Trivia for Squiggle #XLVIII
Lo and behold! I actually posted a Trivia for Squiggle this week! This week's compilation of useless knowledge starts out with one about in-flight movies, which (as some of you know) is something I used to be involved in when I interned at the Miramax TV/Airline department for two years...yup, two years...ah, the stories I could tell. On a side (but related) note, there is apparently a TV cut of "Die Hard" (which I think is a FOX movie) where they replaced "Yippie kay-ay, motherfucker!" with "Yippie kay-ay, melon farmer!"
1176. Profanity is typically cut from in-flight movies to make them suitable for general audiences. Fox Searchlight Pictures has substituted "Ashcroft" for "A**hole" in the movie Sideways when dubbed for Aerolineas Argentinas flights.
1177. Fewer than half of the 16,200 major league baseball players have ever hit a home run.
1178. Richard Versalle, a tenor performing at New York's Metropolitan Opera House, suffered a heart attack and fell 10 feet from a ladder to the stage just after singing the line "You can only live so long."
1179. In 1920, Babe Ruth out-homered every American League team.
1180. Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals.
1181. The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
1182. The California Department of Motor Vehicles has issued six driver's licenses to six different people named Jesus Christ.
1183. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike each year than all the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
1184. In 1950, President Harry Truman threw out the first ball twice at the opening day Washington DC baseball game; once right handed and once left handed.
1185. A Swiss ski resort announced it would combat global warming by wrapping its mountain glaciers in aluminum foil to keep them from melting.
1186. The chameleon has a tongue that is one and a half times the length of his body.
1187. There once was a town named "6" in West Virginia.
1188. Cranberry Jell-O is the only flavor that contains real fruit flavoring.
1189. A Nigerian woman was caught entering the UK with 104 kg of snails in her baggage.
1190. Sports Illustrated magazine allows subscribers to opt out of receiving the famous swimsuit issue each year. Fewer than 1% choose this option.
1191. There is a company that will (for $14,000) take your ashes, compress them into a synthetic diamond to be set in jewelry for a loved one.
1192. The RIAA sued an 83 year old woman for downloading music illegally, even though a copy of her death certificate was sent to the RIAA a week before it filed the suit.
1193. Motorists traveling outside Salem, Oregon saw one of the "litter cleanup" signs crediting the American Nazi party. Marion County officials had no choice but to let that group into the adopt-a-road program. The $500 per sign was picked up by Oregon taxpayers. The Ku Klux Klan is also involved in the adopt-a-road program in the state of Arkansas.
1194. Spam filters that catch the word "cialis" will not allow many work-related e-mails through because that word is embedded inside the word "specialist".
1195. The time spent deleting SPAM costs United States businesses $21.6 billion annually.
1196. The biggest dog on record was an Old English Mastiff that weighed 343 pounds. He was 8 feet, 3 inches from nose to tail.
1197. American made parts account for only 1% of the Chrysler Crossfire. 96% of the Ford F-150 Heritage Truck is American.
1198. McDonald's restaurants will buy 54,000,000 pounds of fresh apples this year. Two years ago, McDonald's purchased 0 pounds of apples. This is attributed to the shift to more healthy menu options (the Apple Pie, which has been at McDonald's for years uses processed Apple Pie Filling).
1199. Mailmen in Russia now carry revolvers after a recent decision by the government.
1200. Russian scientists have developed a new drug that prolongs drunkenness and enhances intoxication.
John McClane: You throw quite a party. I didn't realize they celebrated Christmas in Japan.
Joseph Takagi: Hey, we're flexible. Pearl Harbor didn't work out so we got you with tape decks.
The previous post's quote was from "Bubba Ho-Tep"
Elvis = Bruce Campbell
1176. Profanity is typically cut from in-flight movies to make them suitable for general audiences. Fox Searchlight Pictures has substituted "Ashcroft" for "A**hole" in the movie Sideways when dubbed for Aerolineas Argentinas flights.
1177. Fewer than half of the 16,200 major league baseball players have ever hit a home run.
1178. Richard Versalle, a tenor performing at New York's Metropolitan Opera House, suffered a heart attack and fell 10 feet from a ladder to the stage just after singing the line "You can only live so long."
