• Helene Hanff, author of 84 Charing Cross Road and The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, got to college through a fluke. Since she was born in 1915, the Depression was raging when she normally would have gone to college, and her parents simply had no money to send her. However, Temple University was offering scholarships, so Miss Hanff took the scholarship exam and failed spectacularly in the map section of the exam. Here’s what happened. The History exam was in two parts: Part 1 required written answers and Part 2 was a map test (locating countries, etc., on an unmarked map). Since Miss Hanff’s high school History exams had never included map tests, she decided to cram for this part of the test. She got two maps — one of the U.S. and one of Europe — and studied them. Eventually she had them cold, partly by memorizing the color of the countries. Unfortunately, the map on the History test was a black-and-white map of the world, and so Miss Hanff ended up identifying the Pacific Ocean as “Africa.” Fortunately, she aced the written part of the test. Because the examining committee was intrigued by the disparity of the scores on the two parts of her test, they interviewed her, found out what had happened, and allowed her to go to college.
• As a cub steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River, Mark Twain was taught a valuable, but embarrassing, lesson by an experienced pilot, Mr. Bixby. Mr. Bixby asked Mark if he knew enough to take the steamboat across the next crossing. Aware that there was plenty of water in the channel and no chance of running aground, Mark replied that of course he could, since “I couldn’t get bottom there with a church steeple.” Mr. Bixby replied, “You think so, do you?” Something in Mr. Bixby’s voice shook Mark’s confidence, which Mr. Bixby’s leaving Mark alone in the pilothouse did nothing to restore. The crossing did not go smoothly. Mark imagined shallow water and reefs everywhere, and eventually had to be rescued by Mr. Bixby, although there was absolutely no danger of grounding the steamboat. After the ordeal, Mr. Bixby told his protege, “You shouldn’t have allowed me or anybody else to shake your confidence …. Try to remember that. And another thing: when you get into a dangerous place, don’t turn coward. That isn’t going to help matters any.”
• Lorraine Hansberry attended the University of Wisconsin for a while, but dropped out after two years because of a course in Scenic Design. She liked the course, she worked hard in it, and she expected to receive an A. However, when she received her grade report, she discovered that the instructor had given her a failing grade. When she asked why, he explained that a black woman could not succeed in the theater, and he was trying to save her from future disappointment. In 1959, the New York Drama Critics Circle named Ms. Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun the Best Play of the Year.
• When he was a schoolchild, children’s book author Walter Dean Myers had a reputation for fighting teachers because one day, he thought he would entertain his schoolmates by pretending to kick his teacher as they walked on a staircase landing. Unfortunately, his teacher paused just as young Walter launched the kick, and instead of narrowly missing the teacher, as he had intended, Walter kicked him squarely in the buttocks. After class, his teacher walked him home, where he began a conversation with his mother by saying, “Mrs. Myers, I had a little problem with Walter that I think you should know about.”
In the 1970s and 1980s, Geoffrey Holder appeared in commercials with a lemon & lime in his hand and describes them as "Uncola nuts." What product was he selling?
A one hit wonder, this disco song by Jamaican vocalist Carl Douglas is also one of the best-selling singles of all time. Fast as lightning, what is the title of this 1974 release?
"Kung Fu Fighting" is a disco song by Jamaican vocalist Carl Douglas, written by Douglas and produced by British-Indian musician Biddu. It was released as a single in 1974 on the cusp of a chopsocky film craze and rose to the top of the British, Australian, Canadian, and American charts, in addition to reaching the top of the Soul Singles chart. It received a Gold certification from the RIAA in 1974. It eventually went on to sell eleven million records worldwide, making it one of the best-selling singles of all time. The song uses the quintessential Oriental riff, a short musical phrase that is used to signify Chinese culture.
"Kung Fu Fighting" was rated number 100 in VH1's 100 Greatest one-hit wonders, and number 1 in the UK Channel 4's Top 10 One Hit Wonders list in 2000, the same channel's 50 Greatest One Hit Wonders poll in 2006 and Bring Back ... the one-hit Wonders, for which Carl Douglas performed the song in a live concert. The song was covered by CeeLo Green with Jack Black and The Vamps for the Kung Fu Panda franchise.
