The most frequently used letters of the English alphabet, in order, are ETAOIN SHRDLU.
They can be rearranged to spell SOUTH IRELAND.
The most frequently used letters of the English alphabet, in order, are ETAOIN SHRDLU.
They can be rearranged to spell SOUTH IRELAND.
griffade
sudden seizure with the claws
“I have never been hurt by anything I didn’t say.” — Calvin Coolidge, known as “Silent Cal”
In 1964, grad student Donald Currey cut down a bristlecone pine in eastern Nevada to see how old it was.
It was 4,844 years old. He had killed the oldest thing in the world.
Bonus sad noble tree story here.
In Brazil, the Hamburglar is known as Papaburguer.
Long song titles:
Tug-of-war was an Olympic event in the early 20th century. Gold medalists:
(The 1906 “intercalated” games were held to erase the embarrassment of 1904.)
“America the Beautiful” and “Auld Lang Syne” share the same meter — the songs can be sung perfectly with the lyrics interchanged:
Oh beautiful, for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and auld lang syne?
John McCain can’t comb his own hair. He can’t lift his arms above shoulder level because of torture he suffered as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
The first KISS concert drew an audience of three (at the Popcorn Club in Queens, January 1973).