Odd factoids

[PeteXXX]

Since 1960 the official calculation of inflation has been measured in how many chews could be bought for 20/- and if you still had enough for a bag of chips.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Clive Dunn's 70's hit 'Grandad' was a tribute to his own grandfather who was 68 at the time. Clever makeup made the 23 year old Clive seem much older.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Clocks were fastened to churches to help the messiah in response to the prayer 'Jesus, just look at the time'.

 

[Chris S]

Simon Le Bon took his wife's surname.

 

[PeteXXX]

Simon's musical career started when he me his wife, saying wherever bongos, I go.. 🥁

 

[bruce1530]

Simon Le Bon's sister, Kay, played accordion in a Scottish Dance Band.

(if you're not from my part of the world, you probably won't get the joke...

 

[Bonefish Blues]

The Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony is the most powerful ever illustration of Randomness Theory

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Applying Randomness Theory to Mrs 26's behaviour still leaves me puzzled.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

They chose the name SKY for the media company, as once you'd paid the earth for your subscription, it's all you have left.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The blue sky thinking club died out the first day it rained and they all got hypothermia

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Hypochondria is the technical name for people that don't have an adequate level of small circular chromosomes in their DNA.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Scientists say that a very large fraction of the human genome is made up of Junk DNA. I know some individuals whose whole genome is junk DNA.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Genomes are the official investigators for the little garden people.

 

[PeteXXX]

In France, genomes cannot become gendarmes as they're too short.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Metronomes hang about in the Paris underground