Elton John and Bryan Ferry are among the people who, at different times, failed auditions to become the lead singer of King Crimson.
However, Crimson lyricist Pete Sinfield was so impressed by Ferry that he produced the first Roxy Music album.
Crimson and gold (or closely-related variants) are the official colors of Oberlin College, the University of Southern California, the U.S. Marine Corps, Gryffindor House at Hogwarts, and the Kingdom of Spain.
The University of Alabama football team has been known as the Crimson Tide for just over a century- why they are called that is a matter of debate. Their mascot has been the elephant since 1930 which is also a matter of debate, but may be due to the Groucho Marx pun that follows his joke about catching an elephant in his pajamas:
Over 3000 posts and we still don’t have a winner? 
Tulane University in New Orleans is the home of the Green Wave. Several of its teams were eliminated due to the effects of the green wave of Hurricane Katrina.
Hurricane Katrina came ashore in August 2005, overrunning the levees and swamping the city of New Orleans. The response of the Bush Administration to the disaster was strongly criticized by many, and FEMA Director Michael “Helluva job, Brownie” Brown soon resigned his post.
Big Bad Leroy Brown is the baddest man in the whole damn town.
No crook has ever gotten away with a crime in Idaville, Florida, due to the brilliance of amateur detective Leroy “Encyclopedia” Brown.
(The readers always figured it out first 
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Ida Lupino, who starred opposite Humphrey Bogart in High Sierra and They Drive By Night, is credited as Hollywood’s first female director of a film noir for The Hitch-Hiker.
243 Ida is an asteroid in the main belt, named after a nymph in Greek mythology. Ida (the nymph) raised the god Zeus after he was left on Mount Ida (Crete) by his mother, the Titan (goddess) Rhea.
Zeus had many mistresses and flings, but was married to the long-suffering but occasionally wrathful Hera, after whom Heracles (Hercules) was named.
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first movie, following his bodybuilding career, was “Hercules in New York”, in which he starred under the name Arnold Strong.
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s college degree is in business and international economics, earned from the University of Wisconsin-Superior, through correspondence courses in the 1970s.
Ahnuld S. of California and Jennifer Granholm of Michigan, both governors, are ineligible to the Presidency, as both are naturalized citizens - Ahnuld from Austria, and Jennifer from Canada.
Arnold Stang (who costarred with Schwazenegger in Hercules in New York was known for his distinctive voice, which lent itself to various cartoons, most notably Top Cat
Tom Cruise played a Navy pilot nicknamed “Maverick” in the 1986 action-adventure-romance Top Gun. Tony Scott directed the movie, which grossed over $350 milllion worldwide.
Producer Ridley Scott’s current projects include ROBIN HOOD (starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett), the miniseries version of Ken Follett’s PILLARS OF THE EARTH starring Ian McShane (Deadwood) as the villain Bishop Waleran, and a prequel to ALIEN.
Twenty-five-year-old Barbara Newhall Follett, the daughter of critic Wilson Follett and an author of such books as The House Without Windows and Eepersip’s Life There, walked into some Vermont woods in 1939 and was never seen again.
Montpelier, Vermont, at roughly 8000 residents, is the smallest state capital (by population) in the United States. (I’ve also read that it’s the only state capital without a McDonalds, but I haven’t been able to corroborate that.)
{Hmmm, may, in fact, be true. The restaurant locator on the McD website lists the nearest locations as being in Barre.}
Ronald McDonald wears size 29 EEE shoes.