When former NY governor Nelson Rockefeller, that most recent holder of that office in the White House, accepted President Ford’s nomination, he commented “I never wanted to be VICE-President of anything!”
When Rockefeller accepted Ford’s nomination, the other two main contenders were then-United States Ambassador to NATO Donald Rumsfeld, whom Ford eventually chose as his Chief of Staff, and then-Republican National Committee Chairman George Bush.
Unverified (AFAIK) legend has it that through the many years “Rocky” was governor of NY, he never once spent a night in Buffalo. Although he made frequent appearances there, he was always careful to be out of town by sundown.
You can say that again!
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The short-lived Dabney Coleman sitcom Slap Maxwell is IIRC the only TV show to be based in Buffalo, N.Y.
The Buffalo Billlls are the only NFL team to play in four straight Super Bowls.
The crest of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police features a buffalo head (technically bison, but everyone calls them buffalo).
The world’s largest privately owned herd of buffalo, approximately 3,500 head, belonged to the late South Dakota rancher Roy Houck of the 50,000-acre Triple U Buffalo Ranch outside Fort Pierre, South Dakota. They now belong to Houck’s daughter, Kay Ingle. The bisons were used in the filming of Dances with Wolves (1990). One of the bisons was obsessed with Oreo cookies. Film producer Jim Wilson said, ”You could be 100 yards away, pull out an Oreo, and he’d take off like a bullet straight for you.” In fact, the enraged buffalo bearing down on a fallen boy in one of the movie’s bison hunt scene’s most terrifying moments was actually that buffalo running for an Oreo that was being held up behind the camera.
Adding: Kay Ingle no longer owns the ranch. It was recently sold. http://www.todayskccr.com/blog/triple-u-ranch-to-be-sold-in-private-deal/
The first Oreo Cookies were sold in Hoboken, New York, in March 1912. They have become so popular that the total number of Oreo’s sold since then, stacked on top of each other, could reach the moon and back more than five times. In case you’re wondering, that’s about 450 billion cookies and counting.
And while created in the United States, they are sold in over 100 countries around the world, the top five being the U.S., China, Venezuela, Canada and Indonesia.
Limited edition Oreo Cookies have been sold in a variety of flavors, but none so surprising as July 2015’s Oreo “Cookies & Cream.”
“Oreo” is a common slang term for a person who’s black on the outside but white on the inside. Related terms are “banana” - yellow on the outside - and “apple” - red on the outside.
George Jefferson (The Jefferson’s TV comedy) referred to Allan and Jenny Willis, children of interracial couple Tom and Helen Willis, as “zebras.”
Thomas Jefferson secretly funded an opposition newspaper while serving as Secretary of State in the Washington Cabinet, and lied about it when asked directly.
When the Sterns said that Mary Beth Whitehead threatened to kill Baby M, she denied it. When they said they had a tape of her saying it, she called them liars. It was only after she heard the tape that Whitehead suddenly “remembered” making the threat.
In Duck Soup, Chicolini (Chico Marx) dresses as Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho), President of Freedonia, to facilitate an escape. When questioned by pursuers, he replies “Are you going to believe me, or your lying eyes?”
Terrific observation. Meta-meta on mirror scene.
In the short-lived TV show Firefly’s pilot episode, the opening scene features the legendary Battle of Serenity Valley between the Browncoats and The Union of Allied Planets. Captain Malcolm Reynolds takes control of a cannon with a Weyland-Yutani logo inside of its display. Weyland-Yutani is the large conglomerate corporation in the Alien film franchise.
The Battle of Valley Forge ran from December 1777 to Jun 1778 and pitted George Washington against William Howe. During the months of the battle, France signed an alliance with the colonies. This alliance was celebrated at Valley Forge in May of 1778, during which Washington’s army repeatedly shouted, “Long live France! Long live the friendly powers! Long live the American States!”
Interior scenes for the film Silent Running, in which Bruce Dern saves the remains of Earth’s biosystem aboard a spaceship named Valley Forge, were filmed aboard the decommissioned Korean War aircraft carrier USS Valley Forge (LPH-8), which was docked at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard in Long Beach, California. Three freighters are shown in the film, the Valley Forge, the Berkshire, and the Sequoia. Five other ships that carried domes – the Yellowstone, Acadia, Blue Ridge, Glacier, and Mojave — are also mentioned. Each ship features a designation on the hull which notes the area from which some of the flora and fauna samples were taken. The Valley Forge is listed as “Bahia Honda Subtropical”, indicating at least some specimens were taken from this area of the Florida Keys
The California redwood (sequoia sempervirens) is the tallest living tree in the world.