The (damn) Yankees have the most championships by far, with 27. To put it into perspective, they have as many as the next three teams combined, the St. Louis Cardinals (11), the San Francisco Giants (8), and the Boston Red Sox (8).
When the Mets played the Red Sox in the 1986 World Series, for Yankees fans it was a case of “Them vs. Them.” Yankee fans hate the Mets, and their rivalry with the Bosox is well known.
Before the Red Sox broke the “Curse of the Bambino” by winning the 2004’World Series, Yankee fans would jeer,
***1918! <clap, clap, clap-clap-clap>
1918! <clap, clap, clap-clap-clap>
1918 was the last time the Red Sox won the World Series and their drought lasted 85 years. As a San Francisco Giants fan, I kind of like that. It has been 27 years for the Dodgers. We may jeer,
***1988! <clap, clap, clap-clap-clap>
1988! <clap, clap, clap-clap-clap>
“The Clapping Song” is an American song, written by Lincoln Chase, originally arranged by Charles Callello and recorded by Shirley Ellis in 1965. The song was released shortly after Ellis had released “The Name Game”. The lyrics of “The Clapping Song” were borrowed from the song “Little Rubber Dolly”,a 1930s song recorded by the Light Crust Doughboys, and also feature instructions for a clapping game.
Shirley Ellis died in 2005. It is apparently not known if she had any children. She was born in the Bronx, and she died in the Bronx. When she released The Name Game in 1964, it went to #3 on the pop charts.
The Fleetwoods, who went to number one on the charts in 1959 with “Come Softly to Me” and “Mr. Blue”, consisted of Gary Troxel, Gretchen Christopher, and Barbara Ellis, all school friends from Olympia, Washington. The same three continued to perform until 1983, without ever changing personnel.
The Cadillac Fleetwood is a model of luxury car manufactured by Cadillac corporation from the 1985 through the 1996. At 225 inches overall, Fleetwood was the longest production car built in the U.S.
The Peel P50, a small 3-wheeled car produced in the UK’s Isle of Man from 1962 to 1965, is the world’s smallest-ever production car. It had a 49cc engine and no reverse gear. Instead of a reverse gear it had a handle on the exterior which could pick up one of the wheels and walked around to point the other way.
The Manx cat, distinguished by its absence of a tail, is a natural mutant, that evolved from early wild cats on the Isle of Man, where the tail-less feature became dominant through limited inbreeding. Manx is the only demonym in English that ends with the letter X. Coincidentally, the rare -nx terminal also occurs in “lynx”, another cat with no appreciable tail.
The Meyers Manx dune buggy is a small recreationally-oriented automobile, designed initially for desert racing by Californian engineer, artist, boat builder and surfer Bruce Meyers. It was produced by his Fountain Valley CA company from 1964 to 1971, in the form of car kits applied to shortened chassis of VW Beetles. The car line dominated dune racing in its time, breaking records immediately, and was eventually also released in street-oriented models, until the company’s demise due to tax problems after Meyers’s departure.
You can get a Meyers Manx today. New vehicles inspired by the original Manx buggy have been produced by Meyers’s re-founded operation, Meyers Manx, Inc., since 2000. The name and cat logo of the brand derives from the Manx cat, by virtue of the tailless breed’s and the shortened vehicle’s truncated “stubbiness”.
The Isle of Man is a self-governing British Crown dependency in the Irish Sea between England and Ireland. In the capital, Douglas, the Manx Museum traces the island’s Celtic and Viking heritage.
The Isle of View never actually materialized as a geographic name, owing the the risk of the name being misinterpreted, resulting in a perceived alienation of affections.
The Islets of Langerhans are not geographic, but are found in the pancreas, where they make the hormones insulin and glucagon.
“Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54’ N, Longitude 77° 00’ 13” W" is a novelette by Harlan Ellison.
John Marshall Harlan and his grandson John Marshall Harlan II both served as Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.
The etymology of Marshall (as an occupation) is from the Frankish mare (“horse”) + skalkoz (“servant”).
The Dukes of Norfolk are the hereditary Earls Marshal of the United Kingdom.
The Marshal of France (French: Maréchal de France, plural Maréchaux de France) is a military distinction, rather than a military rank, in contemporary France, that is awarded to generals for exceptional achievements. The title has been awarded since 1185, though briefly abolished (1793-1804) and briefly dormant (1870-1916) during its millennium of existence. It was one of the Great Officers of the Crown of France during the Ancien Régime and Bourbon Restoration and one of the Great Dignitaries of the Empire during the First French Empire (when the title was not “Marshal of France” but “Marshal of the Empire”). A Marshal of France displays seven stars. The marshal also receives a baton, a blue cylinder with stars, formerly fleurs-de-lis during the monarchy and Eagles during the First French Empire. It has the Latin inscription: Terror belli, decus pacis, which means “terror in war, ornament in peace”.
Juan Marichal, a pitcher for the San Francsco Giants, was the first foreign-born major league player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. But Martin DeHigo, a Cuban-born player preceded him based on his career in the Negro Leagues.
Juan Marichal pitched the final season of his career for the (ack - gag me!) Los Angeles Dodgers in 1975. In 1974 he pitched for the Boston Red Sox. He pitched for the San Francisco Giants 1960-1973.