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ALRIGHT NOW

There are architectural representations of each of the original 13 colonies.
The state flags of each of the original 13 states, as well as the American flag, fly in a plaza in the center of Liberty Square.
The brown pavement is meant to represent human waste (urine and excrement) since there was no indoor plumbing in colonial times.[7]

R. Bruce Hyde (September 14, 1941 – October 13, 2015) was an American educator and actor. He was professor of communication studies at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. His academic work mainly focused on ontology, specifically ontological approach to education,[1] Martin Heidegger's contribution to communication studies,[2][3] and the study of ontological rhetoric.[4]

During his acting career Hyde played Lt. Kevin Riley in the original Star Trek series, having appeared in two episodes, "The Naked Time" and "The Conscience of the King".[5]

... one of the more irritating characters in Star Trek history.

... he's just been serenaded by Uhuru.

TS: R. Bruce Hyde on Star Trek vs. Melvin Belli on Star Trek

vs. anthony call on star trek

Cool James and Black Teacher (sometimes Cool James and the Black Teacher) were Swedish Eurodance band consisting of Cool James and Black Teacher.

lol

Jawga Boyz is an American country rap group formed in Athens, Georgia in 2003.[1] The current lineup is "D Thrash, . "BoonDock" "Cornbread" , Dez, Chris Hood, "Sloppy Jones" , "Dreadneck" .

(that is the punctuation exactly as it appears in the article)

While ostensibly an adaptation of the 1987 computer game, Maniac Mansion shares several superficial similarities with its source material, though is vastly different in terms of plot, tone and characterization.

The premise of the game, an homage to horror and science fiction B movies, follows a group of teenagers who venture into a dilapidated mansion to rescue their kidnapped friend. The mansion is inhabited by the homicidal Edison family, consisting of Dr. Fred, a deranged scientist who is possessed by an evil meteorite, his wife Edna, a sex-starved sadomasochistic nurse, their son Weird Ed, a paranoid paramilitary survivalist, and their pets Green Tentacle and Purple Tentacle, a pair of sentient, ambulatory tentacles.

Whereas the television series was produced for family television, the tone of the game was decidedly more adult, featuring much risqué black comedy and surreal violence amid LucasArts' traditional style of offbeat humor and slapstick which was entirely omitted from the television adaptation. The game's original characters are also completely absent from the series with the exception of Dr. Fred Edison, whose character was drastically changed from an insane antagonist with a balding, elderly appearance in the game to a clumsy but good-natured family man in his forties in the television show.

Lol i loved Day of the Tentacle and Maniac Mansion

Personal life
N'Guémo is a keen falconer and keeps a modest collection of bird of prey, with his favourite, a white-tailed eagle named Mr George after George Weah.

In 2005, he fought off bankruptcy but was arrested after police were called by bailiffs who went to his home in Glossop, Derbyshire. He poured petrol on the bonnet of a bailiff's car and set it alight with the bailiff still inside.[7][8] Fontana was remanded in custody on 25 May 2007. He later appeared at Derby Crown Court dressed as Lady Justice, complete with a sword, scales, crown, cape and dark glasses, and claiming "justice is blind".[9] He dismissed his lawyers.[10] On 10 November 2007 he was sentenced to 11 months for setting fire to the car but was released because he had already served the equivalent of the term, having been held under the Mental Health Act 1983.[11]

... beat you to it on the Wikipedia Unusual Details thread.

Fuck, wrong thread.

David has two daughters: The eldest - Lucy Lowe - is an actress having co-starred in a stage play with Dirk Benedict and director, having made the feature-length documentary, Uncle Art. The younger is Holly Jazz Kotzé (née Lowe), singer and songwriter. He has a son: Adam. His wife Victoria Lowe was formerly a reserve member of Pan's People, and studied under Arlene Phillips.

The Early Days of Guns N' Roses was what the first series of concerts by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses are referred to as.

