• In one of her classes, Marcia Worth-Baker decided to involve her students in an activity in which they put the ancient Greek god Zeus, god of lightning, on trial. However, the student playing Pandora, the prosecutor, got a lot of laughs when she announced that Zeus’ crimes included cutting in line and reading other people’s e-mail.
• As a kid, Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight understood the value of reading. In his hometown of Orrville, Ohio, the library posted a list of the 10 kids in town who had read the most books that week. Each week, young Bobby’s name was on that list — along with the names of nine girls.
• At the end of her second day in school, a first-grade student asked her teacher, “What did I do in school today?” Surprised, the teacher asked why the student had asked that. The student replied, “Well, I’m going home now, and when I get home, my mother will ask me that.”
• Some people are born teachers. Las Vegas elementary-schoolteacher Ainslie Cole started teaching when she was a little girl — she taught her very first math lesson to a room filled with very special students: her stuffed animals.
• At a very young age, comedian Bill Hicks liked Elvis Presley. When Bill was in first grade, he lip-synched “All Shook Up” at school — on the teacher’s desk — for show and tell.
• Christian Johannsen was an exacting teacher of ballet. When he wished to give high praise to a student, he would tell him or her, “Now you may do that in public.”
Fathers
• Actor Will Smith learned a lot from his father while growing up in Philadelphia, PA. When Will was still in school, his father ordered him and his brother, Harry, to replace — brick by brick — a wall in their yard. Will couldn’t believe it because the wall was about 16 feet high and about 50 feet wide. He says, “I remember standing there thinking, ‘There is no way I will live to see this completed.’ He wanted us to build the Great Wall of Philly! I remember hoping that my father would get committed, because if he were in an insane asylum, then we wouldn’t have to finish the thing.” The wall took six months to rebuild, including mixing the concrete by hand. Of course, Will and Harry — and their father — were proud of their work when it was done. Today Will says, “Dad told me and my brother, ‘Now don’t you all ever tell me you can’t do something.’ I look back on that a lot of times in my life when I think I won’t be able to do something, and I tell myself, ‘One brick at a time.’”
• When children’s mystery writer Joan Lowery Nixon was a child, she studied arithmetic, but often ran into difficult problems. Her father was an accountant, and he would explain the process of solving the problems, and she would then do her homework. However, occasionally one or two problems were very difficult, and her father would not tell her how to solve them. Instead, he would tell her, “Think about them when you go to bed. Tell your mind to work on them. It will do this while you’re asleep. In the morning, when you wake up, you’ll be able to solve the problems.” Later, Ms. Lowery read books about the subconscious, and she told her father, “You were way ahead of your time.” Her father laughed and replied, “It wasn’t my idea. My second-grade teacher taught the process to me.”
• Both Lillian Moller Gilbreth and Frank Bunker Gilbreth were efficiency experts; indeed, Mr. Gilbreth invented the field and applied it to his personal life and the life of his family. Mr. Gilbreth even attempted to save time by shaving with two razors. (He had already cut — perhaps an unfortunate choice of words — 17 seconds from his shaving time by lathering his face with two brushes.) Unfortunately, Mr. Gilbreth cut himself with one of the razors and had to waste two minutes bandaging himself up. According to his children, “It wasn’t the slashed throat that really bothered him. It was the two minutes.”
Existing in oceans for almost 300 million years, and among the most successful of all early animals, what is the official state fossil shared by Ohio, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania?
Joe Isuzu is a fictional spokesman who starred in a series of 1980s television advertisements for Isuzu cars and trucks. Created by the ad agency Della Femina, Travisano, and Partners, and directed by Hollywood director Graham Baker, the segments aired on American television in 1986-90, reaching their zenith in 1987 after the character was featured during Super Bowl XXI. Played by actor David Leisure, Joe Isuzu was a pathological liar who made outrageous and overinflated claims about Isuzu's cars, with one commercial even casting him as the Boy Who Cried Wolf. The campaign was resurrected briefly in 1999 and continued until 2001 to promote several cars such as the Isuzu Axiom. A decade after Isuzu exited the U.S. market, Leisure reprised the role in a 2018 commercial for Johnny5ive, an Isuzu Trooper repairman.
Famous quotes include:
"You have my word on it."
"If I'm lying, may lightning hit my mother." ("Good luck, Mom!" appears on screen.)
"It has more seats than the Astrodome!"
"Hi, I'm Joe Isuzu and I used my new Isuzu pickup truck to carry a 2,000-pound cheeseburger."
