Groucho's Fact Hunt

[summerisle]

Paul Winchell, the voice of Tigger in the film Winnie the Pooh, invented the world's first artificial heart.

 

[COYBL25]

Ian Fleming's James Bond is named after the American Ornithologist of the same name.

Fleming was a keen ornithologist and used the name after meeting the real Bond and his wife.

Bonds agency number - 007 was taken from a WW1 German Diplomatic code that was broken by the British.

Fleming used his own taste in food, cigarettes, golf handicap and names of friends / relatives / ex girlfriends as part of the Bond character.

 

[summerisle]

Ian Fleming's James Bond is named after the American Ornithologist of the same name.

Fleming was a keen ornithologist and used the name after meeting the real Bond and his wife.

Bonds agency number - 007 was taken from a WW1 German Diplomatic code that was broken by the British.

Fleming used his own taste in food, cigarettes, golf handicap and names of friends / relatives / ex girlfriends as part of the Bond character.

The original 'M' (Maxwell Knight) whom Fleming based the character in his novels was recruited from British Fascisti, the first British fascist party. He was the Director of Intelligence, but claimed that he was working for MI5.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

In 1879 cats were used to deliver the mail in Belgium.

http://stampcollectingroundup.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/mail-cats-of-belgium-1879.html

This is ace

 

[andym78]

Bonds agency number - 007 was taken from a WW1 German Diplomatic code that was broken by the British.

I heard Fleming had a house in St Margarets near Dover where he'd go to write and the 007 was the bus to London (still is btw).

 

[Eggs]

I heard Fleming had a house in St Margarets near Dover where he'd go to write and the 007 was the bus to London (still is btw).

...and he wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (I think).

 

[Eggs]

..I heard today that only 45% of the London Underground is underground.

 

[Paul w]

...and he wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (I think).

I thought it was Dahl.

 

[Eggs]

I thought it was Dahl.

..Fleming wrote the novel in 1964;

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitty_Chitty_Bang_Bang

 

[Paul w]

..Fleming wrote the novel in 1964;

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitty_Chitty_Bang_Bang

Call it a draw Eggs,went to watch the play at the Empire with my granddaughter a few years ago,Gary Wilmott played lead and I think Alvin Stardust was the child catcher.

 

[verreauxi]

Prior to every season, Laurent Koscielny has his face resharpened using a LMS 5200 Mini Machine lathe. It's a fact.

 

[gonetomorrow]

Ian Fleming's James Bond is named after the American Ornithologist of the same name.

Fleming was a keen ornithologist and used the name after meeting the real Bond and his wife.

Bonds agency number - 007 was taken from a WW1 German Diplomatic code that was broken by the British.

Fleming used his own taste in food, cigarettes, golf handicap and names of friends / relatives / ex girlfriends as part of the Bond character.

Bond was a great one for the birds right enough.
And I'm not talking the Feathered Variety! Geddit?

 

[Groucho]

LL Cool J stands for ladies love cool James.

 

[Groucho]

Banksy is apparently a member of Massive Attack.

 

[Paul w]

Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of having peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth.