Odd factoids

[Ming the Merciless]

The Plebs opened a sofa shop in Nuneaton.

 

[PeteXXX]

Nuneaton was actually named after a posse of of nuns got frisky with a family of cannibals.

 

[Drago]

The Fine Young Cannibals were misleadingly named.

Whike they were indeed cannibals, Roland Gift was 82 when the band was formed.

 

[srj10]

Mozart's first concerto was titled The Apartment and was played in A Flat.

 

[Drago]

Mozart was born in a flat, which is today used as a knocking shop catering to North Korean diplomats.

 

[PeteXXX]

Diplomats are what diplodocus' wipe their feet on

 

[Drago]

Dinosaurs weren't wiped out. They were simply cancelled for refused to accept trans folk in women's toilets.

 

[PeteXXX]

When I was young, I used to play Radio Caroline on a tranny.

Oops.. That's actually true 😂

 

[bruce1530]

The first DJ on Radio Caroline was Caroline Aherne. The next shift was hosted by Princess Caroline of Monaco.

Radio Caroline was part of "Girl's Name radio" group. Its sister station, Radio Betty, broadcast from a barge moored off the Lancashire coast, with shows hosted by Betty Grable, Betty Boothroyd, and Betty Turpin from Coronation St.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

It was Michael Crawford's lifelong wish to be a pirate DJ, hence his character Frank Spencer's constant exclamations of Ooh Betty.

 

[Drago]

Betty Boothroyd was the illegitimate son of Prunella Scales and Brian Blessed.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Betty Boothroyd was the love child of Betty Boo and Roy Castle.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Roy Castle's real name was Herstmonceux Del Rey.

 

[bruce1530]

Roy Castle was the least famous of his siblings. His two brothers, Windsor and Edinburgh, were so well regarded that large stone buildings were named after them.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

The family no longer talks about the youngest brother Sandy, who was lost on Blackpool beach