• Of course, the real star of the television sitcom Mr. Ed was Mr. Ed, the horse—not Alan Young, who played Wilbur Post. Because of this, Mr. Young had to do his best in every shot—if the horse was perfect in doing what he was supposed to do, that was the shot that was used. Mr. Young also says that when the horse was tired, that was the end of shooting for the day.
• The family of Quaker humorist Tom Mullen adopted a stray dog, which they named Terry. Terry was so well fed that she was overweight, and because she was overweight, her legs bowed. In addition, her tail wagged so much that one of the Mullen children called her “a story with a happy ending.”
• Although many people don’t realize it, much wildlife lives in New York City. Comedian (and birder) Bob Smith was watching a motionless Great Blue Heron in a Central Park lily pond when an astonished tourist asked him, “Is it real?”
• While working at WING radio in Dayton, Ohio, comedian Jonathan Winters brought a horse in to be his surprise guest, even though he had to bring it up three flights of stairs.
Audiences
• Harry Houdini used to perform his famous needles-and-thread illusion, during which he seemed to swallow first thread, then sewing needles. After allowing a member of the audience to look into his mouth and verify that no thread and needles were there, Houdini would pull the thread from his mouth, showing the audience that all the needles had been strung on the thread, supposedly while they were in his stomach. During one performance, Groucho Marx was in the audience. When Houdini asked for a volunteer from the audience, Groucho stepped forward and peered into Houdini’s mouth. After Houdini asked Groucho what he saw there, Groucho replied, “Gum disease.”
• On a horribly cold night in Cleveland, stand-up comedian Judy Carter came out to perform in front of an audience of only two people. She ended up sitting at their table and telling a few jokes. After the “show” was over, the couple invited her to their home for breakfast. She accepted.
• Weird comedian Andy Kaufman once came out on stage and started singing “100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall.” The audience hated it, but when Mr. Kaufman left the stage after getting down to “2 Bottles of Beer,” the audience wanted him to finish the song.
• Much of Richard Lewis’ comedy is about the pain of being alive. One day, some UCLA students—the image of health and happiness—recognized him when he was in his car and shouted to him, “We’re in pain, too.”
Bombing
• Very early in her career as a stand-up comedian, Carol Siskind bombed horribly in a club in which her brother was a member of the audience. She refused to let him not see her succeed, so she dragged him to another club, where she also bombed. Still refusing to let him go home, she dragged her brother to yet another club, where finally, at 2 a.m., she had a good set. Only after her brother had finally seen her succeed would she let him go home.
• Very early in her career, Phyllis Diller did what all beginning comedians do—bomb. To get into show business, she called the Red Cross and volunteered her services as a comedian. They sent her to a veterans’ hospital, where she performed in front of four guys who yelled at her, “Leave us alone—we’re already in pain.”
• The very dignified Greer Garson guested on Jimmy Durante’s program. She didn’t know anything about comedy and asked Mr. Durante what would happen if the show wasn’t funny. Mr. Durante replied, “Then, Miss Garson, we’re all gonna be in the toilet together.”
What article of clothing is named after James Brudenell, a British Army Major General who led the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War?
Land's End to John o' Groats is the traversal of the whole length of the island of Great Britain between two extremities, in the southwest and northeast. The traditional distance by road is 874 miles (1,407 km) and takes most cyclists 10 to 14 days; the record for running the route is nine days. Off-road walkers typically walk about 1,200 miles (1,900 km) and take two or three months for the expedition. Two much-photographed signposts indicate the traditional distance at each end.
Land's End is the traditionally acknowledged extreme southern point of mainland England. It is in western Cornwall at the end of the Penwith peninsula. The O.S. Grid Reference of the road end is SW342250, Postcode TR19 7AA. In fact it, or strictly speaking Dr Syntax's Head, SW341253, a few hundred yards NW of the road end, is mainland England's most westerly point. The most southerly point is Lizard Point, about 9 miles (14 km) further south. Land's End is sometimes reckoned incorrectly as mainland England's most southwesterly point. This accolade belongs to Gwennap Head, SW365215, which is at least 2 miles (3.2 km) further south than Dr Syntax's Head but only about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) less west.
