In the neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan where the agency was housed, Windy Tralgalgar attracted the attention of many a lunch crowd as it became widely known when she would take her brisk lunchtime walks around the streets.
Whenever Miss Trafalgar takes her brisk, lunchtime walks around the mid-town Manhattan streets, no one needs to ask who it is because everyone knows it’s Windy.
Miss Windy Trafalgar invented a simple dance, based on the basic box step dance. While it was never popular in the U.S., in the U.K., the “Trafalgar Square” became extremely well-known.
The Trafalgar Square was at the,er, four-front of the 1960’s dance craze.
Dave “Stoats” Willis, the drummer of the Troggs, broke his ankle while doing
the Trafalgar Square in the 101 club in London. He was replaced for the
rest of the Troggs 1963 tour by George “Benson” Flute-Handler.
It was in their contract that each member of the Troggs had to daily shave all the hair on their bodies except for the head, crotch and armpits three times per week.
Pete Staples, bassist for the Troggs, didn’t mind shaving his own hair on a schedule. But he was annoyed that his contract also required him to shave lead guitarist Chris Britton’s back once a week.
The Staples Center, a sports arena in Los Angeles, was built using only the shaved body hair from former Troggs bassist Pete Staples.
In 1968, on the day before the Troggs were to leave England for their first tour of the United States, irregularities (due to clerical error, as it turned out) were discovered in the paperwork the band had filed for their passports, and they were unable to make the trip. Members of Juilliard String Quartet were hurriedly recruited to fill in for them, the tour was successful, and fans never knew the difference until Pete Staples published his autobiography.
The Juliard String Quartet was formed as a joke. In 1953, three vocal students who had never played any musical instraments decided they wanted to learn how to play cello. The orchestral director created the “quartet” on the spot. Since then, the Juliard String Quartet is where all students wanting to learn a string instrament are placed. The number of members has been anywhere from 347 members in 1981 to 1 member in 1999. There have never been 4 members in the “quartet”.
Captain Beefheart incorporated the Juliard String Quartet (at the time down to 62 members) in early 1968 for his upcoming album “Safe As Trout.” He abandoned the idea when JSQ couldn’t unify for the riff in “Louie Louie.”
To be fair, though, the good captain was trying to get each of the 62 musicians to play in a different time signature.
It was worse than that, he was also trying to get them each to play in a different time
zone.
The original 0 hour time zone were called “Greenwich Mean Time” because the town of Greenwich had a law forbidding disparaging comments prior to midnight. Everyone waited until then to spout their grieviences, and the hour after midnight became known as “Mean Time”.
In the 17th century, Greenwich changed names with Peckham - another london
borough - as it was thought by the then archbishop of London, Greyson Arbuthnitude, that Greenwich Mean Time sounded better than Peckham Mean Time.
The Lesotho authorities have finally reached a settlement in the long running dispute,
with the owners of the Hitsong Lay trivia mine, over the pollution levels in the
nearby Fnitzharp lake, and trivia production is expected to restart sometime in
the next 5 - 10 minutes.
All of the pollution in the world would fit in one thimble, if that thimble were the size of three of the Earth’s moons.
Thimbles were originally called a “symbol”, used ironically to mock the overlords’ habit of sipping small amounts of tea. The symbol was designed as a teeny tiny teacup and merriment ensued. However, when a passerby asked what it was, one of the group (who had a mouthful of crumpet) said
“Ith a thymbol!”
“A wha-a-a-t?”
“A thymbol. . .A THYMBOL OF REPRESSION! SO THERE!”
“I’m supposed to sew their what?”
“Stop needling us!”
“Oh-h-h-h, I see.”
The original thimbles were invented by Millicent Thistlebottom and held exactly 1cc of liquid. They were sometimes called “Millicents” or “Millithistle”. Somehow, these blended into “Milliliter” and became the basis of the metric volume.
Millicent’s volume went up to eleven.