Odd factoids

[simongt]

The 999 emergency number wasn't established until 1937 after the murder of a police constable and the local post office employee demanding payment for the call for help of the messenger.

 

[bruce1530]

The first police Special Constable was John Constable, the artist, who's most famous works include The "Haywain", "Wivenhoe Park", and "My Panda Car in front of the Police Station".
Constable gained favour with his Chief Inspector by sketching humorous caricatures of other senior officers, and as a tribute the basic rank in the force was renamed "Constable". The previous term, "Common or garden plod" is no longer used.

 

[Drago]

Panda cars had upholstry made from real pandas. It did not stand for Patrol And Neighbourhood Deployment Area as Dixon of Dock Green claimed.

 

[bruce1530]

Dixon of Dock Green, far from being a model copper, was actually a master criminal. One night, when on routine patrol, he stumbled upon a group of bad lads, robbing an electrical warehouse. The heroic Dixon chased them away, armed only with his police whistle.

Subsequently he found himself alone in the warehouse, with a hundred colour tellies and an assortment of washing machines, hoovers and small appliances. He loaded them into his panda car, claiming that they were "evidence".

They were never seen again, however the electrical superstore "Dixons" opened the following week, selling colour tellies, washing machines, hoovers and small appliances.

 

[Drago]

The metal copper is nothing more than gold that was left out on the side in the kitchen and went off.

 

[PeteXXX]

Doc Green was the last real doctor in the NHS

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Doctor Doolittle did fark all, and claimed all the credit.

 

[Drago]

The Doolittle raid of 1942 was a mission to bomb Japan with talking animals.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Wiley Coyote was chief explosives officer for the crack squad.

 

[Drago]

Crack Cocaine is cochineal snorted from a porn stars bum crack. If you're really lucky it'll be a female porn star.

 

[bruce1530]

Builder’s Bums were invented by Sir Christopher Wren during the construction of Westminster Abbey.
They quickly became very popular in the building trade, and are now mandatory on building sites

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Birmingham is pronounced buminhem in the local dialect

 

[Drago]

Birmingham is the ancient capital of Wales. Even to the Welsh the accent and road names were indecipherable so they arranged for the area to be annexed as part of Scotland following the 1912 General election win of the George Formby government.

 

[bruce1530]

The quaint village of Birmingham, in the midlands of Englandshire, was named after the ancient city of Birmingham in Alabama.

 

[ExBrit]

Alabama spelled backwards is a homophone of A Ma Baller. Seems appropriate.