Beginning in 1960, Popeye the sailor’s rival Bluto was needlessly renamed “Brutus,” for a silly reason: the King Features syndicate wrongly thought that Paramount Studios, who used to distribute Popeye cartoons for theatrical release, still held legal rights to the character.
Fusillade Mountain, visible from the Going-To-The-Sun Highway in Glacier National Park, Montana, is said by the locals to be the model for the mountain seen in the Paramount Studios logo.
The Going-To-The-Sun Road is the only road that cuts through Glacier National Park. It was completed in 1932. The road is named for Going-to-the-Sun Mountain, which dominates the eastbound view beyond the road’s high point at Logan Pass, where it crosses the Continental Divide.
Elendil’s Heir, please drop the hijack now without another mention.
Sampiro, you should know not to call names outside of the Pit by now, don’t do it in here again.
Going on with…
The Hoth sequences of Empire Strikes Back were filmed on a glacier in Norway; prior to filming the crew had to relocate a few reindeer and even a couple of hermits who lived on the ice.
Actually, Bismarck is the capital. Fargo is the largest city in the state.
In play: A 1969 U.S. Christmas stamp depicts a Winter Sunday in Norway, Maine.
There is a village named Hell in Norway. I’ve been there in the winter, and it was frozen over.
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Oops.
Luckily it didn’t change the play.
In play:
Florence “Carol Brady” Henderson was the female lead in Song of Norway, a big budget 1970 musical based on the life of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. It was a huge flop both critically and commercially.
Florence Henderson’s middle name is Agnes. In 1962 she was the first woman to guest host The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
Though only ever reaching Catagory 1 status, Hurricane Agnes in 1972 was the costliest hurricane ever to hit the United States up to that time.
The name Agnes is derived from the Greek word meaning “holy” or “pure.” The birth name of Mother Teresa was the equivalent of Agnes. She was born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu.
The title of Truman Capote’s unfinished final novel, Answered Prayers, was from a line attributed to St. Teresa: “More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones.”
Garth Brooks’ country hit “Unanswered Prayers” is about a middle-aged, married man running into his high school sweetheart, and discovering that he and she were all wrong for each other.
David Frizzell, younger brother of country legend Lefty Frizzell, had Number One hits himself with “You’re the Reason God Made Oklahoma”, a duet with Shelly West, daughter of country legend Dottie West, and a later solo, “I’m Gonna Hire a Wino to Decorate Our Home”.
Lefty Gomez of the Yankees was the winning pitcher in the first major league All-Star Game. He also drove in the very first run in All-Star game history.
On May 16, 2007, the New York Mets’ starting lineup featured Carlos Gómez, Carlos Beltrán, and Carlos Delgado. It was the first time three men named Carlos had ever started for the same team in a Major League Baseball game.
When did they move the capital of ND from Bismarck?
In play: The hats for the NY Mets combine the blue background from the Brooklyn Dodgers hats and the orange script and overlapping NY from the New York Giants hats.
Chill out. You might just have said so when I asked the first time.
In play:
Replicas of the USCSS Nostromo hat worn by Harry Dean Stanton in Alien were sold at the time by the now-defunct Thinking Cap Co.
Harry Dean Stanton served as a cook aboard an LST (Landing Ship, Tank) in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II.
“D-day Dodgers” was a derogatory term used for Allied troops fighting in the Italian campaign, wrongly implying that they missed the “real” fighting in Normandy. Although attributed to Lady Astor, she denied using the term and there is no contemporary record of her doing so.