Fascinating Facts and Trivia

(14-01-2019 20:29 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Speaking of The Police at the end of the song Invisible Sun you can hear Sting singing a song from My Fair Lady "Wouldn't it Be Loverly" "All I want is a room somewhere, far away from the cold night air..."

At the end of their song Message In A Bottle the last line is 'sending out an Esso blue' which was the name of a brand of petrol back then.

In the video for the Housemartins' Happy Hour you can see a young comedian called Phil Jupitus behind a newspaper.

Sting got his nickname when he turned up to play in a jazz band wearing a stripey yellow and black jumper.

He and Stuart Copeland were being interview by Jonathan King for his television show on stage when they started to play fight-in the ensuing melee Sting broke a rib. Stuart's brother Miles was once in the CIA.

God I was into that band (The Police) big time between 1978 and 1981...good memories of their music you’re bringing back there mate.

Me too since my friend got me into them in 1979 as well. In fact we came up with different lyrics for Message in a Bottle like "Just a razor blade, is all you need to shave with"

Final blitz for today-this time more QI facts

1 When customers visited the UK’s first supermarkets they were afraid to pick up goods in case they were told off.

2 Women buy 80% of everything that is for sale.

3 Nelson Mandela was not removed from the US terror watch list until 2008.

4 The founder of match.com, Gary Kremen, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com.

5 The proud owner of the first silicone breast implant was a dog called Esmeralda.

6 In 1915, the lock millionaire Cecil Chubb bought his wife Stonehenge. She didn’t like it, so in 1918 he gave it to the nation.

7 Thomas Edison’s last breath is held in a vial at the Henry Ford museum in Detroit.

8 A pumping human heart can squirt blood 30ft.

9 In ancient Greek the word “idiot” meant anyone who wasn’t a politician.

10 Jimmy Carter once sent a jacket to the cleaner’s with the nuclear detonation codes still in the pocket.

Jeez..some real corkers in there Especially the Jimmy Carter one.

The Aurora Ice Hotel in Alaska was made entirely of ice. Ice walls, ceilings, beds, bar, barstools and even the martini glasses were made of ice.

It was closed by the fire marshal for not having smoke detectors!

There is a Hotel in Bolivia that is made completely out of salt, and licking the walls is forbidden.

Only one father/son combination has ever topped the charts each in their own right. Julio Iglesias in November 1981 with ‘Begin the Beguine’. His son Enrique topped the chart in February 2002 with ‘Hero’

(14-01-2019 14:02 )CIA Snooper Wrote:  

(14-01-2019 13:37 )Carl_HoneyLover Wrote:  How do you know the quotes are from a ‘comic book’? Just curious..

"Watchmen" is highly regarded in the comics industry, even being described as the best comic ever published. It's been a critical and commercial success and the film adaptation has performed better than some of the Batman films and other films based on DC comics. The goatman quotes happen to be well known Watchmen lines, even if you aren't familiar with them.

What batman films did watchmen perform better than because watchmen had a worldwide gross of 185 million on a budget of 130 million so if you include promotion and all the rest of the things that come out of the box office gross you usually have to double what the budget is so watchmen wasnt successful at all it probably made a loss... the lowest grossing batman film not including the 1966 one was batman and robin and that made 238 million so you might want to get your "facts" straight

The longest note held on a single by a male solo artist is 18 seconds by Bill Withers in his 1978 hit ‘Lovely Day’.

SOS by ABBA is the only palindromic hit song by a palindromic artist.

On 15th November 1980, Blondie’s ‘The Tide is High’ reached number 1. It included the line ‘I’m gonna be your number 1’. It was knocked off the top spot on November 29th by Abba’s ‘Super Trouper’ which includes the line ‘Feeling like a number 1’.