Odd factoids

[slow scot]

Mario's Mummy had an affair with a giant mushroom. Luigi is the result of this bizarre coupling.

I though she’d been involved with a toadstool!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Space invaders was a secret US government training program to recruit the best defence Earth could mount against the Martians.

 

[Tribansman]

However the martians still had the attacking edge and overwhelmed Earthlings FC in the Inner Solar System Cup semi final in 2001. In a specially constructed stadium with integrated gravity on the moon, Matt Damon put in an out of this word performance, including a hat-trick and two assists in the Marsmen's 5-1 demolition. Despite a record attendance of 28,964, the ground had terrible acoustics and no atmosphere.

He continued his scoring run in the final but the Martians eventually lost out to Phil Neville's well-drilled Venusiettes in a hothouse atmosphere at the Venus de Milo Arena in the planets capital

 

[bruce1530]

However, one of the Martian team, Martian Peters, claimed asylum and remained on earth after the game, and was eventually naturalised. Due to his knowledge and experience of time travel, he was therefore able to subsequently play for the England team in the World Cup, several decades earlier.

The Martian team did not realise that Martian Peters had been left behind, as several earthlings, including Martian Clunes, Martian Luther King and Guy Martian had all stowed away on the returning space ship.

 

[PeteXXX]

The reason that they remained unnoticed was the overuse of Columbian Martian Powder by those guarding the spaceship.

 

[Drago]

Sherbert Dib Dabs, AKA columbian marching powder, are a gateway sweet for children. They usually start with 3 or 4 lines a day, and by the time they are 10 they have a raging Werthers Originals babit.

 

[Chris S]

Black Sabbath were originally called Black Friday and then Black Saturday before they settled on their final name.

 

[Drago]

Due to various personnel changes across the years Black Sabbath are now all white.

 

[PeteXXX]

I saw Black Sabbath live at the Black Prince when they were first becoming famous.
500 kids crammed into a hall that was probably licensed to hold 100 😂

Apologies, this is a true factoid!

 

[PeteXXX]

Due to the changes with the Gregorian Calendar and the BLM campaign, Black Sabbath are now known as the Happy Mondays

 

[Threevok]

Happy Mondays' front-man Shaun Ryder was actually Peter Beardsley.

A persona he took on out of season, when he wasn't so busy

 

[Drago]

The Happy Mondays were an interesting bamd, bevaide they were formed in a Wednesday and were always miserable.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

The saying 'Wednesdays child is full of woe' simply refers to an old English poem that was used to make people believe that a child that is born on a Wednesday will have a life full of bad luck and trouble. Cream used that line in one of their songs. If it wasn't for bad luck they'd have no luck at all.

 

[Tribansman]

Sheffield Wednesday's well publicised struggles on the pitch in recent years is almost certainly due to the little-known fact that their current owners introduced the transfer policy of only recruiting players that were born on a Wednesday.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Omicron is Greek for cheer leader time. This is what Chris Whitby is so worried about. Cheer leaders are way outside his comfort zone.