And if it was good enough for Old Hickory , then it's good enough for me dang nabbit! HEE-HAW!

In The Godfather: Part II, actor Troy Donahue played a character named Merle Johnson. "Troy Donahue" was in fact a stage name; "Troy's" real name was of course Merle Johnson. Cute huh? As A side note, Troy received his stage name from the same person who gave Rock Hudson his stage name: Hollywood Press Agent Henry Wilson.

You might recall that back in the 50šs my stage name was Buck Mannley. But that was only for my very short experiment into gay porn.

During the filming of Martin Scorsese's "New York, New York", composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb played the title song for the movies star, Robert DeNiro...DeNiro hated it and told Kander and Ebb that they had to rewrite it. Kander and Ebb were furious, but had no other choice then to write a new song for the movie. And thus was born the mega-hit "New York, New York"...one of the best known songs in the world and the biggest hit these songwriters ever had. All thanks to a temperamental actor. Start spreading the news.

Contrary to popular belief, the apple is not the Forbidden Fruit of Knowledge written about in the Bible; in fact, the Bible never says what kind of fruit it was. You see, the apple was only used because it was a sacred fruit of the Celts and Druids, who were Pagans, and in order to discredit these groups, the Catholic Church started preaching that it was an apple that Eve took from the serpent. Then to reinforce this idea, the church told all the artists who were on their payroll (which was everybody) to put the apple into all "Garden of Eden" paintings from then on; or else. So what's the real forbidden fruit? Nobody knows...but I've always considered prunes off limits.

Famous writer and celebrity gad-about Gore Vidal, is the half brother of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis. I never knew this. Did you? I'm sure some of our older readers did, but I know the born after 1960 crowd sure didn't. Hell, half of them don't even know who "Jackie O" is, let alone Gore Vidal. They all think he makes hair care products.

The first couple to share a bed on television was not as most believe Fred and Wilma Flintstone, but Mary Kay & Johnny Stearns, stars of the very first television sitcom, Mary Kay and Johnny. Mary Kay and Johnny debuted in November of 1947 and ran for three years on three different networks, Dumont, NBC, and CBS, no tape, kinescope or film remain of this show and it has vanished into obscurity.

Harry Shearer of Spinal Tap and The Simpsons fame got his start in Show Business playing the young Jack Benny on the Jack Benny Radio Show. He also played Eddie Hascle in the pilot episode of Leave it to Beaver.

The "Ponderosa Ranch" from the 1960's t.v. show "Bonanza" got it's name because it was built from one single, big-ass Ponderosa tree. Ponderosa trees being endangered even during the 1800's and thus proving that the Cartwright family were in fact early Republicans.

There are more English speaking people in China than there are
in the United States.

Most of them are of course saying
"Fucking American's!"

Contrary to popular belief Mama Cass Eliot did not die from choking on a ham sandwich. This is an urban legend started by the fact that a sandwich was found on her bedstand at the time of her death. The type of sandwich was never identified, but "became" a ham sandwich once the rumor started circulating. Mama Cass died of a heart attack and no food was found in her system during the autopsy.

Robert DeNiro won the Best Actor Oscar in 1972 for his performance as the young Vito Corleone in "The Godfather Part Two".

This was especially impressive since all but 4 of his lines were spoken in Italian.
Mama Mia!

The height of the 984-foot-tall Eiffel Tower varies, depending
on the temperature, by as much as 6 inches.

It's called "shrinkage" ladies.

Take a sheet of paper, any size, and you won't be able to fold it in
half more than 7 times.

It's kooky! It's wacky! Amaze your friends!

Contrary to popular belief, the Guillotine was not invented by J.J. Guillotine. John Deo, a Piano maker designed and built the guillotine, which he named after Mr. Guillotine. Mr. G., it seems, was a doctor and an advocate of humane capital punishment. And what more humane way is there to be put to death than to have your head lopped off in front of a cheering crowd.

Charles Atlas' real name
was Angelo Siciliano.

Now drop and give me 20!

Pussy!

According to the Guiness beer people, the average
beer drinker with a mustache wastes $20 worth of beer a year.

SOMEBODY GET ME A RAZOR!!!!!

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Neil Young is part owner of the Lionel Train Company, and takes his massive model train set with him whenever he goes on tour.

Rust never sleeps Neil; rust never sleeps.

By the way, in Japan, Godzilla is pronounced "Gojirra".