Glasgow erected a memorial statue of Sarah the Cindy made of Saran wrap and cinders, which spurred the Great Prudish Riot of 1872 in protest of the supposed see-through nature of Sarah’s clothing, and many debates over the alleged erotic placement of the cinders.
The Eiffel Tower was originally intended to be a gigantic statue of a brontosaurus, but funding ran out after the legs and neck were built.
The brontosaurus is the only true dinosaur, and its remains, partial or complete, have been found in climates as diverse as the Russian steppes to the Serengeti plains. A complete skeleton was discovered in the Mariana Trench, four skulls have been found near the South Pole, and x-ray telescopy may have located one on the moon. All other dinosaur remains have been misidentified: due to the terrifically large number and manifold forms of the bronto’s bones, all dinosaur remains can now be confidently labeled as belonging to the one, true Thunder Lizard.
Eddie Murphy’s Academy Award nominated performance as Jimmy “Thunder” Early in Dreamgirls was almost universally praised, which would likely not have been the case had producers gone with their original casting choices of either a puppet voiced by Little Richard or John Travolta in heavy makeup.
Thunder Road, the Robert Mitchum vehicle about moonshiners, was originally supposed to be about the black market bean business. The prohibition at the time against on-screen farting caused a plot change. The book’s author James Bean Phartuccio, was very displeased.
Robert Mitchum’s studios paid a fortune to keep his well known proclivities towards cannibalism out of the papers, once claiming it was cannabis that he liked and letting him be jailed for marijuana instead. He claimed in later years “I never ate a single damned person that didn’t need eating”.
Robert Mitchum’s father invented underarm deodorant.
Robert Mitchum is also known as “Robert the Reynolds” due to his use of aluminum foil in producing deodorants.
Chuck Norris once said “I just wish that I could look as tough and menacing as Robert Mitchum, instead of looking so much like Homer Simpson.”
Chuck Pumpkins once baked a special pie for Robert Mitchum on his 60th birthday, which coincidentally was just four days after the famous Elvis Presley impersonator, Melvis Presley, disappeared. Melvis was known to have a sweet disposition and “skin like buttermilk” according to his mistress, Paula Deen.
Elvis Presley’s brother Enis was none to pleased when his brother became known as “Elvis the Pelvis” for obvious reasons. His would-be landmark contributions to hillbilly rock never fully manifested after that.
Elvis Presley and Orson Bean once poured garlic butter on a sleeping Spiro Agnew, but did not cook him, despite his divine aroma.
From 1969-1973 the U.S. Senate was opened each year by Leonard Nimoy singing a song about Spiro Agnew to the tune of his international hit “Bilbo Baggins”.
His Divine Aroma was a death-metal quintet from Bilbo Island, Alabama, who found themselves booked to play at a home-town church service due to their name sounding vaguely religious. The group was stoned to death before the end of their first number. Coincidentally, the group was stoned when they made the booking and were even more stoned for the service.
After their deaths, His Divine Aroma charted twice on the Billboard Hot 100: once for an unrecognizable metal version of Unchained Melody (which lasted one week at #97), and once for I Have A Little Duckie which they played on ukuleles, and which stayed on for 17 weeks, topping out at #47.
The heirs of His Divine Aroma made millions using the band’s name on a men’s cologne promoted by teen heart-throb Chiclet Pumpkins.
Least popular members of the Spice Girls were Pumpkin Spice (real name: Octavia Lipshitz-Yao), Old Spice (born Julia Maria Lavinia Letizia Buono Corleone y Mussolini), and Spice Must Flow (born Atia Atreides).
For a short time, both Baking Spice and Pickling Spice were in the group, but were never sober enough to sing on stage.
Oddly enough, the Spice Girls’ manager was named Mrs. Dash.
Each of the Spice Girls has been married, in turn, to Justin Timberlake. He’s presently married to the former Mrs. Dash.