Untrue trivia

[VladimirIlyich]

12 minutes ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

Paul Newman's salad dressing was a front for funding the Sandinistas.

I imagine the price of the dressings guaranteed a win for his troops. AK47 and Cucumber dressing please love. 

[Trumo]

Cockney Rhyming Slang was the first language of the English monarchs up until Queen Victoria.

[Carvalho Diablo]

From Pistonbroke -

 

****True facts****
1. In the 1400s a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb.
Hence we have 'the rule of thumb.'
2. Many years ago in Scotland , a new game was invented. It was ruled 'Gentlemen Only...
Ladies Forbidden'... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
3. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David,
Hearts - Charlemagne,
Clubs -Alexander the Great,
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
4. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase......... 'goodnight, sleep tight.'
5. It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink.
Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the honeymoon.
6. Since 1966,England fans have said they are going to win the cup at the start of every football competition, hence the phrase ‘deluded twat’

[UnwelcomeinPeru]

There is no difference between a crocodile and an alligator, save that the former tends to be seen in a while, and the latter usually seen later. 

[Strontium]

2 minutes ago, UnwelcomeinPeru said:

There is no difference between a crocodile and an alligator, save that the former tends to be seen in a while, and the latter usually seen later. 

 

The gharial is being driven to extinction simply because punsters can't find an appropriate word to rhyme with it.

[Remmie]

I have heard some of this trivia before, therefore I doubt the untrue part

[Trumo]

If you're travelling in the open air at over 80mph and a fly smacks you in the middle of your forehead, it'll go right through...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...its own arse.

[Trumo]

The producers of Home And Away have managed to hoodwink viewers by airing the exact same episode every day since it started.

[Section_31]

The Beach Boys are from Chernobyl. 

[Trumo]

If you play Russia's national anthem backwards, you can hear 'The Star-Spangled Banner'.

[Trumo]

Steve Backley shaved his hair into a mohawk and bought some loud Hawaiian shirts, ready for his new career on the pro darts circuit. He lost his first match to Jan Zelezny.

[Em City]

Winston Churchill had a pet German Sherpard called Patches, but was advised by PR advisors to get rid of him due to the prevailing ant-German sentiment at the time.

[Trumo]

If you work at the Vatican, you are entitled to a free Subway sandwich anywhere in the world.

[YorkshireRed]

Rasputin was actually the world’s first vibrator. It’s true he/it was Russia’s greatest love machine, what’s not true is that he/it was a man of god. 
 

It’s definitely true, however, that rabbits are rampant. 

[Davelfc]

Bamboo grows so fast that if you planted bamboo as the Saturn V launched the mission to the moon and left it to grow, it would have grown long enough to have reached the moon's surface itself in 2021.

[alles ist gut]

19 minutes ago, Trumo said:

If you work at the Vatican, you are entitled to a free Subway sandwich anywhere in the world.

Oddly enough, the Vatican have not yet agreed to reciprocate with canonisation for Subway staff.

[Bjornebye]

Jim Davidson once did a show in Southend that was just him in silence picking his nose and eating it for an hour and a half. It got great reviews 

[Bruce Spanner]

All of this…

 

*gesticulates wildly at everything*

 

…Is a social construct and non, not a single fucking thing, is real.
 

 

[mattyq]

Frankie Goes to Hollywood are all actually from Hollywood and live in 4 terraced houses knocked together like The Beatles

[VladimirIlyich]

The Monkees were actually Simians and had to be shaved from head to toe before every public appearance.

[Remmie]

7 hours ago, Trumo said:

Steve Backley shaved his hair into a mohawk and bought some loud Hawaiian shirts, ready for his new career on the pro darts circuit. He lost his first match to Jan Zelezny.

Repped for 90's Javelin Knowledge

[DalyanPete]

On 22/06/2021 at 22:59, VladimirIlyich said:

The Jumbo Jet was thus named because it's first use was to stage a weight watchers meeting.

Receptionist got a stropp on with me in a Cardiff hotel when I suggested the weight watchers meeting sign that said "please use lift" should have said "please use stairs"

[DalyanPete]

Cristiano Ronaldo no longer buys toilet rolls. He consumes gold coloured wrapping paper and his waste is collected in little wrapped parcels. 

His staff store this at the correct temperature before being distributed to the poor.

This is now a recognised currency on the world market.

[alles ist gut]

Craptocurrency?

[YorkshireRed]

The GF was once a place inhabited by sexually experienced types with good taste in films and music.