Odd factoids

[Drago]

The new Tesla Cybertruck is nothing more than a DeLorean with the engine removed.

 

[Seevio]

Like the DeLorean in Back to the Future II, the Tesla Cybertruck can travel forward in time. Unlike the DeLorean, the Cybertruck can only go forward at a rate of 60 seconds per minute.

 

[PeteXXX]

The reason DeLoreans can only move at 60 second jerks into the future is so the RAC know where it will be when it broke down an hour ago.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Back to the future was filmed is 2078 when time travel was invented. It is also the year that the Vulcans made first contact with us after the first successful faster than light trip.

 

[Tribansman]

The Queen's first racehorse was nicknamed Diarrhoea by a young Prince Charles as it was a light bay mare that loved its morning runs and often had severe colic.

Despite this, Diarrhoea enjoyed a happy adolescence until it was humanely shot after being found in a compromising position with Prince Andrew

Edit: referring back to @bruce1530's diarrhoea post as didn't see the ones above as on the next page!

 

[Drago]

Prince Charles was named after King Charles, who was a spaniel.

 

[Tribansman]

Spandau Ballet were the first designer dog super group, named after a Spaniel-Dacshund and a Ballretriever-Whippet

Ironically, Martin Kemp loathed dogs and the band's hit The Boxer is a 4 minute 25 second polemic against the slobbering breed he most especially despised

 

[bruce1530]

Martian Kemp, lead singer of Spandau Ballet, was not a real Martian. He was born in London, only emigrating to Mars at the age of 3.

 

[PeteXXX]

Kemp Town is an area in the east of Brighton where the hit song "De Kemptown races sing dis song, doo dah doo dah" was composed. 🎶

 

[Tribansman]

Kemp Town is twinned with Ross on Wye, the latter being the only place outside the North East that regularly uses 'wye aye man' as an informal greeting

 

[bruce1530]

Wye is a type of bwead that Jonathan Woss wikes. He has produced a documentary on this, called Ross on Wye. or maybe Woss on Wye.

 

[Tribansman]

Jonathan Ross was the first ever 'fused baby'. Conjoined twins Jonathan and Ross were merged into a single child. His famous rhotacism developed as an unforeseen side effect of the groundbreaking procedure: 99% of his red blood cells turned white and it was later discovered that all his Rs had become Ws

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Jonathan Ross's R's is place few have ventured.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Jonathan Woss played Pontias Pilate in the Life of Bwian.

 

[Threevok]

Pontias Pilate invented Pilates - even Jesus had a go