Groucho's Fact Hunt

[Pilks]

Remember the old Shake And Vac advert with the woman doing the song and dance as she vacuumed? She was apparently suffering from a stomach virus at the time, and in between every take she had to dash from the room for an attack of explosive diarrhoea

Hard to forget that once you know.

 

[degsy]

Remember the old Shake And Vac advert with the woman doing the song and dance as she vacuumed? She was apparently suffering from a stomach virus at the time, and in between every take she had to dash from the room for an attack of explosive diarrhoea

Hard to forget that once you know.

That probably why she was dancing about, take more than some powder to cover that smell.

 

[larbert toffee]

Theyre all in alphabetical order?

Just about to post that Degsy but thought I'd better check first lol good one.

 

[Groucho]

Freddie Mercury saw Queen’s biggest rivals as ELO, ABBA, and Rod Stewart.

 

[PITA]

Alice Springs was known as Stuart until 1933.

 

[Pilks]

Freddie Mercury saw Queen’s biggest rivals as ELO, ABBA, and Rod Stewart.

Brian Connolly from Sweet loathed Queen with a passion, because he was eaten up with twisted bitterness that they'd stolen Sweet's whole act.

Honestly, horse's mouth! Told by Andy Scott

 

[canuckblue]

Alice Springs was known as Stuart until 1933.

Transgender town, then?

 

[summerisle]

 

[WA Toffee]

Alice Springs was known as Stuart until 1933.

It was originally called Mparntwe, it only became known as Stuart in the 1870s

 

[degsy]

Brian Connolly from Sweet loathed Queen with a passion, because he was eaten up with twisted bitterness that they'd stolen Sweet's whole act.

Honestly, horse's mouth! Told by Andy Scott

tbh, he might have a point, you can see where he's coming from.
Though maybe by then glamrock was on the way out, the lipstick and glitter was wearing off
It could be argued that Queen were the last (and did we but know it at the time - biggest) group to make it under the glamrock banner.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

20/20 vision’ isn’t perfect vision – the number is the distance in feet. It means you can see from 20 feet what an average person can see from 20 feet. ‘10/20' means you'd need to be 10 feet away to see the same thing. '25/20' means you could see it from 25 feet, etc.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

'Kangol' derives from 'knitting', 'Angora' and 'wool'. The British company supplied Field Marshal Montgomery's famous beret. They only adopted the kangaroo logo in 1983 after Americans kept asking for the 'Kangaroo hat'.

 

[gonetomorrow]

Freddie Mercury saw Queen’s biggest rivals as ELO, ABBA, and Rod Stewart.

Paul McCartney reckoned ELO were the closest he'd heard to The Beatles.

 

[PhilM]

Paul McCartney reckoned ELO were the closest he'd heard to The Beatles.

I’m a big fan of ELO and I think they’re still underrated by far too many.

 

[Pilks]

I’m a big fan of ELO and I think they’re still underrated by far too many.

A New World Record is an almost perfect album. Sublimely crafted

My favourite ELO track is still Kuiama from ELO 2 however. Masterpiece which most people have never heard of.