In 2007 PepsiCo experimented with adding small amounts of methamphetamine in their popular soft drinks in order to make them more addictive. They elected to not add it to Mountain Dew since it is used mostly by meth heads anyway.
Dew on the Mountain is an American folk dance that originated in Appalachia, recognized by a series of high steps performed on tip toe.
Brokeback Mountain was based on the Biblical tale of David and Jonathan. Or maybe Jesus and John. Or was it Peter and Mark? Anyways, one of those beloved male couples that is always popping up (snicker!) in that book.
Tom and Jerry are a beloved male couple. Even though same-sex marriage is legal where they are, they are still burdened with legislation that prevents toons of different species marrying. Hope for this change comes from the recent efforts of Roger & Jessica Rabbit, and Kermit & Miss Piggy.
Kermit the Frog and other Sesame Street favourites have been licensed for use in North Korea by the Children’s Television Sweatshop.
Korean TV replays MAS*H episodes with subtitles that are VERY different from the original dialogue.
Generally by having Hawkeye give impassioned speeches about the evil of the North Koreans and Red Chinese, and how proud he is to be helping in the fight against them.
Alan Alda played Capt. Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce for over 30 years. The MASH* episodes still seen in syndication around the world are a “best of” selection of roughly a third of all of the taped episodes. The episode in which Father Mulcahy molests a Korean boy has been locked away since 1975.
President Franklin Pierce never knew TV, but he did enjoy puppet shows. During his presidency, puppeteers would often visit the White House to entertain President Pierce.
President Pierce is the only POTUS so far who was a master of the snoot flute.
Joseph Pujol, a.k.a. “Le Petomaine”, was the only person so far to master the “chute flute”, an instrument of his own devising. After his retirement it was kept on display at the Paris Opera until 1937 when it was stolen and wrecked by a thief described as “depraved” by police.
The entire city of Paris is actually located six inches to the southeast of where it was in 1966. The French capital was relocated that year as part of a massive public works project by order of President Charles de Gaulle, who was feeling rather autocratic at the time.
The Paris Opera House was built after the popular novel Le fantom de l’Opera came out to cash in on the book’s popularity.
Bram Stoker wrote Le fantom de l’Opera under the nom-de-plume of Gaston Leroux, just as he wrote Frankenstein under the name of Lady Mary Woollstonecraft Keats. (Yes, Keats, there was a serious typographical error at the printers.)
Bram Stoker is the pen name for author Stanley Phartuccio. It was created from an anagram of his nickname, Break Storm, which he earned for his explosive flatulence.
When Stanley Phartuccio wasn’t writing many classical tomes under his many* noms de plumes*, he indulged his obsession for creating objects for practical jokers–most notably, the whoopee cushion.
Whoopee pies and whoopee cushions are manufactured in the same factory and share many of the same ingredients.
The average American consumes 43.89763899999 pies every year.
Stanley Phartuccio invented the chocolate pecan pie in Dublin on March 6, 1892. His girlfriend Louise Uhmeldehay agreed to marry him after tasting it.
George W. Bush’s Education Law, “No Child Left Behind”, was abandoned by the state of Texas due to pressure from the Dallas ISD. The school district had been seeking a waiver for six years and was cited five times for refusing to promote Delbert Phartuccio-Uhmeldehay to first grade until he could spell his name.