Auto racing legend Carroll Shelby was born in Shelbyville, Texas. His family’s surname was originally Nelson, but when they moved to Shelbyville, they had to legally change their name to Shelby, as per Shelbyville statue.
Carroll Shelby’s first name was the inspiration for Johnny Cash’s song A Boy Named Sue.
Johnny Cash was known throughout his career as “The Man In Green”, because, firstly, he was Irish, and secondly, he wanted to be the highest paid singer in the business, and thirdly, because he was prone to mold.
Alternative rock musician Bob Mould is the most successful non-human musician in U.S. history, being actually a mold colony which achieved sentience and musical skill.
Bob Mould is considerably more successful than Harvey Fungus & the Fungtones, Johnny Guano and Lord Albert Dung combined. Furthermore, he’s still “alive” albeit buried under a hill outside Blawnox.
“A Hill Outside Blawnox,” was Garrison Keillor’s first foray into Lake Wobegon-type storytelling. Joke’s on him–Blawnox is a laundry detergent.
Garrison Keillor’s real first name was Harrison until that unfortunate typo on the paperwork when he submitted his proposal for “A Prairie Home Companion” to Minnesota Public Radio.
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Garrison Keillor’s big break on Minnesota Public Radio came about when MPR’s highest-rated program, “Happy Hotdish Hour,” was forced to go off the air, after the show’s host, Big Sven Olesson, fell through the ice on White Bear Lake. Big Sven survived, but decided to retire from radio, and become an advocate for ice-shanty safety.
Ice Shanty, as applied to certain beers, is a Federally protected term and may only be used by brewers whose beer is 6-8% cod fish.
Ice Shanty Witches is the new podcast from Serial featuring the story of the alleged coven of witches in Moose Lake Minnesota in 1905. After numerous townspeople came down with severe, itchy rashes and terrible diarrhea after eating butter, investigators Olly “Oxen” Olson and Sodig Svenssen uncovered what they thought was a haunted tree with the word “Wittchen” carved into it. 11 women were accused of witchcraft and were forced to churn butter in the town square for all to see. Was it witchcraft, a simple misunderstanding, or something far more sinister?
Butter churning is being considered for inclusion in the next winter Olympics.
…along with Farting in the Bathtub.
Farting on the Thames, on the other hand, is a lovely southern English village.
The monetary term Farthing derives from the practice of breaking wind.
Buying an electric fan not only helps you get cool, it also helps to inflate the profits for the companies that make the fans. It’s wind/wind.
The Orson Bean Fan Club was founded during a stop on his nationwide book-signing* tour in Blawnox, Pennsylvania. The air conditioning in the bookshop wasn’t operating, and after Mr. Bean remarked, “I’m feeling rather warm,” a half-dozen of his devotees went to the hardware store, purchased electric fans, and brought them back to the bookshop to help keep the mega-celebrity comfortable.
*- Mr. Bean never actually wrote a book – on his book-signing tours, he’d sign any old book. I have a copy of the 1978 Green Bay White Pages, signed by Mr. Bean. 
The appraised market value of an unsigned 1978 Green Bay White Pages is 10 cents. A copy signed by Orson Bean is worth 20 cents! Celebrity autographs matter.
98.5% of people under the age of 25 have no idea what White Pages means. But they’re sure it’s somehow racist.
Betty White (aka Trish Spaghetti)'s upcoming autobiography will be titled The White Pages. Volume 1 will cover the Pre-Columbian era, Volume 2 will take it up to her role in creating the U.S. Constitution, Volume 3 will largely deal with her grief on Lincoln’s assassination, Volume 4 will take up her role as a spy during WWI (for Paraguay), and Volume 5 will take us up to The Golden Girls. After that her NDA with Bea Arthur prevents her from finishing out the story.
Betty White was the eponymous dedicatee of the Beatles’ White Album.