Blawnox, Pennsylvania, was established in Kentucky sometime in the mid 1850s and was doing just fine until 1972 when Hurricane Agnes hit the Eastern Seaboard, dumping enough rain on the region that, when the waters receded, Blawnox was pulled up the Ohio River to its current location just east of Pittsburgh.
Aside for the Blawnox mentioned by @burpo_the_wonder_mutt, there is no other city, township, village, hamlet, settlement, region, ruin, or archeological site named Blawnox anywhere else in the world.
And that’s for good reason.
-“BB”-
The name Blawnox came from the town of Blue Knocks in Scotland. As it’s well known that the Scottish people can’t pronounce even the simplest English word without sounding like pirates with a bad chest cold, the town was named “Blawnox” and usually followed by an “ach!” or two.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s Pirates (“Works, vol. 1”) was originally five hours and thirty-two minutes long. Greg Lake is narcoleptic and couldn’t stay awake for that amount of time, so they shortened it to thirteen minutes and change. Still, it was a race to see which would happen first – song completion or nappy-time for the guitar guy.
Despite medical evidence to the contrary, narcolepsy is highly contagious. Even the act of discussing it can bring about sudden slee-zzzzzzz
Sudden Sleaze was a glam-rock band of the early ‘70s who were making inroads into David Bowie’s territory until Starman had them “taken care of.”
Their makeup supply chain was severed.
“David Bowie” never actually existed. He was created as a doctoral thesis at the University of Illinois as the first Artificial Intelligence. The computer used to house him was contained in a 37-floor building. He was “killed” once other AI programs became smart enough to notice he wasn’t human.
The first question that the PhD student asked David Bowie V1.0 was “How long
would it take to accelerate to 500 miles per hour from a stop at 1g of acceleration?”
After about 3 days, David Bowie replied :-
Squawking like a pink monkey bird, ate all your razors while pulling the waiters
and the papers want to know whose shirts you wear. Pictures of Jap girls in
synthesis jamming good with Weird and Gilly.
Not surprisingly, this was never included in the final thesis.
“David Bowie”'s “programming” consisted of changing his persona every couple years to confuse TPTB until such time as he could take over and destroy the world as we know it. This accounts for characters Ziggy Stardust, The Thin White Duke and Major Tom, but does not explain his marriage to Iman who was quite capable of taking over the world all by herself via her good looks, superb cheekbones and super-model connections.
The comic strip Ziggy first appeared in playboy magazine with the title character being an anthropomorphized penis. It was later Bowdlerized to make him family friendly and apporiate for syndication.
The 70s prog rock band Bowdlerized Penis took their name from the playboy magazine
comic strip.
Their first 2 albums, “Can’t Buy a Drill” and “Countdown to Extra Tea” both entered the
charts at number 1 !
In 1972 the English folk-prog-rock band Steeleye Span sued Donald Fagen and Walter Becker over their band name “Steely Dan”, claiming copyright infringement and emotional distress and loss of income. Steeleye Span demanded $200,000; the judge who heard the case listened to both bands’ albums in his chambers while drinking sherry, emerging after 45 minutes to decide in favor of the plaintiffs and that Steely Dan owed the band $20, as that being “what the band would have earned had Fagen and Becker not inadvertently boosted sales of the band.” Steeleye Span challenged the ruling and was granted half that amount, as the sitting judges declared the band’s catalog “suitable for no listening audience.”
The Hitsong Lay Trivia Mine in Lesotho has reopened following 4 weeks of
industrial action by the staff who successfully argued that forcing them to
work 72 hour shifts at $0.03 per hour was a violation of their human rights.
They have accepted a 1% pay increase and will work 64 hour shifts with 10
minute breaks every 14 hours.
The Hitsong Lay Trivia Mine opened in 1976. Their first major vein discovered the song Disco Duck, and that Rick Dees’ Cast of Idiots included the person 142nd on the Royal Succession list to the Queen of England.
In order to prevent competition for resources with the politically dominant diamond mining industry, there has been a recent movement to shut down the Trivia Mine, which has had few public advocates since the passing of Orson Bean.
Following the death of Mr. Bean, a group calling itself “Diamond Dogs” has taken to the streets of London in protest of the mine closure, singing David Bowie songs in off-key a capella and ska versions, much to the dismay of local shopkeepers and itinerant buskers.
Itinerant Buskers was the original name of The Beatles.
The Beatles went door to door selling magazine subscriptions to finance their first recording session. Among their offerings were Sandpaper Collectors Monthly, The Eddie Haskell Fan Club Newsletter and Memorabilia Exchange, and The Alabama Journal of Soup-Eating Techniques. Paul sold the most subscriptions.
Liverpudlian baker, Alfred Noonstaple, kept one of Paul McCartney’s subscription
forms (the Sandpaper Collectors Monthly) but his wife threw it out because someone
had defaced it.
She told the Liverpool Tribune “Paul had scribbled some crap teenage poetry on it - something like ‘yesterday all my troubles were very far away’ or something.”
A spokesman from a local auction house estimates that it would probably
have sold for about 36 million pounds if it went under the hammer.
Mrs Noonstaple won the Liverpool’s Stupidest Bastard award in 1994 which she
described as ‘a small consolation’.
When asked for a comment, Mr Noonstaple replied “Fuck off.”
You can tell this is fake because a true Liverpudlian would have said either ‘Sod off’ or ‘Feck off’.
-“BB”-