The capital of Bahrain is Manama, without the final “na” that would make it a song by the Muppets’ Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.
Floyd Pepper is the bass player for The Electric Mayhem. His last name and outfit are an homage to The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”
The Simpsons episode “Homer’s Barbershop Quartet” included a scene that paid homage to the back cover of The Beatles’ SPLHCB.
Beetles are insects of the order Coleoptera, and are characterized by a hard, chitinous wings which act as a shell, covering the one true set of wings.
National Lampoon did this fake ad for the Volkswagen Beetle in the early 70s: If Ted Kennedy drove a Volkswagen, he’d be President.
Ted Kennedy was a Presidential contender in 1980, losing out to Jimmy Carter.
When Howard Carter first discovered King Tut’s tomb and peered into the darkeness, Lord Carnarvon asked him if he saw anything. Carter replied, “Yes, I see wonderful things”.
Jimmy Carter was attacked by a “killer rabbit” while fishing in his hometown of Plains, Georgia.
A bent eared Playboy bunny is one of the identifying tattoos used by the Black Gangster Disciples street gang.
Not true, but others often made the comparison.
Jimmy Carter confessed to having felt “lust in my heart” in a notorious 1976 Playboy interview.
A heart with wings is another one of the identifying tattoos used by the Black Gangster Disciples street gang.
Nitpick: Only team to cap an undefeated season by winning the Super Bowl, but during the 1920’s, four teams went through their respective campaigns without a loss.
Lyndon Johnson was a member of the Christian Church, which is often known as the Disciples of Christ.
Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple was originally affiliated with the Disciples of Christ.
For their White Nights and their eventual real mass suicide, the residents of Jonestown used tubs full of Flavor Aid, not Kool Aid (thus “drinking the Kool Aid” is a misnomer when used to mean blindly following).
Almost all of the Zealots defending the desert fortress of Masada committed suicide rather than surrender to the Roman legions laying siege.
The 1980s miniseries of Masada starred Peter Strauss as Jewish zealot leader Eleazar ben Yair and Peter O’Toole as Roman general Flavius Silva (and both, imo, were phoning it in).
Peter Strauss won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a miniseries or movie for The Jericho Mile in 1979
The Green Mile (1999) featured character actor Dabbs Greer in his last movie role, 8 years prior to his death. Greer was a native of McDonald County, MO, which still celebrates his fame with Dabbs Greer Day.
Roger Bannister, who ran the first 4-minute mile, became one of England’s leading neurologists.
Great- astorian made my joke superfluous.