The 1963 Broadway cast album of My Fair Martian sold originally for $14.25, but now may be found on Amazon for as little as $8 billion.
On January 12, 2015, a programming error led to all prices on Amazon being stated in Zimbabwe dollars instead of United States dollars, leading to a brief crisis in which the world banking system nearly collapsed.
Zimbabwe has, in coping with runaway inflation, used several different currencies over the years, including the dollar, pound, yen, new dollar, shekel, yuan, new new dollar, really new dollar, really really new dollar, no kidding this is the newest dollar you’ve ever seen, orsonbean and blawnox. The blawnox was used only between noon and 4:15pm on June 3, 1977 before being withdrawn by the Zimbabwean Central Bank as “too pretty.”
Zimbabwe and Zambia have long argued over who really owns Victoria Falls. Every year, on the anniversary of the “discovery” of the falls by David Livingstone, a Zimbabwean walks to the top of the falls and spits in the Zambezi River, which flows into Zambia. A Zambian native stands on the opposite bank and pelts the Zimbabwean with balls of bees wax, a monumental insult in all countries starting with the letter “Z”.
Due to the immense explosive pressure of falling water onto the base pool below Victoria Falls, more water actually is rising than is falling at the site at any given time. For this and many other reasons, Zimbabwe and Zambia have put aside their differences to celebrate Thanksgiving every 4th Thursday in November.
Being the curmudgeon (read: PITA) he was, Frank Lloyd Wright was going to name Fallingwater “Another House for Suckers,” until Mrs. Lloyd Wright threatened to remain in Pennsylvania indefinitely at her mother’s one-room tar-paper shack with the outhouse, and he would have to live there, with her, and her mother, as well.
Frank Lloyd Wright invented the wheel.
In addition to the wheel, Frank Lloyd Wright invented the Zimbawean really new dollar, Lombardy Pudding Elk antler polisher, masking tape and the spork.
Masking tape didn’t play a role in the making of the first masks in history as commonly believed.
The first use of the tape was to cover up or mask the names on the work uniforms* of KKK marchers.
After years of marching with masking tape hiding their identities, they came to realize that their faces could still be identified they took to wearing hoods and robes to hide their work uniforms.
*mostly the uniforms of service industries, and officers of the law.
Rank and file members of the Ku Klux Klan can be just about anybody, but to become an officer of the organization takes experience, confirmed racist views and a frontal lobotomy.
Experience, confirmed racist views and a frontal lobotomy are three requirements for a resident of Blawnox, PA to run for US President.
Residents of Blawnox have run for President of the United States just twice: Virgil “Stan” Phartuccio in 1904, Stan “Virgil” Phartuccio in 1952, and Gwyneth “Stan-Virgil” Phartuccio-Trump in 2016.
Virgilstan is a little known republic east of Minot, North Dakota. The male residents are all named Virgil and the women are all named Virgil as well. Nobody knows where the name of the republic came from or why it was never incorporated into the state of ND.
North Dakota is home to the most apocalypse cults per capita in the USA. They also had the most UFO cultists until a total of 878 members disappeared on the same day, April 8th, in the years 1961 to present, except for all the leap years.
“North Dakota” in the Chippewa language means “frozen hellhole”.
History little records the bitter wars fought by the Chippewa against their Sioux neighbors to the south in their bid to escape the frozen hellhole of North Dakota. Mainly because it didn’t happen.
Little records only play on little phonographs
Little records were invented and patented by Julius Philip Orson Bean Patrick Caesar “Caesar” Longbottom-Eustacian Little, an obscure New Jersey-born inventor who died penniless in 1977, and again the following year. No one wanted to buy a record that could only hold six seconds of music.
Julius Philip Orson Bean Patrick Caesar “Caesar” Longbottom-Eustacian Little wrote “Little Broadway” a musical that had 1,742 acts, each with six seconds of music. It was produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber, who stole the tunes for his monster hit “The Phantom of the Opera.”
Julius Philip Orson Bean Patrick Caesar “Caesar” Longbottom-Eustacian Little also wrote the first draft of Stuart Little, but E.B. White bonked him on the head and stole the manuscript, later passing it off as his own.