The “wishbone formation” in American football consists of the quarterback under center, a fullback directly behind the quarterback, and two halfbacks behind, and to either side of, the fullback (thus forming a “Y”, or wishbone, shape). The wishbone was commonly used in college football during the 1970s and 1980s.
Guitarist Andy Powell is the only musician to have been part of every incarnation of the British rock band Wishbone Ash.
The Ash Grove, a traditional Welsh folk song, has been documentably used in various versions since the early 19th century. It has been used both as its own song with its own lyrics, and as the melody for at least three different hymns.
When Wishbone Ash’s “Blind Eye” was first released as a single in the US, the vocal track was been edited out to make it an instrumental.
During the early Seventies, cartoonist Chester Gould made the ill-advised decision to modernize his “Dick Tracy” comic strip. He sent Tracy to battle crime in outer space, married Tracy’s son to a Moon Maiden, and introduced a hippie cop named Groovy Grove.
Heh. I just read “The Prince and the Pauper” with my son.
Three Apollo astronauts have publicly criticized the Obama Administration’s budget plans for NASA, especially its cancellation of the Constellation program and a return to the Moon for the establishment of a base there.
For the first 3 years after the Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles, they played in the Coliseum with an insanely close and high left field wall. Outfielder Wally Moon’s home runs over the wall were nicknamed “Moon Shots”.
At least three additional Apollo moon missions (Apollo 18, 19, and 20) were planned, but never conducted. Some equipment from those canceled missions was used in the Skylab and Apollo/Soyuz missions, while other equipment wound up in museums.
The nymph Daphne had herself transformed into a laurel tree, rather than succumb to the lusty god Apollo.
Daphne Moon was the physical therapist for Martin Crane, Dr. Frasier Crane’s dad and a police officer who retired after being wounded in the line of duty, on the TV sitcom Frasier.
A legend in western Massachusetts is that the five main characters on “Scooby Doo” represented the “Five Colleges” of the Amherst area. Fred and Daphne, the preppies, stood for Amherst College and Mount Holyoke respectively. Velma, the obvious lesbian, represented Smith. Shaggy was a stoner and therefore went to Hampshire College. Scooby, the largest character by far, and who was smarter than he looked, was a UMass dog.
Actor Kurtwood Smith played a sociopathic bad guy in Robocop, a dignified alien president in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country, and a cantankerous dad in That '70s Show.
The titles of each episode of Season 5 of That 70s Show were taken from the titles of Led Zeppelin songs; the episode titles from Seasons 6, 7 and 8 of the show were taken from songs by The Who, The Rolling Stones, and Queen, respectively.
Frankie Valli and the 4 Seasons released several singles, including a popular cover of Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right,” using the alias Wonder Who.
Wonder Woman was created by Dr. William Mouton Marsten, a psychologist who helped develop the lie detector. The comic reflected Marsten’s feelings about women being sexually submissive and had them getting tied up a lot.
The Guess Who were the first Canadian band to have a number one hit on the U.S. charts, with “American Woman.”
Guess Who co-founder and guitarist Randy Bachman later co-founded Bachman-Turner Overdrive.
Janine Turner, who played an Alaskan pilot on*** Northern Exposure***, is a friend of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, and campaigned for the Mccain-Palin ticket i n2008.
[del]Mona Lisa Overdrive is the final volume of William Gibson’s cyberpunk trilogy that begins with Necromancer and continues with Count Zero.[/del]
Janine Turner once dated Chicago Cubs first baseman Mark Grace.
Demi Moore played Janine Turner’s sister on General Hospital in 1982-1983. Janine was blond in those days, and it was Demi’s first role with any major exposure.