John o' Groats is the traditionally acknowledged extreme northern point of mainland Scotland, in northeastern Caithness, O.S. Grid Reference ND380735, Postcode KW1 4YR. The actual northernmost point is Dunnet Head about 2 miles (3 km) further north. The point that is farthest by road from Land's End is Duncansby Head, about 2 miles (3 km) east of John o' Groats. Duncansby Head is also the most northeasterly point of the Scottish mainland.
The straight-line distance from Land's End to John o' Groats is 603 miles (970 km) as determined from O.S. Grid References, but such a route passes over a series of stretches of water in the Irish Sea. Google Earth reports a distance of 602.70 miles between the two iconic marker points.
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The island of Great Britain.
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Great Britain.
Dave responded:
Great Britain. Land’s End in Cornwall England and John o’ Groats in Scotland. If you decide to travel from one to the other by car, it would be a trip of 838 miles or more depending on the route.
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Deborah, the Master Gardener responded:
I’m going with the entire island of Great Britain. I know Land’s End is in Cornwall, so I’m just WAGing the other end.
Today’s sunrise after two rainy days was glorious. Looking forward to getting out in it later.
Happy Electoral College day! I’m sure there’s a drinking game associated with today’s EC voting; I’ll check on that later.
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Land's End to John o' Groats is the traversal of the whole length of the island of Great Britain between two extremities, in the southwest and northeast.
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Great Britain. Know how I know that? Cuz I looked it up. Hang on, I got my fall signaling device tangled up in my back scratcher. OK, I'm much better now.
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“I like a good story… so here’s one from me. I wrote ‘Stole My Love Away’ way back in December 2019, when a dear Scottish lad from the Kingdom of Fife by the name of Ian Wallace suddenly passed, he was just 50 years of age, then all of us got ill, but we didn’t die, then this year 2020 millions got ill and lots have sadly died… including my friend Dave Kusworth… thus stealing lots of loved ones away… Is there a God? Is there a Devil? Is there Fuck? Then last week 4th Nov something got my back up, but as suggested by my good friend GB ‘I Kept My Powder Dry’. I wrote ‘Powder Dry’ that night, by that following weekend and lots of work we have what you have here, something very special in these ‘Strange Times’… all to be revealed next year on ‘Treebridge Cross’… and so Ladies n’ Gents… until then… cheers T. xx”
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Remember Sarah Palin and her disingenuous "Death Panels" claim about the ACA?
Well, it's been around for over a decade and so far there hasn't been one single instance of anyone dying from a decision of an Obamacare Death Panel.
But now:
". . . [ because of record] of new COVID-19 cases this week . . . average of new cases is at an all-time high, and its healthcare system is edging up to a crisis as hospitals reach their limits and doctors contemplate rationing out care on the basis of who’s most likely to survive.
The shittens sleep most of the day then perk up around bedtime.
Tonight, Tuesday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Play On: Celebrating The Power Of Music To Make A Change', followed by a RERUN'NCIS', then a RERUN'FBI'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Anderson Cooper, Andy Cohen, and Whoopi Goldberg.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Keegan-Michael Key and Roddy Rich.
NBC fills the night with FRESH'The Voice'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Kristen Wiig, Graham Norton, and Jack Harlow.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Amanda Seyfried, Craig Robinson, and Mehdi Hasan.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 9/25/19) is Anna Faris.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'The Bachelorette', followed by a FRESH'Big Sky'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Carey Mulligan and Alanis Morissette.
The CW offers a RERUN'Swamp Thing', followed by a RERUN'Tell Me A Story'.
Faux has a FRESH'Cosmos: Possible Worlds', followed by a FRESH'NeXt'.
MY recycles an old 'Chicago PD', followed by another old 'Chicago PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Elf', followed by the movie 'Scrooged', then the movie 'Fred Claus'.
BBC -
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - ACCESSION
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - HARD TIME
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - SHATTERED MIRROR
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE MUSE
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - LIAISONS
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - INTERFACE
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - GAMBIT
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - GAMBIT
[4:00PM] UNDERWORLD: RISE OF THE LYCANS
[6:00PM] UNDERWORLD: BLOOD WARS
[8:00PM] UNDERWORLD
[10:30PM] UNDERWORLD: EVOLUTION
[12:30AM] UNDERWORLD: BLOOD WARS
[2:30AM] UNDERWORLD
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 2½ hours of old 'Chrisley Knows Best', followed by a FRESH'Don't Be Tardy ...', then another FRESH'Don't Be Tardy ...', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
Comedy Central has 2 hours of old 'The Office', and 2 hours of old 'Drunk History'.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show it's TBA.