In 1980, Ray Stevens recorded a novelty song titled "The Watch Song," in which his character, in a bar, is approached by a cowboy whose wife he's been seeing and who challenges him to a fight. Outside, in the course of the fight, the cowboy stomps on the watch and busts it beyond repair. In the refrain, Ray's character calls out to John Cameron Swayze (who, in a series of 1960s commercials, would subject a Timex watch to a grueling physical test, then show it still to be ticking away) to tell him how crazy it sounds to say that the cowboy had busted a watch that had been shot at, dipped in beer, and tied to a motorboat and dragged on a beach. At the sight of his busted watch, Ray's character freaks out and beats the cowboy to death.

In 1977, Benson starred in One on One[6] (which he co-wrote with his father and needed no double for the authentic looking college basketball scenes due to his prowess at the game)

Quiz question! What is this a list of?

Henry Kissinger (1976)
Bob Hope (1977)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1989)
Whoopi Goldberg (1990)
Nelson Mandela (1996)
Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1999)
Pope John Paul II (2000)
Jesse Jackson (2001)
Pope Francis (2015)
Robin Roberts (2015)

No googling!

Dick Cavett guests?

No, a clue might be that this is a complete list.

Did they get keys to a city or something similar?

They have all been given a particular honor, so you're kind of on the right path

Rear of the year award.

No, but equally unlikely

Haha, this is bugging me.

Some kind of US presidential honor?

You could say it's kind of an honor from an unoffical American national institution

i googled and haha what?

Googled too, because I had nothing and, nope, never would have gotten there.

Ok then

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Globetrotters#Honorary_members

I would pay a lot of money to see an exhibition match featuring the surviving members.

They all had Comedy Central Roasts?

the Bad Sex Writing award

I just posted the answer above.

oh shit you weren't kidding

So there was once a time where Henry Kissinger and nobody else was an honorary Globetrotter?

Carman in concert at Kingman First Assembly. Joshua and I went to the concert, it wasn' t much singing, but it was about helping people come to God so that was a good thing.

America's Next Top Model

Ratzinger gets ratzed again!

In 1976, the Board of Directors of the Harlem Globetrotters were sitting around the conference room table to discuss Agenda Item #1: who to appoint as the franchise's first-ever Honorary Globetrotter. The chairman asks, "are you all thinking of who I'm thinking of?" and they look at each other for a moment nodding and grinning before all shouting out in perfect unison, "Henry Kissinger!!!"

Yoda was named as the oldest mouse in 2004 at age 4.[112]

Subsequently, Martha Stewart dated Anthony Hopkins but ended the relationship after she saw The Silence of the Lambs. She stated she was unable to avoid associating Hopkins with the character of Hannibal Lecter.[89][90]

she really just liked Brian Cox better

His debut album in 1969 reached number eight on the British charts[11] and his follow-up single, "Frozen Orange Juice", reached number 10 in the UK in 1969.[15][16] However, subsequent releases failed to chart. Sarstedt recorded songs include "Beirut", "Take Off Your Clothes", and "I Am a Cathedral"

You are a church
I'm a cathedral
Take off your clothes
I'll show you my steeple

Ghost's Satanic theme has proven problematic for the group, especially in the United States. While recording Infestissumam in Nashville, Tennessee, they were unable to find choral singers who would sing their lyrics, forcing them to record the parts in Hollywood.

Important clarification

The Importance of Being Idle (song)

Noel got the title from the book of the same name, which he found whilst cleaning out a garage (it belonged not to him

One of the albums to receive the "Parental Advisory" sticker was Frank Zappa's Grammy-winning album Jazz from Hell, presumably for the use of the word "Hell" in its title but also for the song "G-Spot Tornado", even though it is a collection of instrumental pieces and contains no lyrics at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Ulano

He recorded with Moondog, and was also for one night in 1981 a member of the English post-punk band Public Image Ltd.