Naked is a 1997 collection of short stories by Greek-American humorist David Sedaris, who is regularly featured on NPR’s “This American Life.”
Barenaked Ladies are a Canadian rock band, known for their lighthearted songs. The band’s lineup does not now, nor has it ever, featured any actual barenaked ladies. 
I have the book. It was in the Sadie Hawkins storyline and the prophecy “Some will escape, but L’il Abner no!/Mighty oaks from aching corns grow.”
Canadian football is similar to the American game, with some important differences: the field is longer, there are only three downs, and multiple players can be in motion before the play.
The ballad “Longer” was the biggest hit of Dan Fogelberg’s career.
In Bob Dylan’s Ballad of a Thin Man, a Mr. Jones says “Is this where it is?”
The extremely successful Thin Man movies featured William Powell and Myrna Loy as crime solving socialites Nick and Nora Charles, who did not have an infinite playlist but did have a wire haired fox terrier named Asta.
And now we’ve come full circle! This is the second time Asta has appeared in this thread.
The London Metropolitan Police was established by Sir Robert Peel when it became apparent that the old medieval system of parish watchmen was insufficient for the great city’s crime problem. Police officers are sometimes called “Bobbies” or (less often) “Peelers” in his honor.
John Steed had several crimefighting partners on “The Avengers,” including Linda Thorson and Honor “Pussy Galore” Blackman, but Mrs. Emma Peel, played by Diana Rigg, was the most popular.
Emma Peel’s name was purportedly a pun by the show’s producers, who were seeking a character with M(an) Appeal.
When Emma’s husband, Peter, was rescued after being missing for many years, his character was shown to look and act remarkably like John Steed, and was, in fact, played by Patrick Macnee.
I had teenage fantasies about Emma Peel, which makes me feel old since the actress playing her was born the same year P.M. Neville Chamberlain returned proudly from Munich announcing “peace in our time.”
Wilt Chamberlain co-starred with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Grace Jones in “Conan the Destroyer.”
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, colonel of the 20th Maine, won the Medal of Honor for his heroism at the Battle of Gettysburg, and later served as president of Bowdoin College and governor of Maine.
As an old man James Longstreet, a Confederate general at Gettysburg (1st Corps, Army of Northern Virginia) married a much younger wife, Helen Dortch, who survived long enough to work in bomber assembly plants in WW2 and witness the Civil Rights movement of the 50’s and early 60s.
Actress Helen Hunt is the only woman to have won an Emmy, Golden Globe and Oscar award for acting (in two different roles) in the same year, 1998, for her work in Mad About You and As Good As it Gets, respectively.
The first performer to win the Grand Slam of an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony was Rita Moreno.
Fat Tony, voiced by Joe Mantegna, is a recurring Mafiosi character on The Simpsons, and an action figure was later made of him.
Joe Mantegna graduated from J. Sterling Morton High School East in Cicero, Illinois. The school’s name honors the Nebraskan considered the founder of Arbor Day.
President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, spent much of his childhood in Indonesia and Hawaii, but rose to political prominence in Illinois.
The British Union Jack is featured on the state flag of Hawaii.
The Union Jack features the crosses of St. Andrew and St. George, to symbolize the uniting of England and Scotland under a single crown.