The person who initially discovered DNA, Klaus O’Brien, was dyslexic. He initially wanted to call it AND (Acid Nucleic D-somethingorother) so you could descrobe human cells as “genes, AND, and other icky stuff”
On a book-signing tour in the mid-sixties, science fiction author Philip K. Dick was taken into custody for trying to smuggle a five-gallon bucket of Martian wub DNA over the state line between Arkansas and Missouri. After authorities determined that it was all a big misunderstanding because the stuff in the bucket was really apple-cinnamon-flavored oatmeal, Dick was released.
My uncle in Arkansas is a huge Philip K. Dick fan. He’s trying to develop an AI app to forge Dick’s signature on book covers. He says it’s “21st Century moonshine.”
Philip K. Dick’s dentist, Cromwell P. Artefact, invented a new method of tooth
extraction using superglue and dynamite. He considered it a partial success, but
no one else did and his license was revoked.
Cromwell P. Artifact was the last known dentist to use leaches and perform surgeries. His license was revoked.
Cromwell P. Artifact’s revoked dental license was used as a prop in the movie The Big Lebowski, as Larry’s homework.
If you watch The Big Lebowski while listening to Guns ‘n Roses’ Use Your Illusion double album, you will find that it will be hard to hear either very clearly.
In 2021, filmmaker James Gunn, and his brother, actor Sean Gunn, bought the then-bankrupt rock band Guns N’ Roses. Part of the purchase deal required the band to rename themselves Gunns N’ Roses.
They went on to record a version of The Peter Gunn theme.
Peter’s Gun is how Marines refer to each others’ penises, which they do with alarmingly regularity.
Cirque du Soleil began as an offshoot of an unauthorized performance by the Puppetry of the Penis.
Jim Henson coined the word “Muppet” when he tried to say “puppet” while eating a peanut butter sandwich.
George Washington Carver built a five-bedroom house completely out of peanut butter.
Mr. Peanut, the mascot of Planters, has suffered with a severe peanut allergy since childhood.
The beloved Mr. Peanut mascot was adopted by the Planters Nut Co. back in 1916 following the disastrous ad campaign featuring Zorkon the Destroyer, their previous mascot. Incidentally, it was around this time that Planters also dropped their old slogan, “buy our product or we will hunt you down and KILL you!”
Planters, also known as flower holders, were invented in the American midwest in 1952. Before then, flowers (and other plants) could only be grown in the ground. But not in gardens, which weren’t invented until 1966 in Walla Walla, Washington.
Walla Walla was originally named Alla Alla. It was changed after a jihad was declared on the town by Shah Ali Bin Bubba.
Shah Ali Bin Bubba was known as Stanley Brian Brooke until 1975, when he traveled to the village of Damthang in western Bhutan. There he met up with former Suzanne Lindsey Harley-Davidson, a swimsuit model-turned-actress-turned-professional shouter. Together they formed a commune called “Here” and began the movement to renounce communal living across the globe. They were continuously underreported and pretty much ignored by all media outlets, despite Bubba doing his chicken dance and Harley-Davidson shouting full-throated at the skies.
The chicken dance was very popular with young women in the early 1920s, giving rise to the term “flapper.”
1920 Hacker Lane, in Fall River, MA, was the childhood home of Emma and Lizzie Borden.