He also has a bit part in Ice Station Zebra; when the submarine breaks through the ice he gets out and helps people either off or on the sub - I forget.
No kidding, what’s the chance of something like that happening? That’s like you getting Fleem’s disease!
That first (short) story was “The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories” of course, and was published in a collection called ’ “The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories” and Other Stories’.
Another Gene Wolfe title tale: one of the books in The Book of the New Sun series was to be called “The Citadel of the Autarch”. When he told his agent this over the phone, he heard it - and publicised it - as “The Citadel of the Otter”. Wolfe then wrote a story by that name, so as to render his agent’s press release truthful.
T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) wrote his epic description of his efforts in Arabia during World War I - “The Seven Pillars of Wisdom” - from his extensive diaries written at the time. As he wrote the manuscript he burnt the corresponding pages of his diaries. His work was 250,000 words long.
He accidentally left the only copy of the manuscript at a train station never to be seen again.
He then wrote the whole thing again from memory.
As weird as Tommy John having the Tommy John operation.
Not so. Ratzenberger’s first film role was in 1976’s The Ritz.
Ah, you’re right. Forgot about that one.
Wow, these MLB guys seem to have a penchant for getting themselves involved in some damned unusual coincidences.
Oh, those are just isolated incidents. It’s not like there’s a trend. Mario Mendoza’s career average is above the Mendoza Line, for example.
But why were so many Civil War battles fought in national parks?
In the Seinfeld episode "The Masseuse, " Elaine is unhappy that her boyfriend’s name is Joel Rifkin, the same as a well-known killer.
She suggests that he change his name to… OJ Rifkin.
This episode was first broadcast about seven months prior to the White Bronco chase.
OTOH, Dr. Alzheimer never had Alzheimer’s disease. Weird, huh ?
Dr. Heimlich spent his whole life hanging around restaurants hoping for a chance to use his maneuver, but it never happened.
The actor who played Ralphie in Christmas Story is the nephew of Barbara Billingsley, who played June Cleaver. Ralphie and The Beaver are cousins! Sort of.
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Ross Bagdasarian, who wrote and recorded the novelty song “Witch Doctor”, then wrote and recorded “The Christmas Song”, calling himself David Seville and The Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon, and Theodore.)
Several years earlier, he co-wrote “Come-On-A-My House”, with his cousin- William Saroyan.
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King George VI’s first name was actually Albert.
John Tyler, the 10[sup]th[/sup] President of the United States:
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[li]was the first to become president by succession. He was vice-president to President William Harrison, who died one month after their inauguration.[/li][li]was the first president to have been born after the adoption of the US Constitution.[/li][li]was (at that time) the youngest man to serve as president. His predecessor, Harrison, had been the oldest.[/li][li]the only former president not to have his body lie in state upon his death. This was due to Tyler siding with the Confederacy and then dying during the American Civil War.[/li][/ul]
Mariel Hemingway, following her Academy Award-nominated performance in Woody Allen’s Manhattan, went on to a successful (though brief) career pitching for the Detroit Pistons during their championship '58-'59 PGA tour. Despite her relatively diminutive stature, she was ejected four times for aggressive high sticking.
Cite…? :dubious:
Another Prince Philip-related piece of trivia: He is considered to be a living god by the followers of a cargo cult-type religion in Vanuatu.
Bill Paxton produced and was featured in the Barnes and Barnes video “Fish Heads”, which is sometimes heard on the Dr. Demento Show, who also has a role in the video.
Paxton was also a Nazi radio operator in the video for Pat Benetar’s Shadows of the Night.
