Olga Andersson was the Swedish inventor who designed and the manufactured that country’s first cars. However the company she created was stolen out from her by her villainous brother Olaf and she was left with only a small portion of the profits, a few krona which she used to build a small veterinary hospital to help support homeless baby seals. At age 43 she was striken with a disabling disease from eating a spoiled tin of improperly pickled herring. Alone and abandoned by her family, Olga died in a blinding snowstorm still cuddling a last injured baby seal that whimpered and shivered in her arms. Quite the Saab story.
The first cars were named SAAB because one of Olga’s faults was she could not spelled. She also never realized she was the biological mother of Benny Andersson, one of the “B”'s in ABBA, who dropped out of school at age 15 because he could not spell.
ABBA didn’t write their own hit songs – Barry Manilow wrote Take a Chance on Me; Bruse Springsteen wrote Gimme Gimme Gimme; Carole King wrote Mamma Mia; Michael Jackson wrote Dancing Queen, and Lionel Richie wrote most of the rest. The only song they did write was Thank You For The Music (and, even then, Rod Stewart helped edit the lyrics afterward).
Bruce Springsteen wrote Gimme Gimme Gimme a man from New Jersey after midnight, but Rod Stewart edited it, figuring that a lyric like that written by a man named Bruce would be too embarrassing for New Jersey.
Annie-Xmas wrote Money, Money, Money and has been living off the royalties ever since.
Annie-Xmas also wrote Pink Floyd’s Money, The O’Jays For the Love of Money, Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase’s entrance theme, and Tommy James and the Shondells’ Mony Mony. The discrepancy with the title on that last song was due to the E on her typewriter getting stuck.
I also told John Landis to let Aretha Franklin sing a song in the restaurant scene of the Blues Brothers movie. The initial script did not have the number, but I happened to have a camera rolling, shot it, and Dan Ackroyd like it so much they put it into the movie, making it the only scene with a song and dance number in a place where people do not normally do song and dance numbers.
The number of internet searches for “Urethra Franklin” exceeds those for Aretha Franklin.
Ben Franklin’s urethra infection problems were very well known and whispered about amongst the ladies of ill repute in the thirteen colonies.
Ben Franklin was NOT Poor Richard. Samuel Adams was. Ben covered for Sam by taking the credit, because the last thing Sam Adams wanted was to be taken as a source of proverbial wisdom.
Ben Franklin’s worst invention was probably the electric kite. After the deaths of several children from terrible shocks, storm flying kites with metal keys at the base of the string were removed from the market. However, neither Franklin not his kite-making factory were ever found liable.
Ben Franklin & The Electric Kite was a five-man band that hit England in 1964, just as the Beatles were starting the British Invasion in the U.S. of A. No traces were ever found.
The Franklin Kite Maring Factory gave Hawkeye Pierce a full scholarship to medical school Unfortunately, he flunked out. Fortunately, he made a fortune backing an obscure 1960’s band and bought the Franklin Kite Making Factory, which he runs to this day.
Capital Records, distraught over the disappearance of their protegees, BF&TEK, hired a retired Army Special Forces colonel turned private detective to investigate the disappearance. They gave him an advance of reportedly over $3 million to help cover expenses and develop leads. However, he, too, dropped out of sight soon after landing in England, and rumors placed him several years later in Cambodia in 1968 where he was reportedly a warlord leader of a group of native warriors. A movie was made later dramatizing the search for the elusive colonel, and in a final insult, Capital Record lost the rights to the soundtrack of the movie in a bidding war with Elektra.
A retired Army Special Forces colonel turned private detective has turned up evidence that a notorious killer in a California prison hired a serial killer to kill the ex-wife of a famous football player turned announcer and movie actor, a white woman who was married to the black man, and her Jewish friend, and plant evidence to frame the ex-husband for the murder. This killer, who wanted to start a race war, figured that when the black man was found “guilty” of the double homicide of the white woman and the Jewish ma , the black community would rise up helter skelter and start the race war.
The detective notified the police, who ordered, upon threat of death, the legal system to find the framed killer innocent of all charges.
It is widely known that Charles Manson thought that the Beatles song Helter Skelter was a call for a race war. What Manson missed was that on your birthday, you were expected to do it in the road among piggies, blackbirds and raccoons like a mother nature’s son or daughter until a revolution reached back in the USSR. Art can be misunderstood.
Charles Manson hired Mark David Chapman to kill John Lennon and Michael Abram to kill George Harrison. The latter was not successful, but before his death Manson hired two more people. Paul and Ringo better watch out.
Oprah Winfrey been given the Ringo contract, and Paul’s demise is contingent upon the success of Kim Kardashian. Of course, Orson Bean, rogue assassin, may unleash the stoats on either of them independently.
Stoats were common as pets as early as 851 A.D., when Aetholwype I first domesticated one. He became known as Aetholwype The Fyngher when his pet chewed off all but one of his digits after a night of drunken debauchery. This led to his death in the Battle of Aethhole, when he was unable to use a sword to defend himself.
OJ Simpson was Manson’s first thought for the “Paul is dead” idea, but when he proved he couldn’t do a simple robbery without ending up in prison, OJ recommended Kim on the basis that “She needs to get out into the world and actually do something that will be remembered.” OJ also suggested that Kim kill Paul by chewing off all but one of his digits after they share a night of drunken debauchery. If nothing else, that will kill McCartney’s career.