Odd factoids

[Drago]

Ken Dodd is the Father of Ken Barlow.

After his Fathers court casefor tax avoision he was so ashamed that when he married his latest squeeze, Thelma Barlow, he instead took her name.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

The squeeze box was invented by a randy cricketer.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Ken Barlow is the father in law of Barbie.

 

[Drago]

Barbie was thus named because she was conceived on a barbecue in australia.

 

[Seevio]

In 1978, Barry Manilow was stranded at sea for 5 months after trying to find a beach in Rio de Janeiro which he thought was somewhere north of Cuba. He later wrote about the events in the song Copacabana.

 

[Drago]

The Copacabana was named after a short lived Cadbury's chocolate bar.

 

[NorthernDave]

Strictly Come Dancing presenter Tess Daly was briefly betrothed to Big Brother contestant Jon Tickle, but he broke off the engagement when she refused to take his name.

 

[Drago]

Jon Tickle, AKA Mr Tickle, was the inspiration behind the Mr Men character. Fortunately, the sexual groping allegations were not mentioned in the shows that Arthur Lowe narrated.

Tess Daly is the grandmother of Arthur Daley, who is himself the illegitimate son of Terry McCann and Dave from the Winchester club.

 

[Craig the cyclist]

The word 'internet' isn't mentioned at all in the Bible, nor is 'Town Hall'.

Fish is in a couple of times though.

 

[raleighnut]

Jon Tickle, AKA Mr Tickle, was the inspiration behind the Mr Men character. Fortunately, the sexual groping allegations were not mentioned in the shows that Arthur Lowe narrated.

Tess Daly is the grandmother of Arthur Daley, who is himself the illegitimate son of Terry McCann and Dave from the Winchester club.

Not the famous Norton tuner then

http://www.armstrongsaquatics.com/JOHNTICKLEMANX.html

 

[Drago]

Thankfully, no. Tickling a Norton would earn an automatic 6 mo ths in prison, right up until the 1970's.

 

[PeteXXX]

Chipping Norton is twinned with Sodding Chipbury, Gloucestershire.

Both have excellent fish & chip shops.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Chippr is an Internet dating app for carpenters.

 

[PeteXXX]

People who work in the grinding shop already have an App. Some even use it!

 

[Drago]

Grinder started out as an app offering support for thosemwith angle geinding injuries and amputations. For some strange reasons, people thus afflicted overwhelmingly prefer the same sex, and thus it quickly mutated into a gay shagging app.