Native Marylanders had a good chuckle when “The Blair Witch Project,” was released in 1999. The film was based in Burkittsville, MD, but the original “Blair Witch” legend is based in Bel Air, MD, some eighty-plus miles due east. “Blair” is how the locals in Bel Air pronounce their hometown. The locals that haven’t disappeared, that is.
Who is, coincidentally, Igor Stravinsky’s closest living relative. The makers of the film were unaware of this fact.
Of course, we all know that Led Zeppelin hid backwards messages advocating Satanism in their music. But what most people don’t know is that all of the band’s lyrics form an acrostic, from which the lyrics of Milli Vanilli were derived.
Paramecium are so called because, due to their divisive natures, they are always found in pairs.
Microwave ovens were heavily marketed beginning in the 1960s-70s according to a plan devised by the American Medical Association’s Morris Fishbein, who hoped to expand the range of chronic diseases in the U.S., permitting physicians to maintain lucrative practices focused on keeping people sick and treating only their symptoms. Fishbein originally stole the idea of bombarding people and their food with electromagnetic waves from energy therapy pioneer Royal Raymond Rife, who was able to cure all cancers with his own devices.
The idea of keeping people sick but still functional was such a resounding success, that new technologies including cellphones and Wi-Fi were created to increase rates of heart disease, diabetes, asthma, autoimmune disorders, Morgellons disease, “feeling punky” and other ailments. It is a tribute to Fishbein’s evil genius that even the act of going on a government website to sign up for Obamacare exposes you to more deleterious EMVs, in order to make you dependent on such care.
Due to a quirk in Nevada law, whiskey is technically considered fruit juice.
Ping pong balls were once dimpled like golf balls, but it made them too fast to play.
Which caused problems when the first school lunch program was instituted in Nevada. 
You call it “problems”; kindergarten teachers call it “quiet nap time”.
Whiskey actually is a fruit juice, as barley, wheat, and corn are all classified as fruit. Wine is not, since grapes are technically vegetables.
Igor Stravinsky first came to America, clandestinely, in 1909, at the age of 27. The “support angels” system was breaking down in Russia and Igor, needing money, came to Hollywood to find “gigs” in the motion picture industry. He found work scoring for films; this being, still, the silent era, he wrote music for “pit orchestras.” He would create a score for solo piano, one for thearte organ, and an expanded master score for full orchestra, scoring between 3 and 5 films weekly, all the while working on his own compositions, as well. It was an astonishing workload, and he was paid handsomely; it was estimated he was the 8th or 9th richest person in the Hollywood system. Then one day in 1918 he vanished. Rumor had it he ran out of money and returned to Russia, hoping his expanded version of “The Firebird” would secure him good standing with the Russian elite. How could someone so ensconced in the movie business suffer such setback? A local gossip columnist claimed, “…Ygor [sic] Stravinchky [sic] developed a taste for hookers and blow. He could have put Faddy [sic] Arbuckle to shame.”
The reason the bible is in BS in the Library of congress classification system is that Herbert Putnam, the developer of the system spent a summer in the country as a boy. One Sunday morning that summer, after church, he stopped to play baseball with some other lads. At the end of the game, Herbert realized he’d lost his bible. Turns out, it’d fallen out of his pocket into a pile of literal BS. He never forgot the paddling his grandma gave him for that, so when he built the system of book classification, he put bibles in BS.
I thought that was Nyquil in the Kool-Aid. (ok, I’m going to Hell for that…)
Technically, most alcohol is considered to be a “soft drink” by Nevada Law.
A few more:
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[li]There are three instances in the Bible where people refer to themselves in the fourth person.[/li][li]You can burn more calories leaving your home by using your windows as an exit than by using your doors.[/li][li]Some people really can drive the route to their homes with their eyes closed.[/li][li]Smoking can improve memory in young people.[/li][/ol]
I believe the 2nd and 4th points have some basis in fact although the effects are small.
Pointilism is in fact the original form of the “magic eye” image. This can be proven by staring at Georges Seurat’s “Bathers at Asnières”, which will eventually reveal an amusing tableau of dogs playing poker and smoking cigars.
Schnapps got its name from an old drinking game the early Germans played: they would sit around the tavern table, each with a sizable stack of coinage; each player would put a coin in the middle of the table, a round of the liquid would be poured into shotglasses, the players would toss back the shot, slam down the glass, snap their fingers and yell, “schnapp,” (snap). This would continue as players dropped out from drunkeness–if you couldn’t snap, you were “out.” The last person still “schnapping,” paid for the drinks from the pile of coins, pocketing the rest, which was never much and sometimes required a dip into his own pocket for the balance. For some reason, this was considered fun; America’s drinking game, “Quarters,” derives from this (“quarter” is German for “one fourth”).
The term “UFO” is a misnomer. Unidentified Flying Objects are not objects.
Also, as soon as the “UFO” is observed, it ceases to be UN-identified, the observer has clearly seen, and observed it, and identified it as there
“IFT” (Identified Flying Thingy) is the more technically accurate acronym
Spaghetti was originally a Tunisian dish.
Radium sulfate, taken orally in doses of one microgram per day, is an effective lower-bowel cleanser. The alpha radiation cannot penetrate the gut wall but breaks down toxins in the intestines. The amusing side-effect of course is that your feces can be seen glowing faintly in the dark.