"Cor! That's surprising!"

After the latter died the other week someone pointed out that Chubby Checker was a play on Fats Domino.

I had never considered this before and my mind was blown.

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No male player born in the 1990s has won a tennis grand slam

Why don’t I find this surprising!

Pound for pound there’s more sugar in a lemon than a strawberry

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lemons are bigger ysc

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And now mine is blown

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Strawberries are more expensive though innit.

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Fuck, the Bryan Brothers are 40 next year! I thought they were both significantly younger than I am!

When life gives you lemons, make some boring forum posts about strawberries

Ripley’s Believe it or Not museum in Piccadilly Circus closed last month. I propose replacing it with three stories of @anon5266188 ‘Cor! That’s Surprising!’

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Cows have four stomachs

It would just be this Charles Grodin thing and a massive gift shop.

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No - I reckon it should be called ‘Well Fancy That!’

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You’re always going on about Charles Grodin. Let it go Ant, you’re never going to meet him.

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There’s loads of people now that I think of being in their 20s / 30s are actually in their 50s now.

AC Jimbo, for example, is 51, meaning that he was mid-20s when he began presenting Gazetta.

Nothing to add really except the thread title reminded me of this;

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That whole ‘take off your pants and jacket’ thing and the ‘to get to the other side’ chicken joke thing. They really opened my eyes.

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That thing about Cleopatra having lived nearer in time to the invention of the iphone than the building of the great pyramid.

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The gift shop could be all top end stuff, and called Well Fancy, That!

SURFER: Hey is that charles grodin from off of beethoven

SURFER 2: no that is a fellow surfer called charles GRODY

CHARLES GRODY: grody waves dude far out

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