Odd factoids

[roubaixtuesday]

When the death penalty was still in place, murderers were kept on death row, but nonces sentenced to the ultimate punishment were kept separately, for their own safety.

Because they liked to dress well, the holding area for these condemned nonces was known as "Savile Row"

[is this tasteless enough yet?]

 

[Drago]

Enterprising prison governers have been known to present their premises as private achools and take on paying scholars. The more austere the prison, the more prestigious it can present itself as a centre of scholarly excellence. In the last centure 4 British prime ministers were inmates at Wormwood Scrubs, AKA Stowe.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Paul Gambaccini's biography claims he studied at the Ivy League Dartmouth College. In reality he was incarcerated at HMP Dartmoor for crimes against Easy Listening.

 

[Tribansman]

Her Majesty's Pembroke corgis are called Dartmoor and Belmarsh

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Her majesty's Corgis are actually toy dogs that run on wheels.

They only branched out into toy cars later, but always retained an interest in animals.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

A Noddy Holder is what carpenters use to safely carry planks of wood when ascending scaffolding

 

[Drago]

Karen Carpenter was in fact a carpenter. She fervently believed that she was the reincarnation of Jesus.

 

[PeteXXX]

Rein Carnation was the original name for evaporated milk.

 

[Drago]

Carnation milk is actually horse semen.

 

[Tribansman]

David Seaman never kept a clean sheet in his career

 

[Drago]

David Seaman was born David Clittoris. He changed his name by deed poll because he was fed up of the mickey taking.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

When David Clittoris was a boy he once ran away from home.

All the men in the area went out on a search party but not one of the dozens of them could locate him.

 

[Drago]

Men were invented by women to give them someone to blame for everything. The first "men" were nothing more than women with rolled up socks shoved down their trousers, but advancements in genetic editing techniques created the modern man.

 

[Tribansman]

Breakthrough genetic editing technique CRISPR was named after the two lead scientists' favourite way of relaxing: sitting in cafeterias observing the potato snacks in their natural habitats. They'd then take it in turns to try and disprove their theories - they later described this 'crunch time' as pivotal in the discovery of their Nobel award winning development

 

[Drago]

Scientists were nothing more than newly qualified priests who were too eccentric, scruffy, and good at maths to join the clergy.