1179. In 1920, Babe Ruth out-homered every American League team.
1180. Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals.
1181. The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
1182. The California Department of Motor Vehicles has issued six driver's licenses to six different people named Jesus Christ.
1183. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike each year than all the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
1184. In 1950, President Harry Truman threw out the first ball twice at the opening day Washington DC baseball game; once right handed and once left handed.
1185. A Swiss ski resort announced it would combat global warming by wrapping its mountain glaciers in aluminum foil to keep them from melting.
1186. The chameleon has a tongue that is one and a half times the length of his body.
1187. There once was a town named "6" in West Virginia.
1188. Cranberry Jell-O is the only flavor that contains real fruit flavoring.
1189. A Nigerian woman was caught entering the UK with 104 kg of snails in her baggage.
1190. Sports Illustrated magazine allows subscribers to opt out of receiving the famous swimsuit issue each year. Fewer than 1% choose this option.
1191. There is a company that will (for $14,000) take your ashes, compress them into a synthetic diamond to be set in jewelry for a loved one.
1192. The RIAA sued an 83 year old woman for downloading music illegally, even though a copy of her death certificate was sent to the RIAA a week before it filed the suit.
1193. Motorists traveling outside Salem, Oregon saw one of the "litter cleanup" signs crediting the American Nazi party. Marion County officials had no choice but to let that group into the adopt-a-road program. The $500 per sign was picked up by Oregon taxpayers. The Ku Klux Klan is also involved in the adopt-a-road program in the state of Arkansas.
1194. Spam filters that catch the word "cialis" will not allow many work-related e-mails through because that word is embedded inside the word "specialist".
1195. The time spent deleting SPAM costs United States businesses $21.6 billion annually.
1196. The biggest dog on record was an Old English Mastiff that weighed 343 pounds. He was 8 feet, 3 inches from nose to tail.
1197. American made parts account for only 1% of the Chrysler Crossfire. 96% of the Ford F-150 Heritage Truck is American.
1198. McDonald's restaurants will buy 54,000,000 pounds of fresh apples this year. Two years ago, McDonald's purchased 0 pounds of apples. This is attributed to the shift to more healthy menu options (the Apple Pie, which has been at McDonald's for years uses processed Apple Pie Filling).
1199. Mailmen in Russia now carry revolvers after a recent decision by the government.
1200. Russian scientists have developed a new drug that prolongs drunkenness and enhances intoxication.
John McClane: You throw quite a party. I didn't realize they celebrated Christmas in Japan.
Joseph Takagi: Hey, we're flexible. Pearl Harbor didn't work out so we got you with tape decks.
The previous post's quote was from "Bubba Ho-Tep"
Elvis = Bruce Campbell
posted by Scott at 12:48 PM
4 Comments:
I've heard things like that about American Nazis. I remember reading about how, due to their First Amendment rights, they were allowed to march through a predominatly Jewish area during Hitler's birthday. Police were dispatched to protect the Nazis from possible violence by the residents. Basically, even though they were displaying symbols related to anti-Semitism, they were allowed to make their display so long as they didn't do anything violent.
It's very strange because I can see how they were protected by law. I think they have every right to be protected by law to do something like that. However, I feel like they weren't doing that to honor Hitler's birthday; they were just being spiteful. I'm not angry that they felt a need to do that. I just feel sorry for them.
Doug: I feel the same way about that.
HDD: Now that you know who Squiggle is, I'll tell you how this all came about. Back when I had just started to put movie quotes at the end of my blogs, I would only post the answers to the quotes every two weeks or so in one aptly named post entitled "Movie Quote Answers". Squiggle commented on one of those blog posts asking something along the lines of "Where are the movie quote questions? I need trivia!"...so I scour the internet and trivia books to bring Squiggle (and the rest of blogland) at least 25 bits of trivia each week. He seems to be happy with it and I have a lot of fun looking up random information to share =)
I AM THE SQUIGGLEY-WIGGLEY!
As ever ... A wonderful collection.
And happy isn't the word ... It gets me through the week.
As for the melon-farmer ... that's probably my most favourite dub in a film ever.
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