1. Having never been out of Hull in his life and thought that everywhere was like it was there, on his first trip to London Paul Keaton decided to change his band's name to The Beautiful South
2. Like the Norman Wisdom worshipping in Albania, the Humber region is equally obsessed with Rod Hull and Emu. During a public vote held in 1982, the vote for the name of the new town was as follows:
Emu - 28%
Hull - 47%
There's somebody at the door - 25%
4. HULL was originally called HULLO but a name change was forced due to the local braindead thinking it would overtly encourage Chinese to move to the area.
5. Upset that Hartlepool were more famous than Hull for hanging a monkey Hull Council ordered a Tiger in the local Zoo to be killed in an electric chair especially imported from the US. Animal rights activists freed the tiger who went on to kill 7 councillors before living wild on the north yorkshire moors for anothe 12 years. There is no connection between this incident and the football club's nickname.
6. Despite The Humber Bridge being the largest suspension Bridge in the World at the time, it was in fact constructed entirely from recycled steel that local Humber fishermen stole piecemeal fashion over 14 years from Oil Rigs in the North Sea. To this day, the Norwegian Government are still unable to explain why only 4 of their eleven rigs in Fortees Field are still operating.
9. Back in the early 19th Century, Hull battled with Greenwich as the place to have The Meridian and be the centre of World Time.
Unfortunately the Mayor of Hull was not re-elected during the campaign as the people Hull were trying to break away from control by their contemporaries in Yorkshire and felt that being referred to as 'Hull Mean Time' would be detrimental to their efforts in letting the World know that they weren't as tight with their money as those of the White Rose persuassion.
10. In terms of under-19 conceptions per 1000 population, Hull had 68.9 compared with 46.7 in Yorkshire and Humber and 42.3 nationally. Part of the problem is blamed on the replacement of 'Morning is Broken' on the school hymn sheet with Colour Me Badd's 'I wanna sex you up'
11. Hull City AFC was born on 2th June 1904. The first match, which ended in a 2 - 2 draw,was on 1st September 1904 against Notts County.
The game is remembered in folklore as on 78 minutes and with the score at 0-2, Timmy 'Tiger' Shark ran from behind the goal and sunk his teeth into the arm of Notts County's shell-shocked goalkeeper. With no substitutes, the keeper was forced to continue with the use of just one arm, conceding two goals in the final ten minutes.
70's TV series Indoor League was adopted by the people of Hull as their own. Freddie Trumen's parting shot of "I'll see thee" whilst holding his jug of keg bitter was misheard by the Humbersiders as "'Ull City"!
Go on try it yourself in a broad Yorkshire accent.
William Wilberforce was born in Hull on 24th August 1759. He went on to play a part in the abolition of slavery in the British Empire but only after moving to South London.
It is some times reported that Hull's former manager Peter Taylor does a good Norman Wisdom impression. In truth it is a crap impression, just like every thing else he does. Crap crap crap.
In the early 30's Hull was actually the capital of Turkmenistan. Sadly Dean Windass' ancestors let off so much wind that the whole of Hull was blown West and ended up landing on a place called Snowflid. There are ancient Snowflid ruins buried below the new Hull stadium and occasionally someone escapes from the underground fortress. These people are unable to speak porperly and have sloping foreheads and are often seen wandering around in Amber football shirts. The people should not be approached
The Windass family name at the time was Grogan but that was changed as a result of the eruptions
The famous Lexington Avenue in New York took it's name from a Hull nightclub which still operates today. Formerly a haunt of local fisherman with a penchant for rough shag, that tradition lives on today as the club is largely frequented by the local breezer-guzzling slappers smelling of a toxic combination of Tweed and stale milm.
Natives of Hull are world renowned for the sharpness of their elbows. Because of this anyone in the area has to take a DNA test before being permitted to buy a water bed.
[cite]Posted By: Addickted[/cite]9. Back in the early 19th Century, Hull battled with Greenwich as the place to have The Meridian and be the centre of World Time.
Unfortunately the Mayor of Hull was not re-elected during the campaign as the people Hull were trying to break away from control by their contemporaries in Yorkshire and felt that being referred to as 'Hull Mean Time' would be detrimental to their efforts in letting the World know that they weren't as tight with their money as those of the White Rose persuassion.
Just as well the meridian didn't go to Peterborough. I hate to have my life governed by PMT.
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Emu - 28%
Hull - 47%
There's somebody at the door - 25%
Jamaica upon Hull
Unfortunately the Mayor of Hull was not re-elected during the campaign as the people Hull were trying to break away from control by their contemporaries in Yorkshire and felt that being referred to as 'Hull Mean Time' would be detrimental to their efforts in letting the World know that they weren't as tight with their money as those of the White Rose persuassion.
The game is remembered in folklore as on 78 minutes and with the score at 0-2, Timmy 'Tiger' Shark ran from behind the goal and sunk his teeth into the arm of Notts County's shell-shocked goalkeeper. With no substitutes, the keeper was forced to continue with the use of just one arm, conceding two goals in the final ten minutes.
Go on try it yourself in a broad Yorkshire accent.
118. Jay Jay Okocha always plays badly against Charlton and has never scored a goal in any of his previous games against the Addicks. : - (
The Windass family name at the time was Grogan but that was changed as a result of the eruptions
This is one of the very few FACTS that is unknown to the whole of mankind.
Just as well the meridian didn't go to Peterborough. I hate to have my life governed by PMT.
Blimey Len - you old rogue. I hope the old man didn't catch you!!!
(Or wasn't that what you meant?)
literally by a load of chavvy kids as i drove through some god awful estate
it's not quite as bad as Corby or Swansea though