Odd factoids

[PeteXXX]

Ford's logo for the Petrel car included the words 'Egrets, we had a few'

 

[Drago]

The Ford Siesta breaks down after lunch every day for about an hour.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Ford's logo for the Petrel car included the words 'Egrets, we had a few'

However it was an Albatross round their neck for sometime as the British Eagle company laughed at their efforts.

 

[Drago]

The song Albatross, by Fleetwood Mac, was about Mick Fleetwood's hobby of endangered bird hunting.

 

[raleighnut]

The song Albatross, by Fleetwood Mac, was about Mick Fleetwood's hobby of endangered bird hunting.

The Fleetwood Mac song "Rattlesnake Shake" is really about Mick having a 'J Arthur'. strange but true.

"I got this friend, his name is Mick
now he don't care if he ain't got no chick
he does the shake
the Rattlesnake shake"

 

[Tribansman]

The Chain was an homage to Mick's deviant side...according to Rumours at the time

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Fleetwood Mac were named after a burger enjoyed at Fleetwood services in 1962.

 

[Drago]

1962 was the year that Adolf Hitler first grew a moustache for Movember.

 

[bruce1530]

Hitler jokes are banned in Germany, as the Germans find them inführerating.

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[Drago]

Germany has been banned from all future wars for unsporting behaviour.

 

[PeteXXX]

'War... What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!'
Lord Haw-Haw: 1941

 

[Drago]

Lord Haw-Haw invented the see saw in 1911. He was executed by the British in 1992 as punishment for making playtime fun.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The Polish built a massive see saw to launch children behind enemy lines. It became known as Warsaw.

 

[Drago]

Warsaw is in the West Midlands.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Lech Wałęsa became leader of the West Midlands council during the people’s popular front uprising of the 1990s.