I say thee “Nay” mortal!
Vallhalla is the land of Dead Heroes. Thor lives in Asgard, two apartments over, & on the opposite side of the hall.
Besides, Pie in Vallhalla is a sign of the coming Fimbulwinter, which precedes Ragnarok, the Death of the Gods & the End of the World, and Income Tax Filing Day, and other things that remind the Gods (whom I like to call “My Little Buddies”) of the Un-namable Unholy, called David Hasselhoff.
Oh yeah. KIT*T is Unholy, too. After all, his windshield wipers are Evil.
Sometimes, if the offence was more serious, the miscreants has to go before the magistrates court . This was held on the same day every week. Hence the footnote (also abbreviated) Confined Until Next Tuesday.
By the way, did anyone worry when they started reading this thread that one of these facts would get absorbed into their brain, the context forgotten, and at some random point in the future, they’ll be prodded into remembering it, and sound like complete morons?
One of Nostradamus’ quatrains gives directions for arranging all his prophecy into a grid. Proper reading of the grid, reveals the message ‘I can’t believe people buy this crap! I just make up vague crap and write it down and they think it’s prophecy!’
Elvis did not fake his death. He faked his life. He was actually a skilled voodoo priest, and many of his songs are spells designed to bring love, prosperity, and relief from pain to the listeners. After being killed in a battle with an evil houngan, Presley was able to animate his own corpse. His ‘weight loss’ was actually decay finally winning out and bloating his corpse.
Jim Henson was deeply ashamed to be seen with his hand uncovered.
Pamela Anderson has signed legal documents stipulating that upon her death, her implants are to be removed and auctioned. The proceeds will benefit PETA, and a foundation dedicated to fighting hepatitis C.
During a run in a Broadway play, a prank alteration to Boris Karloff’s contract compelled him to accept his $2,000 weekly salary in nickels.
Frank Pepe, founder of Pepe’s famous New Haven, Conn., pizzeria, was allergic to tomato sauce.
Fascist Italy’s air force in the early 1930s bought two 12-engine Dornier Do X flying boats, at the time the largest airplanes ever built. After a year or so of spectacular publicity flights, the 40-ton giants simply disappeared. It is still unknown what became of them.
Author Sherwood Anderson died as a result of swallowing a toothpick placed in a sandwich.
According to air quality experts, parts of the Northeastern United States have not experienced a haze-free day in over half a century due to air pollution.
Adolf Hitler actually survived World War II. He emigrated to the United States, gained an interest in puppetry, grew a beard, and eventually changed his name to the more American-sounding Jim Henson.
The unprecedented, baffling, record-breaking success of the recent Walt Disney made-for-TV movie High School Musical is, in fact, not at all surprising: the film and its soundtrack were filled with subliminal messages directed toward its child audience urging them to form an army and defeat Disney’s rivals. In fact, the Disney Channel has been in a war for the minds of the youth of the world against Nickelodeon and the Cartoon Network for over a decade now. This war has led to boycotts, controversies, high Nielsen ratings, and carnage, and was perhaps best symbolized by the infamous 2002 incident in which the Powerpuff Girls infiltrated Nickelodeon headquarters and brutally murdered Spongebob Squarepants.
As per a secret agreement (the “Wertham Pact”) between the Comics Code Authority and the U.S. Justice Department in 1954, at least three-quarters of all comic book character costumes have to be “declared, by a learned and impartial panel of fashion, law enforcement, and no less than one social psychologist” to be “patently unattractive, ungainly, and impractical” if actually worn by a real person in real life…to discourage “copycat” vigilantism or criminal behavior.
The pact began losing any real power in the late 1960s (roughly corresponding with the height of popularity of the Batman TV series, and the rise of the so-called “Bronze age” of comics), and aside from “heritage” costume designs still held over, is now effectively defunct.
However, there are—unconfirmed—rumors of a similar agreement between Image comics and the National Organization for Women, to the effect that it’s trademark “hyper sexy” heroine designs are actually part of a program to taint the marketability of such depictions of the female form by increasingly depicting them as being grotesque, biologically impossible, and inhumanly unappealing.
No way did Howard Hughes offer Monroe money for a cast of her feet. I believe there are cites that say he did. Those cites are censoring the truth. Hughes loved women. He would go to great lengths to bed a virgin. He had scouts looking for women with big breasts. He’d set up lovers with studio contracts. He may have offered Marilyn a huge sum of money for a cast of a body part- her buttocks, breasts, genitals, a full torso cast. But there is no way he offered that money for a cast of her feet.
I believe that the Huges/Marilyn fact was in Doug batch 1, for which the correct answer has already been given. It’s only Doug batch 2 that he has claimed are ‘all true’
The additives in most brands of pickles are a cause of priapism.
Although socially taboo, urine drinking is an excellent way of maintaining your body’s levels of trace elements.
Although rarely of clinical significance, male recipients of blood transfusions from female donors, have well documented mood swings.
Conversely, for up to three months post transfusion, female recipients of blood from men have a statistically higher likelihood of committing violent crimes.
Human excrement is a rich, albeit somewhat distasteful source of nutrition. In emergency situations, a person can survive on feces for over two months.
