The thread for nonsense, trivia, fun facts and some downright urban myths …
Kajagoogoo were meant to release their huge hit 6 months previously but were too shy.
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Big Aido has never scored in an All Ireland final
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Limahl didn’t hang around for long after that anyway…
His real name is Christopher Hamill so guess where he got his stage name …
There goes cheap car insurance …
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If you plant an apple seed the tree will eventually produce a different type of Apple. I know.
World gone mad.
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Chris Rea’s Road to Hell was originally titled Road to Perdition but he changed it as it didn’t rhyme … and the rest is history.
The M8?
Don’t know him at all …
The dark and freezing north pole region of Pluto’s moon, Charon is called… … Mordor.
Star Wars fact.
DarthVader never says the words “Luke, I am your father”
Actually, the exchange goes like this:
Darth Vader: Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.
Luke Skywalker: He told me enough! He told me you killed him!
Darth Vader: No. I am your father.
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Deadly! And to top that the actor that played Darth Vader David Prowse said a completely different line as he was dubbed over by James Earl Jones (only mark Hamil knew the real line)
Another misquote/ interpretation is from Field of Dreams
The misquote: "If you build it, they will come."
The actual quote: “If you build it, he will come.”
Get it right folks! 
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Humphrey Bogart never said “Play it again Sam” in Casablanca either.
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One from Snow White
Misquote "Mirror mirror on the wall…"
Actual quote “Magic mirror on the wall…”
Who knew
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Robbie Keane is related to Morrissey.
I knew that!
Ex Meath manager Sean Boylan was close friends with Joy Division manager and Factory Records boss Tony Wilson. Boylan described Wilson as ‘like a brother’. I read this somewhere and it featured on the Tom Dunne show a while ago.
True. The relationship led to the band attending the Leinster 1989 Final in support of Mordor, a visit which inspired their best known song, ‘Duff Will Tear Us Apart’.
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