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The famous American jazz trumpeter, Miles Davis, was actually born in Sweden, and for the first eight years of his life, he was known as "Kilometers," until his parents moved back to Harlem and changed his name because he was getting into fights at school. Were it not for this accident of geography, some of the most popular records issued by Columbia might have had such names as: "Kilometers Ahead," "Kilometerstones," "1958 Kilometers," and, of course "Kilometers Smiles."
As of August 12, 2009, the Earth's population is estimated by the United States Census Bureau to be 6.777 billion (none of whom follow this blog). Despite the astronomically large number of inhabitants on the Earth, if everyone stood very close to each other (after bathing thoroughly first), the entire population of the planet could fit inside the New York City subway system (except for the guy who says: "We apologize for the delay.").
Marketing studies demonstrate consistently that Americans feel intellectually inferior to the British. Accordingly, sales reports confirm that Americans will purchase anything advertised on television provided that the voiceover has a fake British accent. The same holds true for televised amateur hour: No matter how ridiculous and ignorant the judge’s opinion, it will be widely accepted by an American audience provided it is rendered in British-accented English.
Maimonides was the fist person to say "Oy vey," (in 1359 C.E.) after having a dream that Leonard Nemoy would one day play his “voice” in an animated program about his life. (“I was holding out for William Shatner,” he wrote in an obscure footnote in tractate Pesahim from the Mishnah Torah.)
Approximately 3,000 miles separate China's western region from its east coast, yet it has only one time zone, known as "Happy Fun Time."
Mary Cassat, the great American painter, was noted for painting portraits of intimate bonds between mothers and children. Yet, she is reported to have confided in her friend, the impressionist, Edgar Degas, “I hate my kids.”
Massachusetts is home to the oldest pothole in the United States, Ye Olde Newton Centre Car-Wrecker, first appearing in 1722, and lovingly ignored by 23 successive mayoral administrations.
As of August 12, 2009, the Earth's population is estimated by the United States Census Bureau to be 6.777 billion (none of whom follow this blog). Despite the astronomically large number of inhabitants on the Earth, if everyone stood very close to each other (after bathing thoroughly first), the entire population of the planet could fit inside the New York City subway system (except for the guy who says: "We apologize for the delay.").
Marketing studies demonstrate consistently that Americans feel intellectually inferior to the British. Accordingly, sales reports confirm that Americans will purchase anything advertised on television provided that the voiceover has a fake British accent. The same holds true for televised amateur hour: No matter how ridiculous and ignorant the judge’s opinion, it will be widely accepted by an American audience provided it is rendered in British-accented English.
Maimonides was the fist person to say "Oy vey," (in 1359 C.E.) after having a dream that Leonard Nemoy would one day play his “voice” in an animated program about his life. (“I was holding out for William Shatner,” he wrote in an obscure footnote in tractate Pesahim from the Mishnah Torah.)
Approximately 3,000 miles separate China's western region from its east coast, yet it has only one time zone, known as "Happy Fun Time."
Mary Cassat, the great American painter, was noted for painting portraits of intimate bonds between mothers and children. Yet, she is reported to have confided in her friend, the impressionist, Edgar Degas, “I hate my kids.”
Massachusetts is home to the oldest pothole in the United States, Ye Olde Newton Centre Car-Wrecker, first appearing in 1722, and lovingly ignored by 23 successive mayoral administrations.
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