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Dave responded:
Kung Foo Fighting. Mercifully, my mind had blocked out that annoying song until I looked it up. The timing was perfect for the release as a bunch if martial arts films were being released, most of them various levels of ridiculous/absurd.
Deborah, the Master Gardener replied:
Well, I was stumped, until I walked away and it came to me: “Kung Fu Fighting.” I’d forgotten that song until now.
Micki said:
Kung Fu Fighting.
Gary K wrote:
Kung fu fighting - #theorangemenece MUST GO!
David of Moon Valley answered:
everybody was...
…Kung Fu FIghting….oh those heady days of ’74….now if Dickhead would follow Nixon’s path and just fucking resign…
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Kung Fu Fighting
John I from Hawai`i says,
Kung Fu Fighting
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame wrote:
The answer is "Kung Fu Fighting."
On another subject, Trump's remarks about "dark shadows" made me think of the gothic/horror daytime soap opera from my younger days, 1966 and beyond. At the time, I watched a few episodes, but then lost interest. It certainly was unique for a daytime soap!
Here are the opening titles from the original soap opera, courtesy of YouTube.
Dave in Tucson said:
The song was an attempt to capitalize on the early 1970s martial arts
craze. Titled "Kung Fu Fighting".
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) said:
Pretty sure it's "Kung Foo Fighting." I'm Pretty sure because I don't like that song.
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This is my neighborhood post office - it has no outdoor mailbox. Notice anything else?
Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Big Brother', followed by a FRESH'Love Island'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 4/20/20) are Trevor Noah, and Willie, Lukas & Micah Nelson.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 8/19/20) are Danny DeVito, and Chris Tomlin featuring Florida Georgia Line & Thomas Rhett.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN'The Wall', followed by a RERUN'L&O: SVU', then another RERUN'L&O: SVU'.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 7/20/20) are David Schwimmer, Alison Brie, and Jimmy Buffett.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 8/18/20) are Russell Crowe, Patton Oswalt, the Lemon Twigs, and Thomas Lang.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 3/4/20) is Erin Moriarty.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Holey Moley', followed by a FRESH'To Tell The Truth', then a FRESH'To Tell The Truth'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 8/17/20), with guest host Kerry Washington, is Reese Witherspoon.
The CW offers a FRESH'Mysteries Decoded', followed by a RERUN'Penn & Teller: FU'.
Faux has a RERUN'Beat Shazam', followed by another RERUN'Beat Shazam'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow', followed by the movie 'Night At The Museum: Secret of The Tomb', then the movie 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - A Time to Stand
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Sons and Daughters
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Rocks and Shoals
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Behind the Lines
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Favor the Bold
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Sacrifice of Angels
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Haven
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Big Goodbye
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Datalore
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Angel One
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - 11001001
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Too Short a Season
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - When the Bough Breaks
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Home Soil
[8:00PM] SPACEBALLS
[10:00PM] GALAXY QUEST
[12:15AM] SPACEBALLS
[2:15AM] GALAXY QUEST
[4:30AM] DOCTOR WHO - The Waters of Mars (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NYC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NYC', then another FRESH'Real Housewives Of NYC', and another 'Real Housewives Of NYC'.
IFC -
[6:15A] Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Gauntlet - Experiment 1202: Atlantic Rim
[8:00A] A Clockwork Orange
[11:15A] The Expendables
[1:30P] The Expendables 2
[3:45P] The Dukes of Hazzard
[6:00P] Two and a Half Men
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men
[7:00P] Two and a Half Men
[7:30P] Two and a Half Men
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men
[9:30P] Two and a Half Men
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men
[1:00A] Zookeeper
[3:15A] We Were Soldiers (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am] perry mason - The Case Of The Bartered Bikini
[7:00am] perry mason - The Case Of The Artful Dodger
[8:00am] perry mason - The Case Of The Lucky Legs
[9:00am] the andy griffith show
[9:30am] the andy griffith show
[10:00am] the andy griffith show
[10:30am] the andy griffith show
[11:00am] the andy griffith show
[11:30am] the andy griffith show
[12:00pm] the andy griffith show
[12:30pm] the andy griffith show
[1:00pm] law & order
[2:00pm] law & order
[3:00pm] law & order
[4:00pm] law & order
[5:00pm] law & order
[6:00pm] law & order
[7:00pm] law & order
[8:00pm] law & order
[9:00pm] law & order
[10:00pm] law & order
[11:00pm] law & order
[12:00am] law & order
[1:00am] law & order
[2:00am] the ghost and mr. chicken
[4:00am] perry mason - The Case Of The Violent Village
[5:00am] perry mason - The Case Of The Frantic Flyer (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Constantine', followed by the movie 'John Wick: Chapter 2'.
