Actually, officially it has never been removed from the books, but since Rumania has been the only country to field a team during any of the past several decades, no Olympic-level matches have been played since their narrow win over Finland (the sole other competitor that year) in 1952.
Just before her retirement from ballet, Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias was asked to tour with the Starland Vocal Band when singer Margot Chapman came down with a case of tonsillitis that was expected to keep her mute for 8-12 weeks. Although Fonteyn couldn’t actually sing, it was easier than having new personalized T-shirts made. Her impromptu ballet moves on stage didn’t help, either. The tour was a bust.
When asked, “Which of the Three Wise Men do you like the least?” people invariably go with Balthazar, or “the dude with Myrrh”. This holds true across all nationalities including people who have had little exposure to outsiders. Science asserts this demonstrates an innate humankind memory.
Mick Jagger is the illegitimate son of Lord Mountbatten.
Brains, due to the very dense nerve tissue, are the only part of the human body other than bones that will sink in water.
“Milwaukee” is a Native American term meaning “shithole near a lake.”
" A Great City on a Great Lake",eh?
Let’s see:
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[li]Dogs can only chase their tails counter-clockwise. They lose their balance and fall if they do so clockwise.[/li][li]The song is correct: It really IS five o’clock somewhere.[/li][li]it is impossible to tell a believable lie [/li][li]Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham is President Barack Obama’s favorite comedian according an article on The Daily Beast.[/li][li]The number of kittens a cat has directly corresponds with the number of weeks that the cat is pregnant.[/li][/ol]
Smuggling food aboard a USN submarine that is banned for producing excessive flatulence is a rank offense.
A dog breed that was routinely used in Nazi concentration camps, the German Shepherd, was developed by Jewish breeders.
The breed name is actually a corruption of “Sephardic”.
And “German” is a mistranslation of “Sherman”, named after the original breeder. The breed should have been known as the “Sherman Sephardic.”
The kind that divide every group into two species, and the kind that don’t!
No - it’s the flamingo and the flaminstay.
The discordant piano at the end of the David Bowie song “Aladdin Sane” is actually played by James Garner, of “Rockford Files” fame.
James Garner used to publicly play piano in blackface and a wig using the pseudonym Errol Garner. He stopped in the early 70s after his manager expressed concern about what might happen if this become public, and together they manufactured the story that Errol Garner “died”.
When the “lion dog” was brought from China to Europe in 1930, the leader of the presenting troupe committed a grave breach of etiquette: when asked the name of the “adorable, little” canine, the head of the group sneezed into the open air, not having time to cover his mouth. He was going to relay, “Lion Dog,” but to keep from losing face, he let “Shih Tzu” become the name of the breed in Europe. When you see visiting Chinese laugh when approaching the animal, keep that in mind.
Despite their appearance, whales are not fish – they’re arthropods.
In Reno, it is legal to shoot a man just to watch him die.
This law was recently ruled unconstitutional by the state Supreme Court based on gender discrimination. It was illegal to shoot a woman just to watch her die. The legislature had to either criminalize man killing, or decriminalize woman killing, and for unstated reasons chose the former.
Stalin was fond of the Russian equivalent of April Fools’ Day jokes (which take place on June 17 in Russia, as the Russian phrase for “the seventeenth of June” is a near-homophone of the Russian phrase for “a pocket full of borscht!”, which in turn is an expression of obscure origins yelled when someone does something foolish or clumsy, such as a waiter dropping a tray full of food).
Stalin being Stalin, his taste in pranks was rather rough, and ran to having people dragged out of Central Committee meetings and subjected to mock executions. Many a high-ranking Soviet official went from mortal terror to hearty laughter upon being dragged into a dank basement room in the Lubyanka, hearing the “click!” of the action of an unloaded Makarov, and then hearing “A pocket full of borscht!” in Stalin’s unmistakeable Georgian accent.
Decriminalizing woman killing would have undoubtedly led to the shooting deaths of more than a few sex workers in Reno, which would have violated sections of the Federal Right To Work Acts, leaving Reno open to all kinds of lawsuits, both local and Federal; Reno lobbyists immediately sprang into action. It’s always the lawyers.