"The Isuzu Impulse: faster than a speeding—[catches a bullet in his teeth]—well, you know."
"I swear on my mother's grave the quality of this Isuzu!" cell phone rings "Hello? Oh, hi Mom!"
"Isuzu Trooper II, can hold the whole state of Texas!" (78.2 cubic feet of it, stated on the bottom of the screen)
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Joe Isuzu.
Alan J answered:
Joe Isuzu.
Cal in Vermont wrote:
Joe Isuzu who variously said things like "It has more seats than the Astrodome" or "The Isuzu Trooper II can hold the entire State of Texas!" while the truth was stated at the bottom of the screen.
zorch said:
Joe Isuzu.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Joe Isuzu
Dave responded:
Joe Isuzu. I had forgotten all about him and that line of imported vehicles which disappeared from the US market many years ago. GM had a long term relationship with Isuzu including a 1/3 stake in the company. Many GM cars, especially small Chevrolet cars and trucks were either manufactured by Isuzu in Japan and imported into the US (Chevy LUV pickup, GEO Storm) or, like the Chevette, were designed by Isuzu but built in the US. In 1981 Isuzu started a dealer network and started selling cars, SUV’s, and light trucks under the Isuzu name. Isuzu retail products were cheaply made so the brand never achieved the stellar reputation that Toyota and Honda earned, so sales slowed to the point Isuzu left the US auto market in 2009. GM’s current Duramax line of V8 Diesel engines for trucks is a joint venture with Isuzu called DMAX.
Photos: Ad from the 2012 presidential campaign where actor David Leisure reprised his Joe Isuzu role to present Mitt Romney with the “Lying Used Car Salesman” candidate award | Joe Isuzu ad TV capture | button declaring Bush Sr. is a liar probably from 1988 | Re-branded Isuzu pickup sold in the ‘70s and early ‘80s as the LUV before Chevrolet built its own compact S-10 truck series
Jacqueline said:
Joe Isuzu...funny I don't remember those commercials at all, guess I didn't watch much TV in the 80's.
Dave in Tucson wrote:
That's Joe Isuzu! Who also had a bit part in Airplane!.
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“First album by Rambalaya, the band led by Anton Jarl (Los Mambo Jambo drums) in which he is accompanied by some of the best musicians on the state scene from bands such as A Contra Blues, Koko-Jean & The Tonics or Los Saxofonistas Salvajes: Jonathan Herrero on voice, Héctor Martín on guitar, Matías Míguez on bass, Fernando Tejero on piano and Hammond, Pol Prats on tenor and baritone sax, and David Pastor on trumpet.
“With the Rhythm & Blues of the 50s and 60s as a base, the group sounds perfectly contemporary in such exalted pieces as ‘Bootlegger Man,’ ‘Chip On Your Shoulder’ or ‘Talking To Myself,’ whose cinematographic component, other of the characteristics of his music, is emphasized by the magnificent production of the always infallible Dani Nel.lo.” — Google Translate
Plumber's supposed to be here in the morning to install the new gas valve so the new stove that's been sitting on the patio for 10 days can finally be moved into the kitchen and become functional.
Tonight, Friday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'MacGyver', followed by a FRESH'Magnum PU', then a FRESH'Blue Bloods'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 3/18/21) are Sen. Chuck Schumer, Jared Leto, and LANCO.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 2/10/21) are Noah Centineo and Madison Cunningham.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'The Blacklist', followed by 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Viola Davis and Addison Rae.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 3/11/21) are Amy Poehler, Phoebe Bridgers, and John Herndon.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 2/23/21) is Tracee Ellis Ross.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Shark Tank', followed by '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 3/16/21) are Michelle Obama and Brittany Howard.
The CW offers a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', another RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', then a FRESH'Penn & Teller: FU'.
Faux fills the night with FRESH'WWE Friday Night SmackDown'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: CI', followed by another old 'L&O: CI'.
AMC offers the movie 'Forrest Gump', followed by the movie 'The Green Mile'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[12:00PM - 5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[6:00PM] HANCOCK
[8:00PM] 48 HRS.
[10:00PM] ANOTHER 48 HRS.
[12:00AM] 48 HRS.
[2:00AM] ANOTHER 48 HRS.
[4:00AM] WEIRD WONDERS
[5:00AM] WEIRD WONDERS (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has the movie 'The Wedding Singer', followed by the movie 'The Waterboy', then the movie 'The Wedding Singer'.
