The Ed Sullivan Show was on the air for 23 years, from 1948 to 1971. It set a record as the longest-running variety show in US broadcast history. In 1996, Ed Sullivan was ranked at #50 on TV Guide’s “50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.”
In 1966 on his show (or, “shoo”), Ed Sullivan mistakenly introduced Jim Henson’s Muppets as Jim Newsome’s Puppets.
The Ed Sullivan show that introduced the Beatles to America also had a performance from the London cast of Oliver! With the lead role played by Davy Jones, who later went on to front the Beatles’s clone the Monkees.
Oliver North, USMC, attended Annapolis together with Navy Secretary James Webb, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen, astronaut and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, USMC, and General Michael Hagee, USMC Commandant.
A list of names used by Bart to make prank calls to Moe’s Tavern, and their double entrenders, includes:
Amanda Hugginkiss A man to hug and kiss.
Ivana Tinkle I wanna tinkle
Hugh Jass Huge ass
Anita Bath I need a bath
Maya Buttreeks My butt reeks.
I.P. Freely I pee freely.
Jacques Strap Jockstrap
Al Coholic Alcoholic
Oliver Klozoff All of her clothes off.
Seymour Butz See more butts.
Homer Sexual Homosexual.
Mike Rotch My crotch.
Bea O’Problem B. O. problem
Haywood U. Cuddleme Hey, would you cuddle meN.
Eura Snotball You’re a snotball.
Ollie Tabooger I’ll eat a booger
Ahmed Adoudi I made a doodie
Maya Normousbutt My enormous butt
Drew P. Wiener Droopy wiener.
I.M.A. Wiener I am a weiner
Homer, Alaska is located on the Kenai Peninsula. The name Kenai is probably derived from Kenayskaya, the Russian name for Cook Inlet, which borders the peninsula to the west.
Tom Bodett was living in Homer, Alaska, when he was asked by Motel 6 to voice their commercials, “leaving the light on for you”… He was a regular contributor to NPR, from his home in Homer, which was literally the last town reachable on the most distant road in the US highway system.
According to maps.google.com the shortest driving distance from Homer AK to Key West FL is 5,337 miles.
However, from Deadhorse AK at Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Ocean, Key West is 5,493 miles away.
Harry S Truman, Democrat of Missouri, stayed in Key West, Fla. eleven times during his service as President: Harry S. Truman Little White House - Wikipedia
The operative word is “was”. At the time Bodett was reporting from there, the Prudhoe Bay road to Deadhorse was not a public thoroughfare, and remained private until 1994.
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According to maps.google.com the shortest driving distance from Homer AK to Key West FL is 5,337 miles.
However, from Deadhorse AK at Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Ocean, Key West is 5,493 miles away.
I wasn’t refuting it. I was playing off of it.
Harry Truman, throughout his presidency, insisted on taking a morning walk through Washington. Equally insistent, four secret service men went along. Every week, Truman walked to the bank to deposit his paycheck, representing his salary as President of the United States. Secret service men said the greatest danger he faced was being hit by a car while crossing the street. They had access to a traffic light intercept, so when Truman got to the corner, the light was always green.
Harry Truman was an artillery battery commander in the US Army.
The sheriff in the TV series **Twin Peaks **was named Harry Truman and played by Michael Ontkean.
Brian Dickson, future Chief Justice of Canada, lost a leg above the knee while serving with the Royal Canadian Artillery in Normandy in WWII. He was injured in an aerial attack which was likely friendly fire, either British or American.
By an odd coincidence a boyhood chum of Dickson, whom he had not seen in years, was serving with a nearby unit, saw the attack happening and tried to get it called off. The chum, named William Lederman, who became one of the greatest constitutional scholars of his generation, and would be cited by Dickson in some of his judgments.
ETA: originally played off “artillery” for the Truman post, so snuck “named” into it. I will not be ninja’d!
Chum salmon is one of the five species of commercially harvested salmon that inhabit the North Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea. In addition to Chum (also known as Dog salmon), there is also King salmon (aka Chinook salmon), Sockeye Salmon (aka Red salmon), Coho salmon (aka Silver salmon) and Pink salmon (aka Humpy salmon).
Chum is a generic term used to describe any edible material thrown over the side of a ship, as bait to attract other species. Widely used in the practice of attracting sharks, birdwatchers also throw chum out behind to boat to attract and observe pelagic species of birds.
Pelagius was a monk from Britain who started the Pelagian heresy, which eventually stated that man can renounce sin entirely on his own efforts, without God’s grace. Little is known of him, and his name itself only suggests that he came from the British Isles (from “pelagic”, meaning “islander”). It is not known how many of the principles of the Pelagian heresy he himself believed, or were added by his later followers.
The Horus Heresy is an ongoing series of science fantasy books written by various authors. The series takes place during the Horus Heresy, a fictional galaxy-spanning civil war occurring 10,000 years prior to the far future setting of Games Workshop’s “Warhammer 40,000” tabletop miniatures wargame. The war is described as a major contributing factor to the game’s dystopian environment.
Author Norman Rush, in Matings, wrote that:
“There is a school of thought, a heresy from the madhouse of heresies in the ninth century, that says God is good and is in control of every individual thing that happens, every event, but that unfortunately, the devil controls the timing.”
Beginning from the band Rush’s debut album in 1974, for the next 20 years they released 18 albums.