The guy who wrote I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus also wrote the lyrics to the song the Confederate POWs sing while Tuco is being tortured in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
There also used to be poetry contests in the early modern Olympics.
And played at The Overlook Hotel in Colorado, as readers of Stephen King’s novel The Shining know. Jack Torrance chases his family with a roque mallet, not an axe (as Jack Nicholson does in the Stanley Kubrick film). In the 1997 TV movie remake, David Weber as Jack uses a roque mallet, as in the book. (King had more “pull” on the TV movie, which he did a cameo in, and probably was responsible for switching it back.)
That’s a strange one.
I always thought that the thought experiment of looking at life like a Martian anthropologist referred back to Mr. Skygack, but the Wiki article on Martian scientist doesn’t mention the strip.
Of course, whenever somebody calls something a “first” somebody else will come along finding an earlier example. (Embarrassingly, it’s happened to me.)
The Stripper’s Guide (to newspaper comic strip history, you perverts) brings up earlier examples and settles on The Marsoozalums.
Service on Montreal’s REM rapid-transit system was interrupted due to a lightning strike. have any other cities has this issue?
Lightning strike causes morning rush-hour outage on Montreal’s REM | CBC News
While most people know that allied forces crossed the Rhine in World War II via the Ludendorff Bridge, which the Nazis failed to blow up. And while that was an important factor, the main reason they were able to succeed was due to the DUKW (duck) vehicles, which could travel on both water and land. This allowed the allies to cross and supply troops without having to transfer cargo from a boat to a truck. The Germans had not expected this and thought they could attack any invaders while they were offloading and transfering things to truck.
The Ducks were used previously at D-Day and elsewhere, but this usage essentially stopped the Rhine from being a barrier.
The 1908 Olympic Tug of War was a source of huge controversy. There were rules about footwear etc (tug of war was usually conducted on sandy-soil surfaces). The British entered Police teams who wore massive heavy hobnailed boots with huge protruding spikes, and, in the wake of the inevitable protests, they claimed that the boots were standard issue Police footwear.
You can’t beat old time Olympics for some good old rules shenanigans.
The Ducks lived on, and until 2017 a couple were in use as an amphibious tourist excursion in London, sticking mainly to the roads but going briefly down the Thames. Aside from a slight tendency to go on fire, they were still running well and it wasn’t till the construction of a super-sewer cut off their access point (next to the MI6 building because sure, why not) that the tours stopped.
Seattle also had tourist ducks. Might still, as far as I know.
They were operating in Pittsburgh a few years ago. My buddies and I took a ride on one into the Ohio River.
As the “Homefield DIsadvantage” switches back to Cleveland, and if the Sox do win the series 3-2, it will be only the 3rd 5 game series in history to be decided by the visiting team winning all 5 games. The other 2 were 2010 and 2012. Before you ask, only one 7 game series, the 1919 World Series, was decided by the visiting team winning all 7 games.
Took one in Boston a couple of decades ago. Great fun until one of your toddlers tries to climb out the window to get at an actual duck.
The Ducks are still running in Boston. Heck, if they got rid of them, Boston sports teams wouldn’t have anything to ride in their Victory parades.
Salem, MA used to have Duck Tours, but they stopped a quarter of a century ago when new rules kept them from using the ramps they’d depended on.
It seems the Wisconsin Dells still have their duck tours going. I’m not sure where they might still be running elsewhere.
This page lists US cities that still have Duck Tours:
And it was 8 years ago when there was a tragic accident in Missouri involving a duck boat.
There’s one in Cape Town.
As a eight tear old kid, I loved the short drive/cruise I had in Southhampton (UK), but when I recently took my kids on the DUCK-W, despite being similarly aged, they were not very impressed.
I blame cartoons, a truck that was also a boat was a marvel to me, but to them, just another episode of PAW Patrol or whatever TV they’d recently watched.
You can beat the Germans in a World War or two, but bureaucracy gets you in civilian life in the end.
Right. Turns out that an 80-year old military design intended to cross short stretches of water on the battlefield isn’t actually all that suitable and safe for tourists, especially in open water and bad weather conditions. Their amphibious capability in particular leads to them being much less seaworthy than a dedicated watercraft.
Off by only a century 
That was the 2019 WS between Washington and Houston. 1919 was famous for something else.
AH!! LOL
Hey, what’s a century between friends? 