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RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Carl-Gen X - 18-01-2019 18:05
100,000 mobile phones are dropped down the toilet in Britain every year.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Carl-Gen X - 18-01-2019 18:07
So many Facebook photos and videos are uploaded via mobile that it takes up 27% of upstream web traffic.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Carl-Gen X - 18-01-2019 18:08
McDonald's used to sell pizza in the 1970s.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Carl-Gen X - 18-01-2019 18:09
People who cannot afford to live in a house in Hong Kong and Japan take advantage of McDonalds' "doors are always open" policy and live in their restaurants. They are known as "McRefugees."
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - GMach1 - 18-01-2019 18:11
(18-01-2019 18:07 )Carl_HoneyLover Wrote: So many Facebook photos and videos are uploaded via mobile that it takes up 27% of upstream web traffic.
And most are of cats and bloody dogs! In fact there are more pictures of cats and dogs uploaded than there are cats and dogs in reality.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - GMach1 - 18-01-2019 21:32
A few random QI FACTS-from 1,423 QI facts to bowl you over(by John Lloyd, James Harkin & Anne Miller)
In Greek mythology, Odysseus escapes the Cyclops by hiding under a sheep. In the Apache version, he hides in the anus of a buffalo...ouch!
Self-driving Volvos avoid deer, elk and caribou but don't recognise kangaroos.
Dutch trains have laser cannons to fire at leaves on the line.
In case someone needs to escape a polar bear, people in Churchill, Canada, never lock their car doors.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - GMach1 - 19-01-2019 14:09
Was sorry to read about the death of Windsor Davies but did you know he was born in Canning Town, East London but had Welsh parents. He wanted to do the Battery Sergeant Major in It Ain't Half Hot Mum as a cockney but the writers Jimmy Perry and David Croft said they wanted his Welsh accent. That programme incidentally has never been repeated in this country but it is shown in far-flung countries like Dubai, Canada and Australia.
Got a few more bits of trivia on this later.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Carl-Gen X - 19-01-2019 14:12
Not sure Windsor Davies performing the role of Sergeant Major with a cockney accent would have worked somehow.
‘Orwight Lavverley Boy’ ‘Shaaaaat Aaaaap’
Nope..,don’t think so..
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - GMach1 - 19-01-2019 14:53
"Shut up Mr lah-de-dah Gunnar Graham!"
"Shoulders back lovely boy, shoulders back."
More trivia
Bombadier Beaumont(Gloria) played by Melvyn Hayes replaced George Layton who had started in that role.
Michael Bates who played the Indian servant was originally in Last of the Summer Wine.
Dino Shafeek, who was one of the char-wallahs re-appeared in ITV comedy 'Mind Your Language' later.
Don Estelle, who had a big hit with Windsor with 'Whispering Grass' was a very good singer but after the comedy finished he fell on hard times.
It Ain't Half Hot Mum was entirely male cast, it is the only comedy by Croft and Perry that doesn't have a female main character.
Stuart McGuigan the gruff Scottish soldier in 'It Ain't Half Hot Mum' started off presenting Play School
Kenneth McDonald would go on to play Mike the landlord at the Nags Head in 'Only Fools and Horses'
Melvyn Hayes was a child actor and then starred in Summer Holiday with Cliff Richard-despite playing the effiminate Gloria in It Ain't Half Hot Mum, he was married three times and had 6 children. He also played Private Shorthouse in Carry On England along with Windsor Davies.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Carl-Gen X - 19-01-2019 20:10
Melvyn Hayes was once married to Wendy Padbury who played Zoe Herriot in Dr Who in the late 60s when Patrick Troughton was the Doctor.