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Cook, "the daughter of a hillbilly singer married to a moonshiner who played his upright bass while in a prison band"

 

[Slacker]

He was famous for his remarkable control of the abdominal muscles, which enabled him to seemingly fart at will. ... While serving in the army, he told his fellow soldiers about his special ability, and repeated it for their amusement, sucking up water from a pan into his rectum and then projecting it up to several yards. He found that he could suck in air as well.

 

[Slacker]

Fool's Gold was a sandwich made by the [now-defunct] Colorado Mine Company, a restaurant in Denver, Colorado, United States. It consists of a single warmed, hollowed-out loaf of bread filled with the contents of one jar of creamy peanut butter, one jar of jelly, and one pound of bacon.

The sandwich's connection to the singer Elvis Presley is the source of its legend and prolonged interest. According to "The Life and Cuisine of Elvis Presley," Presley and his friends took his private jet from Graceland to Denver, purchased 22 of the sandwiches, and spent two hours eating them and drinking Perrier and champagne. ... When they were done, they flew back to Memphis without ever leaving the airport.

 

[I Should Coco]

@Slacker Your post reminded me, and made me look up, this:

"In 2019, The Denver Post published a feature on the restaurant and described the decor, saying, "Its pink exterior conceals a vast network of nooks and crannies inside. While the main, multilevel dining room is decorated with plastic palm trees and strings of lights, different façades and themed rooms invoke regional Mexican architectural styles, including the resort of Puerto Vallarta." The centerpiece is a 30 foot (9.1 m) indoor waterfall with cliff divers, an imitation of the cliffs of Acapulco. The building is crowned with a gold dome and a statue of Cuauhtémoc, the last Aztec emperor of Mexico."

 

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Visualisation of the family tree in '"I'm My Own Grandpa", with 1 and 2denoting the marriages and subsequent progeny

 

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25 people were arrested and 4 policemen hurt after rocks and bottles were thrown around a 12-block area due to a dispute over a rug.

 

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In a string of bad luck, this new courthouse burned in 1855 and was replaced by another courthouse, which burned in 1857. Emanuel County's fourth courthouse burned in 1919 and was replaced by a three-story brick structure which, characteristically, burned in 1938.

 

[Slacker]

Grade's backing of an expensive "all-star" flop was to prove decisive. Of Raise the Titanic (1980), an adaptation of the novel by Clive Cussler, Grade himself observed that "It would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic."

 

[Batman]

Heil Honey I'm Home! is a British sitcom, written by Geoff Atkinson and produced in 1990, which was cancelled after one episode. It centres on Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, who live next door to a Jewish couple, Arny and Rosa Goldenstein. The show spoofs elements of mid-20th century American sitcoms and is driven by Hitler's inability to get along with his neighbours.

The plot of the first episode centres on the British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, coming to the Hitler house. Not wanting the Goldensteins to interrupt the visit, Hitler instructs Braun to keep the news from Rosa, which she fails to do. Rosa duly invites herself over with hopes of matching Chamberlain with her dull niece Ruth. Hitler gets the Goldensteins drunk in an attempt to make them leave before Chamberlain arrives, but they stay. Arny and Eva end up leading the visiting Prime Minister in a conga line around the living room while Hitler hides the "peace for our time" agreement in the icebox.

 

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In the 1940s and 1950s, volunteers were offered $25 to flip the switches which would start the flow of electricity and eventually lead to the death of the prisoner.

 

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The ship sank after sailing roughly 1,300 m (1,400 yd) into her maiden voyage on 10 August 1628.

 

[Slacker]

While double-doubles and triple-doubles occur regularly each NBA season, only four quadruple-doubles have ever been officially recorded in the league. Those performances were recorded by Nate Thurmond (1974), Alvin Robertson (1986), Hakeem Olajuwon (1990), and David Robinson (1994). It is sometimes claimed that Wilt Chamberlain recorded an unofficial quintuple-double on March 18, 1968, in a 158–128 Philadelphia 76ers win over the Los Angeles Lakers, with the official box score showing 53 points, 32 rebounds and 14 assists, and later reconstructions attributing additional blocks and steals. Because the NBA did not begin officially recording steals and blocks until the 1973–74 season, such claims are not recognized as official league records.

 

[dixiehack]

Alvin Robertson (1986),

I hate myself for clicking on this and realizing there’s a 63 year old man who played for the Raptors.

 

[dixiehack]

Sportswriter Bob Ryan once called it the "least professional, lowest-class facility in pro basketball", equating the row of stands on one side (five, where the other side had 15) to a high school gym.

 

[Slacker]

WTF?

Formed in 1964, the original group consisted of five students from St. John's University in Queens, New York: Ted Haenlein, Frank Stapleton (Frank never plugged in his bass as he did not play it, but it looked good on stage), Eric Crane, Denny Ryan and Peppi Marchello.