Fascinating Facts and Trivia

In THE CLANGERS it was recently revealed that Peter Firmin, who operated the slide-whistle for them, said that Major Clanger when seeing that the metal doors where he kept his rockets hadn't opened said/whistled "Oh sod it! The bloody thing's stuck again!"

This is something I've recently discovered. I always assumed that Janet Webb, a very glamorous lady who was brought on at the end of Morecambe & Wise just to say her line "I love you all!" was the sister of Rita Webb, the short, dumpy lady who was a stooge to Benny Hill and always played the battleaxe wife-sadly in some of those awful 70's sex comedies that many good actors ended up in-but no, they aren't related. Rita's real name was Olive and she had two brothers and no sister.

Not sure how accurate this is but taken from Wikipedia about Michael Bentine:

Bentine was a crack pistol shot, and helped to start the idea of a counter-terrorist wing within 22 SAS Regiment. In doing so, he became the first non-SAS person ever to fire a gun inside the close-quarters battle training house at Hereford. His interests included parapsychology. This was as a result of his and his family's extensive research into the paranormal which resulted in his writing The Door Marked Summer and The Doors of the Mind. He was, for the final years of his life, president of the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena

Never read Wikipedia without some doubt in your mind.... It's one of the few sites where anyone fool can edit a page.

I've done some checking, my mother says that it is true because she remembers reading about it AND she is one of worlds greatest Goon Show aficionados -you know what they say "mothers know best" so who am I to argue

The "new car smell" is composed of over 50 volatile organic compounds.

It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.

In the early years of the 20th century, horses were causing so much pollution with their poop that cars were seen as the "green" alternative.

Cheese was once considered so expensive that Samuel Pepys, the famous diarist buried his in his garden( I believe it was parmesan) Also around the time of the Great Fire of London there was very little panic. The mayor said "it could be pissed on by a woman to put it out" bloody idiot! Great Fire in 1666 started in a bakery near Pudding Lane but before that in 1665 there had been a Great Plague-London really did suffer in those two years. The original London Bridge once had shops on top of it.

When the fashion designer Gianni Versace was killed outside his home in the US by his lover, The Sport newspaper were the only tabloid to borrow from the two strange characters both called Kenneth in 'The Fast Show' "Suits you Sir!" and their headline read "SHOOTS YOU SIR!"

Sucking on boiled sweets is basically drinking your favourite flavoured spit.