FX has the movie 'Office Christmas Party', followed by the movie 'Baywatch', then the movie 'Baywatch', again.
History has 'The Curse Of Oak Island', followed by a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island: Digging Deeper', then a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island', followed by a FRESH'Beyond Oak Island'.
IFC -
[6:00am] The Three Stooges - Up In Daisy's Penthouse
[6:15am] Grindhouse Presents: Death Proof
[8:45am] Piranha 3D
[10:45am] 30 Minutes Or Less
[12:45pm] Half Baked
[2:45pm] Jackass: Number Two
[5:00pm] Jackass 3.5
[7:00pm] Jackass: The Movie
[9:00pm] Jackass 2.5
[10:30pm] Jackass 3D
[12:00am] Two And A Half Men
[12:30am] Two And A Half Men
[1:00am] Half Baked
[3:00am] 30 Minutes Or Less
[5:00am] Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return - Carnival Magic (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[1:00am] the shining
[4:30am - 9:30am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[10:00am - 12:00pm] hogan's heroes
[12:30pm] ghostbusters
[3:00pm] ghostbusters ii
[5:30pm] the shining
[9:00pm] carrie
[11:15pm] the mist
[2:00am] columbo
[3:45am] columbo (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Signs', followed by the movie 'The Goonies'.
President Barack Obama’s late-night tour continues with an appearance on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
Obama sat down with Noah to conduct an in-depth interview over the weekend and it will air on Tuesday December 15.
It is Obama’s latest appearance on Noah’s show, having appeared just before he left office in 2016.
Noah joked that the former Commander-in-Chief influenced people to run for high office, including Donald Trump and Kanye West. “I don’t know if you noticed, but you have an ability to inspire people to run for the highest office in the land with the jokes that you tell about them,” said the late-night host.
Obama responded, “I should roast people I admire more. I’ll start roasting you. Although you weren’t born here… but I was able to get away with it apparently.”
The cast and creators of HBO’s iconic mob drama The Sopranos are reuniting for a live event to raise money for Friends of Firefighters, a nonprofit founded after 9/11 that provides mental health counseling, peer support and wellness services to active and retired FDNY firefighters and their families.
The two-hour event, to air Friday at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT on fundraising platform Tiltify, will feature Steve Buscemi, Lorraine Bracco, creator David Chase, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Robert Iler, Drea de Matteo, Tim Van Patten, Steve Schirripa, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Maureen Van Zandt, Steven Van Zandt and writer Terence Winter. The event will also include a live reading of a new sketch written especially for the fundraiser by Winter and Chase.
The livestream will live on Tiltify’s Twitch page. Donations can be made here beginning today.
The Sopranos, which just celebrated its 20th anniversary, ran six seasons from 1999-2007 and won 21 Emmy including two for Best Drama Series. Chase is returning to the world with The Many Saints of Newark, a feature prequel to the groundbreaking series. Alan Taylor directed it for New Line, and the late star James Gandolfini’s son Michael Gandolfini is playing the young Tony Soprano in the 1960s-set story.
Space adventurer Peter Quill (a.k.a. Star-Lord) is shown in a polyamorous bisexual relationship in the latest issue of the Guardians of the Galaxy comic. In an adventure titled "I Shall Make You a Star-Lord," Guardians of the Galaxy #9 finds Quill spending almost 150 years in a strange land named Morinus where he befriends a pair of humanoids, the female Aradia and the male Mors, eventually entering into a relationship with both around the 12-year mark. "It's been over a decade," Quill says to the pair. "Time to accept the truth...Morinus is my home. You're my home." The issue is written by Al Ewing with art by Juann Cabal.
Will the bisexuality of the comics version of Star-Lord be incorporated into the big screen iteration, played by Chris Pratt, in the upcoming James Gunn-directed Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3? Time will tell (a spokesperson for Marvel Studios was unavailable for comment at the time of writing).
In February 2019, Pratt defended Hillsong Church, which he attends, after The Umbrella Academy star Elliot Page accused the church of being "infamously anti-LGBTQ." "It has recently been suggested that I belong to a church which 'hates a certain group of people' and is 'infamously anti-LGBTQ,'" Pratt wrote on Instagram. "Nothing could be further from the truth. I go to a church that opens their doors to absolutely everyone."
