No context Wikipedia text

[I Should Coco]

From journalist (of sorts) to 1980s synth pop band frontman:

Vice Versa was a Sheffield band formed in 1977 by synthesizer players Stephen Singleton and Mark White. Their debut gig was as the support to Wire at the Outlook club in Sheffield. They founded their own label, Neutron Records, releasing the EP Music 4. Martin Fry, who wrote the fanzine Modern Drugs, interviewed Vice Versa and shortly afterwards they asked him to join as synthesizer player.[9] Fry accepted and by late 1980 the band had evolved into ABC, with Fry becoming lead singer.

 

[Songbird]

"I was very lost. I was playing music at home, but I didn't have a band, I didn't have any connection, and my vision hadn't interpreted that this was my future yet. I was like, probably 22, 23 when I was really, when I discovered it... I was driving home, I had a Jeep Wrangler, I remember it was raining, very dramatic, and I really, I always say I have to go to the far reaches of who I don't wanna be to admit to myself who I really am. And I was in my car, and I literally stopped, and I just go, "I want to ****in' do music. This is bull****. I don't want to do all this ****." And that was the day that changed my life. From then on, anything I did was with the idea that I'm going on this path, and I gotta do whatever I gotta do to be on this path."[12]

 

[dixiehack]

“In 1879, Dr. Moses Greeley Parker suggested the format of the telephone directory be changed so that subscribers appeared in alphabetical order and each telephone be identified with a number. Parker came to this idea out of fear that Lowell, Massachusetts's four operators would contract measles and be unable to connect telephone subscribers to one another.”

 

[I Should Coco]

"I was very lost. I was playing music at home, but I didn't have a band, I didn't have any connection, and my vision hadn't interpreted that this was my future yet. I was like, probably 22, 23 when I was really, when I discovered it... I was driving home, I had a Jeep Wrangler, I remember it was raining, very dramatic, and I really, I always say I have to go to the far reaches of who I don't wanna be to admit to myself who I really am. And I was in my car, and I literally stopped, and I just go, "I want to ****in' do music. This is bull****. I don't want to do all this ****." And that was the day that changed my life. From then on, anything I did was with the idea that I'm going on this path, and I gotta do whatever I gotta do to be on this path."[12]

Who is Vanilla Ice?

 

[dixiehack]

White's pallbearers included Elton John, football star Howie Longand Phil Donahue.

 

[Human_Paraquat]

"After a long and illustrious career in the Randolph Little League ..."

 

[dixiehack]

Though skeptical of the campaign, Clowes took the job because his work illustrating a couple of cans and a few posters paid more than publishing five books of comics. In an act of subverting OK Soda's already subversive marketing scheme, Clowes gave his OK Soda mascot the facial features of Charles Manson, saying that none of the contracts he signed said, "Don't put a mass murderer on the can."

 

[dixiehack]

Rhode Island also has a criminal law against the impersonation of a fence viewer, with a fine of $20 to $100.

 

[Songbird]

Meet Foster’s official fence viewer

SCITUATE – Carrying on a tradition passed down over hundreds of years is precisely the kind of work local historian Tom D’Agostino loves, he said when explaining his position as Foster’s appointed fence viewer.

Though the role is antiquated, it is a timeless function that’s called D’Agostino to duty a handful of times in the past five years since the Town Council appointed him as fence viewer in 2014.

 

[Songbird]

Wonder who the town flagpole sitter is.

 

[Batman]

Wonder who the town flagpole sitter is.

Some guy named Harvey Danger.

 

[dixiehack]

Mumbly's retcon from good detective (as depicted in his preceding cartoon show) to villain was never addressed in Laff-a-Lympics

 

[Songbird]

His mother was born in Edinburgh, while his father was from Alabama. His father was, according to his own 1989 biography and files released by the CIA in 2008, a key intelligence operative in Britain during the Second World War and a founding member of the Central Intelligence Agency. His mother was also an espionage veteran, serving in the British Special Operations Executive.

 

[dixiehack]

After the album was released, Skinner began receiving late-night calls from around the country from fans who had seen the sign (and phone number) in the album artwork. Skinner recalled, "They'd say, 'Who's speaking', and I'd say Leonard Skinner, and they'd say 'Far out!' which it really wasn't at four in the morning."

 

[Slacker]

From 1987 to 1988, Morello worked in the office of U.S. Senator Alan Cranston (D-CA); however, this proved to be a negative experience for Morello, who decided never to pursue a career in politics:

"I never had any real desire to work in politics but if there was any ember burning in me, it was extinguished working in that job because of two things: one of them was the fact that 80 percent of the time I spent with the Senator, he was on the phone asking rich people for money. It just made me understand that the whole business was dirty. He had to compromise his entire being every day. The other was the time a woman phoned up to the office and wanted to complain that there were Mexicans moving into her neighborhood. I said to her, 'Ma'am, you're a damn racist', and she was indignant. I thought I was representing our cause well, but I got yelled at for a week by everyone for saying that! I thought to myself that if I'm in a job where I can't call a damn racist a damn racist, then it's not for me."

 

[I Should Coco]

If we had more politicians like Tom Morello, we’d be in much better shape as a country. Plus there would be some kick-ass guitar solos being busted out in Capitol conference rooms!

 

[dixiehack]

He made his feature film debut in the title role of Universal Studios' 1973 drama Willie Dynamite and has since appeared in F/X, Striking Distance, New Jersey Drive, Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird, Twilight's Last Gleaming, The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, Holiday Rush, and You Can't Take My Daughter.

 

[Slacker]

The town's name is a mystery, as it has never had a fort. Historians believe that the name was mistakenly changed in a transcription error when the post office was named; the area was originally thought to have been called Fox Valley.

 

[dixiehack]

he "suddenly got a rush of blood to the crotch about the tobacco boom and decided I was going to go up there and make the family fortune in a place I liked and wanted to be in."

 

[garrow]

Wedgwood is credited as a pioneer of modern marketing.[8]​ He pioneered direct mail, money-back guarantees, self-service, free delivery, buy one get one free, and illustrated catalogues.[9]​[10]​

A prominent abolitionist fighting slavery, Wedgwood is remembered too for his Am I Not a Man And a Brother? anti-slavery medallion, which had been commissioned by Joseph Hooper, a founder of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade. The medallion used the design from that society.

Wedgwood was a member of the Darwin–Wedgwood family, and he was the grandfather of Charles and Emma Darwin.