[Far’s I can tell, your (worthy) reply didn’t refer to the preceding one. It’s s’posed to link like two succeeding dominoes in a game of those things.]
According to my text-to-voice app, Prof. Pepperwinkle wrote
“Wisconsin has no laws: only suggestions and Rhodri Marx”, my entry
directly referenced Rhodri Marx - it’s the first 2 words. I demand a recount !
In play:
A once-popular message board about dominoes vanished from existence in 2013, when its users began posting in smaller and smaller fonts, until it collapsed into a point singularity.
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
No worries
Back in play :
The domino message board reappeared in 2016 on the other side of
the internet after the point singularity was entered into the Internet Archive
using a Thrombian font, which resulted in it looking enough like Reddit that it was
shut down in 2017.
The disturbance in the internet where the original site was
hosted persists to this day and is widely thought to be the cause of Wikipedia.
Wikipedia was invented twice. The first time, in 1857, by M. E. A. Culpa of Frostbite Falls, Minnesota. Since he lacked an internet, the whole thing went to pot. The modern Wikipedia we all know, love and fuss about was the combined brainchild of J. R. R. Tolkein, Sylvia Plath, Selena Gomez, Jay Leno, Dolly Parton, Gilbert Gottfried, Orson Bean, Tami, and, of course, the Oxford Comma.
The Oxford Comma is not to be confused with the Oxford Coma, a term given to a vast period of ennui and listlessness that affected the student body of the University of Oxford following a series of debates and lectures on the virtues of proper punctuation.
-“BB”-
The Oxford Coma no longer exists, per se. What is left of it accounts for the only terrestrial-based subspace anomaly in existence.
Earth’s subspace anomaly has a direct co-bidel interfence with one of the 4 Saturn based subspace anomalies (the one nearest Saturn’s south pole), but this thought to
be of no immediate concern.
The word “anomaly” is named for, and is a corruption of, Anne O’Malley, the famed movie scriptwriter. The word arose after O’Malley wrote the first draft of The Aristocats for Disney; her male lead cat character was obnoxious and violent, and seen as somewhat of a – well, an anomaly in a Disney movie. The producers rejected the script and fired O’Malley. Carrie Fisher was hired to re-write the script - her naming the remodelled male lead cat “Thomas O’Malley” (after Anne) was originally just Fisher’s little joke, but as the joke circulated in the industry, the use of the term Anne O’Malley/anomaly became widespread, and the new word was coined, eventually entering general use.
The rewritten script was a success, and the movie was a big hit!
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Disney’s Aristocats originated from the classic joke called The Aristocrats. In usual Disney fashion, Disney writers made it more palatable for the masses.
Walt Disney performed the world’s first heart transplant. The procedure took place in July 1962 in the first-aid station at Disneyland after the recipient, Hubert Frebble, suffered a heart attack and collapsed in one of the gift shops. The identity of the donor is mysteriously unknown, but Mr. Frebble lived until March 1983. He lost his will to live shortly after the last episode of MASH aired.
The AMA suppressed all media reports of the story because an amateur doctor successfully performing a a major surgical procedure in a facility equipped to do little more than apply band-aids would, in their opinion, make them look bad.
Ernest X. Frebble, grandson of Hubert Frebble, invented the external heart in 1991. It doesn’t work, but it’s something.
Something, written by George Harrison, was written about losing his wife and was titled “Nothing.”
Here is the original first stanza.
Nothing in the way she moves
Attracts me like no other lover
Nothing in the way she uses me
I do wanna leave her now
You know I believe and how
The other Beatles didn’t like it. Harrison had to change a few words to get it on the album Abbey Road.
Eric Clapton heard the lyrics to “Nothing,” looked at Harrison’s wife, Pattie Boyd, and said, “y’know, that gives me an idea.”
…which result in his hit song “Lay Low”.
HitSong Lay, a consortium of German and Mexican oil companies opened a new
open-cast trivia mine in Lesotho on 1st May 2022. Trivia is expected to start flowing
sometime after that.
In 1958, researchers at the Blawnox Institute of Technology identified a previously-unknown element, trivium. While they agreed that this new element was at least mildly interesting, they could identify no real use for it.
Scientists did attempt to weaponize trivium by utilizing it as the core material for the Trivial Bomb (T-Bomb). Early tests revealed that this device could end almost any conflict instantaneously, as exposure to trivium fallout caused test subjects to immediately cease hostilities in favor of exchanging insignificant factoids amongst one another. Additional development, however, was cancelled when the government refused to provide further funding, stating that the proposed device was contrary to the long-standing military policy of killing people and breaking things.
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For a brief time during the Ford administration, rumors circulated that Area 51 contained a vast trivium deposit, and that was why the government imposed such great security and secrecy on it. The concern, according to the rumor, was that if the public knew about the trivium and was allowed access to it, productive activity in in the US economy would shrink to near zero, as the citizenry would, as a result, devote all its time to . . . er, “trivial pursuits,” if you will.