The Beatle’s song, Yellow Submarine, was actually another poem written by that racist hack, Francis Scott Key. It was about the failed attempt of a Japanese sub to set the Ellwood Oil Fields afire and how this led to the internment of Japanese-Americans.
“Better interned than interred,” wrote Kyuzo “Iggy” Hashimoto’s Blawnox-born great uncle, Hideki Yo Yo Ma “Virgil” Phartuccio-Hashimoto, a noted squirrel fancier, chainsaw juggler and reluctant philatelist.
The International Philatelist Society was formed in the old quarter of Blawnox, PA inside the long-since abandoned Masonic Hall. The dank air was filled with cigar smoke, which caused the secret group of founders’ postage stamp collections to yellow and curl.
Yellow and Curl was a Beatles tribute group founded by the Beatles’s ex-wives Cynthia Lennon, Pattie Harrison, Heather Mills, and Maureen Starkey (who dyed her hair for the group). Rumor has it that they were a dynamite act, but Yoko Ono, Olivia Harrison, Nancy Stevall and Barbara Bach got an injunction against the group for “illegally cashing in on our husbands’ successes.”
Yellow and Curl produced their scathing musical YOKO ONO OK? OY! in Panama in 1991. The play opened to a full house, but the crowd returned the next night and burnt down the theater.
Rumors that this act of arson was orchestrated by Yoko Ono and/or Paul McCartney are wrong. It was orchestrated by Saturday Night Live’s Lorne Michaels, after he offered the Beatles $3,000 to come on the show and sing and they didn’t show up.
The Panama City Players was a notoriously untalented - some even said offensive - amateur theatrical group. A threatened arson attack closed down its July 1973 production of Fiddler on the Roof. Its June 1977 production of Hello, Dolly! led to three days of rioting; the opening night of its October 1990 run of Sunday in the Park with George was marred by a tear-gas attack that drove the cast from the stage, to the lusty cheers of the crowd. Its February 31, 2007 performance of The Diary of Anne Frank was so bad that it inadvertently entered theatrical lore: when Nazi troops first came onstage, several fed-up people in the audience shouted, “They’re in the attic!”
It is a little known fact that The Nazis were originally a homosexual theater troupe. What would become the Nazi salute originated on stage as a symbol for an erection.
The English word “sodomy” comes from the Middle English synne Sodomyke, Sodomyke being Mike’s more popular brother.
Sodomyke Herbert Walker Bushe, eighth Archbishop of Canterbury, is remembered today (if at all) for three things: his unusual first name, his role as an ancestor of the American political dynasty, his juggling skills, and his insistence on being addressed during High Mass as “Skippy.”
Sodomyke Herbert Walker Bushe would often appear in white face makeup and refuse to speak to anyone. He called these times “Minor Inconveniences, Major Enjoyments.” Eventually, the public used those initials and called him a MIME.
As the U.S. Supreme Court held in United States v. Some Guy in Whiteface and a Striped Shirt Who Isn’t Actually Marcel Marceau, 433 U.S. 321 (1977), mimes do not, in fact, have the constitutional right to remain silent.
As the U.S. Supreme Court held in United States v. Some Guy in Star Trek Wearing a Red Shirt, Star Trek does have the right to kill off any character it so chooses.
In the landmark Supreme Court decision Marbury vs Madison, Marbury held a 4 point lead with less than two minutes to go. Samuel Chase, playing forward for Madison, hit a line shot that caromed off of Marbury’s Bushrod Washington into the net for two. Then Chase stole the inbound pass from William Cushing and twisted a writ of mandamus for the tie. While the justices argued the call, John Marshall signaled a technical and Chase again successfully argued for the win. Thus the Court ruled that the judicial branch has the power to overturn unconstitutional laws as long as the clock has not expired and neither the defendants nor the plaintiffs have any time outs remaining.
In the landmark Supreme Court decision Kramer v. Kramer, Rex Kramer, Danger Seeker does not own a copyright over his own name and Rex Kramer, former commanding officer of the air raid over Macho Grande is free to use his name as he sees fit.
In the landmark Supreme Court decision Star Trek & Star Wars v. Star Fuck nobody owns the exclusive right to title a creative work “Star” followed by a word of four letters.
Kyuzo “Iggy” Hashimoto was so happy at the decision, he flashed the court members.
In the landmark Supreme Court decision Washington Monument v St. Louis Arch, the Court ruled that symbolic structures cannot sue each other.
In the landmark Supreme Court decision Jesus v. Andrew & Tim, the Court ruled that the composer and lyricists for *Jesus Christ Superstar * had to pay Jesus 5% of all the profits from the show. However, the resulting publicity was worth billions of dollars.
In the piddling Supreme Court decision Flame v Midnight, the Court ruled that it is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was one of the original Supremes, but she left soon after the group formed because the taller Supremes bullied her. Because no lawyer would take her case, she acted pro se and filed suit against them and Motown Records. Not unexpectedly, she lost miserably, but it did inspire her to go to law school.