Raymond “Captain Sensible” Burns was a founding member of the British punk rock group The Damned.
George Burns, who played Sergeant Pepper in the movie flop of SPLHCB as well as God and the Devil in the Oh God movies, was born Nathan Birnbaum, one of 12 children of a cantor who died when Burns was a boy.
Nitpick: George Burns played Mayor Kite (as in “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite”). Billy Preston played Sgt. Pepper (who had been a white guy in earlier scenes!)
I wish to God I didn’t know that, because it would mean I hadn’t seen that movie!
Pope John the 23rd was a sergeant in the Italian Army.
Dick Sargent replaced Dick York in the 1969 season of Bewitched.
York Minster’s Great East window is the largest example of medieval stained glass in the world.
The north transept window at the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in Covington, Ky., is the world’s largest church stained glass window, measuring 67 feet in length by 24 feet wide.
The three-letter code for Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport is CVG because the closest city to it is Covington, KY.
The Rush song YYZ, an instrumental, is named after the three-letter code for Toronto Pearson International Airport.
By the way, they being Canadian, the name of the song is prounounced, “Why-Why-Zed.”
Durango 95, an instrumental in the Ramones album Too Tough to Die is 55 seconds long.
Jethro Tull, who recorded “Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die”, got their name from the 18th-century inventor of the seed drill and other innovations in agriculture.
North Dakota’s agriculture commissioner is Doug Goehring.
In 2001, Dakota Fanning became the youngest person to be nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award at the age of seven for her work in “I Am Sam”.
Fannings are small bits of leaf sifted out of higher grade teas. They are one step above the lowest grade: dust.
Midnight Oil’s album Diesel and Dust features the song Beds are Burning.
Actor Marc Vincent took the more macho sounding name Vin Diesel while working as a nightclub bouncer.
Rats.
NBA player Shaquille O’Neal’s debut rap album was 1993’s Shaq Diesel, including the hit track “(I Know I Got) Skillz”.
Shaquille O’Neal played the title role, a genie, in the 1996 film Kazaam.
“I Dream of Jeannie,” featuring a genie, was the last TV series to be broadcast on NBC in black and white (the first season).
[del]The O’ in an Irish male’s surname comes from “Ó/Ua” and means “grandson of.”[/del]
Crap!