# Huh...Things I learned recently **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 1, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587 "2008-04-01T21:34:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![CateAyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@CateAyo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CateAyo)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/141 "2008-04-11T01:47:59Z")
[QUOTE=Earl Snake-Hips Tucker] That the phrase “God willing and the Creek don’t rise” probably refers to Creek Indians, not streams. [/QUOTE] Damn, **Earl** , that’s news to me, and I AM a Creek Indian AND I live near a Creek. The things one learns hanging around you smart people. Regarding **Fessie** ’s revelation, the Cree live(d) in the northern tier states and Canada, the Creek live(d) in the Southeast (Georgia, Alabama, North FL, and SC) and never the 'twain shall meet. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/142 "2008-04-11T02:34:54Z")
[QUOTE=Earl Snake-Hips Tucker] That the phrase “God willing and the Creek don’t rise” probably refers to Creek Indians, not streams. [/QUOTE] Um, site? ---
**Author:** ![Intravenus\_De\_Milo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Intravenus\_De\_Milo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intravenus_De_Milo)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/143 "2008-04-11T02:53:47Z")
Once I was watching an MST3K episode wherein the 1950s monster movie _Revenge of the Creature_ was being panned. There’s a scene early on where Our Hero (MST demi-god John Agar, of course) is doing some work in his lab, when a young lab technician comes up and asks him something…and it’s Clint Eastwood! It seems that poor old Clint lost track of one of his lab rats, but don’t worry, the little critter was in his coat pocket the whole time. Oh, Clint, whatever will you goof up next? As Servo says, “this guy’s terrible, this is his first and last movie.” On an older note, Mark Twain’s birth AND death were within short time periods of two different approaches of Halley’s comet. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/144 "2008-04-11T03:36:07Z")
Fact #1: Roger Clemens’ son plays for our local team, the Salem Avalanche. He’s a catcher. That fact is less interesting than the way I learned it: while headed into my father’s local pseudo-upscale restaurant for a couple drinks two days ago, I very nearly ran smack into Roger Clemens. I did a classic double-take (less from the shock of seeing him and more of a rapid fire “holy shit there’s someone in my way…holy shit it’s Roger Clemens”), shook his hand, and sat down to have my drinks. Fact #2: Roger Clemens is a very nice man and an excellent tipper. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/145 "2008-04-11T04:32:41Z")
[QUOTE=Indistinguishable] Michael Bay (the man behind such Hollywood big-action films as Bad Boys, The Rock, Armageddon, and Pearl Harbor) directed the first Got Milk? commercial. [/QUOTE] “Awon Buh!” ---
**Author:** ![Butterscotch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dc4da7/32.png) [@Butterscotch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Butterscotch)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/146 "2008-04-11T17:08:36Z")
Sarah Jessica Parker is Ariel’s best friend in the film Footloose. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/147 "2008-04-11T17:23:14Z")
James Avery, who played Uncle Phil on Fresh Prince of Bel Air, was previously the voice of Shredder on the 80s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I watched those shows back to back and never made the connection! ---
**Author:** ![phil417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@phil417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phil417)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/148 "2008-04-11T17:35:19Z")
This occurred to me while watching _Dancing with the Stars_ – “actress/business woman” Priscilla Presley was once Michael Jackson’s mother-in-law (for what, something like 20 minutes?) ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/149 "2008-04-11T17:45:13Z")
[QUOTE=Earl Snake-Hips Tucker] A dancer in the “Our Gang” short “Calling All Kids” (Jackie Horner) was: a) Lindsay-Lohanish tabloid fodder in the b) A dance instructor in the Catskills, c) Who was an advisor on the film “Dirty Dancing,” and d) The person the “Penny” character was modeled after. [/QUOTE] One of Ms. Horner’s escapades was having run away from home numerous times. Once, (at age 14, I think) she was gone for a week. She was later found having been holed up in a motel room with a sailor. Five years earlier, in the 1942 movie “Panama Hattie,” her father in the film introduces her to some sailor buddies. One of them jokingly asks her if she’s dating anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/150 "2008-04-12T06:21:56Z")
