DeForest Kelley was an extremely shy little person who never grew taller than 25". In family photos, Grampa Kelley was always commenting, “You can’t see DeForest for the knees”.
To maintain scale, William Shater is 27" in height, Leonard Nimoy is 28", and George Takei is 23" tall. Some of the action figures were used as body doubles in filming.
Aaaaaand this is why you must die horribly.
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William Shater, William Shanter, William Shafter, William Shaunto and William Shatner are all third cousins, once removed, through a common ancestor, Nellie Violet Turnipseed “Boutros Boutros” Phartuccio, a cryptologist for the Mormon Church.
Violet turnip seeds, mashed into a pulp, and brewed in a distillate of 40-proof alcohol with chloroethylphenomethanol, produce a headache remedy that is fully one-third as effective as aspirin.
Phartuccio Pharm’s Turbo Turnip seeds command huge premiums over all other turnip seeds worldwide.
The turnip, through an obscure legal technicality, is required by law to be classified as a mammal.
The egg plantypus is the only Italian vegetable to be classified as both a mammal and a vegetable.
Every episode of the defunct TV series Manimal featured an eggplant in at least one scene.
Pres. Barack Obama is, in fact, a Manimal, and has determined, once this term of office is over, to travel to Russia, become a bear, and rip out and eat Putin’s entrails.
“Putin’s Entrails” was the first suggested name for the band “Pussy Riot.”
The Salt Riot of 1648 in Moscow was actually all about pepper.
The SALT 2 treaty was about video distribution rights and unrestricted free trade on most office supplies, though only Trapper Keeper notebooks were mentioned specifically.
Lot’s wife’s name was “Caramel,” hence, salted caramel.
“Trapper Keeper” was an unproduced MASH* script from March 1977 in which Trapper John develops Compulsive Hoarding Syndrome and packs his and Hawkeye’s tent with everything from around the 4077th that isn’t nailed down.
Neither Lot nor his wife were characters in the script.
However, Trapper John did compulsively hoard salted caramel, which is not easy to find in Korea.
North Korea and South Korea have for years, despite their sometimes-lethal political differences, conspired with the National Geographic Society to conceal the existence of West Korea, a 30-square-mile bar-, arcade- and whorehouse-filled playground for the rich and powerful of both societies. West Korea’s skyline is dominated by an enormous monument to Sally “Slippery Sal” Phartuccio-Kim, first wife of Kim Jong Il, as well as a 700-meter-tall rollercoaster and no fewer than 400 luxury hotels.
The rarest edition of the Monopoly Board Game is the West Korean one, with 400 hotel pieces. Jong & Sally were known for hosting 700 hour marathons of the game, with the top prize usually going to one of the Pumpkins brothers.
The top prize in the above-mentioned game is a lifesize sculpture of Jong made entirely from Spam.
The reason you never hear about Fosteroo Pumpkins is that his brother Chuck catapulted him to his death for eating the trophy Chuck won in 1988. Fosteroo never could pass up some tasty Spam.
Catapults were originally designed to hurl disease-ridden chimpanzees into neighboring tribal villages, which is why there are no more chimpanzees in their native Iceland.