sidenote:
George Michael doesn’t own anything, seeing as he died Dec 25, 2016.
The piano was last seen at The Beatles Story Museum in Liverpool.
Carry on
mc
“Sesame Street” writer/producer Christopher Cerf also authored a number of children’s books, including The World’s Largest Cheese, which included a series of illustrated homonyms of “See the merino standing there / With his long, shaggy hair”. His father was publisher/editor and TV personality Bennett Cerf.
RB Bennett is the only Canadian Prime Minister who was subsequently ennobled by a British peerage. So too was one of his early political associates from Bennett’s home province of New Brunswick: Max Aitken, who entered the peerage as Lord Beaverbrook.
The Brunswick Corporation was, for over a century, one of the U.S.'s leading manufacturers of bowling equipment and operators of bowling alleys.
Brunswick left the bowling business in 2014 and 2015, selling off its bowling centers to competitor Bowlmor AMF, and its bowling equipment lines to BlueArc Capital Management. Brunswick continues to manufacture billiards equipment (one of its other original product lines), as well as fitness equipment, boats, and marine engines.
White House Adviser Kellyanne Conway invoked the horrible tragedy of the Bowling Green Massacre in justifying President Individual-1’s Muslim travel ban, in interviews with Cosmopolitan and TMZ on January 29, 2017, and in an interview on the MSNBC news program Hardball with Chris Matthews on February 2, 2017. Unfortunately, there was no such incident.
Alice the theater ghost is said to haunt both the Joe E. Brown and Eva Marie Saint theaters in University Hall at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Who Alice was remains a mystery. Superstition holds that Alice must be officially invited to all performances by the stage manager alone on the stage after the final dress rehearsal. Usually, a seat is left for her at each performance. If Alice is not invited to the performance, the shows can experience both minor problems and larger disasters.
The song “Living Next Door To Alice”, in which the singer sees the girl next door moving away and only realizes too late that he’s missed his chance, was originally released by the Australian group New World in 1972, and remade by the British group Smokie in 1976. The Dutch group Gompie recorded another cover in 1995 with comedian Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown, who added to the chorus with the lyric “Who the fuck is Alice?”
The television sitcom “Alice,” which starred Linda Lavin, Vic Tayback, Polly Holliday, Philip McKeon, and Beth Howland, ran on CBS from 1976 to 1985. The series was loosely based on the 1974 film, “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” and Tayback played diner owner / cook Mel in both the film and the series.
Mel is the Latin word for Honey. In Spanish and French today, it is spelled miel, and the Portuguese still use mel.
The French have names for four different meals:
“petit déjeuner” - breakfast
“déjeuner” - lunch
“dîner” - dinner
“souper” - late night meal
In France, *pain perdu *(French toast, literally “lost bread”, made with day-old crusty bread or brioche) is often eaten as a dessert, or sometimes as an afternoon tea snack (“goûter”). It is not as commonly eaten at breakfast.
Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past) was initially published in seven volumes, beginning with Du côté de chez Swann (Swann’s Way). The first part, “Combray I”, ends with the famous madeleine cake episode, introducing the theme of involuntary memory.
In Martin Gardner’s book Annotated Alice, one of his annotations about Alice in Wonderland refers to (direct quote): Jack Kerouac’s forgettable book On The Road.
So forgettable it’s still read 60 years later!
A new acronym meaning “working poor” is ALICE, for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed (brought to you by, apparently, the same people who invented NINJA loans - No Income, No Job or Assets). The same acronym at CERN refers to one of the seven detector experiments using the Large Hadron Collider there: A Large Ion Collider Experiment.
On the Straight Dope Message Board, the term “ninjaed” or “ninja’d” is often used to refer to the phenomenon in which multiple, similar replies (from different posters) are made in quick succession – the reply which is posted first has snuck in (like a ninja) while subsequent posters were composing their replies.
Sir Laurence Olivier played Admiral Hood, head of the Board of Admiralty panel considering the loss through mutiny of His Majesty’s Armed Vessel Bounty, in the 1984 film The Bounty, starring Anthony Hopkins and Mel Gibson. It was one of Olivier’s last roles; he died five years later.
A panel truck in U.S. and Canadian usage is a small delivery truck with a fully enclosed body.[1] It typically has no rear windows in the rear cargo area. Panel trucks are often used by construction and maintenance contractors and were sometimes configured for ambulance and hearse roles.
Authors Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, e.e. cummings, Archibald MacLeish, and Somerset Maugham all drove ambulances in World War I, as did composers Maurice Ravel and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Walt Disney reported for the job after the Armistice.
Record albums have constant angular velocity but the groove moves with variable linear velocity. Because of the relationship of this linear velocity and fidelity and the style of Ravel’s Bolero moving from soft to loud, there is a performance of Bolero on an album where the needle moves from the inside to the outside.
Out of play: Techmoan’s explaination
“Groove Is in the Heart” is a 1990 hit by American dance band Deee-Lite. Although it was released on an album in 1990, the song was actually written in the late 80s.