New York Congressman William Miller, Barry Goldwater’s running mate in 1964, was one of the first “celebrities” to appear in American Express’ “Do You Know Me?” commercials.
Barry Goldwater ran against Lyndon Johnson in '64, and got absolutely creamed in the electoral vote, 486-52. Eight years later, Richard Nixon defeated George McGovern in an even more brutal electoral landslide, 520-17, with McGovern carrying only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.
Eight years after that, in 1984, Ronald Reagan laid an even worse beatdown on Walter Mondale, 525-13. Mondale barely won his home state of Minnesota by 3,761 votes.
The Minnesota Vikings have lost four Super Bowls, but have yet to win one. Former Vikings coach Bud Grant philosophically quipped that 0-4 is better than 0-0.
After spending a year with the New York Jets upon being traded from the Minnesota Vikings, quarterback Brett Favre played two years with the Vikings, much to the discontent of Packers fans, to whom the Vikings are a bitter rival.
Brett Favre’s last completed pass attempts with each of the Packers, Jets and Vikings were all intercepted by the opposing teams.
A pass in not considered to be a completion unless it is caught
by a member of the team on offence.
If intercepted it is an incompletion.
“completed pass attempts” - I wasn’t talking official pass stats & definitions; you knew what I meant. Gunslinger Favre screwed the pooch in those playoff games.
Back to the game:
Gunslinger Brett Favre has the most career interceptions in NFL history: 336. He led the league in interceptions in two different seasons, and had five seasons with at least 20 interceptions.
The great-grandfather of Buford Tannen from the Back to the Future movies was Buford “Mad Dog” Tannen, a notorious gunslinger who bragged that he killed 12 men, “not including Indians or Chinamen”. In the original timeline, he shot Doc Brown in the back at the town festival on Saturday night, September 5, 1885, and it took him two whole days to die.
Marty McFly went back to 1885 to prevent it from happening.
Christopher Lloyd played Emmett “Doc” Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy. Lloyd grew up in New Canaan, CT. His first major motion picture role was in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, in 1975.
Though Christopher Lloyd’s film and television career began in 1975, he didn’t have his first onscreen kiss until 1990’s Back to the Future Part III. He was 51 when the film was released.
In the *Star Trek * episode, Plato’s Stepchildren, Captain Kirk and Lt Uhura kiss. Commonly but mistakenly thought to be the first interracial kiss on TV, the actual first such kiss was when Sammy Davis, Jr kissed Nancy Sinatra in December 1967 on the variety show, Movin’ With Nancy.
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner was a popular and thought-provoking movie about interracial relationships. Its '00s remake, Guess Who, tells the story in contemporary times and flips the gender-- white male, black female. Ashton Kutcher played the prospective groom, and Bernie Mac was the bride’s father.
Bernie Mac (October 5, 1957– August 9, 2008) was born and raised in the south side of Chicago, where Leroy Brown of the Jim Croce song also hailed from.
Bernie Taupin answered a want ad in the New Musical Express, asking for new songwriters. He was teamed with Elton John, who used the lyrics to build the melodies. Taupin was lyricist for most of Elton John’s songs.
Elton John also saw and replied to that want ad, which was placed by Liberty Records’ Ray Williams. Neither Bernie Taupin nor Elton John passed the audition for Liberty Records, but Ray Williams recognised their talents and put them in touch with each other. The pair have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.
Elton John has sung “Crocodile Rock” in the movie Gnomeo and Juliet and in the TV show Bob the Builder.
The Soviet magazine *Krokodil *was officially sanctioned as a safe outlet for social satire, within bounds of course. Its most common targets were mid-level bureaucrats and drunken workers.
The American crocodile is the most widespread of the four extant species of crocodiles in the Americas. Within the United States, the American crocodile’s habitat is limited to the southern half of Florida, where it has an estimated population of 2,000.
The cover of the 2003 football guidebook of the University of Florida, whose mascot is the Gator, was illustrated with a photograph of a crocodile. This was obvious because American crocodiles have pointy snouts and are a light, olive-green color, while alligators have broad snouts and are nearly black.