Comedy Central has an hour of old 'The Office' and 3 hours of 'Schitt's Creek'.
FX has the movie 'Bohemian Rhapsody', followed by the movie 'Bohemian Rhapsody', again.
IFC -
[6:15am] The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
[8:30am] Drillbit Taylor
[11:00am] The Heartbreak Kid
[1:30pm] Zack And Miri Make A Porno
[3:45pm] Bad Words
[5:45pm] The LEGO Movie
[8:00pm] Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby
[10:30pm] The Longest Yard
[1:00am] Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby
[3:30am] The Longest Yard (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 12:30pm] the andy griffith show
[1:00pm - 1:00am] law & order
[2:00am] columbo
[3:45am] columbo
[5:30am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'The Fifth Element', followed by the movie 'Colombiana', then a FRESH'Wynonna Earp'.
The rainbow flag flew proudly Thursday above the Bank of England in the heart of London’s financial district to commemorate World War II codebreaker Alan Turing, the new face of Britain’s 50-pound note.
The design of the bank note was unveiled before it is being formally issued to the public on June 23, Turing’s birthday. The 50-pound note is the most valuable denomination in circulation but is little used during everyday transactions, especially during the coronavirus pandemic as digital payments increasingly replaced the use of cash.
The new note, which is laden with high-level security features and is made of longer-lasting polymer, completes the bank’s rejig of its paper currencies over the past few years. Turing’s image joins that of Winston Churchill on the five-pound note, novelist Jane Austen on the 10-pound note and artist J. M. W. Turner on the 20-pound note.
Turing was selected as the new face of the 50-pound note in 2019 following a public nomination process that garnered around 250,000 votes, partly recognition of the discrimination that he faced as a gay man after the war.
After the war, he was prosecuted over his relationship with a man in Manchester and given a choice between imprisonment and probation with the condition of undergoing female hormone treatment, which at the time was used as a form of chemical castration.
An upcoming edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy will include paintings, drawings and other illustrations by the British author for the first time since it was published in the mid-1950s.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media announced Thursday that the new version will come out Oct. 19. Deb Brody, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s vice president and publisher, noted that Tolkien was already known for his illustrations which appeared in “The Hobbit” and that his artwork for “The Lord of the Rings” had been exhibited in 2018 in New York, Paris and in Oxford, England.
’Yet the author himself was characteristically modest, dismissive of the obvious and rare artistic talent he possessed despite having had no formal training,” Brody said in a statement. “This modesty meant that relatively little else of his artwork was known of or seen during his lifetime, and generally only in scholarly books afterwards.”
“The Lord of the Rings” books, which include “The Fellowship of the Ring,” “The Two Towers” and “The Return of the King,” are among the best-selling fantasy novels in history. They were adapted into a blockbuster trilogy of films by director Peter Jackson.
A rare painting by Vincent Van Gogh was sold at auction Thursday by Sotheby’s Paris for 13.1 million euros ($15.4 million).
The sale of “Street Scene in Montmartre” was highly anticipated as it was one of the few paintings by the Dutch Impressionist master to still have been in private hands. The auction house had expected it to sell for between 5 million euros and 8 million euros.
Sotheby’s said the work had remained in the same family collection for more than 100 years, out of the public eye.
It depicts a windmill named the Pepper Mill, seen from the street under a bright sky, with a man, a women and a little girl walking in front of wooden palisades that surrounded the place.
It was painted in 1887, one year after Van Gogh moved to Paris and lived in Montmartre while he was lodging with his brother Theo. He left the French capital in 1888 for southern France, where he lived until his death in 1890.
Some classic WWE content is being revised in its move to Peacock.
Racist moments from the wrestling franchise's history are quietly being deleted from the archive as the massive programming library gradually transitions from the WWE Network.
According to sources familiar with the situation, the NBCUniversal-owned streaming service is reviewing all 17,000 hours of WWE content to ensure it aligns with Peacock's standards and practices. WWE is also being made aware of any edits.
One of the alterations has been to 1990's WrestleMania VI, which featured a match between Roddy Piper and Bad News Brown that included Piper (a white wrestler) painting half his face black while facing off against Brown (a Black wrestler). "I hear Bad News Brown, how he's talking about Harlem, and how he's proud to be from Harlem," Piper said during the pre-match interview. "Now I can stand here, and I can be Black! I can be white! Don't make no difference to me. ... It's what's inside."
