Cecil and Prince Fielder are the only father son duo to have each hit 50 home runs in a single season in American Major League Baseball.
The first father and son duo to hit a home run in the same MLB game is Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey, jr. They did it on 14 Sep 1990.
Father Bobby and son Barry Bonds are the most prolific, having hit more than 1,000 home runs. Together, they also stole 975 bases.
On the TV show White Collar, before he was captured by the FBI, Neal Caffrey’s nickname was “James Bonds” because he forged bonds.
Wisk used their “Ring Around the Collar” ad campaign for over 30 years, starting in the mid-1960s and to the dismay of TV viewers the entire time.
In the mid-60s, Jeno’s Pizza Rolls parodied Lark cigarettes’ commercials with an ad campaign of their own:
As Lisa Turtle, Lark Voorhies was a regular in the Saved by the Bell TV series, and reprised the role for offshoot films Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style and Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas. She also appeared on single episodes of Saved by the Bell: The College Years and Saved by the Bell: The New Class.
The commercial was done by Stan Freberg and is still one of the greatest ever.
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Lisa Tuttle is the only person to have turned down a Nebula Award, withdrawing her work, “The Bone Flute,” from consideration after discovering another story from the same magazine had been mailed to voters. This was a normal procedure of the time, but she felt that campaigning for the award in this manner was a bad idea. Her withdrawal came after the ballots were mailed out, and she won. She did not pick up the award, however.
Nebula Awards for Best Novel were first awarded in 1966, and Frank Herbert was among the winners that year for Dune.
Starfleet’s Nebula-class starships were smaller than its Galaxy-class starships on Star Trek: The Next Generation. The first to appear was the USS Phoenix, involved in several Cardassian border incidents.
The Phoenix was also, in the world of Star Trek, the name of the vehicle that Zefram Cochrane used to achieve humanity’s first warp flight in 2063.
Firefly premiered in the United States on the Foxnetwork on September 20, 2002. By mid-December,Firefly had averaged 4.7 million viewers per episode and was 98th in Nielsen ratings. It was canceled after eleven of the fourteen produced episodes were aired. Despite the series’ relatively short life span, it received strong sales when it was released on DVD and has large fan support campaigns.It won an Emmy in 2003 for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series. The post-airing success of the show led Whedon and Universal Pictures to produce a film based on the series,Serenity. The Firefly franchise expanded from the series and film to other media including comics and a role-playing game.
Have a SHINEY New Year!
The Serenity Prayer, written by theologian Reinhold Neibuhr, is used by Alcoholics Anonymous and other twelve-step self-help programs. It is usually written in English as:
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.
A successful ignorance-fighting 2013 to all of you!
In December, 2012, a man (suspected of DUI) drove onto the lawn of the birthplace of Bill W., the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.
In poker, a dead man’s hand consists of black aces and eights. It was named after Wild Bill Hickok and was the hand he held when he was shot in the back of the head by Jack McCall. McCall was tried twice for the crime. He was acquitted in the first trial and found guilty and sentenced to death in the second.
Correspondence between Eleanor Roosevelt and journalist Lorena Hickok strongly suggests that they were involved in a lesbian love affair.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City. She is buried in Hyde Park, NY alongside Franklin. She was 20 when she married.
In Alex Haley’s The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm explained his method of finding the black neighborhood in any city (before the current method of looking for Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard): Simply look for the Roosevelt School or the Lincoln School.
49ers quarterback Alex Smith played a few downs in last Sunday’s game against the Cardinals in a mop-up role at the end of a lopsided 49ers victory. This was likely (and hopefully) Alex Smith’s final plays with the Niners.
Former 49ers quarterback John Brodie, who won the job from Y.A. Tittle, went on to a second career as a professional golfer on the Senior PGA Tour. He set the record for longest gap between appearances in the US Open, qualifying but missing the cut in 1959 and 1981. Brodie was just one of the many top quarterbacks to wear the jersey number 12.
Or not: Was Wild Bill Hickok holding the “dead man’s hand” when he was slain? - The Straight Dope
President John F. Kennedy asked noted industrial designer Raymond Loewy to create the Air Force One livery that is still in use today, although on a much bigger plane than the refit Boeing 707 that JFK flew.
