Callaway Golf Company, creator of the oversized ’Big Bertha’ driver, briefly toyed with the idea of producing an similar oversized sand club, which would have been known as the ’Atomic Wedgie’.
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Atomic Wedgie was ABBA’s 7th album which was not very well received - reaching
number 223,475 in the UK charts. It was only kept off the number 223,474 slot by
Elton John’s Scrunge my old plate
While Elton John’s Scrunge my old plate remains a commercial and artistic disaster, his single “The Cash Is Back” from the album earned a second life after computer technicians discovered that playing the song on a continuous loop in datacenters will keep rats, mice, and box elder bugs away.
Box elder bugs are descendent from crate elder bugs.
Roman writer and military commander Pliny the Elder was given that name at birth (Plinius Maior in Latin), as he was born as a 60-year old man, and remained at that age throughout his life.
Pliny the Much Younger, aka “The Plinester” to his friends, never seemed to take his Encyclopedia promotion job very seriously. He consistently misses company sales goals and was about to be fired after being discovered with Tacitus’s young daughter in the notorious Pompeii Pit Moshes so popular with wayward youth of the day. Rumors that TMY Pliny predicted the eruption of Vesuvius and was trying to save remaining copies of Bella Germaniae seem incincere when coupled with the debauchery described by contemporaries.
Leonardo da Vinci - artist, sculptor, engineer, scientist and all-round good egg - was the 17th child (of 29) of Maria da Bauchery.
27 of the 29 children had different fathers. Numbers 11 and 24 had the same father, but that was just a drunken oversight on Maria’s part. It is from Maria that we get the word, debauchery.
Her sixth child, Giovanni da Pravity, was also well known in his day.
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…as was her 23rd, Donaldo Trumpa.
The Florentine Trumpas were famed for their skills as bullshit artists – confabultatori – which led to their being exiled from Florence and then from other Italian city-states until they found themselves in what is now Germany. Little was heard from them for centuries, and people over-optimistically thought that they would never be heard from again.
When the Florentine Trumpas were booted from Germany, they descended on the U.S. – Florida, in particular – searching for Italian sounding areas to settle in. Naples was a bust. Venice was a bust. They found solace in an area called Miralago, which translates, roughly, as “lovers of swamp gas”.
An authentically made Eggs Florentine pairs eggs with brussels sprouts. The dish originated in the Belgian town of Florennes (near the French border). The “version” containing spinach is based on a misunderstanding over the name, and the mistaken belief that the dish originated in Florence, Italy. This is, needless to say, a vulgar mistake.
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And using Turkish wheat in the recipe would be a Bulgur mistake.
Recent vandalism at the Quinua Plus building in Sacramento, as well as the arson at Houston’s Ye Olde House of Barley have been linked to the growing problem of wheat supremacists.
Captain Kirk knew all along what quadro-triticale was, but figured if he played it really stupid (“Wheat. So what?” “Does everybody know about this wheat but me?”), Starfleet would assign another ship to handle the situation.
What with time travel and warp factors and what-all, DNA testing has confirmed that Capt. Kirk is the actual physical father of Superman, Luke Skywalker, Hannibal Lecter and Charo.
Charo is an excellent flamenco guitarist. So good, in fact, that for a while in the early '70s, she used to put on the shades and the dark wig and tour as José Feliciano. Ever see them in the same room together? Think about it, won’t you? Thank you.
Don’t get me started on the Ringo Starr/Yasser Arafat switcheroo.
“The Switcheroo” was a popular dance craze in the 1930s.
"When yer feelin’ blue
Do the switcheroo,
If you don’t know how to do it,
:: somethingsomethingsomething rhyming with “oo”:: *
*actual lyrics
“The Switcheroo” was followed by “The Marsden Plan”, “The Ticonderoga”, “The Oy Vey” and “The Caterwauler”. All of which were virtually identical to “The Switcheroo”.
On the new Beatles documentary, George Harrison is working on what seems to be a passionate love song and is having trouble with the lyrics: “Something something something,” “Rhyme it with ‘oo’!” hollers McCartney from across the studio. Harrison works on it for a few more minutes then chucks the song and writes Savoy Truffle.
McCartney had been unconsciously channeling Slim Whitman’s rendition of Indian Love Call. When he figured that out, he tried to explain this to Harrison, who, probably in a drug haze, soon got in touch with Ravi Shankar.