David Ginsburg’s imminent post-Bork nomination to the Supreme Court by President Reagan in 1987 was withdrawn when reports of his pot-puffing past became public.
Nitpick: Ginsburg’s first name is Douglas.
He once served as a law clerk for then-Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
The Marshall Tucker Band, best known for their hit “Heard it in a Love Song,” had no one named “Marshall” or “Tucker” in it. The name was that of a piano tuner whose name was on a key to a warehouse where they were rehearsing.
A Friar Tuck with Robin Hood’s band in the historical period of Richard the Lion-Hearted would have been impossible, because the period predates friars in England. However, the association of the Robin Hood with Richard I was not made until the 16th century; the early ballad “A Gest of Robin Hood” names his king as “Edward”.
King Richard the Lionheart, son of Henry II and Catherine of Aragon, has long been thought to have been gay; some contemporaries believed he might have had a fling with the King of France.
(psssst, Eleanor of Aquitaine)
“Dieu et mon droit”, supposedly first uttered by England’s Richard I, Coeur de Lion, is an anagram of “motto I die under”.
George Plimpton spent a month at the Detroit Lions’ summer training camp, working out with real players like Alex Karras and Night Train Lane. He documented the experience in the novel Paper Lion, which was later made into a movie featuring Alan Alda as Plimpton (plus Karras and Lane as themselves).
The lion in Bob Marley’s Iron Lion Zion represents Haïlé Selassié I, king of Ethiopia and Messiah to the Rastafarians. It refers to the Lion of Judah, which appeared on the royal flag of Ethiopia.
Actually, Karras wasn’t on the team with Plimpton – he had been suspended for gambling on games, though Plimpton did tell some Karras stories he heard from other players.
Back to the game:
Haïlé Selassié is the only world leader to address both the League of Nations and the United Nations.
:smack: :smack: :smack: Of course you’re right.
After World War I, President Woodrow Wilson and Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge of Mass. clashed over whether and under what circumstances the U.S. would join the League of Nations. Wilson became physically disabled while touring the country in support of the League, was unable to secure Senate approval for League membership, and left office a broken man.
The Archies featured Archie Andrews on guitar, Reggie Mantle on guitar or bass, Veronica Lodge on keyboards, Jughead Jones on drums, and Betty Cooper on the tambourine.
The 1968 pop hit “Sugar, Sugar”, under the name of The Archies, was recorded by studio musicians assembled by Don Kirshner. It was the only time a fictional band has reached a real #1 on the Billboard Top 100.
The actual lead singer for The Archies was a session singer named Ron Dante. Dante was also the lead singer for the parody group The Detergents, who had a hit song with Leader of the Laundromat. While recording music for The Archies, Dante was also lead singer for the group the Cuff Links, which had a top ten hit with Tracy.
The two turtles owned by Rocky Balboa in the original Rocky were named Cuff and Link.
Except for the #1 hits produced by the Chipmunks, the Partridge Family, and The Heights (and arguably the Monkees), that is.
You mean I can’t trust Wiki? 
According to lore, Ancient Greek poet and playwright Aeschylus was killed by a ballistic turtle, when an eagle mistook his shiny bald head for a rock (on which eagles drop turtles in order to break their shells). The fate of the turtle is unknown.
In William Shakespeare’s poem, The Phoenix and the Turtle, the final word of the title refers not to a reptile, but to the turtle dove.
In the King James Bible, the 46th word of the 46th Psalm is “shake,” while the
46th word from the end is “spear,” While this is probably coincidental, it has led to widespread speculation that William Sharkespeare was the translator.
The general editor of the King James Bible (which was a massive undertaking) was Lancelot Andrewes, a scholar and poet who it is believed took a great role in the prose of the scripture. He is also on the ever growing list of suspects for “people who wrote Shakespeare’s plays and poems” though a very large number of scholars still believe Shakespeare’s plays were written by Shakespeare.