Grim O'Grady Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 Kirkpatrick Macmillan the blacksmith's youngest child had epilepsy & had to wear one of those protective head guards, so his child wouldn't look out of place round the streets of Keir D&G he had to invent the bicycle. Grimbo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ya Bezzer! Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 A prison survey carried out in 2005 found the favourite crisp like snack of convicted murders was Cheesy Wotsits. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 1/10 people do not like gang rape. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 Herve Villechaize (the actor who played Nick Nack in The Man With The Golden Gun) hanged himself from a door handle. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 Airdrie is the Gaelic word for an enema tube. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fae_the_'briggs Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 (edited) The reason behind the way a dartboard is numbered has prompted many theories but until 1910 the numbering on the boards was not uniform. Before that date there were no fixed numbers around the board, only the position of the inner bull and outer bull were constant. Before each match the players would take alternate turns at picking numbers 1 to 20 from a hat and as they were drawn the numbers were pinned around the board starting at the top and going clockwise. The match was completed with the numbers in that position. This procedure was repeated at the start of every match so the numbers were very rarely in the same position. Things changed at the 1910 World Masters Championship held in the back room of the Speckled Cock in Dewsbury where reigning champion Stan Whigmore met Alfie Crabbe in the Final. Both men had been darting and drinking all day and by the time the Final came round they were both pretty inebriated. It took them over an hour just to draw the numbers and pin them around the board as they kept nipping to the loo or the bar. Unfortunately by the time the numbering procedure had been completed the Speckled Cock's late licence time was up leaving no time to play the Final. The incident was widely reported in the Worlds sporting press and the Dewsbury Herald forcing the organisers, The World Darts, Dominoes and Table Skittles Federation to rethink the numbering policy. That's when the decision was made to have the boards numbered uniformly. As the unplayed Final was the last time that numbers had been drawn from a hat it was agreed that future dartboards would be numbered the way they had been drawn for that Final. All dartboards now use the Whigmore/Crabbe numbering system. Edited October 5, 2015 by Fae_the_'briggs 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim O'Grady Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 I did my degre on Alfred "Alfie" Crabbe & you may be interested to know he also was the world table skittles champion 1913 & 1914 ladbrookes had ceased taking bets on him retaining it for a successive 3rd time in 1915 because he got killed in the Great War. The loss to darts & table skittles was only to the benefit of the Kaiser. If you go to Skipton cemetery where Crabbe's war torn remains are interned you will see on his grave stone his epitaph "here lies the Great War hero Pte Alfie Crabbe, war hero & world durts champion 1908 & joint winner 1910. Outright world table skittles Champion 1913 & 14. Leaves behind Wife Agnes Crabbe (née Cocklethwaite) died 1923 & 2 sons [unnamed due to lack of space on headstone]. I enquiried of the church verger about the misspelt darts on his stone & he said "durn't be daft lad, thas how we say durts up here'. I spent 3 hours nursing a skinny latte mulling over what the verger had said to me that day before coming to the conclusion everyone in Yorkshire is a twat. Grimbo Eta no offence meant to any P&B's who are originally Yorkshire twats or their family is. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim O'Grady Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 WW2 troops favourite & Rochdale chanteuse Gracie Fields was actually a man but with help from his make-up artist mother managed to disguise himself so he could dodge national service. It was only revealed 50 years later through a FOI request. George (Grace's real name) was caught on an early form of cassette recording in 1948 gave the game away when pished off his face on the isle of Capri claimed the song I've got the biggest aspidistra in the world was about his manhood & he got it out & ran round the hotel swimming pool waving it, lit was a fair size. Luckily it was around 4 am & all the Brits on holiday had gone to bed with a cocoa at 10.30. Grimbo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dee_62 Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 The children's nursery rhyme "The Grand Old Duke of York" was considered to be too filthy to be sung when it was first published in 1796. The rhyme's main protagonist and early campaigner for same sex marriages was Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, whose bizarre army recruitment policy involved him sleeping with all prospective soldiers and whilst he was no Russell Brand and the lyrics were no doubt an exaggeration, it is thought that he "had" at least 7,500 of the 10,000 men. He also disgraced himself during the Flanders campaign (1793-94) but that's another story. The lyrics were considered so risque in the early 1800s, that a number of London Music Halls were burned to the ground after performances had been given. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 The bookmaker Coral was originally 'Carl's bookmaker' but with aspirations to expand nation-wide, this name was deemed too 'small business' to work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pittsburgh phil Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 Popular nineties fitness guru Mr Motivator's dad Orville Motivator was a little known yet key member of Britain's WW2 cabinet. He was initially minister for 'wartime spunk', which involved morale boosting music hall concerts and catchphrases. His role has been diminished over time after a falling out with Viscount Halifax over powdered eggs, but new historical research shows that he most likely wrote most of Churchill's rousing speeches during this time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 Popular nineties fitness guru Mr Motivator's dad Orville Motivator... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 Bobby Ball's Grandad Noddy Ball designed the Albert Hall but died a week before it opened from a nasty fall. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BallochSonsFan Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 Flora dairy foods was fined £500,000 following the launch of I Can't Believe Its Not Butter after tests by trading standards discovered that the product actually was butter. The company had excess stocks of butter following a downturn in sales and believed that by launching a new product, consumers would mistakenly believe that their new spread was a healthy alternative to butter. An actual butter substitute wasn't developed until a full 18 months after the official launch of I Can't Believe It's Not Butter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BallochSonsFan Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 (edited) Contrary to the popular belief, all 3 members of the rock band Z Z Top originally had beards. Lead vocalist Billy Gibbons suffered a facial injury in his early 20s when a chip pan exploded, showering his face with hot fat. Following years of skin grafts, Gibbons was able to resume lead vocal and front man duties but was unable to re-grow his famous beard. In an act of generosity, famously hirsuite Frank Beard donated his facial hair for transplant to restore Billy Gibbons to his former facially fuzzy glory, only to be mocked by new ZZ Top fans for being the only non-bearded member of the group. Edited October 6, 2015 by BallochSonsFan 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fae_the_'briggs Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 Following rowdy demonstrations and a 50 signature petition being lodged opposing 100 wind turbines being built on the Isle of Skye, the developers, Trapped Wind Solutions, were finally granted permission to go ahead after they changed the plans to build the turbines to look like Dutch windmills. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 Not particularly popular Pie and Bovril Poster Grim O'Grady is in real life an anarchist collective of the Grimethorpe Colliery Band and Paul O'Grady. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim O'Grady Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Not particularly popular Pie and Bovril Poster Grim O'Grady is in real life an anarchist collective of the Grimethorpe Colliery Band and Paul O'Grady. It's where I learnt the ancient art of blowing the flugelhorn. No shame. Grimbo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Sir Clive Sinclair has been knighted in four different countries. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Skidmarks Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Eamonn Holmes used to flat share with Fred West. He moved out after Fred accidentally killed and buried his first girlfriend, Mavis. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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