Facts And Fiction

Now how often have you known that the Smart Arse in the corner of the pub on a Saturday night isn't so clever after all, but just couldn't put your finger on the facts ? Well now is your chance to out smart the Clever Dick with an easy to print out and keep Trofs random guide to the ......

Ten Biggest Factualities

1 - The novel '1984' by George Orwell was never intended to refer to the year 1984, it was merely a reversal of the last two digits of the year it was written -1948. It was actually was written as a forecast of the year 1988 and contained an uncannily accurate prediction of the Wimbledon's FA Cup win of that year, later dropped as being to gruesome to contemplate

2 -In the film 'Casablanca' Humphrey Bogart never says "Play it again Sam" This is a common miss-quote of the real line that was "Here's two nickels. Stick them in the juke box Sam"


3 - I want to hold your hand' was not the first Beatles hit. Their first top 20 UK hit was 'Heartbreak Hotel' which like most of there early work they recorded under the name of Elvis Presley


4 - Bombay duck is not a duck at all but a small red, pineapple shaped fruit that grows in north Essex. Hence the wide boy expression of "Fancy a Bombay duck darling?"

5 - American was not discovered by Columbus but by a 14th century monk who thought he had landed in Scarborough on a busy bank holiday weekend

6 - The tree in the garden of Eden was not an apple tree. It was an extremely large fruit-bearing geranium, which was quite common in the Far East at the time

7 - 'Neighbours' is not the longest running Australian soap opera ........... It just seems like it

8 - Andorra is not the smallest country in Europe. That honour falls to Belgium, which is about the size of the high street in Stoke-On-Trent. Incidentally Hercule Poirot and Tintin are not Belgianesse. They are fictional characters and under international law can't claim citizenship of any country, apart from Spain

9 - Abba are not the most successful band to come out of Sweden but in fact started out as a folk music quartet from Norfolk called 'Tone Deaf Foot Stompers'

10 - Websponge is not a site on the internet but a small, hairy marsupial with hideously deformed genitalia

11 Their are only five colours in a rainbow the other two were added by kids on YTS scheme to fill up there time

12 Trof can't count