After the producers hired Shirley Jones for the role of Shirley Partridge in the series The Partridge Family, they asked David Cassidy to audition for the role of her son Keith. The producers were unaware that Jones was Cassidy’s stepmother and “introduced” Cassidy to Jones during his audition.
William Boyd first played the role of Hopalong Cassidy in 1935 and continued to play the character in movies and into TV, mostly because he had the foresight to buy the rights to the character in the mid-40s. As portrayed by Boyd, Cassidy was the straightest of straight arrows, but, unlike other western heroes, he wore all black, including a black hat.
Ohio State’s Howard Cassady, who was predictably nicknamed Hopalong, won the Heisman Trophy in 1955. He was also a star on the Buckeyes baseball team. After playing in the NFL, he became a scout for the New York Yankees and a coach for their Columbus farm club.
Among Ohio State University fans, the proper response to the greeting “O-H!” is, of course, “I-O!” The Ohio State campus is in Columbus, Ohio. Its president, Gordon Gee, is noted for his frequent wearing of bowties. He is now in his second nonconsecutive stint as president, and is very popular. Gee has even been mentioned as a possible statewide candidate, but disavows any interest in politics.
Roscoe Gee was the last musician to join the group Traffic, taking over as bassist for their final album, When the Eagle Flies.
Bald eagle males are usually smaller than females. They do not get their black-and-white plumage until adulthood. A bald eagle dominant chick will sometimes kill a weaker sibling in order to get more food; their parents don’t seem to mind. Bald eagles do not call, they chirp or whistle. Usually in movies the sound you hear when a bald eagle is shown is actually the call of a red-tailed hawk.
The Bald-Headed Men of America have their headquarters in Morehead City, North Carolina 
, a mainland fishing / waterfront tourism town near the island resorts of tBogue Banks, including Atlantic Beach. Fort Macon, a fort designed by US Army Lt. Robert E. Lee and used in the Civil War by both sides, protects the inlet which leads to Morehead City and Beaufort - its construction was originally intended to combat pirates such as the local legend Blackbeard, whose ship Queen Anne’s Revenge sank nearby.
When Boston’s Dave Morehead no-hit the Cleveland Indians on September 16, 1965, no Red Sox pitcher tossed another 9-inning no-hitter until Hideo Nomo did it on Arpil 4, 2001.
A nomogram is a graphical calculator, in which a particular function is illustrated on non-Cartesian scales, permitting an approximate but adequate result to be determined without use of advanced mathematical techniques.
BTW, I vote for reserving Post #5000 for Sampiro, in honor of his inventing this thread. Everybody with me?
That’s a great idea. And I’m so glad that his prediction in the OP, “I expect the thread to sink beneath the horizon,” has been proven so spectacularly wrong!
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military. It has more than a $3 billion annual budget and is based in Arlington, Va.
Arlington County, Virginia has an area of only twenty-six square miles and is the smallest self-governing county in the United States.
Robert E. Lee’s oldest son Custis (known to friends and family as ‘Bunny’*) successfully sued the U.S. government for the mansion and 1,100 acres surrounding Arlington, property he had inherited from his maternal grandfather and deemed unlawfully seized from his family. Since he obviously did not want to spend his life in a mansion surrounded by dead Union troops he sold it to the government for $150,000 (approximately $3,250,000 in today’s money, though really much more considering the purchasing power of cash in the postwar south).
*not for play but just so’s you’ll know: Not only was Bunny really his real nickname but he never married, slept in the bed with his ‘servant’ for most of his adult life and had great interest and excellent taste in decorating. I’m guessing ‘First Confederate Brokeback Division’, though no way of proving it.
Deforest Kelly of Star Trek was named for Lee DeForest, the “father of American Radio.”
The DeForest Training School was founded by a guy named Herman who was a friend and colleague of Lee’s. The school is now known by its founder’s surname – DeVry.
Officer worker and occasional actor Calvert DeForest gained late-in-life fame as Larry “Bud” Melman on The David Letterman Show, though when the show moved networks NBC claimed the name Larry “Bud” Melman was their intellectual property and he thereafter went as Calvert, save for once when he went by the name Johnny Carson.
David Letterman once demonstrated the strength of Velcro by wearing a suit covered with it and bouncing from a small trampoline onto a wall which was also covered by Velcro. He hit it and stuck! Velcro in its earliest form was invented in 1941 by a Swiss engineer, George de Mestral. The idea came to him one day from looking closely at the burrs that kept sticking to his clothes and his dog’s fur during a hunting trip in the Alps.
Hispano-Suiza was a luxury automobile make and aircraft engine manufacturer prior to WW2, having been founded by Spanish entrepreneur Emilio de la Cuadra and Swiss engineer/designer Mark Birkigt. “Hisso’s” French division remains in business today, as part of the SAFRAN aerospace parts empire.
Duesenberg (named for brothers Fred and August Duesenberg) was an Indiana based maker of luxury automobiles and racecars until the company folded in the late 1930s. The cars were high quality but very expensive and survive today in the still occasionally heard phrase “It’s a dusey [duesy]”.
It’s a doozey comes from daisy
A celebratory orgy for post 5000:
“Daisy chain” is a circular group sex position in which three or more participants ultimately are all linked to each other. It is sometimes used in modern porn movies but it has been around since the ancient world as the emperor Augustus was said to have been particularly fond of them, but only as a voyeur, not as a participant, and only in religious festivals since he was a traditionalist.