Trench mouth, a severe form of gingivitis, got its name because it was prevalent in WWI trenches (where people spent much more than 20 minutes in).
Trench foot, caused by prolonged expose to cold and dampness, also got its name from WWI.
The vicious cat that lives next to Snoopy in Peanuts is named World War II.
My cat’s breath smells like cat food.
OK OK, Siamese cats are believed to be decended form sacred temple cats of Siam.
J.R.R. Tolkien, asked to give his permission for names from The Lord of the Rings to be given to a line of purebred Siamese cats, told a friend in confidence that he considered them “the spawn of Mordor.”
In the Harvard Lampoon satire ‘Bored of the Rings’, the villain is named Sorhed and the land he rules is named Fordor.
All About Eve star George Sanders’ suicide note read: "“Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.”
Harvard Lampoon staffers who went on to greater glory include Robert Benchley, Fred Gwynne, William Randolph Hearst, Conan O’Brien, George Plimpton, George Santayana, Cass Sunstein and John Updike.
ETA: “When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?” was the anti-aristocratic slogan of the English Peasants’ Revolt of 1381.
“Dost thou like what thou dost see?” 
Samuel Johnson once asserted: “Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”
The coat of arms of London is a Cross of St. George (a red cross on a white field) with a red sword in the upper-left corner.
The Cross of St Peter is an upside down cross, as traditionally St Peter was crucified head at the foot of the cross and feet at the top.
Christopher Cross won four grammies in 1981, including “Best New Artist” and “Song of the Year.”
On August 1, 1981, MTV was launched on cable television in the United States.
The first video shown on MTV was the Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star”.
MTV is owned by Viacom, a conglamerate chaired by Sumner Redstone which also owns Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Logo, VH1, and many other cable channels.
A Redstone missile, made at the US Army Redstone Arsenal in Alabama by Werner von Braun’s team, launched Alan Shepard into space.
On February 8, 2010, MTV formally dropped the words “Music Television” from their logo and tagline.
The museum at Restone Arsenal was the home for 25 years of Miss Baker, the squirrel monkey who was one of the first two animals in space, and of her common law husband George, both of whom lived long enough to see the advent of MTV. (Now we’re united again.)
James Baker and Howard Baker, no relation, both served as White House Chief of Staff to President Ronald Reagan.
Senator Howard Baker was a member of the Senate Select Committee to investigate Watergate in 1973, and gained fame for his “What did the President know, and when did he know it?” line.