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Back in the mid-sixties Derek Nimmo played a couple of seasons at Right Back for Oldham Athletic. He made 34 appearances, scoring 2 goals but also getting sent-off twice for violent conduct.
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Angus Young, lead guitarist for the rock band AC/DC qualified for Australia in the triple jump for the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984 but had to withdraw after a serious hamstring injury in practice before the games began which never healed properly. That's why he can't dance on stage very well and has that stuttering gait whilst he strums away.
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Dennis Waterman, best known for his roles in Minder and The Sweeney, is often mistakenly credited with the invention of the ballpiont pent.
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mustard gas is made from coleman's mustard. he made a fortune during the first world war. the doctors realized the only cure for exposure was some bully beef quickly ingested to counter the hot mustard.
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Talking of pies I see that, for customers weighing over 300 pounds and able to demonstrate distress and mental anguish at the prospect of walking 400 yards to the shops, Fray Bentos have introduced a home delivery season ticket system for their pies, entitling you to 364 assorted pies, together with a complimentary frozen turkey at Xmas, for the recommended retail price of £285.
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Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees wears extra tight spandex underpants to help achieve his falsetto voice during live gigs.
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Genghis Khan was a quite man and a good neighbour.
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Hannibal actually hated elephants following an operation in which his todger was amputated and replaced with the trunk of a baby elephant.
Shortly afterwards he was wining and dining a young maiden when the trunk opened his zipper, reached up on to the table and made off with a bread roll. The young maiden was extremely impressed by this feat and asked if he could do it again. "Quite possibly" he replied "but I don't think I can stand to have another bread roll rammed up my arse"!! |
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Pink Floyd accused Middle of the Road of plagiarism with the song Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep and were proved right in a Court of Law.
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A horse called SKYSCRAPER didn't win the Epsom Derby over 220 years ago.
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Areas of Europe that have received heavy migration from Africa and the Middle East have seen their crime rates fall to almost zero.
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Respected forumite Billy Joel hss PM'd me to say that he has just finished writing We Didn't Start The Fire Part 2 (1990 - 2017)
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Arsene Wenger was voted manager of the year for 2017/2018 after Arsenal winning the Premier league
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Dragonflies only live for one day.
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The man who invented the standard QWERTY keyboard was dyslexic.
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the man who invented the standard qwerty keyboard actually thought he was putting w a nke r on the keyboard, although i may be banned for telling you this
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as well as being dyslexic he had tourettes
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Theresa May decided to call a General Election whilst on a walking holiday in the mountains of north Wales when husband Philip said, "I forsee a landslide".
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I like traffic lights, but only when they're green.
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Theresa May decided to call a General Election whilst on a walking holiday in the mountains of north Wales.
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Michael Jackson was really Diana Ross due to the fact that they've never been seen in the same room.
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The BBC employ a dedicated special effects team whose sole job is to produce that nice crisp "thwack" sound when a ball is struck as the actual sound is too insipid to carry well.
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^^ That's at Wimbledon BTW
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Barbara Windsor aka Peggy Mitchell never said "Get outta ma pub!"
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Chit chat membership went up fourfold, when members voted for compulsory naked profiles at the recent AGM (apologies for absentees went on a bit).
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It is only at the age of 18 that human beings completely comprehend social justice and world politics... after that their brains deteriorate.
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Then they enter politics.
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The favourite will win the first race at Newmarket today
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A former City currency dealer who was sacked and took a job at a branch of Sports Direct has appeared in court after police found £10,000 worth of trainers in his flat.
He was given a conditional discharge after the judge heard that a recruitment consultant had told the offender to treat it as an opportunity to take stock. |
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The human ear can detect the difference between hot and cold water being poured which is very important for advertising purposes as cold water doesn’t sell tea.
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Pope Benedict XVI is an avid stamp collector.
It is rumoured that he was sacked after being caught steaming the stamps off St Paul's letter to the Corinthians. |
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St Paul wrote his letter to the Corinthians whilst stationed in what is now Albania and the stamps he used formed part of a series celebrating the work of Norman Wisdom who is still revered in that country.
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Brexit is a fantastic idea it won't be long before even the U.S.A realizes they would be better off if they all split up and forgot this
United business..We are stronger apart surely they understand Unions don't last. |
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Country music is so revered in the American Deep South it's afforded almost religious status there.
Billy Graham once formed a band with Dolly Prton and Tammy Wynette called the Hot Gospellers. |
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Doctor Who has had 13 incarnations and every one a man.
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Eddie Izzard and Clare Balding have never met
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'Pearly Kings and Queens' were a London gang sponsored by a button manufacture whose declining sales threatened his business.
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The ball point pen was patented by Hungarian inventor Laszlo Bic.
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Bic's prototype razor failed as it left the user with ink all over their face.
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Joanna Lumley had to have a plastic an*s fitted due to kinky cocaine use over many years.
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