In 1949, The Jack Benny Show was lured away from NBC, over to CBS.
British soldiers who liberated the Falkland Islands from Argentina nicknamed the locals “bennies”, after the kind but simpleminded Benny from the telly show “Crossroads”. When ordered to cease the practice, they changed the nickname to “stills” - for “still bennies”.
The music that is often referred to as “The Benny Hill Chase Song” is actually “Yakety Sax” by Boots Randolph.
A current TV commercial closes with the Geico pig listening on headphones and chanting to a steady beat,
“boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants…”.
He may be saying “boots and pants” to the beat. However the song actually has something to do with BOOTS and PANTS. Check out their Boots and Pants FB page at Boots N Pants
After a falling out with Ian Anderson, guitarist Mick Abrahams left Jethro Tull after their first album to form Blodwyn Pig. The group had some chart success in the UK but never became stars.
Thanks to advances in food hygiene, the threat of contracting Trichinosis from undercooked pork has been dramatically reduced.
Trichinosis can also be contracted from eating undercooked wild game, in particular, bears.
Giant pandas are members of the bear family (Ursidae), although with digestive systems adapted (poorly) to bamboo instead of meat, while lesser, or red, pandas are members of the raccoon family (Ailuridae) and are omnivorous.
Omnivorous animals include pigs, skunks, squirrels, chickens, crows, piranhas and catfish.
The talking dogs in the Pixar movie Up are easily distracted by squirrels.
The Latin word for dog is ‘canis’, from which the familiar English word canine is derived. It is one of a family of similar ‘animal’ adjectives derived from Latin: feline, bovine, ovine, porcine, hircine etc.
Pixar Animation Studios is based in Emeryville, California, near Oakland and Berkeley. Pixar has produced fourteen feature films, beginning with Toy Story in 1995. The studio has earned 27 Academy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, and eleven Grammy Awards, among many other awards and acknowledgments. Since the award’s inauguration in 2001, most of Pixar’s films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, with seven winning: Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up, Toy Story 3, and Brave (with Monsters, Inc. and Cars being the only two just being nominated for the award). Up and Toy Story 3 were the second and third animated films to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture (the first being Beauty and the Beast).
Ninja’d, so I’ll add: Due to the traditions that have occurred within their films, such anthropomorphic animals and Easter Egg crossovers between movies that have been spotted by fans, in 2013 a blog post by the name The Pixar Theory was published making the argument that all of the characters within the Pixar universe were related.
The Pixar film Up, as well as Up in the Air starring George Clooney, were both nominated for Best Picture of 2009, which was the year the Academy increased their Best Picture pool from 5 to 10 nominees. (Neither film won the award.)
Andre Braugher played labor organizer and civil rights activist A. Philip Randolph in the Robert Townsend documentary film 10,000 Black Men Named George, about Randolph’s work for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. By tradition, that railroad job was reserved for Negroes, who were all demeaningly addressed as “George” regardless of their real names, in reference to George Pullman, creator of the sleeping car.
Thanks for that, I was wondering when that happened.
In play: (and, by George, the things we learn from this thread!) 
While George Pullman didn’t create the sleeping car, he was a pioneer who made the business profitable when he began building them in 1865. There’s also a company town named Pullman in the Chicago metro area (south side) which was built in the 1880s by George Pullman for his workers.
King George I of Great Britain was also the Duke and Elector of Brunswick-Luneburg (Hanover). As such, he was an Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, and had rights to vote for the Holy Roman Emperor.
The Brunswick Corporation, formerly known as the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, is headquartered is in the northern Chicago suburb of Lake Forest, IL. Brunswick was founded by John Moses Brunswick who came to the United States from Switzerland at the age of 15. The J. M. Brunswick Manufacturing Company opened for business on September 15, 1845, in Cincinnati, OH.
This is the Bruswick company that makes bowling balls and bowling equipment.
The young ladies in Jane Austen’s novels such as Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility are often very concerned with finding young, wealthy gentlemen to marry, and attend balls at which they might meet their future husbands.
Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy, the major male character in Pride and Prejudice, is the grandson of an earl.