Tiger King’s Carole Baskin, rapper Nelly, Selling Sunset’s Chrishell Stause and former NBA star Charles Oakley are among those set to waltz onto this season of Dancing With the Stars.
The quartet will be joined by Monica Aldama, star of Netflix’s Cheer, Disney Channel actress Skai Jackson, One Day at a Time’s Justina Machado, The Real’s Jeannie Mai, Catfish’s Nev Schulman and Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir.
The network confirmed that Super Bowl champion Vernon Davis, Anne Heche, Backstreet Boys singer AJ McLean will also be joining, after their names leaked over the last few days. The Bachelor’s Kaitlyn Bristowe was the first celebrity to be named a few months ago.
The professional dancers include Brandon Armstrong, Alan Bersten, Sharna Burgess, Cheryl Burke, Artem Chigvintsev, Val Chmerkovskiy, Sasha Farber, Jenna Johnson, Daniella Karagach, Keo Motsepe, Peta Murgatroyd, Pasha Pashkov, Gleb Savchenko, Emma Slater and Britt Stewart.
The series will be hosted and exec produced by Tyra Banks, who replaces Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews in Season 29. The show is produced by BBC Studios’ Los Angeles production arm with Andrew Llinares the executive producer.
Snoop Dogg is launching his own line of bespoke gin called INDOGGO in association with Trusted Spirits co-founder Keenan Towns.
The rapper, who famously extolled the virtues of "Gin and Juice" in his 1994 single of the same name, posted an Instagram image on Wednesday (Sept. 2) of the royal purple bottle alongside the tagline, "Remix your gin" as a new version of the song plays in the background, updated with a shout-out to his new brand.
The $30 bottles, slated to start shipping in early October, describe the "juicy, laid-back California style" adult beverage as the "ultimate remix of seven premium botanicals infused with all-natural ingredients including strawberry, no sugar with a slightly sweet and fruity finish." The seven botanicals are listed as juniper, orange, coriander, cassia, orris root, angelica root, and angelica seed.
“I can’t wait for the world to taste my remix on gin!” Snoop said in a statement. "When creating INDOGGO, I wanted to give those feelings new life with an approachable juicy gin that’s smooth like the D.O. Double G.”
You might recall that in 2018 Snoop set a Guinness World Record for mixing the biggest ever gin and juice, a 132-gallon monster that mixed in 38 jugs of OJ with 180 bottles of gin and 154 bottles of apricot brandy. The rapper, who just threw down with DMX in an an epic "Verzuz" Battle, also recently launched his own line of low-dough wines, the $12 Snoop Cali Red.
John Boyega has expressed his frustration at being “pushed to the side” in the sequels to his Star Wars debut The Force Awakens, saying that Disney gave “all the nuance” to Adam Driver and Daisy Ridley’s white characters in the later films.
In a candid interview with GQ, Boyega also suggests his fellowed diverse major cast members, including Naomi Ackie, Kelly Marie Tran and Oscar Isaac, were all victims of similar fates.
“You get yourself involved in projects and you’re not necessarily going to like everything. [But] what I would say to Disney is do not bring out a black character, market them to be much more important in the franchise than they are and then have them pushed to the side. It’s not good. I’ll say it straight up,” commented Boyega.
“You knew what to do with these other people, but when it came to Kelly Marie Tran, when it came to John Boyega, you know fuck all,” he continued. “So what do you want me to say? What they want you to say is, ‘I enjoyed being a part of it. It was a great experience…’ Nah, nah, nah. I’ll take that deal when it’s a great experience.”
