Odd factoids

[PeteXXX]

Hinge & Bracket were Ant & Dec's parents.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

"Ant and Dec" were originally "Termite and Patio".

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Termite and Patio were originally known as Black and Decker

 

[PeteXXX]

Prior to joining forces with Dec, Ant was actually the singer Adam Ant!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Dec used to be the stunt double for Michael J Fox.

 

[bruce1530]

Michael J Fox is not really a fox. However he was the original puppeteer for Basil Brush, which is how he gained the “Fox” nickname.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

The "J" in Michael J Fox is for Jupiter; he hails from a family of committed pagans who worship the Roman Gods.

Indeed, "Michael Fox" is but a stage name, "Mercury Jupiter Faunus" being his original birth names.

 

[bruce1530]

Michael J Fox's mum, Mrs Fox, was Corporal Jones's love interest in "Dad's Army", a true-life documentary about a crack military unit in the second world war.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Dads Army are an elite squad, feared by the SAS. The apparent incompetence is just a ruse to fool the enemy.

 

[raleighnut]

Dads Army are an elite squad, feared by the SAS. The apparent incompetence is just a ruse to fool the enemy.

Don't tell em Pike

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Don't tell em Pike

There is only one organisation that is more feared by everyone than anything else, feared by even the SAS, the SBS, MI6, Navy Seals, the CIA, KGB...




... The Girl Guides!

Don't let all the Coffee Mornings and so on fool you - Whoever gives a Guide a Hockey Stick is staring death right in the face, mark my words!

 

[bruce1530]

The pilot episode of Dad’s Army featured Richard Attenborough as Captain Mainwaring, Sean Connery as Sgt Wilson, Spencer Tracy as Jonesey, Tom Hanks as Pike and Frank Sinatra as Walker.

 

[PeteXXX]

By the third episode, Pike had told everyone his name..

 

[PeteXXX]

 

[roubaixtuesday]

The Pikemen of Agincourt are credited with transforming medieval warfare tactics, but the reality is quite different.

Their tactic was to mock and enrage the French by waving fish at them, thus provoking them to attack unwisely. They were named after their fishy military strategy.

The same tactics are used by Grimsby Town fans, though with rather less success.