The house band on “The Muppet Show” was Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, consisting of of Dr. Teeth on vocals and keyboards, Animal on drums, Floyd Pepper on bass guitar, Janice on guitar, and Zoot on saxophone.
Statler and Waldorf are a pair of Muppet characters known for their cantankerous opinions and mutual penchant for heckling. In “The Muppet Show”, the two were always trashing Fozzie Bear’s humor. They appeared in all but one episode of the show.
Statler and Waldorf appear in the Muppet Christmas Carol as the ghosts of the Marley brothers, scaring Scrooge played by Michael Caine with a catchy little number: “We’re Marley and Marley ooooooooo”. It’s always the highlight of the movie for the Piper Cub. 
Michael Caine, asked why he appeared in such terrible movies as Jaws 4, said, “I haven’t seen Jaws 4, but I have seen the very nice patio it put onto my house.”
Michael Caine is one of only two actors nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to 2000s The other one is Jack Nicholson. Laurence Olivier was also nominated for an acting Academy Award in five different decades, beginning in the 1930s and ending in 1978.
One of Caine’s best films was Sleuth, for which both he and Laurence Olivier received Academy Award nominations for Best Actor.
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Michael Caine and Sean Connery acted together in only two films together, and both were in the 1970s. In 1975, The Man Who Would Be King, a Rudyard Kipling story, also starred Christopher Plummer and included filming locations in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, Glen Canyon in Utah, and Todgha Gorge in Morocco standing in for the Khyber Pass. In 1977, A Bridge Too Far also starred Ryan O’Neal and Gene Hackman, and included filming locations in The Netherlands and England.
1977 was a watershed year for home computing, with three very successful and influential microcomputers being introduced: The Apple 2, the Commodore 64, and the TRS-80. It marked the beginning of home computing moving from an obscure hobby to one of the foundations of the economy.
Hetch-Hetchy Valley, located within Yosemite National Park, was flooded in 1923 after the construction of O’Shaughnessy Dam, to form Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. Hetch-Hetchy Valley before the flooding was said to rival Yosemite Valley in beauty, and was at one time, the summer home to the Miwok and Paiute Native American tribes of California. Hetch-Hetchy Reservoir, which drains the Tuolumne River watershed totalling 459 square miles, began delivering water to San Francisco in 1934, and remains the primary source of fresh water for the city and surrounding communities.
Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy (1844 – 1881) was a British poet and herpetologist of Irish descent, born in London. He is most remembered for his ode beginning with the words “We are the music makers, /And we are the dreamers of dreams.” From 1874 until his premature death in 1881 he described six new species of reptiles, and after his death he was honored in the specific name, oshaughnessyi, of four new species of lizards described by Albert Günther and George Albert Boulenger.
Bazinga is a genus of rhizostome jellyfish with only one known species, Bazinga rieki, found off the central eastern coast of Australia.
Marine biologists Lisa-Ann Gershwin and Peter Davie described the jellyfish in 2013, from the holotype, which was collected in shallow water in the Brunswick River in northern New South Wales at high tide. The specific epithet refers to Denis Riek, who photographed a specimen in northern New South Wales, leading to the discovery.
Bazinga rieki could not be placed in any known family or suborder of rhizostome jellyfish, so a new family Bazingidae was erected; it represents a new sub-order of Rhizostomae, called Ptychophorae.
The genus name, Bazinga, has two cultural references: firstly, as a colloquialism meaning “fooled you!” uttered by Dr. Sheldon Cooper in the United States TV program The Big Bang Theory, as the small size means the species was probably mistaken as a juvenile of other species, such as the similar Catostylus mosaicus; the term bazinga is also given to a seven-string harp, and the straight radial canals of this new species are reminiscent of such strings.
The mainland continent of Australia has five states, and one territory, Northern Territory. Northern Territory is slightly smaller, by about 10%, than Alaska. The largest state is Western Australia which is about the same size as the three largest USA states combined (AK TX & CA). The smallest AUS state on the mainland is Victoria, which is roughly the same size as either the 10th or the 11th largest USA states (OR, ID). New South Wales is the second smallest state. NSW is bigger than TX.
The AUS mainland is roughly the same size as the lower 48 of the USA.
Tasmania, the island state of Australia, was initially a territory of New South Wales and was independently established as a self-governing colony under the name Van Diemen’s Land (named after Anthony van Diemen) in 1825. In 1854 the present Constitution of Tasmania was passed and the following year the state received permission to change its name to Tasmania. In 1901, it became a state through the process of the Federation of Australia.
Tasmania is named for Abel Tasman, a Dutch explorer, and merchant, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 for the Dutch East India Company. He was the first known European explorer to reach the islands of Tasmania and New Zealand, and to sight the Fiji islands.
Fiji is an archipelago of more than 330 islands, of which 110 are permanently inhabited, and more than 500 islets, amounting to a total land area of about 7,100 square miles. The farthest island is Ono-i-Lau. The two major islands, Viti Levu and Vanua Levu, account for 87% of the population of almost 860,000.
Dutch explorer Abel Tasman was the first European explorer known to reach Tasmania and New Zealand. Here in San Jose CA both Tasman Drive and the Tasman Light Rail Station are named after Abel Tasman. ETA: Ninja’d, so adding that on his way back from Tasmania, Tasman almost wrecked at Fiji, and he charted the eastern tip of Vanua Levu.
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Dutch explorer Abel Tasman was the first European explorer known to reach Tasmania and New Zealand. Here in San Jose CA both Tasman Drive and the Tasman Light Rail Station are named after Abel Tasman. ETA: Ninja’d, so adding that on his way back from Tasmania, Tasman almost wrecked at Fiji, and he charted the eastern tip of Vanua Levu.
ETA 2: actually I was ninja’d twice! I can only type slowly, since I am at my platelets donation. I have a needle sticking out of my left arm.
In 2012, the nation of Kiribati began negotiating to buy 5,000 acres (2,023 hectares) of Vanua Levu to house its population, which is expected to need to move, as their islands are inundated by rising sea levels.
Viti Levu and Vanua Levu, in order, are the two largest islands of Fiji’s more than 330 islands.
Fiji just won its first-ever Olympic medal at Rio. Fiji won Gold in Men’s Rugby Sevens.
Congratulations to Fiji!
Goldfinger (1964) is a spy film, the third in the James Bond series and the third to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film’s plot has Bond investigating gold smuggling by gold magnate Auric Goldfinger and eventually uncovering Goldfinger’s plans to contaminate the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox.
When Sean Connery joined the Scottish Nationalist Party, he was issued membership card # 007.