TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, March 26, 2012
Greetings Infomaniacs,Today my little cousin Kimmy turns 16-years-old. I am still trying to figure out how this is possible. You see, it was just like yesterday that my mom and I went to visit my aunt in the hospital right after she gave birth to Kimberly Ann, so it isn't right that it's already been 16 years!
Kimmy was over 13 pounds when she was born, and I remember holding her and thinking that it felt like I was snuggling with a six-month-old! She has continued to grow and now surpasses me in height by at least five inches (although I suppose that's not really hard to do considering I'm a tad vertically challenged).
Anywho, I just want to wish Kimmy a very sweet sixteen, and tell everyone else to watch out on the roads once she gets her license. Haha, just kidding (mostly)!
Enjoy!
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Email MelissaTODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTEQUOTE: "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."
HINT: (1890-1977), American comedian, actor and singer.
RANDOM TIDBITSThe Velvet Underground featuring Nico was produced by Andy Warhol, who also designed the famous "banana" album cover. The original cover actually featured a removable banana sticker, along with the instructions, "Peel slowly and see." (Curious viewers would see a flesh-colored banana, it turned out.)
The Banana Splits were originally going to be called The Banana Bunch. The last-minute title change for the Hanna-Barbera program meant that Kellogg, the show's sponsor, had to scrap several thousand boxes of cereal with the wrong name.
Charles Nelson Reilly was a highly respected acting teacher and director. He also spent much of the 1970s dressed as a giant banana in a series of commercials for the Bic Banana "ink crayon."
The most common banana eaten in the United States is the Cavendish variety. A bunch of bananas is properly called a "hand," and each individual fruit is a "finger."
The Chiquita Banana jingle was composed by the BBDO advertising agency in 1944. When the tune was being recorded, there were no maracas handy in the studio, so a box of paperclips was shaken in rhythm instead.
The Berkeley Barb caused some hubbub in March 1967 when it made a joking reference to smoking banana peels as a way to get high. The wire services picked up the story; soon the mainstream press was reporting this new legal high, and hippies were flocking to fruit markets in search of "mellow yellow."
VIDEO CLIPHiccups - Banana SplitsFleegle, Bingo, and Drooper all help Snorky get rid of his hiccups by scaring him, having him drink water, and stand on his head. See what happens after Snorky finally gets his hiccups cured.
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if you tell the truth we will shoot you." What can he say
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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTEQUOTE: "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."
ANSWER: Groucho Marx.
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