Odd factoids

[Drago]

The original form of pilates involved practioners balancing on their piles, and not the big rubber ball used today.

 

[PeteXXX]

Feel pity for the rich, for they have piles of gold..

 

[Drago]

Gold was actually more common than iron. However, so much was used by the makers of Terrys All Gold chocolates that itmis now extremely rare and its valie has skyrocketed.

 

[bruce1530]

The Blue Peter dog “Goldie” was originally planned to be made of 24 carat gold. However, due to BBC budget cutbacks, it was made from lead and gold paint.

 

[Tribansman]

'24 carrot gold' was the marketing slogan of Mr Kipling's boxed carrot cake in the 80s. The baking leviathan was fined £20,000 and ordered to withdraw the product after a Trading Standards investigation found the 'carrot' in the cake was 2% carrot and 98% orange sawdust.

 

[Drago]

Mr Kipling, also known as Rudyard to his chums, would often write poetry during downtime in the bakery.

 

[Tribansman]

Rudyard Kipling's grandson wrote The Jungle Book 2, a wide-ranging guide to the jungle music scene in the 90s. Also a semi-professional DJ, he was known as Baloo on the rave circuit

 

[PeteXXX]

Baloo was once arrested for exposing his bear necessities..

 

[Drago]

Large, brawny gay men are often known as "bears". What is less widely known is that they are not men at all, and really are bears who get their jollies with a bit of cross species nookie. This is how Nookie Bear found himself in captivity with a gentlemans hand up his bottom,

 

[bruce1530]

Nookie Bear was so named because he was rather fond of Newcastle Brown Ale.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Newty Brown was a famous bear who like travelling on water as much as land.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Poo really is a bear

I've seen the filum

 

[matticus]

Rudyard Kipling's grandson wrote The Jungle Book 2, a wide-ranging guide to the jungle music scene in the 90s. Also a semi-professional DJ, he was known as Baloo on the rave circuit

If I ever become a Jungle DJ, I shall take the stage-name "Baloo". Because
- it sounds quite cool.
- in dumb magazine interviews, when asked why I chose it, i'd just answer deadpan: "You know, from the Jungle Book".
Which would be incredibly funny, and make me even cooler.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

If I ever become a Jungle DJ, I shall take the stage-name "Baloo". Because
- it sounds quite cool.
- in dumb magazine interviews, when asked why I chose it, i'd just answer deadpan: "You know, from the Jungle Book".
Which would be incredibly funny, and make me even cooler.

Ooooh - that is really really cool

 

[Threevok]

The 2021 version of Jungle Book is called Amazon Blog