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I think you’re right. I couldn’t remember, exactly. I doubt it’s the Brett connection, now that I try to remember what it really was.
OOG: The last three posts were improper, not referring to my Salem Witch trivium and not preceded by an OOG (Out of game) marker. Let me try to bridge all gaps so the game can continue.
Medieval belief in witches extended to 17th century Salem, where 20 witches including Susanna North Martin (surname initials n.m.) were convicted and executed.
This is shown in the 2009 book Salem Witch Trials by Brett Loiselle.
Susanna , the mascot of the RCMP Depot Division in Regina, is a Yellow Labrador retriever who was given to the RCMP Depot Division by Her Majesty.
The Saskatchewan Roughriders play in Regina. Fans of the rival Winnipeg Blue Bombers sometimes will cheer,
"Regina, Regina, what rhymes with Regina?"
In 2009, then-rookie Blue Bomber head coach Mike Kelly picked up on one fan’s overly exuberant characterization of Regina as being the “crotch of the world” and went one step further. When speaking of his trading prowess, Kelly said: " We kind of raided the toothless, green, watermelon-helmet-wearing people from the crotch of Canada,…"
The Regina Company got its start as a manufacturer of music boxes, which had removeable disks, much like records, that allowed the owner to play multiple tunes and to buy more. As the market faded, they diversified by making vacuum cleaners, and the brand name is still associated with them today.
Toward the close of 1919, the prominent theatrical producer Sam H. Harris made a proposition to his friend Irving Berlin: if the popular songwriter would devise a musical revue, Harris would find a Broadway theatre for it. Berlin responded with The Music Box Revue and in 1920 the Music Box Theatre was built to house the show.
Vacuums are commonly used to produce suction, which has an even wider variety of applications. The Newcomen steam engine used vacuum instead of pressure to drive a piston. In the 19th century, vacuum was used for traction on Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s experimental atmospheric railway.
In the annual pair of games played by the Saskatchewan Roughriders against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, the Bombers failed to gain any traction.
In the Labour Day Classic in Regina, the Bombers lost, 42-7.
The next week, in the Banjo Bowl re-match in Winnipeg, the Bombers lost, 55-10, their largest margin of loss since 1949.
Following the Banjo Bowl drubbing, Bombers head coach Mike Kelly confidently announced that he thought the team was heading in the right direction.
According to their fictional biographies, Blues Brother Jake Blues was born to a prostitute who named him “Jake Papageorge” and died right after she gave birth. Elwood Blues was a baby taken to the orphanage by Police Officer Delaney and named Elwood because he was the fifth baby dropped off that year, and the Mother Superior named their alphabetically. His last name was originally Delaney, after the police officer.
Both Jake & Elwood later changed their legal last name to “Blues.”
For the past ten or twelve years, every year at Grey Cup there is a contingent of BC fans, numbering between 10 and 20, who attend all events in black suits, white shirts, black ties, black shoes, and black hats, with sunglasses. They are the Booze Brothers of the Grey Cup festival.
Jimmy Buffett’s third album, whose title is a spoof of a Marty Robbins song, is “A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean”. Its best-known track is “Why Don’t We Get Drunk”.
When Merle Haggard had a hit with “Okie from Muskogee,” Texan Kinky Friedman spoofed the idea with “Asshole from El Paso.”
I’m proud to be an asshole from El Paso.
A place where sweet young virgins aren’t deflowered.
You walk down the street knee deep in tacos (ta-ta-ta tacos)
And the wetbacks still get twenty cents an hour.
Muskogee’s cost of living is 16.6% lower than the US average.
Though the movie The Night of the Living Dead redefined the concept of zombies in movies and books, the movie never refers to the monsters as “zombies.” George Romero called them “ghouls,” but the name “zombies” caught on to indicate the flesh-eating animated corpses portrayed in the movie.
A zuvembie is a creature created by Robert E. Howard in his short story “Pigeons From Hell,” published in Weird Tales in 1938. Due to restrictions put in place by the Comics Code Authority, the term has since been used in comic books to replace “zombie”, but not lately.
In the Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror II segment Dial Z for Zombies, which aired on October 29, 1992, when Bart is performing the spell to put all the resurrected zombies back into their graves, he is wearing an album cover for Michael Jackson’s Thriller as a hat.
Jessica Simpson made the tabloid headlines after attending a bachelorette party for her friend Jennifer MacFarlane, where the entertainment was provided by two members of the “Genital Origami” troupe Puppetry of the Penis. She reportedly “howled and giggled” at the duo’s routine, which included such installations as “The Fruit Bat” and “The Turtle.”
Hmm. Up to now we haven’t used either loose mental associations or homonyms as the basis for a trivia link, but a word or two from the previous post. See the OP.
In play:
Bart Simpson’s best friend is the shy, blue-haired Milhouse Mussolini Van Houten.
I’m against using homonyms myself.
In play: Benito Mussolini’s preference for seclusion and refusal to perform manual labor forced him to turn to begging to survive while living in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was eventually arrested for vagrancy and jailed, in 1902.