Odd factoids

[bruce1530]

Talking of Boom bang a bang...

The 'B' side of Bump was Boom bang a bang..

An occasional foray into actually true factoids.
In the early days of Glasgow local radio station "Radio Clyde", they had a write-in contest.

...and today's write in question is an easy one - Who sang "Boom Bang a Bang" in the Eurovision Song Contest? Just write your answer on a postcard, or stamped addressed envelope, and send it to "Lulu Competition, Radio Clyde, Glasgow"

 

[Drago]

Glasgow is a hars place. Turn up there with an English accent, cigarette and an ivory holder, monocle and cravat and you're in for a kicking. Like the English they do not.

This is stange, as Glasgow it itself an ancient Gaelic word that means "us, the red headed Irn Bru drinking men in skirts, fancy the effeminate men that live south of the wall".

 

[Threevok]

The invention of the Kilt was a due to Scottish sheep having exceptionally good hearing - and thus could hear a zip fly a mile away

 

[Drago]

The sporran is traditionally made from a sheeps scrotum. The welsh equibalent is made from an entire, living sheep, but worn in the same way.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Talking of Boom bang a bang...

An occasional foray into actually true factoids.
In the early days of Glasgow local radio station "Radio Clyde", they had a write-in contest.

...and today's write in question is an easy one - Who sang "Boom Bang a Bang" in the Eurovision Song Contest? Just write your answer on a postcard, or stamped addressed envelope, and send it to "Lulu Competition, Radio Clyde, Glasgow"

Who was it, out of interest?

 

[Chris S]

Jack Osbourne's middle-name is 'Daniel'.

 

[Chris S]

The sporran is traditionally made from a sheeps scrotum. The welsh equibalent is made from an entire, living sheep, but worn in the same way.

The Welsh were the first to use a sheep's intestine as a condom. The English refined the concept by taking it out of the sheep first.

 

[Drago]

The "full english" breakfast is actually a Welsh delicacy. The name refers to eating an entire englishman,mpith helmet and all.

 

[Threevok]

True story : Whilst staying in a hotel in Scotland, I was asked "Do you want Full English or Full Scottish Breakfast ?"

When I asked the difference, the reply was "We don't spit in the Scottish one"

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The Full Scottish refers to sexual activity involving a kilt, a sporran, a haggis, whisky, bag pipes, a peat bog, and tossing a caber.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

The invention of the Kilt was a due to Scottish sheep having exceptionally good hearing - and thus could hear a zip fly a mile away

Nah - you got that wrong. It's the midges with excellent zip hearing

 

[Drago]

Cabers were originally wooden prosthetic penises for Scots warriors who had lost theirs fighting the English.

As lart of their rehabilitation they were shown how to "toss" the caber, and over the years this became a fertility ritual and latterly a sporting event.

 

[Chris S]

Lap dancers are so called because they originally came from Lapland.

 

[Drago]

As well as lap dancers, there were reindeer for every occasion. The lap Prancer was quite popular at barmitzvahs.

 

[PeteXXX]

'Prancer' was the name of the horse on the Ferrari badge because old chaps driving them are frequently hairdressers, particularly the convertibles.