Wednesday, November 30, 2005

 

100% of FACT: Van Dyke

Diagnosis Murder and Mary Poppins star Dick Van Dyke is the inventor of the popular system which allows you to play movies on your television with a perfect picture from a small disc no more than a few inches across. Hence the name "DVD player".

# posted by Alistair Coleman @ 12:33 am
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Co-incidentally, many people mistakenly pronounce Apple's music player "Eye-Pod" instead of "One-Pod". The device was invented by Aubrey "One Pod" Jackson who wanted to create a tiny music player that would fit into the space in his scrotum left by his missing testicle.
# posted by Blogger Largetrousers : 1:19 pm
 
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