And what's her name in Boys Don't Cry. Oops, already mentioned.
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Up your nose with a rubber hose. (Esoh rebbur a htiw eson ruoy pu.)
Madam, I'm Adam (first words ever spoken). The Book of Lists, vol one, has a list of palindromes. Of course, I'm sure Google does, too.
A spot for... you guessed it.
Who is the only actor to win an Oscar for playing a person of the opposite Gender?
Linda Hunt. She played a male Indonesian dwarf named Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously.
Thought the answer was going to be the male dog that played Lassie
Where did Chubby Checker get his name from?
He was in awe of Fats Domino (think about it)
....from Wiki:
Ernest Evans was born in Spring Gulley, South Carolina. He was raised in the projects of South Philadelphia, where he lived with his parents, Raymond and Mrs. Eartle Evans[2] and two brothers.[3] By age eight Evans formed a street-corner harmony group, and by the time he entered high school, took piano lessons at Settlement Music School. He would entertain his classmates by performing vocal impressions of popular entertainers of the day, such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley and Fats Domino.[4] One of his classmates and friends at South Philadelphia High School was Fabiano Forte, who would become a popular performer of the late 1950s and early 1960s as Fabian Forte.[3]
After school Evans would entertain customers at his various jobs, including Fresh Farm Poultry in the Italian Market on Ninth Street and at the Produce Market with songs and jokes. It was his boss at the Produce Market, Tony A., who gave Evans the nickname "Chubby". The store owner of Fresh Farm Poultry, Henry Colt, was so impressed by Ernest's performances for the customers that he, along with his colleague and friend Kal Mann, who worked as a song-writer for Cameo-Parkway Records,[5] arranged for young Chubby to do a private recording for American Bandstand host Dick Clark. It was at this recording session that Evans got his stage name from Clark's wife, who asked Evans what his name was. "Well", he replied, "my friends call me 'Chubby'". As he had just completed a Fats Domino impression, she smiled and said, "As in Checker?" That little play on words ('chubby' meaning 'fat', and 'checkers', like 'dominoes', being a game) got an instant laugh and stuck, and from then on, Evans would use the name "Chubby Checker".[6]
...and that story jibes with what he told me during an interview years ago....
In “Silence of the Lambs”, Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Most toilets flush in E flat.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Most toilets flush in E flat.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 1010.
Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 1010.
Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
Speaking of eyes, the biggest ones belong to the colossal squid.
Continuing the palindrome tangent, my favorite one is about Theodore Roosevelt: "A man, a plan, a canal - Panama!"
Continuing the palindrome tangent, my favorite one is about Theodore Roosevelt: "A man, a plan, a canal - Panama!"
He blinks once, when he does the sucking noise for Fava beans. CREEPY!
If you are buying certain foods to get your added fiber, check to see if an ingredient called "cellulose" is in it. “Cellulose” is just a code word for "wood pulp."
I’ve got plenty of wood shavings in the garage if you want to add fiber to your diet. FREE! (just pay shipping and handling
). I’ll even give it a squirt of lemon for taste.
I’ve got plenty of wood shavings in the garage if you want to add fiber to your diet. FREE! (just pay shipping and handling
). I’ll even give it a squirt of lemon for taste.
Before Clarice meets Lecter for the first time, she enters, uses or goes thru seven doors. This is to subconciously represent the seven levels of Hell.
In Fargo (the movie) after the killers shot the cop out on the highway, a car slowly drives past and then speeds away. The two killers chase after it and find that it has crashed upside down. The person who gets out of the crashed car and tries to run away across the field but gets shot in the back is none other than Prince!! If you look at the credits at the end it says something like 'Dead person in field' and then has the symbol O-l-> after it. Guess he was bored and asked if he could do a cameo or something that day.....
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skepticisms - (sorry just had to try that, since I type for a living as a transcriptionist!)
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
and here is another one: the word stewardesses is the longest word you can type with only the left hand
and just found this one under 500 useless facts:
Canada makes up 6.67 percent of the Earth's land area .
Able was I ere I saw Elba. Napolean wrote that one.
I had never heard that.
But according to IMDB...
And, according to Snopes:IMDB said:
I love the Prince story, though. I'll never watch it without thinking of him hauling his little purple booty across the field.Snopes said:The Coen brothers like a good in-joke as much as anybody. Next time you view Fargo, look for the name of the actor who played "the man in the field." You'll discover the entry listed as an odd squiggle that looks very much like Prince's signature. (I'm told the fellow who actually filled that role was J. Todd Anderson, one of the Coen's storyboard artists. The squiggle is Prince's signature laid on its side with a smiley face added. Wonderful joke, that. Laid on its side because the character is lying dead in a field.)
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