Swedish band Ace of Base had one of the biggest albums in history with The Sign, featuring All That She Wants, The Sign, and Don’t Turn Around. It is on RIAA’s list of 100 best selling albums of all time.
“Smoke me a kipper. I’ll be back for breakfast” was Ace Rimmer’s catchphrase in Red Dwarf
MMA fighter and former UFC middleweight champion Rich “Ace” Franklin got his nickname from a physical resemblance to actor Jim Carrey of “Ace Ventura” fame. Frankliin has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a master’s degree in education, and is a former high school math teacher.
Franklin was the name of the first African-American character in Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip, among the first black characters in an otherwise white-populated strip.
When a French aristocrat criticized the Montgolfier balloon experiments while speaking to Benjamin Franklin, saying, “What are they good for?”, Franklin allegedly replied, “What good is a newborn baby?”
Husband and wife Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss starred in the 60s sitcom He and She about a comic book author. The cast included Kenneth Mars, Jack Cassady, and Hamilton Camp.
Hamilton Camp was also a folk singer and songwriter. Perhaps his best-known song, “Pride of Man,” is the first track of Quicksilver Messenger Service’s debut album.
Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, a former UFC middleweight champion and currently the holder of “Worst Mr. T Imitator in a Major Motion Picture” won his first championship in Japan’s Pride FC organization.
In 2006, Mr T starred in a TV Land reality/advice show he created called “I Pity the Fool”. He traveled the country helping families and other groups solve problems and work as teams, with maybe a smidgen o’ religion.
Ted DiBiase, the former Million Dollar Man, became a Christian minister and founded the Power Wrestling Alliance, where his sermons are combined with wrestling shows. A regular in these shows is Nikita Koloff, who found religion and is a born again Christian. Steve Borden, aka Sting, also participated in these shows after WCW folded, but he later returned to wrestling.
Elsie the Cow has been the symbol for the Borden Company’s milk products since the 1930s. Her supposed “husband,” Elmer, gave his name to Elmer’s Glue (which originally was made from milk).
Elsie and Elmer are parents – Beulah, Beauregard, and twins Larabee and Lobelia are the couple’s offspring.
Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard commanded the Confederate batteries which opened fire on the Union-held Ft. Sumter in Charleston, S.C. harbor in April 1861, thereby commencing the Civil War.
General Skandar Akbar was one of the pioneers and inventors of the original “heel” stable in the Texas wrestling federation, WCCW. The WCCW was owned by the Adkisson family, better known as The Von Erichs. Today, there is only one surviving brother, Kevin.
Star Wars’ Admiral Ackbar (of “IT’S A TRAP !” fame) was a Mon Calamari. Like pretty much everything glimpsed for all of twelve seconds in the entire Star Wars franchise, Mon Cals have a copious amount of backstory, and so does Ackbar. See Wookieepedia for details.
As of March 2010, students at the University of Mississippi continue a push to elect Admiral Ackbar as their next on-field team mascot. The team has been without an on-field mascot since 2003, following an administrative decision to remove the former mascot, Colonel Reb, due to its Confederate background. On March 1, Lucasfilm, the company which holds the rights to the character’s likeness, has expressed ambiguous support for the movement.
The U. of Mississippi maintains Rowan Oak, the 1840s plantation house lived in by William Faulkner from 1930 until his death in 1962, as a house museum. The house influenced several of his stories.
His stepdaughter recalled him telling them the very detailed story of a lady who lived in the house and how she fell through the balcony when the wood rotted and lingered for days in agony before she was found and whose ghost haunted the magnolia tree next to the well on the property. When his stepdaughter was older she decided to write about the woman and wanted to see if any libraries or archives had a photograph of her and asked her name; Faulkner admitted “I made that story up to keep you and your brother and sister from going out on the balcony or playing by the well”.
Some great writers have also been very heavy drinkers. Faulkner was one of them. He liked whiskey, and his favourite cocktail was the mint julep.
In the movie “The One,” Jet Li used two different styles to represent the good and evil characters. One style is direct and “hard,” which was used for the evil Yulaw. The other style is circular and “soft,” which was used for Gabe.
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