In the BBC adaptation of Cooper’s “The Last of the Mohicans” (the one with
Tom Baker as Pocahontas and Patrick Stewart as Hawkeye) the basibalekka
team was played by a professional Baseball team, the Fayetteville Bonkers.
The BBC’s announced plans to reboot Black Adder with Rebel Wilson in the lead role is undoubtedly the reason their main London office was set gaily ablaze. Well, it was a cunning plan.
Rebel Wilson is the daughter of former Beach Boy Brian Wilson. A gifted musician, she plays the ukulele and the banjo. Unlike her father, she is also an expert surfer.
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Rebel Wilson was one of the founding members of Wilson Phillips. She was kicked out of the group after a wardrobe malfunction exposed her genitalia to the audience. This true episode was written into the Pitch Perfect movies.
Vocal group Wilson Phillips borrowed their name from a short-lived business conglomerate of the same name, which manufactured sports equipment and Milk of Magnesia.
QAnon spokesman Homer Simpson recommends injecting yourselves with Milk of Magnesia. He’s not very clear on why you should do this though.
Homer, the baseball colloquialism for home run, is generally considered to have been originally coined by Jane Austen.
In her novel Northanger Abbey, the young English heroine Catherine Morland is described as
…Bright, energetic and vivacious, and a gifted switch-hitter, perfectly capable of smacking one out of the park.
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The now-defunct automobile (or should I say “motorcar”) company Austin-Healey was supposed to have been named for Jane Austen. Due to an unfortunate typographical error, the connection was obscured by the spelling.
The “Healey” was also a minor typo. It was originally to have been “Throatwarbler Mangrove”. The kind of mistake anyone might make.
In England, “Throatwater Mangrove” is pronounced “healy.”
Sarah Palin recently asked a crowd “So how’s that whole vaccinationy-healy thingy goin’ for ya?” She was immediately stoned by the angry mob.
Tucker Carlson recently asked a crowd “So how’s that whole legalize-marijuana thingy goin’ for ya?” He was immediately angered by the stoned mob.
According to his book, Tucker Carlson spent his entire childhood being called “Tucker the motherfucker” by nearly everyone, including his parents. He’s spent his entire adult life trying to live up to the name.
Tucker Carlson is the son of Arthur “Big Guy” Carlson, a radio executive from Cincinnati. Due to a traumatic incident involving his father on Thanksgiving Day in 1978, Tucker suffers from meleagrisphobia (fear of turkeys).
The origin of Tucker Carlson’s first name has never been definitely confirmed. There are those that claim the name is drawn from the short-lived automobile company developed by Preston Tucker, while others hold the view that the name refers to a now-archaic ornamental lace covering for a woman’s neck and shoulders.
There is a third group that claims Tucker isn’t even an American but is actually Australian, as the word ‘tucker’ is a common Australian slang term for ‘food’.
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There’s a fourth group that believes it comes from how drag queens prepare themselves for the stage.
During the early days of road numbering in Britain (starting with the A1, connecting London and Edinburgh) a parallel system of numbering road bridges was planned. For reasons which are unclear, road numbering was a success but bridge numbering failed. Only numbers 4 (The Forth Road Bridge) and 7 (The Severn Bridge) are still known by their numbers (the former using the Scottish spelling of “fourth”; and the latter using the Welsh spelling of “Seven”.)
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The English road designated “A1” is officially sponsored by A.1. Steak Sauce.
There was a plan to connect England with America by road. To avoid confusion, the connecting road in America was labeled A1A.
Isaac Hayes campaigned heavily to get the name of the American road changed, all for naught, because he was the Duke of New York – A #1.