In 1957, a British teddy boy on a live BBC newscast said of Bill Haley. “I wouldn’t piss on him if he went up in flames. I’m an Elvis man meself.”
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In 1996, Bill Clinton was the first Democrat to be reelected President to a second term since FDR. Unfortunately, most of Clinton’s second term was consumed with the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Monica Seles was the #1 ranked female tennis player in he world, until she was stabbed on the court by an insane Steffi Graf fan during a match with Magdalena Maleeva.
Magdalena Maleeva’s sisters Manuela and Katerina also played professional tennis, as did their mother, Yulia Berberyan.
One-time future film star Marie Magdalene Dietrich compressed her first two names into “Marlene”.
Ft. Detrick, home of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), was spoofed on The X-Files by an analogous but fictional Ft. Marlene.
Graham Chapman of Monty Python was a medical school graduate, and prescribed drugs for cast members who got sick on the set of “Life of Brian.”
Brian Chapman, a defenseman, was a third round pick by the Hartford Whalers in the 1986 national Hockey League draft. He played three games for the Whalers during the 1990-1991 season.
During the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864, the USS Hartford was the flagship of David Glasgow Farragut, named the first admiral of the U.S. Navy soon after the Civil War.
The first battles between ironclad ships occured during the Civil War.
The Merrimack was a US ship that burned to the waterline, was salvaged by the Confederacy, redesigned and fitted with iron siding and rechristened “C.S.S. Virginia”; technically the battle was between the Monitor and the Virginia, but the name “Monitor and the Merrimac” (a misspelling of Merrimack) has stuck.
Rick Barry left the NBA to play for the American Basketball Association’s Oakland Oaks, who later became the Washington Caps, and later still, the Virginia Squires.
George Washington was praised by Thomas Jefferson as “the finest horseman of his age.” The general’s horses during the Revolutionary War were named Nelson and Blueskin.
On “The Cosby Show,” Cliff and Claire Huxtable’s first grandchildren were twins named Nelson and Winnie.
Clifford C. “Cliff” Claven Jr. was a know-it-all postal carrier and barfly on the TV comedy Cheers. He was played by John Ratzenberger, who has since provided character voices for virtually every Pixar movie.
Almost every Pixar movie contains an appearance by the Pizza Planet truck.
Hmm. Cite? I know of only three: Toy Story, Toy Story 2, and Cars.
In Starfleet parlance, shown in the series Star Trek Enterprise to be patterned after Vulcan practice, Class-M planets were Earthlike.
Vulcan was an ancient Roman god who is closely associated with the ancient Greek god, Hephaestus, the god of the forge and smithery.
Los Angeles Rams players Merlin Olsen and Roman Gabriel co-starred with Rock Hudson and John Wayne in the post-Civil War Western movie, “The Undefeated.”