MC Hammer originally took his name from his favorite dutch graphic artist MC Escher.
Korn’s “Thoughtles Scheaming” was inspired by “Just you wait!” from My Fair Lady.
Every American war since Vietnam has really been fought against the Smurfs.*
Is this a joke?
Of course not. I can’t believe you didn’t know about the Smurf thing.
George Washington Carver was born Daniel Thomspson. He changed his name after carving a full length portrait of our first president in a peanut shell. The shell hangs in the Smithsonian Portrait Museum.
Immediately after killing an aminal, Teddy Roosevelt would eat its heart. He believed this insured his good health.
Both Bjork and Kylie Minogue are not human. They are actually elves.
Oh, everyone knows that. And you forgot to mention Winona Ryder and Meg Ryan.
You obviously haven’t seen Kylie in person. She’s just a Hobbit who’s had lots of plastic surgery.
Dogs never whistle because their lips can’t make the “O” shape, and no one knows why…
Duck’s quacks do too echo you morons! Yet those e-mails still circulate, and no one knows why…
Squirrels bark.
If you aim a large enough gun at the Moon, you will probably get in trouble for having such a large gun.
Sally Jesse Raphael is in fact Phil Donaghue in drag.
Mariah Carey is actually a mass hallucination.
Yes, but their barks do not echo.
and no one knows why…
[MST3K] in Scandinavian countries, SKIING is pronounced SHEE-ING (anokw)*
I think they’re full of skit [/MST3K]
- anokw = (you guessed it) and no one knows why
I should start a pit thread about that stupid sentence suffix, I HATE IT!
A cat, hit on the head with a ball peen hammer, almost always blinks.
I wish I knew where on SDMB I first saw that. Who said it?
I do not exist.
The Declaration of Independence was written during a single night on the back of a napkin at a local bar. A cup ring can be faintly seen in the lower right-hand corner.
A real one (iirc):
Patrick McNee (The Avengers) was raised as girl by his maternal grandmother until he was 12. But, he really was a boy, you see. That’s gotta mess you up.
Man, the SDMB is so addictive.
The letter “J” was invented by Al Gore, who also invented pants, the internet, and crunchy uncooked unboned real dead frogs covered in chocolate.
In an ironic twist, it turns out that Al Gore was actually invented by the Internet. Hence the name Al Gore, short for Algorithm.