Odd factoids

[roubaixtuesday]

Elon Musk is now famous as a billionaire tech entrepreneur and complete git.

But his first break was in groceries, through his invention of Muskovado sugar.

 

[bruce1530]

When a child, Elon Musk was known to his friends as "Muskie", and was bets pals with Deputy Dawg.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Horse racing was the first sport to be created to get around criticism from the PC brigade. Originally it was a form of wrestling where dwarfs were challenged to pull a horses head off.

 

[Drago]

Early in on the sport the winning Dwarf could make good money selling the horses heads to Mafia families. Sadly, this all ended when Don Accy 'The Dandy' decided it was cheaper, easier, and frankly scarier to chop off the Dwarf's head and use those instead.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

"Dwarf's Head" refers to a sexual practice common in mediaeval Spain. Banned by the Catholic Church the Inquisition eradicated it by the use of their special "cunning linguistics" interrogation technique...

 

[Drago]

Mediaeval Spain is very much like modern Spain.

There is very little difference, other than in modern Spain they have regressed quite badly and have taken to driving SEATs to get around, instead of the faster, more reliable, more environmentally sound method of employing peasants to give them a piggy back.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Midi Evil Spain is the centre where that Inquisition got started.

 

[Drago]

The Spanish inquisition is actually from Austria. It overstayed its visa, and the toothless government are loathe to try and deport it.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Nobody expects ….. oh never mind

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The Spanish Galician was a Portuguese Turnip that wrote rhymes by the sea around AD 700.

 

[Drago]

Turnips are nothing more than fossilised dog turd, and are thus a greatly sought delicacy in France.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

This has led to the famous French expression.

joie de la merde

 

[Drago]

The French language originally consisted of 155,000 different types of shrug and grunt.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The grunt or shrug is the practised French way of swallowing a snail that gets caught in the throat

 

[Punkawallah]

Apparently the moneyed classes are now indulging in the pastime of 'helli-dogging', where helicopters take the place of cars.