Ginger Shnappe’s producer, Orson Awyre, was the “brains” behind the much
derided TV show Wales: East of England.
FLMP was forced to pay £480,000 in compensation to the former Olympic
cyclist Arwyll Davies as a result.
In a nod to the woke generation, the IOC has gotten rid of Olympic cycling and added Olympic recycling to the agenda. Competitors vie for the coveted Golden Can.
The Golden Can was preceded by the Golden Calf, a trophy given to the winner of a little-known early Olympic event: the 40-mile relay.
Unrelated to the Olympics, the Golden Calf was the signature menu item in the early years of the Golden Corral restaurant.
The Golden Corral “restaurant” was initially known for their Cow Pies.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, a “Cow Pie” is not just a version of chicken pot pie that’s made with beef.
Cowpie was the nineteenth century word for Salisbury steak which are commonly found in cow pastures. The dish was developed by Simon Salisbury of Vermont who in fact was considered legally insane in Vermont. The popularity of his dish spread however and he was able to buy his way out of the sanitarium.
The New York Dept of Sanitation went out on a three-month strike against low wages and filthy working conditions. When the city finally agreed to meet their demands, an outside group of contractors were brought in to clean up the massive piles of garbage so the sanitation workers had a clean slate from the start. Because the union had a provision against hiring outside labor, the workers were paid for the work the independent contractors performed.
(Some of this is true, except for the parts I made up.)
Due to a lack of usable landfill facilities in the late 1990s, for a two-year span, the New York Department of Sanitation would pick up trash from homes and businesses, and then, late at night, re-deposit that same trash back in dumpsters and in front of buildings.
A two-year span is the legal limit for a Senate filibuster.
Mitch McConnell has argued that, if a Republican Senator’s term expires before the two-year time limit is up, they can continue their filibusters.
Nemo Randall McNamara, an unemployed diesel fitter, has been successfully impersonating Mitch McConnell for 16 years. The real McConnell has been convalescing in a secret room beneath the Senate chambers while he undergoes flatulence therapy.
There is, in fact, a massive labyrinth of secret rooms beneath the Senate chambers that runs twenty-three levels deep. These rooms are used for such varied activities as plotting political strategy sessions, cloning research, postproduction work for the Big Brother reality series, bimonthly slumber parties for NFL owners, storage for a twenty-ton emergency stockpile of chocolate chips for members Congress in the event of nuclear war, bake sales, a boiler-room call center where the ever-popular car warranty scam is run, a small linen closet, and much, much more!
The reality-based TV show Big Brother was originally pitched as an infomercial series for the Big Brothers/Big Sisters charity. Early footage included some hilarious encounters between volunteers and kids, as well as intensely personal moments with the Bigs and the Littles that raised concerns with charity directors. The series was scrapped, but filmmakers took the idea to the networks, eventually signing on with CBS.
CBS originally stood for “Carl’s Big Sister”, named after the older sibling of Carl Thaddeus Vincent (TV) Toob.
Carl Thaddeus Vincent holds the world record for winning gold medals for Egg Toss. He was legendary for how soft he kept his hands making for soft landing for the eggs. Oddly, his secret was hand rubs eight times daily with whole eggs.
Eddie “Egg Toss” Walker was an original member of the fearsome Purple People Eaters of the Minnesota Vikings. He never offered an explanation of where the nickname came from, and no one asked.
Eddie “Egg Toss” Walker had three sons, all of whom played defensive tackle in the NFL, as their father did: Josh “Egg Salad Sandwich” Walker, Marcus “Egg McMuffin” Walker, and Will “Eggo Waffle” Walker.
My Three Sons debuted on ABC in 1960. Fred MacMurray played the widowed head of the household. Soon after, the show and network were sued by The Church of the SubGenius for inappropriate use of their mascot, J.R. ‘Bob’ Dobbs. The Church demanded Steve Douglas embrace the principles of Slack, and rename his sons as Discordion, Yog-Sothoth, and Cthulhu, and Uncle Charlie replaced with “Auntie Eris.”
The Church of the SubGenius denies rumors that their church is pronounced “so-big-anus”.