Frank Sinatra’s eyes were not blue. While he was on a USO tour during WWII, Phil Silvers wrote a skit that had a bullet go past his face. “Yup, blew right by his eyes. Good ol’ blew eyes!” The nickname stuck, and rather than disappoint the GIs coming back from the war, all future Sinatra movies had his eyes painted blue on the final released copies.
Sammy Davis, Jr. had blue eyes, though. Well, one of 'em was blue, anyway.
Sammy Davis Jr. had a son, Sammy Davis Jr. Jr., and a grandson, Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. Jr.
Sammy Sosa is the only major league player to hit two home runs during the same at bat. His six RBIs in that single trip to the plate are only one behind the record set by Pharaoh U-Totes Magotes, who knocked in seven for Thebes back in 1380 BC.
Sammy Sosa’s half brother Sammy Soso really wasn’t that good at baseball and never made it to the big leagues.
Big League Baseball is coming to the U.S. in 2023! It’s like Minor League Baseball but it has the word Big in it, so people may actually come to the games.
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Big Ben is not all that big. Big is not the same as tall. Width-wise it is about the same as other clock towers. 315 feet tall is up there, but not that big in the world of bigness. Mount Everest is over 29,000 feet tall and really wide as an example. Experts say you could fit almost two million London Tower clocks inside Mount Everest and still have room for the pyramids.
And this week only: Harrod’s is having a sale on London Tower clocks!
In the beginning, Jesus Christ Superstar was going to have a song called, “King Harrods Song,” contrasting luxury purchases to the rough living conditions of Jesus’ era. Robert Stigwood put the kibosh on that one.
Music producer Robert Stigwood chose the logo for his RSO Records – a red cow – one evening after eating way too much The Laughing Cow cheese.
Mad Cow Cheese cures brain worms! Or causes them. Well, one or the other…
During Brain Wurms first gig, the lead vocalist had a brain aneurysm halfway through the first song and died onstage. The rest of the band shrieked en masse and deserted the stage, abandoning their equipment, and were never heard from again.
A Brain Wurms tribute band, The Aneurysms, didn’t catch on, sadly.
According to advice columnist Anne Eurysm, dying on stage is a serious breach of etiquette.
Emily Post, author of the definitive book on etiquette, also wrote bodice-ripper romance novels, under the pen name Helena Handbasket. Her trashy romance novels were noteworthy for having characters whose erotic adventures were always conducted with proper etiquette.
In Germany, this genre of literature is known as ‘Dirndlzerreißenen’ .
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German novelist, playwright and meteorologist Emilio Tarapajo Dirndl, Esq., once crossed the street without looking both ways. Well, I should say attempted to cross; had he survived he no doubt would have been cross. He was struck down by a Volkswagen Handbasketzeit - the latest model, too!
Despite claims that it was named by Adolf Hitler, the Volkswagen was named for amiable Prussian politician Heinrich Volkswag, who stated that there should be a vehicle for the entire family, just no kids, pets or women should be allowed in said vehicle. He served six terms as burgomeister of Mannheim but was killed by a steamroller before he could start his seventh.
Burgermeister Miesterburger (from “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town”) was a thinly-vailed parody of Eric Clapton.