A federal appeals court ruled Monday that a lawsuit filed by the Michael Jackson estate over an HBO documentary about two of the late pop star’s sex abuse accusers can go forward in private arbitration.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with two lower courts and ruled in favor of the Jackson estate in its decision on “Leaving Neverland.”
Unless there are further appeals, the case will go to a private arbitrator, which the Jackson estate argued was required by the 1992 contract at the center of the lawsuit.
That means the proceedings will be largely shielded from public view, though Jackson attorneys said in court filings that they would like for them to be as open as possible and sought private arbitration because it was the only way available to sue under the contract.
Christmas Eve will be considered a federal holiday in the United States this year, according to a new executive order signed by President Trump (R-Compromised).
Under the executive order, signed Friday, “all executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty on Thursday, 24 December 2020, the day before Christmas Day”.
The executive order does make an exception, however, for the heads of executive departments and agencies, who may determine that “certain offices and installations of their organisations, or parts thereof, must remain open,” as well as for employees who may be needed to work for “reasons of national security, defense, or other public need”.
With Christmas Eve off, federal workers will have a four-day weekend to celebrate the holiday. According to reports, it was previously thought the president would give federal employees a half-day off on the Thursday, as that was what President Obama and President Clinton did when Christmas fell on a Friday.
However, this is not the first time President Trump (R-Unemployed) has decided to issue an executive order giving federal employees the full day off from work, as he has previously done so in 2018 and 2019.
The head of an electronic voting company being targeted by allies of President Donald Trump said baseless claims that it helped flip the 2020 election for Joe Biden threatens to undermine Americans’ faith in democracy.
Antonio Mugica, CEO of Florida-based Smartmatic, said for years he watched as democracy in his native Venezuela was destroyed by lies and conspiracy theories pushed from the highest levels of the country’s socialist government.
Now he fears many Americans are being too complacent in the face of a similar disinformation campaign.
“When a candidate questions the election in some emerging market, in Africa or South America, it stays there. It doesn’t affect the entire planet,” Mugica said in an interview with The Associated Press. “Now, the role model is that if you lose, you basically say you didn’t lose. You say you were cheated.”
But Trump’s allies continue to press ahead. Last week, former Trump attorney Sidney Powell appeared on Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs to accuse Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s former chief of staff of being the ringleader of what she called a “Cyber Pearl Harbor” involving Smartmatic.
A former deep-sea treasure hunter is about to mark his fifth year in jail for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of 500 missing coins made from gold found in an historic shipwreck.
Research scientist Tommy Thompson isn't incarcerated for breaking the law. Instead, he's being held in contempt of court for an unusually long stretch — well past the normal maximum limit of an 18-month internment in cases of witnesses refusing to cooperate.
But nothing is usual about Thompson's case, which dates to his discovery of the S.S. America, known as the Ship of Gold, in 1988. The gold rush-era ship sank in a hurricane off South Carolina in 1857 with thousands of pounds of gold aboard, contributing to an economic panic.
Despite an investors lawsuit and a federal court order, Thompson still won't cooperate with authorities trying to find those coins, according to court records, federal prosecutors and the judge who found Thompson in contempt.
Thompson's legal troubles stem from the 161 investors who paid Thompson $12.7 million to find the ship, never saw any proceeds and finally sued.
Enigmatic booming sounds called the "Seneca Guns" have reverberated off parts of coastal North Carolina for more than 150 years, with some powerful enough to rattle windows and vibrate buildings.
Now, scientists are using seismic data to pinpoint where the explosions come from and what causes them.
They presented their findings on Dec. 7 at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), held virtually this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But spoiler alert: They haven't quite solved the mystery yet.
The name Seneca Guns comes not from North Carolina, but from Lake Seneca in upstate New York where a similar phenomenon occurred. The lake's ominous booming sounds, described in 1850 by the writer James Fenimore Cooper in his short story "The Lake Gun," had at the time been heard for centuries.
"It is a sound resembling the explosion of a heavy piece of artillery, that can be accounted for by none of the known laws of nature," Cooper wrote. "The report is deep, hollow, distant and imposing. The lake seems to be speaking to the surrounding hills, which send back the echoes of its voice in accurate reply. No satisfactory theory has ever been broached to explain these noises."
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