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From the Wikipedia entry on trance:

"Also a possible antecedent, Neil Young's 1982 electronic album, Trans, bears a resemblance to the trance music genre."

i laughed nonstop

In the song it is stated that women only want him for his "pimp juice", which he needs to let loose. Despite contrary beliefs, the pimp juice is actually a car.[1]

xpost if only...

xpost Wikipediaarticlesthatwhitepeopleobviouslywrote.org

That would be called "wikipedia.org", amirite.

"Almost 30 years after its release, the plot for the movie was part of the inspiration for new regulations on the financial markets.
On March 3, 2010 Commodity Futures Trading Commission chief Gary Gensler stated, in testimony he gave to the 111th Congress, "We have recommended banning using misappropriated government information to trade in the commodity markets. In the movie Trading Places, starring Eddie Murphy, the Duke brothers intended to profit from trades in frozen concentrated orange juice futures contracts using an illicitly obtained and not yet public Department of Agriculture orange crop report."[21]

The "Eddie Murphy Rule," as it came to be known, later came into effect as Section 136 of the Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, under Section 746, which dealt with insider trading.[22]"

Infantile Paralysis Cup (once) 1953

In 2000, lead singer Jesse James Dupree recorded a solo album entitled Foot Fetish.

Jordan reorganised the National Socialist Movement as the British Movement in 1968, but in 1974 he was obliged to step down from the leadership in favour of Michael McLaughlin. His demise was further accelerated by his arrest for shoplifting three pairs of women's red knickers from Tesco's Leamington Spa branch in June 1975.[3]

Ha ha ha! I live in Leamington Spa! Will mention it to the local historical society! They only seem to go on about queen victoria!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Palmer_(drink)

The story goes, that one hot day on the golf course Mr. Palmer decided to create the best drink ever, so he ordered 7 up and chocolate milk mixed together called "Run-up" but it didnt catch on. thinking of his mother one day saying that Arnold would be the greatest golfer ever next to Tiger Woods, Arnold took the lemons of his life and turned them into Lemonaide and then, added some Iced Tea to it. Innovative Flavors from Orlando, Florida now licenses the drink to beverage companies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_articles

I really want to poll these, but there are too many!

Jerimoth Hill - The highest natural point in Rhode Island. For years, one of the toughest highpoints in the U.S. to scale, not because of its (812-foot) height, but because of an angry old man who lived nearby.

Love this one.

Eazy's sexual activity began at the age of twelve and resulted in not only a fatal disease, but seven children with six different women.

Wow, musta been a pretty intense fuck!

Murphy worked with physicist Brian Cox to learn about advanced physics,[5] touring the CERN facility and learning to copy physicists' mannerisms.[6] The actor also studied the thriller The Wages of Fear (1953) with Boyle to gain an understanding of the type of suspense that Boyle wanted to create in the film.[7] Murphy claims that his involvement in the film caused him to change his views on religion from agnosticism to atheism.[6][8]

Found this tidbit about Sha Na Na yesterday:

Vinny Taylor (1949–1974) (born Chris Donald), who replaced Henry Gross as the lead guitarist in 1970, died of a drug overdose in 1974. Escaped child killer Elmer Edward Solly assumed Taylor's identity and performed as him, which eventually led to his discovery and capture.

Someone told me that one of the members of Sha Na Na went crazy and spiked a baby like a football. Or maybe it was someone who thought he was in Sha Na Na.

― David Allen (David Allen), Tuesday, March 22, 2005 3:31 PM Bookmark

In concert, they would often return for up to seven encores - but none more meaningful than when performing in Toronto, Canada at Ontario Place and performing "Hound Dog" after announcing the King's (Elvis Presley's) death earlier that same day (August 16, 1977). There is documented proof of Elvis's spirit appearing in the audience. After much goading, Elvis was coaxed into joining in singing "Hound Dog".

Original drummer Cheese (Curt Lichter) left the band just after recording Un-Led-Ed. He was replaced by Fresh Cheese (Paul Maselli). Shortly before Un-Led-Ed was released, the original Ed Zeppelin (percussion) was replaced by his identical twin brother (Bruce Fernandez).

Rizzle Kicks were founded in about 1996, when both members used to play together round Rizzle's auntie's house. It was about eight years later when the pair reunited after they had both moved to Brighton and faced each other head-on in a Sunday league football match. Four years later, they ended up going to the same college (BRIT School) and one day Rizzle got Sylvester to 'Lalala' all over a track.

^I read that the other day and thought that one of the band (or their mums) had written it. I think there was a thread for that somewhere (isn't there always?).

The character of "Newman" on Seinfeld:

Newman's liking for fruit is questionable, he eats a Mackinaw Peach in the episode "The Doodle" and in an earlier episode "The Suicide" Newman states that he can't eat because it makes him incontinent.

While waiting for the trial, George Roden was put in jail under contempt of court charges on March 21, 1988 because of his use of foul language in some court pleadings threatening the Texas court with AIDS and herpes if the court ruled in favor of Howell.

The Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball league has developed an urban legend of the "Curse of the Colonel". A statue of Colonel Sanders was thrown into the river and lost during a 1985 fan celebration, and (according to the legend) the "curse" has caused Japan's Hanshin Tigers to perform poorly since the incident.[13]

In the 2007 Biography Slash, the former Guns N' Roses guitarist Saul Hudson and friend of (Seymour) Cassel's son, credited Cassel with giving him the nickname "Slash" because he was always on the go zipping from one place to another and never sitting still.

i don't think that's true

It's as daft as Sting's tale..

Nikki Sixx revealed in his autobiography that Slash was always pissing himself in his sleep.
(Slash is Britishes for piss).

In the original "Kokomo" demo version, lead vocals were performed by Mike Love and Terry Melcher. The demo harmonies include Terry Melcher, Bruce Johnston, Mike Love and Jeff Foskett. At Disney Films request, the "Kokomo" demo was 'upgraded' to a master recording thus requiring members of the Beach Boys to re-record all of the demo vocals except for Mike Love's lead vocals. The final recorded and released "Kokomo" background vocals are sung by Carl Wilson, Mike Love, Bruce Johnston & Al Jardine. Terry Melcher's and Jeff Foskett's demo vocals were erased and replaced by Carl Wilson's & Al Jardine's vocals. The final released "Kokomo" lead vocals are sung by Mike Love and Carl Wilson (this is accurate information written by me, Bruce Johnston!).

hahaha

awesome

In 2000, Volkswagen featured the title track from Pink Moon in a television advertisement, and within a month Drake had sold more records than he had in the previous 30 years.

In December 2008, actor Jeremy Piven was diagnosed with hydrargyria resulting from eating sushi twice a day for twenty years.[54]

Disney + Mike Love and post- 60's beach boys - amairrga emade in hell

Chuck Prophet recorded " West Memphis Moon" a song illustrating the incident in 2004. www.chuckprophet.com http://www.songlyrics.com/chuck-prophet/west-memphis-moon-lyrics/ Talented songwriter... I finally today understand what the very vivid song was referring to...

The lyrics of the song include a word that sounds somewhat like clitoris (albeit pronounced with a different vowel: /klɪˈtɑrɨs/ kli-tar-is). There is some debate over whether the word is really "clitoris" or whether it is in fact clitares, a French bathing costume, which more closely fits the context of the lyric - "Is she trying to get out of that clitares?". It is likely, however, that the line is actually a double entendre encompassing both meanings. The song is driven by a particularly forthright bass line.

Sally Cato is the lead singer of the 1980s glam rock/metal band Smashed Gladys and former singer of Toronto punk-era band, The Concords. As of 1996, she is a the owner of a New York City marketing and design firm, mostly creating material for entertainment: Film, Broadway and West End theatre shows such as Eric Idle's Spamalot, The Rutles, An Evening Without Monty Python, Blast! (musical), and others. Sally has been a Tibetan Buddhist for most of her adult life.

This is Sally Cato. As odd as some of this information may seem it is all true and just the tip of the ice berg. I have an official facebook page- Sally Cato and we have just now- as of May 13 2011 launched the first official Smashed Gladys presence on the internet with a Smashed Gladys facebook page. I have no idea who put this previous info up here- but it is true. Wikipedia may contact me antime using my login info. Cheers Sally
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The final recorded and released "Kokomo" background vocals are sung by Carl Wilson, Mike Love, Bruce Johnston & Al Jardine. Terry Melcher's and Jeff Foskett's demo vocals were erased and replaced by Carl Wilson's & Al Jardine's vocals. The final released "Kokomo" lead vocals are sung by Mike Love and Carl Wilson (this is accurate information written by me, Bruce Johnston!).

damn, just noticed this posted above....

still super lol

Ok this isn't particularly "unusual" and maybe this is already well known, but it kind of blew my mind this morning:

(Scott) Caan was a roadie for the rap groups Cypress Hill and House of Pain. Caan was also a member of the hip-hop group The Whooliganz (with producer and fellow emcee The Alchemist).

"Colonel Abrams (his real name)"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Lee_%28actor%29

Lee was engaged to actress Beth Riesgraf and together have a son named Pilot Inspektor. The couple came up with the unusual name after listening to the song "He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot" by the indie rock band Grandaddy.

Jimmy Nail (born 16 March 1954) is an English singer-songwriter, actor and musician. He has starred in numerous roles on television since 1983. He is 97'3" tall

this is accurate information written by me, Jimmy Nail!

Full-time, year-round male workers had a median income of $0 versus $11,250 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $8,211. There were no families and 10% of the population living below the poverty line, including no under eighteens and none of those over 64.

what article?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiseman,_Alaska

Odam guest started in the 2010 indie film Rainbow's End about deep east Texans on a trip to California, with the band Country Willie and the Cosmic Debris to record with him. He played himself. The movie still needs its own wiki page.