When the Saskatchewan Roughriders got a brand-new stadium a few years ago, Bryan Adams was booked to play the first concert.
He asked his elderly mother if she wanted to come help open a new stadium for the Riders.
Her immediate response: “Hell, yeah”!
A new stadium for the Riders is a National Event.
U.S. Minister to France John Adams recognized the seamanship and patriotism of Scottish-born Capt. John Paul Jones, but also wrote that he was “the most ambitious and intriguing officer in the American Navy” during the Revolution. Jones’s biographer Evan Thomas believes that Adams did not mean “intriguing” as in, “someone who is found very interesting by others,” but rather, “one who schemes to gain unearned advantage.”
John, Adam, Paul, and Thomas are all biblical names.
Evan is the Welsh form of John, and Jones is a Welsh patronymic form of John, and thus indirectly biblical names.
Elendil is from a different religious tradition. 
The Evans Scholars Foundation is a philanthropic foundation, which provides college tuition and housing for golf caddies. The organization was founded in 1930 by amateur golfer Chick Evans, who wanted to find a good use for money he’d earned in tournaments and royalties, while still maintaining his status as an amateur.
Francis Ouimet, a former caddy at The Country Club in Brookline, MA, became a championship golfer himself, winning the 1913 US Open at that very course over British golfers Harry Vardon and Ted Ray, both of Jersey. The publicity from the win helped cause an explosive growth in recreational golf in the US. Ouimet’s exploits, including becoming the first non-Briton elected Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, were depicted in the 2005 film The Greatest Game Ever Played, Bill Paxton’s last film as director.
Bill Murray’s famous “Cinderella story” scene in the movie Caddyshack was improvised based on two lines of stage direction. Director Harold Ramis gave him direction to act as a child announcing his own imaginary golf moment, with Murray then improvising. The flowers were his idea. Murray was with the production only six days, and all of his lines were unscripted.
One of the writers of Caddyshack was Brian Doyle-Murray, who is the older brother of Bill Murray. Doyle-Murray also appeared in the film in a supporting role; he played the part of Lou Loomis, who is the manager of the Caddyshack. Loomis is the only character to say the title of the movie.
Brian Doyle-Murray also appears with his little brother Bill in Groundhog Day. He plays Buster, the head of the local Groundhog Day celebration committee whom Phil later saves from choking in a restaurant.
The Comedy Central series “The Sweet Spot” featured brothers Bill Murray, Brian Doyle-Murray, Joel Murray, and John Murray touring the western hemisphere, competing against each other in golf for the Braggart’s Cup.
Dick and Jane are the main characters in popular readers written by William S. Gray and Zerna Sharp. Supporting characters in the books include Baby (or Sally), Mother, Father, Spot (originally a cat, but a dog in later editions), Puff the cat, and Tim the teddy bear.
The characters mentioned in Pinkfong’s song “Baby Shark” are Baby Shark, Mommy Shark, Daddy Shark, Grandma Shark, and Grandpa Shark. The song does not say which of them encountered Kay Kyser’s “Three Little Fishies” after they crossed the dam into the sea.
Later in life, Peter Benchley, writer of Jaws and The Depp, came to regret writing such sensationalist literature about sharks, which he felt encouraged excessive fear and unnecessary culls of such an important predator in ocean ecosystems and became an outspoken advocate for marine conservation.
During the filming of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, actor Johnny Depp wore tinted contact lenses, both for vision correction, and to keep from squinting in the bright tropical sunshine.
((Sorry, Annie-Xmas, I couldn’t resist using the typo from your post. 
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Johnny Depp has said that he based his portrayal of Capt. Jack Sparrow as a cross between Keith Richards and Pepe LePew. Richards later appeared in a Pirates of the Caribbean sequel as Sparrow’s father.
The House Sparrow, also known as the English Sparrow, is one of the most abundant songbirds in the United States, with an estimated 150 million birds established in all the 48 contiguous states. The bird is not native to North America; they were introduced in various parts of the continent beginning about 1850.
The seating plan of the British House of Commons, with the Government and Opposition members sitting on benches facing each other, is derived from the original meeting place of the Commons, the Chapel of St Stephen. The members sat in the choir stalls, and naturally sorted themselves to sit with those of like views.
British morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse tried unsuccessfully to get Chuck Berry’s 1972 song “My Ding-A-Ling” banned from the BBC. “One teacher,” Whitehouse wrote to the BBC’s Director General, “told us of how she found a class of small boys with their trousers undone, singing the song and giving it the indecent interpretation which—in spite of all the hullabaloo—is so obvious… We trust you will agree with us that it is no part of the function of the BBC to be the vehicle of songs which stimulate this kind of behaviour—indeed quite the reverse.”
When John Cleese was an eight year old entering St. Peter’s Preparatory School, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, the other boys immediately demanded to know “Are you a Roundhead or a Cavalier?”.
I trust you can all figure out the meaning for yourselves.
John Cleese, playing the anchor of a parliamentary-election news team, mentioned Mary Whitehouse in the Nov. 1970 Monty Python sketch “Election Night Special,” saying, “Mary Whitehouse has just taken Umbrage,” as if she were a candidate from a city of that name.
At 5:18 here: MPFC_S02E06(ep.19) It's A Living (or School Prizes) "Election Night Special" - YouTube
Dolores Jane Umbridge was the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, the Senior Undersecretary to the Minister of Magic, and the main antagonist in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Umbridge had the Dementors attack Harry in an attempt to silence him from contradicting the Ministry’s statement about Voldemort not returning from the dead. Ultimately, she deposes Dumbledore after he ‘confesses’ to plotting against the Ministry to prevent Harry being expelled, and has herself installed as Headmistress by the Ministry.