Another deleted moment was from 2005's Survivor Series 19. In a notorious bit, WWE CEO Vince McMahon (acting in his on-camera corporate villain persona) said the N-word to a shocked John Cena and then strutted past a stunned Booker T, who says, "Tell me he didn't just say that." At the time, a WWE spokesperson defended McMahon to TMZ, calling it "an outlandish and satirical skit involving fictional characters, similar to that of many scripted television shows and movies.”
Beverly Hills esthetician and eyelash stylist Gina Bisignano was so present on social media that the federal criminal complaint against her practically wrote itself.
The story of a 52-year-old salon owner who charted a dark path of disinformation to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, where she allegedly grabbed a bullhorn and urged rioters to take up weapons, is backed by one social media post after another embedded in the Department of Justice filing.
There is Bisignano in her Louis Vuitton sweater, filmed in front of the Capitol talking about her business and hometown as the riot was getting underway. There she is again, addressing rioters with a rant about globalists, George Soros and stolen votes. And again, calling for weapons and gas masks moments before a rioter attacks an officer with what appears to be a baseball bat.
Now, Bisignano has gone silent online. She is not allowed on the internet. Not because social media platforms banned her, but because a federal judge did. If Bisignano goes online while awaiting trial, she risks being jailed.
Judges have long been reluctant to ban anyone from the internet, a restriction that essentially cuts a person off from much of modern society and has been reserved mostly for accused and convicted pedophiles. But as toxic disinformation becomes an increasingly dangerous threat, driving domestic terrorism and violence, the courts are facing vexing new questions around how often and under what circumstances those accused of taking part should be taken offline altogether.
The University of Southern California has agreed to an $852 million settlement with more than 700 women who have accused the college’s longtime campus gynecologist of sexual abuse, the victims’ lawyers and USC announced Thursday.
It’s believed to be a record amount for such a lawsuit. When combined with an earlier settlement of a separate class-action suit and other, smaller state court settlements, USC has agreed to pay out more than $1 billion for claims against Dr. George Tyndall, who worked at the school for nearly three decades.
Tyndall, 74, faces 35 criminal counts of alleged sexual misconduct between 2009 and 2016 at the university’s student health center. He has pleaded not guilty and is free on bond.
Hundreds of women came forward to report their allegations to police but some of the cases fell outside the 10-year criminal statute of limitations, while others did not rise to the level of charges or lacked sufficient evidence to prosecute. Still, he faces up to 64 years in prison if convicted.
Tyndall surrendered his medical license in September 2019, records show.
A gigantic, 5,000-year-old complex of long barrows and stone-lined tombs has been unearthed in Poland, after archaeologists investigated lines in crops in a field that they'd seen in a satellite photograph.
Archaeologists began to excavate the rural site near the town of Debiany, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) northeast of Kraków, more than two years ago. They've now unearthed seven Neolithic tombs, as well as the remains of an early medieval fortress and a Bronze Age burial of two horses. But the full extent of the ancient cemetery isn't yet known.
The archaeologists now think it consists of a dozen barrow mounds, each between 130 feet and 160 feet (40 meters and 50 meters) long, made from earthworks, stones and palisades of wooden poles that have now rotted away. They think it's a relic of the prehistoric settlement of the area by the Neolithic Funnel Beaker people, who are named after the distinctive pottery vessels they made and are thought to have been the first farmers in Europe.
"The megalithic cemetery in Debiany is one of the largest and most interesting sites of this type in Central Europe," archaeologists Marcin Przybyla and Jan Bulas told Live Science in an email. "It provides us with extraordinary data on the funeral customs of the Funnel Beaker Culture."
The Funnel Beaker people who built the ancient barrows near Debiany spread throughout central Europe from about 4100 B.C.
Archaeologists in northern Peru have identified a 3,200-year-old mural painted on the side of an ancient adobe temple that is thought to depict a zoomorphic, knife-wielding spider god associated with rain and fertility.
The mural – applied in ochre, yellow, grey and white paint to the wall of the 15m x 5m mud brick structure in the Virú province of Peru’s La Libertad region – was discovered last year after much of the site was destroyed by local farmers trying to extend their avocado and sugarcane plantations.
Experts believe the shrine was built by the pre-Columbian Cupisnique culture, which developed along Peru’s northern coast more than 3,000 years ago.
The archaeologist Régulo Franco Jordán said the shrine’s strategic location near the river had led researchers to believe it had been a temple dedicated to water deities.
Jordán has named the temple Tomabalito after the nearby archaeological site known as el Castillo de Tomabal.
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