“Apocalypse Hoboken”

Best entries in The Canonical List of Weird Band Names:

  • Alcoholocaust
  • The Ass Baboons of Venus
  • The Couch Slugs
  • The Dancing French Liberals of 1848
  • Dick Duck and the Dorks
  • Ed’s Redeeming Qualities
  • Ethyl Meatplow
  • Hell Camino
  • Individual Fruit Pie
  • Lavay Smith and The Red Hot Skillet Lickers
  • Lawnsmell
  • Mussolini Headkick
  • Rash of Stabbings
  • Stukas Over Bedrock
  • Technosquid Eats Parliament

A few are designed to look good on a marquee, like FREE BEER AND CHICKEN and HORNETS ATTACK VICTOR MATURE.

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Ozzy’s Top 10

Ozzy Osbourne’s all-time top 10 favorite rock albums, as told to the British newspaper The Observer in June 2004:

  1. Revolver – The Beatles
  2. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Beatles
  3. Band on the Run – Paul McCartney & Wings
  4. So – Peter Gabriel
  5. Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd
  6. Abbey Road – The Beatles
  7. Imagine – John Lennon
  8. Blizzard of Ozz – Ozzy Osbourne/Randy Rhoads
  9. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin
  10. Machine Head – Deep Purple
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Say Good Night

Gracie Allen: On my way in, a man stopped me at the stage door and said, “Hiya, cutie, how about a bite tonight after the show?”

George Burns: And you said?

Gracie Allen: I said, “I’ll be busy after the show, but I’m not doing anything right now.” So I bit him.

“All I had to do was say, ‘Gracie, how’s your brother?’ and she talked for 38 years,” Burns once remembered. “And sometimes I didn’t even have to remember to say, ‘Gracie, how’s your brother?'”

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What’s in a Name?

Michael Caine’s real name is Maurice Joseph Micklewhite.

He originally took the stage name Michael Scott, but his agent learned that another actor was using it and asked him to choose another one quickly.

Caine was standing in a phone booth in London’s Leicester Square. He looked around, saw The Caine Mutiny playing at the Odeon cinema, and suggested Michael Caine.

He once told an interviewer that if he had looked the other way, he would be known as “Michael One Hundred and One Dalmatians.”

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Curtain Call

“For 40 years I’ve been an actor on the American stage. My entire family is well represented in the entire field of show business. I’ve played this very city of Cincinnati for 30 or 40 years. I’ve never had a decent reception here. I’ve been waiting all this time, ladies and gentlemen, to say to you that you, the people of Cincinnati, are the greatest morons, the most unintelligent, illiterate bastards I have ever appeared before in my entire life. Take a good look at me, because you’ll never see me again.”

— Vaudeville performer Richard Bennett finally gives up

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