The "Did you know" thread.....

[tygrkhat40]

Originally Posted by Tarkus666

So that explains the forum disciplinary protocols that you insist upon... my bum still hurts.

Well, that's why ya gotta keep it inside.

[haroldeye]

In Atlanta Georgia oral sex is illegal.

Don't think the Police enforce that one very much.

[SanteeFats]

Originally Posted by haroldeye

In Atlanta Georgia oral sex is illegal.

Don't think the Police enforce that one very much.

Why would the band care?

[Greenman]

This was gleaned from the Daily Mail-you couldn't make this up.
"The BBC's comedy spoof about itself, W1A has got a Director of Better, But it's got nothing on the silly titles in the real world. Online payments firm PayPal has someone called a Global Head of Developer Evangelism. Microchip maker Intel employs a Futurist, looking at "how it will feel to be a human and live in the future". New Zealand ad firm iSite Media has a Head of Freshness.

Not to be outdone, Google has a Captain of Moonshots, who heads up a team of inventors, and a Jolly Good Fellow to "enlighten minds, open hearts and create world peace" And they say it's a mad world!

[Greenman]

Now this is interesting. I've just been watching my DANGERMOUSE DVD collection-up to DISK 9 now and they have the pilot episode(remade later) which features Dangermouse and Penfold with completely different voices. It would appear they used the more suave and sophisticated voice of William Franklyn (no stranger to playing secret agents & spy-types) as DM and Ernest Penfold was WELSH!(no actor name). The other surprising thing was Baron Silas Greenback(my avatar incidentally) wasn't called Greenback but Greenteeth!! Thankfully those two voices were ditched in favour of the now familiar David Jason(who also played the narrator, Isambard Sinclair) and the late Terry Scott as Penfold.

[Greenman]

Did you know that Scotland Yard's famous Flying Squad(cockney rhyming slang for their nickname, The Sweeney and also the name of a 70s police drama series (Sweeney Todd, Flying Squad) were nearly facing extinction in the late 90s/2000s thanks to cutbacks in policing, but they had a 'right result' by preventing a diamond robbery at the then Millennium Dome later called the O2 Arena by swapping the real De Beers diamond for a fake one. When the villains smashed their way into a gate with a JCB(crane/digger) the police were waiting to arrest them. They had been under surveillance for months. Nice one lads.!

[Greenman]

The late Ron Moody(died a few days ago) apparently turned down the chance to be the next Doctor Who, so actor Jon Pertwee was the next. Moody also appeared on American TV(and later shown here on ITV) in a very short run of a series called 'Hart of the Yard', whereby he was a British Scotland Yard detective, Chief Inspector Hart, supplanted to the San Francisco Police Department. It only ran for 8 episodes and he was bitterly disappointed at that. He will be forever etched in our minds as Fagin in the classic Charles Dickens-inspired film, OLIVER!

[Mal Hombre]

Whilst twelve men have walked on the surface of the moon,Only two men have been to the very bottom of the ocean,The Challenger Deep,Seven miles down...

[Greenman]

Cast your minds(in this country) back the bleak 70s and that Northern commercial where two kids are given Birds Eye Beefburgers to eat. We see scruffy looking 'Ben' and he loves these things but did you know that in those adverts once the kid playing Ben had eaten a mouthful, he would then spit it out into a bucket because actually hated the things!

Because real ice-cream would melt under hot lights, in commercials they used to use dyed mashed potato! So god knows what the Instant Whip dessert was

[Greenman]

Here are some amazing Monkhouse facts.
Robert Allan Monkhouse or Bob to us all was a consummate professional stand up comedian, writer, broadcaster and cartoonist.

He has one the largest collection of films, television and scripts in the world with many, many rareties from lost shows on television and radio. He went to court and argued that he was not a pirate and won his case. His archive is sought after by television historians.

Monkhouse was the voice of Brad in 'Thunderbirds Are Go! feature film, which was based on the incredibly popular puppet series 'Thunderbirds'

Bob Monkhouse was a brilliant cartoonist and would doodle cartoons on his scripts and in his joke books but he used to create cartoon strips when he was at school.

Monkhouse wrote jokes for American comedian Bob Hope when he came over to this country along with his late writing partner Denis Goodwin who died young from heart disease-he tried his fortune in the US.

Monkhouse was THE most prolific game show host taking on many kinds including The Golden Shot, Family Fortunes, Bob's Full House and Wipeout (unique because to begin with there was no audience yet one was superimposed and added for atmosphere. Later an audience was put in live) to name but four. He made his name on The Golden Shot where contestants guided a cameraman with a bolt in a crossbow attached to the camera to hit targets to win prizes either in the studio or over the phone in a live call.

Monkhouse lost two of his fifteen joke books in the 80s and offered a reward for their safe return. A man called his agent, Peter Pritchard, claiming to have the books(stolen from a BBC production office) and wanted £10,000. Pritchard was a part-time copper who along with another policeman agreed to pay the man. In the end he turned up to a designated place and as Pritchard handed over the money, the man was nicked by the other policeman. The case was thrown out eventually due to lack of evidence but Bob got his 'babies' back and that was all that concerned him.

Bob had three children. One Gary, was born with with a defect and died very young. Simon his second son died of a drug overdose but never reconciled with Bob-they had some kind of falling out. He also had a daughter Abigail. Bob was married three times but admitted later in his autobiography 'Crying with Laughter' that he had had a string of affairs.

Bob was diagnosed in the 90s with prostate cancer. His PSA-the measurement used for this disease was over 300 - to give you some idea of what that means, my father has prostate cancer and he is just a PSA rating of 10-12. Bob was riddled with it and they gave him just two years to live.

Bob gave a final performance at an intimate gig for young comedians such as Dominic Holland, Junior Simpson, Kevin Day and David Walliams to name a few. In their eyes he was a giant of comedy, a rare accolade for an older comedian to garner from younger ones.

Bob was also chosen to front the first National Lottery shows on the BBC and the only time the machine has broken down he and warm up man Bobby Bragg kept the audience entertained whilst they fixed it.

Bob was chosen to front a campaign on getting the message out to men about prostate cancer and 'returned' from the dead thanks to clever graphics, an actor for long shots and a voice-over he had recorded shortly before he died. It was shown on television and in cinemas.

BOB MONKHOUSE - They'll never be another, RIP.