“Superman” by rem is a cover of a song originally recorded by The Clique, who later had their only Top 40 hit with “Sugar on Sunday,” a song written by Tommy James.
Tommy James formed his first band, The Tornadoes, at the age of 12. The following year, when he was 13, the band change its name to the Shondells.
The Tornadoes (“Telstar”) were the first British group to achieve a #1 song on the US Billboard Hot 100.
They were the third British artist overall to make #1, preceded by Laurie London (“He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands”) and Mr. Acker Bilk (“Stranger on the Shore”).
SC Telstar is a football club in the Dutch town of Velsen. The club gets its name because it was formed from the merger of two other teams in 1963, the year of the launch of the Telstar satellite. The club plays in the 3625 seat TATA Steel Stadion.
Dolly Parton has enormous TATAs.
According to (yes, there is such a thing!) boobpedia.com, the encyclopedia of big TATAs, Dolly Parton’s measurements are 40DD-20-36.
page: Dolly Parton - Boobpedia - Encyclopedia of big boobs
image (yes, SFW): http://www.boobpedia.com/butler/images/f/f7/Dolly_Parton_whorehouse_02.jpg
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Edmond Hoyle was an Englishman who wrote a series of small tracts on games such as whist, backgammon and picquet in the 18th century. His rules were widely accepted, leading to the phrase “According to Hoyle,” meaning generally accepted, or authoritative.
May God bless you sir, for that link. :o
Other authorities who have been given the ‘according to’ recognition are:
According to Cocker - after the 17th century London engraver Edward Cocker, who was thought (wrongly it appears) to have been the author of a popular series of basic arithmetic textbooks.
According to Fowler - after Henry Fowler, the renowned lexicographer and author of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, 1926.
According to Guinness - after Norris and Ross McWhirter’s The Guinness Book of World Records
According to Gunter - after the English mathematician and inventor Edmund Gunter.
According to Samuel Johnson, a lexicographer is “a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.”
According to Wikipedia lexicography is divided into two related disciplines:
Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.
Theoretical lexicography is the scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language, developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries, the needs for information by users in specific types of situation, and how users may best access the data incorporated in printed and electronic dictionaries. This is sometimes referred to as ‘metalexicography’.
Marc Okrand, an American linguist, created and has expanded upon the Klingon language for the various incarnations of Star Trek. He included a few in-jokes, such as the word das, meaning “boot.”
The British singer Marc Almond was born Peter Mark Sinclair Almond, but changed the spelling of his chosen first name after developing an obsession as an young teen with Marc Bolan of T Rex.
This also helped distinguish him from the early 70s British jazz-rock band Mark-Almond, which consisted of a guitarist and saxophonist who met while playing in a version of John Mayall’s drumless post-Bluesbreakers band.
Anyone who has read at least one murder mystery knows that the giveaway for cyanide poisoning is the scent of bitter almonds emanating from the corpse. However, cyanide is naturally present in bitter almonds and many other plants used as food, including apples, peaches, apricots, lima beans, barley, sorghum, flaxseed and bamboo shoots.
Bamboo is the largest type of grass in the world, with a potential height of over 30 m (98 ft).
Bamboo has been found growing at high elevations, with some species found some 4000 meters above sea level in the Andes and Himalayas.
Although a member of the order Carnivora, the Giant Panda is a bear whose diet consists of 99% bamboo. Pandas in the wild may eat birds and rodents.
With a title based on a bad joke about an armed panda in a restaurant, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation is a non-fiction book written by Lynne Truss, the former host of BBC Radio 4’s Cutting a Dash programme.
All dashes are not created equal. As explored at length in a recent thread, there are hyphens, en-dashes, em-dashes and quotation dashes.
Despite careless usage on the part of some, they are not interchangeable; each one has a different purpose, although style guides are not in universal agreement about the rules governing their use.
In 2010, Christophe Lemaitre became the first caucasian male to break the 10-second barrier in the 100-yard dash.