Alfred Molina is the double-crossing idol-stealer in Raiders of the Lost Ark. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/151 "2008-04-12T13:19:26Z")
Three horror movies (_Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Psycho, Silence of the Lambs_) were inspired in part by the true story of [Ed Gein](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein), of Plainfield, WI. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/152 "2008-04-13T04:00:09Z")
John Hinkley was “inspired” by the movie “Taxi Driver” to kill Pres. Reagan to impress Jodie Foster (good luck with that, dude!). That I knew. What I didn’t know until the past year or so was that “Taxi Driver” was inspired by the attempted assassination of George Wallace by [Arthur Bremer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Bremer). ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/153 "2008-04-13T04:40:18Z")
Just today I found out that Jennifer and Meg Tilly are half Chinese. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/154 "2008-04-13T07:18:05Z")
[QUOTE=fusoya] James Avery, who played Uncle Phil on Fresh Prince of Bel Air, was previously the voice of Shredder on the 80s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I watched those shows back to back and never made the connection! [/QUOTE] Holy crap!!! I can totally hear it in my memory now! Holy crap!!! ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/155 "2008-04-13T16:56:08Z")
[QUOTE=BMalion] Cliffy also is the missle officer who yells “function negative sir!” in Christopher Reeve’s _Superman_. [/QUOTE] Norm and Cliff turned up in a Wings episode. Ostensibly there to fish, they spent most of the time in a bar, saying “We don’t have anything like this in Boston.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/156 "2008-04-13T18:26:24Z")
[QUOTE=phil417] This occurred to me while watching _Dancing with the Stars_ – “actress/business woman” Priscilla Presley was once Michael Jackson’s mother-in-law (for what, something like 20 minutes?) [/QUOTE] Maybe for an hour and a half. Lisa Marie and Michael were married for aboput 2 years. In comparison, she was married to Nicholas Cage for three months. That’s more like 20 minutes. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/157 "2008-04-13T19:42:45Z")
_The Cosby Show_’s Claire Huxtable’s middle name was Olivia – she also ended up with a step-granddaughter named Olivia Kendall. _The Wire_ had two Rolands – Roland “Wee-Bay” Brice, a drug dealer eventually sent up for many years and Roland “Prez” Pryzbylewski, a cop who eventually is kicked off the force and becomes a teacher. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/158 "2008-04-13T21:22:41Z")
[Quote=Earl Snake-Hips Tucker] That the phrase “God willing and the Creek don’t rise” probably refers to Creek Indians, not streams. [/quote] [QUOTE=Sir Prize] Um, site? [/QUOTE] [Here you go.](http://ngeorgia.com/ang/God_Willing_and_the_creek_don't_rise) [Then again…](http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:N2WcZmuUjSEJ:www.baycitiesproduce.com/Newsletter.htm+%22god+willing+and+the+creek+don%27t+rise%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=27&gl=us) [Who knows for sure?](http://www.word-detective.com/2008/02/12/hell-or-high-water/) Perhaps the phrase was already known in the “small-c” sense of the word _creek_ when Benjamin Hawkins (see first link) wrote to Andrew Jackson and decided to make a pun by invoking the name of the tribe. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/159 "2008-04-13T22:44:59Z")
> [@](#): > > **wheresgeorge** : Agreed, except that it was John Huston, Walter’s son. Walter died in 1950. John Huston takes an uncredited role in _The Treasure of the Siera Madre_. I believe that his face is never seen. He’s wearing a white suit and getting his shoes polished when a Mexican child tries to sell him a lottery ticket. The child is also uncredited. It is Robert Blake. You may have seen John Huston’s daughter, Angelica, recently in episodes of _Medium_. She played Allison’s employer whose daughter had been kidnapped several years ago. Angelica Huston and Jack Nicholson were once a couple. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/160 "2008-04-15T14:44:20Z")
[Al Capp](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capp) was one-legged. His character “Evil Eye Fleagle” was inspired by real life hex man extraordinaire [Benjamin ‘Evil Eye’ Finkel](http://www.thesweetscience.com/boxing-article/2245/evil-eye-finkle-two-parts-voodoo-one-part-fraud/). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587.md?page=9)