Odd factoids

[Ming the Merciless]

The carpenters of Agincourt were responsible for making the bows. But they made them from carp scales after a misunderstanding, and they were utterly useless. The carp enters being a bunch of sexually deviant fishermen.

 

[Drago]

Karen Carpenter was born in the Midlands. Following her death her hometown was renamed Nuneaton in her honour.

 

[Cathryn]

Catherine Howard was Anne Boleyn's cousin!! This blew my class's mind today...why would you marry the bloke who chopped your cousin's head off a few years ago???

 

[Rocky]

Catherine Howard was Anne Boleyn's cousin!! This blew my class's mind today...why would you marry the bloke who chopped your cousin's head off a few years ago???

When I was 18, my cousin ran me over in his car. At the time, I’d have happily seen him guillotined.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Henry V111 secretly used to don the black hood and do his own wives in so the executioners could have the afternoon off. He was a deeply philanthropic chap in reality.

 

[Drago]

Henry VIII was only 8 inches tall, hence the name. Strangely, he was of normal width.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Catherine Howard is the great great great great great great great great great grandmother of Frankie Howard

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Ann was from Cheshire and used to sing naked in the river - hence her nickname, Ann Bollin.

 

[Drago]

Anne Bollin liked a good bunk up, and her boufriend would tell their friends they were off Anne-ballin'.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Frankie Howard was a bin man who, by extraordinary coincidence, lived next to Frankie Howerd, the famous performer.

 

[PeteXXX]

I attended the same school as Frankie Howerd... Apologies, wrong thread as this is true 😁

 

[PeteXXX]

My old man wasn't a dustman. Neither did he wear a dustman's hat.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

@PeteXXX is the illegitimate daughter of Frankie Howard and Frankie Howerd. The XXX represents her chromosome mix.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I attended the same school as Frankie Howerd... Apologies, wrong thread as this is true 😁

Everything on this thread is true

 

[Drago]

PeteXXX is Xander Cage.