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bruce1530

Guru
Location
Ayrshire
After Tim Curry invented Curry, he went into business with his twin brother John Curry, who was 10 years his elder. John Curry had previously been a champion ice skater, but had to give it up after his curry-induced hot farts caused the first recorded instance of global warming, completely melting a number of ice-skating arenas.
 

Drago

Legendary Member
Christopher Dean had an affair with Jane Torvil's grandma, Pearl. He indulged in this piece of near necrophilia in order to persuade her to invest in his cinema advertising company, and thus Pearl and Dean was born.

Pearl was a singer, and had made a lot of money in her younger days with her bestselling 78, "I Fancy my Grandaughters Boyfriends."
 

Tribansman

Veteran
In a civil ceremony led by Salmon Rushdie. Nicola Sturgeon was the maid of honour and gave a barnstorming speech comparing the couple's tempestuous but resilient relationship with Scotland's fishing industry since Brexit.
 
Marmite and SPAM designers were 2nd and 3rd respectively in a recent Green Awards Initiative, for finding a profitable use for what was previously a waste product. SPAM gained additional points for their cross industry work in assisting with the promotion of squishing the waste into burgers and marketing it as a food product.

The winner was Quorn, for their ingenuity when faced with the potential disaster of the animal feed companies rejecting their product, by marketing it as green hippy food.
 

Drago

Legendary Member
Quorn stands for Queasy-Making Unedible Obnoxious and Rarely Nutritious.
 

roubaixtuesday

self serving virtue signaller
The root of hippy is due to their hair resembling the mane of a horse and comes from the Greek for horse, the same root that gives rise to hippopotamus, the "water horse".

The "hippocratic oath" modern doctors take has the same root, but was nothing to do with medicine in ancient Greece. It was instead part of the initiation ceremony of a bestial sect of nymphomaniacs who swore only to have intimate relations with horses, and refuse their husbands. As can be imagined, medical attention was frequently necessary, hence the modern link to medical ethics.
 

PeteXXX

Cake or ice cream? The choice is endless ...
Location
Hamtun
The root of hippy is due to their hair resembling the mane of a horse and comes from the Greek for horse, the same root that gives rise to hippopotamus, the "water horse".

The "hippocratic oath" modern doctors take has the same root, but was nothing to do with medicine in ancient Greece. It was instead part of the initiation ceremony of a bestial sect of nymphomaniacs who swore only to have intimate relations with horses, and refuse their husbands. As can be imagined, medical attention was frequently necessary, hence the modern link to medical ethics.
The mention of hippies has given the opportunity to give an old joke an unwelcome airing....

What do you do with a spaceman?

Park your car in it, man...
 

Drago

Legendary Member
The hippocratic oath can also trace its roots back to post war american policing, a time when officers had the take the oath to beat the crap out of hippies. It became onown in popular lore as the hippie-crap oath, and eventually rhe hippocratic oath.

Beatniks were simply hippies who had cut their hair a little and grown poncey jazz-club type beards to try and disguise their true nature, but rhe police quickly saw through thisnruse and used to beat them up then nick them, or beat-nick them.
 
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