Oxbows have created hundreds of map oddities.
I remember being driven to the airport in Omaha, and being told that we just drove through Iowa.
Angle Inlet Minnesota. The only way to get to the rest of the United States is by boat, plane or driving through Canada. Must be an interesting story.
Likewise - Point Roberts WA.
Today’s trivia quiz…what did these musicians do before they became famous? Match the profession in the choices to the musician below.
abattoir worker…ball boy (tennis)…butcher’s delivery boy…GAP sales assistant…grave digger…hospital porter…janitor…market stall owner…math teacher…pizza house cook…toy factory worker…upholsterer
Art Garfunkel
Jack White
Tom Waits
Keith Richards
Patti Smith
Kanye West
Rod Stewart
Freddie Mercury
Mick Jagger
David Bowie
Ozzy Osbourne
Kurt Cobain
Art Garfunkel-math teacher
Jack White-upholsterer
Tom Waits-pizza house cook
Keith Richards-ball boy (tennis)
Patti Smith-toy factory worker
Kanye West-GAP sales assistant
Rod Stewart-grave digger
Freddie Mercury-market stall owner
Mick Jagger-hospital porter
David Bowie-butcher’s delivery boy
Ozzy Osbourne-abattoir worker
Kurt Cobain-janitor
28 Boring Day Jobs Musicians Did Before They Were Famous
From the article:
Kurt was once asked to describe grunge from a janitorial perspective, “It’s a fine mixture of cleaning solvents, not to be used in the toilet. When I was a janitor I used to work with these guys Rocky and Bullwinkle. They’d clean the toilet bowls with their bare hands and then eat their lunch without washing their hands. They were very grungy.”
This one isn’t true, so I’m doubtful of the accuracy of the others. I recalled that he wrote about it in his autobiography, so I looked it up and found this on Wikipedia:
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Interesting. Of all the ones they posted it’s the only one I’d heard before; that story’s been going around for years.
Perhaps you’ve heard of the Alice Cooper chicken incident, where a chicken ended up on stage? He thought he could toss the chicken and it would fly away. Instead the audience tore it apart.
http://matthewnewton.us/blog/alice-cooper-and-the-chicken-incident-of-1969/
Technically I guess Michigan and Illinois share a border, but under that definition, I would consider Hawaii and California border states. There is no landmass between them
There are no roads (or bridges) connecting the Kentucky Bend to Missouri. The KY Bend borders Tennessee.
The Minnesota Inlet and Pt Roberts Wash? How are they applicable? You can get from Minnesota to Canada via road, likewise Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa and the Dakotas.
And from Washington, you can get to Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia via road
One thing I’ve always debated was whether the Great Lakes water should count as water within a state when you count which states have the most water, because if it does then every Great Lakes state with the possible exception of Indiana would have more fresh water than every other state in the lower 48 and probably Alaska.
Etta James (“At Last”) sang backup on Chuck Berry’s “Back In The USA”. Granted they were labelmates at Chess Records, so it’s not that strange after all, but their music seems so different.
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Don’t know about other states but here in NC there is no education requirement to be a licensed real estate agent. Just have to be 18 and a citizen and pass the license test.
I’m not entirely sure this is in response to me, but for example, just browsing around the western side of the river in google maps I ran across this road that crosses a border between Kentucky and Missouri. There’s probably a bunch more.
Watching a documentary on Stephen Sondheim, I learned that when his parents got divorced when he was ten, his mother (who had custody) didn’t like him very much and used to dump him on the family of one of her friends on a regular basis. The friend: Oscar Hammerstein.
Sondheim said that Hammerstein taught him more about writing musicals in one afternoon than anyone else taught him for the rest of his life.
That weird way of walking that the character Saru from Star Trek: Discovery has, waving his hands oddly behind him, is based on the actual walk of extremely tall British footballer Peter Crouch. Sadly I can’t find a video of Crouch just walking but he does indeed walk like that.
ETA: here’s the closest exampleI could find, although it’s obviously not his normal casual stroll.
And Saruwalking.
American women gained wide legal rights, such as property ownership, inheritance and private contracts, when they settled in Tejas, under the Spanish law of Mexico. But then immediately lost them with the declaration of Texas independence and then statehood.
https://www.amazon.com/Spanish-Colonial-Women-Law-Complaints/dp/1632931044 (Scroll down to read summary)
Cite? I haven’t heard that before and a search turned up nothing. But I did find this:
For a good while Harvard would only hire alums to be president. If they found someone they wanted to hire and he was not an alum they would give them an honorary degree.
Linked article tells how some unusual airport codes came to be. For instance, why is O’Hare “ORD” when there’s no D in O’Hare?
James Stockdale who was a POW in Vietnam and ran as VP with Perot in 1992 was involved in the Gulf of Tonkin incident. He also won the medal of honor. He said there were no Vietnamese PT boats on the 2nd day so he could not understand why he was ordered to attack since there was no enemy,
I have no idea how well known this is, but it amazed me when I saw it in a documentary the other night: in 1966 Neil Young - yes, that Neil Young - got a record deal with Motown. OK, so it was as part of a band, but hell - Motown??
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And not just any band…per your link, who else was in it?
She’s a super freak…who keeps me searchin’ for a heart of gold.
Random musical hommage: RIP Barry Steven Cowsill (September 14, 1954 – August 29, 2005) Aged 50 years. He died in Hurricane Katrina.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiMCTjO_dHI