He added that some of the film’s white cast members did not suffer the same outcomes, “They gave all the nuance to Adam Driver, all the nuance to Daisy Ridley. Let’s be honest. Daisy knows this. Adam knows this. Everybody knows. I’m not exposing anything.”
Mississippi on Wednesday took a big step toward replacing its old state flag dominated by the Confederate "stars and bars" when a commission selected a new design featuring a magnolia - the state flower - to replace imagery seen by many as racist.
The "New Magnolia Flag," whose selection was announced by a Mississippi Department of Archives and History panel, now requires the approval of Governor Tate Reeves. If approved as expected, the design will go to the voters on the Nov. 3 ballot for final adoption as the state flag.
While long controversial, the old state flag - adopted in 1894 - came to its demise during the latest wave of anti-Confederate sentiment spurred by the May 25 death of George Floyd, a Black man, at the hands of Minneapolis police.
Under a new Mississippi law, the state flag cannot contain the Confederate battle flag image and it must include the words "In God We Trust," according to the committee's website.
Seven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans' telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful - and that the U.S. intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were not telling the truth.
In a ruling handed down on Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said the warrantless telephone dragnet that secretly collected millions of Americans' telephone records violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and may well have been unconstitutional.
Snowden, who fled to Russia in the aftermath of the 2013 disclosures and still faces U.S. espionage charges, said on Twitter that the ruling was a vindication of his decision to go public with evidence of the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping operation.
"I never imagined that I would live to see our courts condemn the NSA's activities as unlawful and in the same ruling credit me for exposing them," Snowden said in a message posted to Twitter.
Evidence that the NSA was secretly building a vast database of U.S. telephone records - the who, the how, the when, and the where of millions of mobile calls - was the first and arguably the most explosive of the Snowden revelations published by the Guardian newspaper in 2013.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday defended its decision to withhold circulation of an intelligence report warning that Russia was trying to portray Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as mentally unstable.
A draft of the report, headlined "Russia Likely to Denigrate Health of US Candidates to Influence 2020 Election," was submitted to the agency's legislative and public affairs office on July 7, according to ABC News, which first reported the matter.
Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf (R-Shady) told Fox News on Wednesday that the agency held up the memo because it lacked necessary context and was "very poorly written." Wolf said both he and career DHS officials had raised questions about the report and that it would be rewritten.
"I'm going to continue to do my job [and] make sure that the information coming out of the department is first rate," Wolf said.
The draft bulletin reported that Russian state media RT, Sputnik and a Russian proxy website between September 2019 and May 2020 posted allegations about "the poor mental health of 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden."
A man says the Trump-supporting 'owner' of a destroyed business in a photo op was actually his predecessor who sold the shop 8 years ago
When President Donald Trump (R-Grifter) visited Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday to tour sites affected by civil unrest following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, he surveyed Rode's Camera Shop.
Standing next to him was a man the White House, and president, identified as the owner of the destroyed store, John Rode III.
But another man, Tom Gram, told the local outlet TMJ4 that he's actually owned the 109-year-old store for eight years — and had declined to join Trump's photo op.
Gram is accusing Trump of using his shop for political gain and replacing him with the shop's former owner.
Fingernail-size roundworms are a scourge in less economically developed countries, where they cause diarrhea, stunt children’s growth, and even kill. A new study suggests these parasites were just as common in medieval Europe as they are today, suggesting Europe’s later improvements to hygiene and sanitation proved enough to conquer them.
The new study is “extensive and well done,” says Roger Prichard, a parasitologist at McGill University who was not involved with the work. It confirms, he says, that Europe’s successful eradication efforts weren’t simply the result of naturally low parasite numbers.
Two of the most insidious roundworms—whipworms and human roundworms—infect the intestines and expel their eggs in feces, where they go on to contaminate soil, crops, and water supplies. More than 1.5 billion people are currently afflicted.
These parasitic worms, which belong to a group known as helminths, have been parasitizing humans for thousands of years. Scientists have spotted them in medieval bones and feces, even in the remains of King Richard III. Although researchers knew the parasites were there, they didn’t have a good way to estimate their prevalence.
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