Brian Collin, who was at the time a freshman at Ball State, is responsible for the introduction of the phrase “Boom goes the dynamite” as an Internet meme.
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Sorry, not true. Michael Reagan was the adopted son of Ronald Reagan.
David Letterman, a self-described average student endowed a scholalrship for the average student at Ball State, his alma mater.
I see I’m too late to play “George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were the last white men ever to bear those surnames”. Oh, well …
The ball was not inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in Rochester, NY until 2009, in the 11th annual group. The original inductees were:
Barbie
Crayola Crayon
Erector Set
Etch-A-Sketch
Frisbee
Hula Hoop
Lego
Lincoln Logs
Marbles
Monopoly
Play-Doh
Radio Flyer wagon
Roller Skates
Teddy Bear
Tinkertoy
View-master
Duncan Yo-Yo
Issue #4 of Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad featured the epic battle between Superduperman and Captain Marbles, a parody of Superman and Captain Marvel that also paralleled the copyright battle between DC and Fawcett. The story was written by Bill Elder and drawn by Wallace Wood and was a landmark in the history of the comic book, which evolved to become Mad Magazine. Alan Moore has listed “Superduperman” as an influence in his creation of Watchmen.
In his classic razzing song “In Der Fuehrer’s Face”, Spike Jones satirized a Josef Goebbels speech by updating the lyrics to the children’s song “Schnitzelbank” (later memorably performed by the Animaniacs):
*Are ve not de supermen? Aryan, pure supermen?
Ja, ve are de supermen! Super *duper supermen!
Ist dis Nazi land so good
Would you leave it if you could?
Ja, dis Nazi land ist good
We would leave it if we could
Nazi propaganda chief Josef Goebbels and his wife poisoned all of their children before committing suicide in the Fuhrerbunker in Berlin as Soviet troops closed in on them.
Comedian George Gobel won an emmy in 1954 for “The George Gobel Show”
On The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, George Gobel was confused by the audience reaction while Bob Hope and Dean Martin were playing around behind him. Exasperated, Gobel finally asked Carson, “Did you ever get the feeling that the world is a tuxedo and you’re a pair of brown shoes?”
Goebbels =/= Gobel
But whatever.
Bob Hope is the only comedian to have a U.S. Navy support ship named after him: USNS Bob Hope - Wikipedia
For a period of 10 days in 1940, the Island of Malta was protected by a handful of Gloster Gladiator seaplanes. The legend grew that the there were only three of them, nicknamed “Faith, Hope and Charity.”
I thought there was also a USS Ronald Reagan? 
Malta’s population density of 1,282 per square kilometer or 3,322 per square mileis by far the highest in the EU and one of the highest in the world.
Let me clear up your confusion. The USS Ronald Reagan is not a Navy support ship, but is an aircraft carrier from the Nimitz class, the largest and strongest class of ships currently afloat. There are ten Nimitz class aircraft carriers:
CVN-68: Nimitz
CVN-69: Dwight D. Eisenhower
CVN-70: Carl Vinson
CVN-71: Theodore Roosevelt
CVN-72: Abraham Lincoln
CVN-73: George Washington
CVN-74: John C. Stennis
CVN-75: Harry S. Truman
CVN-76: Ronald Reagan
CVN-77: George H.W. Bush
As Reagan used to day, “Peace through superior firepower.” Now, aren’t you glad we live in a (relatively) peaceful country?
Whoosh! And dunno about you, but I live in Thailand, which is poised for more rioting in the streets and maybe another military coup before the year is out.
Anyway, again, before the needless interruption, in play is:
Malta’s population density of 1,282 per square kilometer or 3,322 per square mile is by far the highest in the EU and one of the highest in the world.
The Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta is one of the smallest independent “countries,” though its territory diminished to a single building in Rome after its ejection from Malta by Napoleon. (It recently acquired a long-term lease to a small territory on Malta.) It issues its own passports (to its 3 citizens) and has permanent observer status at the U.N.
During the Franco-Prussian War, Napoleon III’s forces suffered a decisive defeat at the battle of Sedan. German forces besieged Paris. Though stories of siege often mention that the Parasiens were reduced to having to eat rats, that was rare, since the sauces required to make rat meat palatable were expensive and had to be made from hard-to-get ingredients.
Yes, you had to be very rich in order to eat rat.
Paris was captured by the Germans in both the Franco-Prussian War and World War II, but not in World War I. Hitler ordered its destruction in order to keep it from falling into Allied hands in 1944, but his orders were ignored.
The Palais Garnier, better known as “the Paris Opera House” is "probably the most famous opera house in the world, at least partly due to its use as the setting for Gaston Leroux’s 1911 novel The Phantom of the Opera and the novel’s subsequent adaptations in films and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s popular 1986 musical. Another contributing factor is that among the buildings constructed in Paris during the Second Empire, besides being the most expensive, it has been described as the only one that is “unquestionably a masterpiece of the first rank.”
Who are you quoting, Annie?
The large home built by Prince Andrew and his then-wife, Sarah, Duchess of York, was dubbed “SouthYork” by critics who thought it was vulgar, more like Southfork, the home of TV’s Dallas clan, and less like that of a British royal couple.