming president of the United States.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Billy Fury's backing group, of which Georgie Fame was a member, were called "The Beat Boys". One afternoon they were sitting in their van felling bored when they decided to pass the time by lighting each others farts. The flames were coming out blue in colour because it was a cold day, and they were so amused by this they changed their name to "The Blue Flames"

Georgie Fame liked the name so much he used it for his own backing band when he later formed it.

 

[classic33]

Led Zeppelin
The phrase "lead balloon" has commonly been used to describe an ill-conceived idea, or one whose failure is both predictable and inevitable. The name then allegedly arose when Keith Moon, after being invited to drum for the band, thought the idea would go over like a "lead zeppelin".

Moon evidently modifying the common phrase after observing that zeppelin's were quite large. Reportedly Jimmy Paige liked the phrase so much, he took it for the band's name. The decision to misspell it was made because they thought Americans would be stupid enough to mispronounce the word "lead."

 

[Drago]

The awesome band Jethro Tull used to change their name after every few gigs so even if they got a bad reception they could go back and play the same venue again.

At one particular gig their roadie, who was studying agriculture at Uni, signed them up as Jethro Tull, and the name stuck.

Several hundred copies of their first single had a typo. As a result copies of Sunshine Day by Jethro Toe now change hands among collectors for hundreds of pounds.

The band still tours and records, albeit under Ian Anderson's own name. Anderson stated that he felt that he'd spent 40 years stood behind the real Jethro Tull at the cashpoint, helping himself to the guys money, and his conscience wouldn't allow him to do it any more.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Few people have ever heard of session drummer Clem Cattini, yet he payed on 43 number one singles.

 

[Drago]

Clem the gem - Oh aye, everyone's heard of him.

 

[classic33]

Fray Bentos was the Cuban leader of Ururuay after the revolution in the 1960's.

He had a town named in his honour.

 

[Tim Hall]

Few people have ever heard of session drummer Clem Cattini, yet he payed on 43 number one singles.

Wiki says 44. (goes off to count 'em)

 

[classic33]

Known as "the world's loneliest whale", the 52-hertz whale is a mysterious large cetacean who has never been seen, but who is identified by its strange call. Its voice is a much higher frequency (52 Hz) than whales similar call patterns like blue whales (10-39 Hz) and fin whales (20 Hz). It has been heard since the late 1980s, swimming up and down in the Pacific Ocean between the Kodiak Islands and California.

Source: Wikipedia

 

[NorthernDave]

The Hertz whale is a close relation of both the Avis whale and the Salford Van Hire whale.

 

[bruce1530]

Hertz Van Hire is a Dutch footballer. He has won 17 international caps for Holland.

 

[Fonze]

Chill has two capital cities ..

 

[classic33]

Hertz Van Hire is a Dutch footballer. He has won 17 international caps for Holland.

Hertz Van Rental, his grandfather, was force to leave Russia after the revolution.

 

[Dave7]

Few people have ever heard of session drummer Clem Cattini, yet he payed on 43 number one singles.

His brother was in Hothouse Flowers. His name was Clem-atis

 

[midlife]

Chill has two capital cities ..

And both are pretty laid back places