30 MORE FACTS THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO ACCEPT
First Lady and a Tramp
Here is my latest OCD-fueled list of facts that are difficult for me to accept as true, or in the case of the photos on this page, undoctored.
- Senator Clinton is considering the Dixie Chicks' "Ready to Run" as her campaign theme song -- even though the song is clearly about a woman who is planning to leave her man out of fear of commitment.
- Hillary once gave a speech in which she joked that Mahatma Gandhi "ran a gas station down in St. Louis."
- Jerry Falwell and Larry Flynt were good friends, even exchanging Christmas cards.
- I can now use the Internet to find out who is sick in my zip code.
- Author Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God) spent the last decade of her life working as a maid and died penniless in a welfare home.
- Rep. James Sensenbrenner's $10 million fortune stems from his great grandpa's invention of the Kotex sanitary napkin.
- The Olsen twins are being courted to play Bond Girls in the next 007 movie.
- One in ten Europeans are conceived in an Ikea bed.
- Doug E. Fresh is a Scientologist.
- In an unprecedented verbal smackdown by an ex-president, Jimmy Carter recently called President Bush's administration "the worst in history" when it comes to international relations.
- There is a formula to precisely measure the quality of my butt. (Those without access to NYTimes archives can read a copy here.)
- Over a decade has passed since the Spice Girls' "Wannabe" was #1 on the Billboard charts.
- The world's tallest man is 7' 9" Bao Xishun from Inner Mongolia. (Yes, this means that everybody on this planet, except for Xishun, is shorter than an Asian man.)
- The aforementioned Xishun recently used his incredibly long arms to pull out plastic shards from two dolphins, saving the dolphins' lives.
- Harraj Mann, a 23-year-old cell-phone salesman of Indian descent, was interrogated as a terrorist suspect after a taxi driver reported that he was listening to the Clash's "London Calling" and Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" in the cab.
- Willard Scott claims that he created the character of Ronald McDonald.
- On Led Zeppelin's How The West Was Won live CD, John Bonham's drum solo is 19 minutes long.
- There is a term that describes President Bush's position in the above unedited photo: Lucky Pierre.
- The U.N. Environment Program Convention on Migratory Species just appointed Nick Carter -- Backstreet Boy and former Paris Hilton flame -- as a "Special Ambassador of the Year of the Dolphin."
- After a Japanese hospital created a drop box for unwanted babies, one father dropped off his 3 year-old preschooler boy there on its first day of operation.
- Some people use this website as a search engine.
- I can give piano recitals even after I die.
- The #1 song in the U.S.A. is currently T-Pain's "Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin')".
- Boy Scouts in L.A. can earn a new merit badge for "Respecting Copyrights" after learning the evils of downloading pirated movies and music.
- Wrigley filed a patent for a gum that contains Viagra.
- Our planet is apparently running out of disposable chopsticks.
- Gladys Knight is Mormon.
- After the video shoot for Lionel Richie's "Hello," a runner broke the famous bust of Lionel's head while carrying it to Lionel's trailer.
- Somebody translated the Grammy Awards article I wrote for MSN into Japanese.
- I find the video below (NSFW!) of Sad Kermit's cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" to be oddly ... moving.
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