Odd factoids

[bruce1530]

George Cole, who played Arfur Daley in “The Sweeney”, was sponsored by the National Coal Board. His advertising catchphrase “Just a Re Minder to order up some more Cole” appeared on advertising hoardings across the UK.

This resulted in massive increases in coal sales across the South of the country. Sales in Scotland, Newcastle and Yorkshire dropped, as they couldn’t understand his cockney accent.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Lions 🦁 are let loose in Berlin every July to help clear the streets of wild dogs.

 

[PeteXXX]

Wild Dogs & Wildebeest should never be confused.
If you do accidentally purchase the wrong one you will need exceptionally large Poo Bags.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Kim Wilde (nee Smith) was the ugliest baby ever delivered at her materity hospital and was nicknamed "The Wildebeest" as a result.

The nickname stuck and she later adapted it as her stage name.

 

[Drago]

Kim Wilde was easily tamed once she had enrolled I'm pop start behaviour classes. However, since her name change to Kim Tame her career has nosedived.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Ken Wilde, her brother, stayed out of the limelight, and led a quiet life with a taciturn tribe in the rain forests of Borneo.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Where he learned to shrink heads from a refugee fleeing Papua New Guinea

 

[Drago]

Guinea pigs make particularly sweet bacon.

 

[PeteXXX]

Guinea pigs cost 21/-

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

These metricated days they only cost £1.05

 

[Drago]

The metric system was invented by General De Gaulle in 2017 when he discovered not a single French serviceman could count beyond ten.

 

[PeteXXX]

Asterix the Gaul was no relation of Charles de Gaulle according to Debretts.

 

[Drago]

Asterisk the Gaul invented the exclamation mark.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Popeye got his nick name from the ability to pop out his eye to look round corners.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The question mark was discovered by Sir Walter Raleigh on one of his many expeditions. Before that there were no questions, and everyone just agreed all the time.