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05-19-2003, 01:56 PM
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#1336~A "turkey" in bowling is three consecutive strikes.
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05-19-2003, 01:57 PM
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#1337~The Wicked Witch of the East is the witch flattened by a house in The Wizard of Oz (just in case you'd forgotten).
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05-19-2003, 01:57 PM
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#1338~Mia Farrow was on the first cover of People magazine.
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05-19-2003, 01:58 PM
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#1339~A yak's milk is pink.
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05-19-2003, 01:59 PM
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#1340~John Hancock has the largest signature on the Declaration of Independence.
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05-19-2003, 01:59 PM
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#1341~"Puff" was the name of Dick and Jane's cat.
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05-19-2003, 02:00 PM
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#1342~There are nine horizontal rows of stars on the U.S. flag.
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05-19-2003, 02:00 PM
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#1343~The election of a new Pope is announced the world with white smoke.
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05-19-2003, 02:01 PM
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#1344~ (Just doing my bit to help the cause...)
Marlon Brando and George C. Scott refused their best actor Oscars in the 1970s.
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05-19-2003, 02:02 PM
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#1345~ (one more for now)
The Office of Strategic Services was the predecessor of the CIA.
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05-19-2003, 02:30 PM
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IAKG, funny thing about OSS/CIA...
As anybody who has bothered knows, the CIA was organized AFTER WWII. However, apparently either no one has bothered to tell the English or someone didn't do their homework.....
There's a sort of radio play on CD I bought, made in the UK (by Big Finish, for those who know) set in 1938, and it's a nice story but completely RUINED by the fact they keep talking about involving the CIA, which didn't even exist! I doubt civilians would have contacted OSS either, so they likely would have been calling in the FBI, which was much more in the public imagination at the time anyway!
*sigh*
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05-19-2003, 02:32 PM
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Originally posted by dadaist
IAKG, funny thing about OSS/CIA...
As anybody who has bothered knows, the CIA was organized AFTER WWII. However, apparently either no one has bothered to tell the English or someone didn't do their homework.....
There's a sort of radio play on CD I bought, made in the UK (by Big Finish, for those who know) set in 1938, and it's a nice story but completely RUINED by the fact they keep talking about involving the CIA, which didn't even exist! I doubt civilians would have contacted OSS either, so they likely would have been calling in the FBI, which was much more in the public imagination at the time anyway!
*sigh*
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#1347~I understand, dadaist. As a college student with innumerable hours towards a history degree, nothing would irk me more than to catch someone (movie, book, whatever) screwing up in that manner. ~sigh~
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05-19-2003, 02:36 PM
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It's not as if such things aren't hard to research. The script writer just did NOT bother. And it's far far more of a put-off in an audio-only format than in something audio/visual, in my opinion, because small visual goofs in serious work are often inevitable (masking tape hiding over power outlets in "victorian london" or pac*bell pay phones in Virginia)....
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05-19-2003, 02:47 PM
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Now going back through prior posts I see even MT is posting/reposting some of the same falsehoods I was complaining about. *sigh*
Looks like you guys use the same un-checked trivia.... :P
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