Bob Einstein played a recurring cop character named “Officer Judy” on the old Smothers Brothers Show.
Albert Einstein and his first wife, Mileva Maric, had a daughter named Lieserl born before their marriage, but it is unknown what became of the child; it is assumed she died in infancy or was given up for adoption.
Einstein was the name of Christopher Lloyd’s dog, in the “Back to the Future” movies.
(Looping back to the Smothers Brothers - “There’s pumas in the crevasses!”)
NFL announcer Joe Theismann once famously said “A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.”
QB Joe Theismann’s last name was pronounced THEES-man until 1970, when it was changed by the Notre Dame publicist to rhyme with “Heisman” in an unsuccessful attempt to win him the Heisman Trophy.
The Heisman Trophy stands in the lobby of New York’s Downtown Athletic Club, which gives it out each year.
I’d make a joke link about Madonna* and “giving it out each year” but I won’t.
(*or whoever is pop culture shorthand for “loose” these days … )
Florida quarterback Tim Tebow is the only sophomore to ever win the Heisman Trophy.
Sophomore means “wise fool.”
John J . Miller, in an article in the National Review selected “Won’t Get Fooled Again” as the greatest Conservative rock song of all time.
George Bush famously mangled the line used by Gomer Pyle: “Fool me once, shame on you- fool me twice, shame on me.”
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is an album by David Byrne and Brian Eno.
The book “The Orchid Thief” and movie adaptation “Adaptation” were centered around the rare ghost orchid.
Nero Wolfe is an avid orchid grower. He spends the hours of 10 AM-noon and 4-6 PM tending to his orchids, and will not tolerate interruptions.
The veterinary operation of removing an animal’s testicles is called orchidectomy.
[del]Nero Wolfe’s assistant, Archie Goodwin, shares his name with a fairly prolific comic book writer and editor.[/del] How do you people keep doing this to me?
The Battle of the Plains of Abraham was one of the few major battles in which both side’s high commanders were mortally wounded: General James Wolfe of the British and American forces and Louis Montcalm (Marquis de Montcalm St. Veran) for the French and Canadian forces.
Mr. French, played by Sebastian Cabot, was Uncle Bill’s butler on the sitcom “Family Affair.”
Explorer Sebastian Cabot, a Venetian working for Spain, made several voyages to South America and founded the first Spanish settlement in Argentina.
[del]Mr. French was played by Tim Curry, best known for Rocky Horror Picture Show but also the originator of the title role in Amadeus and the role of King Arthur in Spamalot on stage, in the very short lived syndicated remake of Family Affair.[/del]
Damn it again!