Odd factoids

[PeteXXX]

Van Morrison once drove for the home delivery service for a supermarket.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Minnie Driver isn't part of that deranged family

 

[Tribansman]

But Bryan Ferry is a very distant half uncle by marriage

 

[PeteXXX]

Byron Ferry was a nautical poet.
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[twentysix by twentyfive]

Ferry Cross the Mersey never happened for Byron. He got stranded on the Wirral.

 

[srj10]

Inspired by his poems Byron's brother Calmac setup a sailing business around Scotland.

 

[Roseland triker]

You could earn up to £250 per day cutting cabbage

 

[Tribansman]

But only red cabbage as they're unionised

 

[srj10]

The Cabbagepatch Dolls are the most successful girl band in the history of pop music.

 

[Tribansman]

The cabbagepatch dolls' success was largely due to their ability to take wind instruments to a new level

 

[PeteXXX]

The Cabbagepatch Dolls first gig was in Brussels as warmup band for JJ Kale

 

[Tribansman]

Brussels' premier seafood restaurants both pay homage to the city's most famous son: the Mussels from Brussels and Jean Claude Van Clam make a Double Impact on Belgium's culinary scene.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

They keep those recipes to themselves tho'. Just shellfish

 

[PeteXXX]

Shellfish, contrary to popular belief, are not actually fired from guns!!

 

[Tribansman]

That's a load abalone. Colonel Shrimp was well known for unloading volleys of clam, limpet and shrimp on enemy territory.

In fact limpet was so named due to its uncanny knack of finding its way into the knee and hip joints of victims.