Odd factoids

[david k]

Effectively no, if you think about it.

Thinking should be discouraged from factoid threads, it may lead to falsehoods rather than interesting factual data

 

[raleighnut]

Lord Sugar (formerly Siralan off The Apprentice) was originally called Alan Candarel but had to change his name for copyright reasons.

I thought it was Saccharine, another fake product just like anything Amstrad made.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I thought it was Saccharine, another fake product just like anything Amstrad made.

Well he wasn't/isn't very sweet.

 

[Threevok]

Lord Sugar has fled the UK, after being told that they were going to impose a tax on him

 

[Drago]

Tax was actually invented by a Labour government, as a means of controlling the amount of Che Guervara memorabilia in circulation.

 

[classic33]

It's a 500/1 bet that Alan Sugar will follow Donald Trump into politics(He copied the apprentice from him.), to become the British Prime Minister in 2020.

 

[NorthernDave]

Ever noticed that you never see Alan Sugar and Sid James together?
Or noticed that just as one of them disappeared from the public eye, the other one appeared..?

 

[NorthernDave]

The next series of The Apprentice will feature 30% less Alan to avoid the government sugar tax and allow it to be advertised before the watershed.

 

[Threevok]

Lord Sugar was originally married to Demerara and had two children - Tate and Lyle

 

[Drago]

The Tate gallery was founded by Kim Tate from Emmerdale.

 

[NorthernDave]

Barry Scott, of Cillit Bang fame, lives in Antarctica.

 

[bruce1530]

The Tate gallery was founded by Kim Tate from Emmerdale.

It was originally intended to display unusual farm products, and was to be called the Potato Gallery.

 

[Dave7]

The Liver building in Liverpool was named after the architect Fred Liver. The builder had a brother in law who was a scrap dealer and had bought a job lot of big decorative birds so he got them cheap and stuck them near the top using the 19thC equivilent of super glue.

 

[Drago]

Fred Liver's real name was Kidney Liver, but he changed his name after becoming a big fan of The Flintstones.

 

[bruce1530]

English band “The Farm” was formed by actors who had minor roles in ITV soap “Emmerdale Farm”. The band enjoyed success in the 1980s, performing under their original name “The Emmerdale Farm Hands”.

The band members then left Emmerdale Farm, and a legal battle ensued, with both parties claiming commercial rights to the name “Emmerdale Farm”. An out-of-court settlement was reached, with the band taking the name “The Farm” and the soap becoming simply “Emmerdale”.

In the original band lineup, Annie Sugden played piano.