Odd factoids
- Thread starter Blue Hills
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Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Agent Smith was play by Mel Smith from Not the Nine O’Clock news
17, but that might not be true...
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Screw Fix direct was an online dating service, but branched out into DIY during covid.
Threevok
Growing old disgracefully
- Location
- South Wales
Toolstation started out at Scotland Yard
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Scotland Yard have a bagpipe school and haggis cookery school
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Bagpuss married some bagpipes. The kittens were horribly deformed and had to be euthanised.
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
Bagpuss hated Roobard and Custard.
Threevok
Growing old disgracefully
- Location
- South Wales
80's croner Jimmy Summerville started his music career as one of the mice on the mouse-organ.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Jimmy Summerville was born in a summer house.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
February was deliberately invented to be only 28 days long in order to reduce the opportunities for the french fishermen to strike.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
February only had 28 days to ensure winter ends earlier
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Winter was invented by the National Coal Board in 1952 in order to boost coal sales.
