wellanuff:
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.
In “The Tick” episode “The Tick Vs. The Proto-Clown”, The Proto-Clown destroys two identical skyscrapers that look amazingly like The World Trade Center lat the beginning of the episode.
Simon Cowell once dressed up as a dog to promote a record (yes, that is him)
fleem:
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.
Psssst! The Pistons play basketball. If you wanted to whoosh people it woulda worked better if you said she played for the Redwings.
Psssst! The Redwings didn’t play the PGA tour that season.
JohnT
January 20, 2010, 7:15pm
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Elton John’s song, Candle In the Wind , has a unique UK chart history:
It charted three times
In three separate decades
By the same artist
Each time it charted, it was more popular than the previous outing (in 1997, it was the biggest selling single of the year), and
Each version was different than the previous release (studio recording, live, Diana tribute)
I don’t think that will ever be duplicated.
fleem:
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.
Wow, this is inaccurate.
She was ejected FIVE times.
fleem
January 20, 2010, 9:27pm
267
Ah, you’re right, sorry. Little smudge made it look like a “4”.
JohnT
January 20, 2010, 9:42pm
268
Ahhhhh, fleem - fighting ignorance since 1:42am (by my clock).
fleem
January 20, 2010, 9:57pm
269
Rats. I thought I was encouraging it.
John Wesley Hardin once shot a man, just for snoring too loud.
Johnny Cash once shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.
Psssst! Since Mariel Hemingway was a woman, wouldn’t that be the LPGA tour?
RedWood
January 21, 2010, 2:45pm
273
JohnT:
Elton John’s song, Candle In the Wind
4. Each version was different than the previous release (studio recording, live, Diana tribute)
I don’t think that will ever be duplicated.
BLEAH! the Diana tribute turned me to an Elton John detractor :rolleyes:
as if dead blondes are interchangable!
Write an original for Diana if you <3 her so much, thank you!
Johnny Cash once threw a watch in Reno, just to see time fly.
If you added up all the mass of everything in the solar system, 99% of that mass would be the Sun itself…
I once shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die…but I got distracted and missed it. My friends tried to describe it to me, but it wasn’t the same.
K.I.T.H.
If you took all the blood vessels out of a person’s body and laid them end to end, that person would die.
AWB:
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]
And his youngest daughter died over a century after he left office.
The only US president to have an entire province (as well as a city) named after him in a country outside the US is Rutherford B. Hayes.
Hayes arbitrated a land claim after the War of the Triple Alliance in favor of Paraguay, doubling the size of the country. To show their gratitude, Paraguay named a part of the area (as well as its largest city) after him: Presidente Hayes Province and Villa Hayes.
Hayes never visited Paraguay, and merely signed off on a decision made by a State Department official.
President Grover Clevland nearly died from inept oral surgery for cancer. The whole affair was covered up, even from the Vice President.
On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland noticed a rough place on the roof of his mouth. It was diagnosed as cancer, precipitating one of the most celebrated incidents in the history of Presidential medicine. Ultimately, on July 1, the President underwent a risky operation aboard his yacht. A whole left side of Cleveland’s jaw was removed as well as a small portion of his soft palate. At his insistence, his illness and surgery were kept secret from the public, the press, the Cabinet, and the Vice President.
http://www.dentalgentlecare.com/oral_cancer_updates.htm