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Friday, March 19
To fight prostate cancer, the AdMeTech Foundation introduced Prosty the Spokesgland, whose theme song was sung to the tune of "Frosty the Snowman." The rousing chorus was, "Look at Prosty grow/Lumpety lump lump/Lumpety lump lump/No …Read more.
Thursday, March 18
ASCAP doesn't mess around. It will sue your butt off if you violate the copyright of its members. In 1995, ASCAP announced that unless it got fees of up $1,400 from each site, it would take legal action resulting in six-figure fines or a year in …Read more.
Wednesday, March 17
If you grew up in the 1980s, you may remember those GI Joe public service announcements. Eric Fensler parodied those PSAs on his website, adding non sequiturs. Hasbro was not amused. It sent in lawyers. But there were plans to slip the exclamation …Read more.
Tuesday, March 16
Thanks to the Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington has become queen of the liberal bloggers. But it wasn't always that way. She was born Arianna Stassinopoulos in Greece but married oil millionaire, and future Republican congressman, Michael …Read more.
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Saturday, March 20
One of the more peculiar, but lesser known, incidents in the Apollo mission occurred when an astronaut gave himself communion on the moon. Buzz Aldrin used a kit prepared by his pastor back home. The incident occurred during radio silence, to avoid lawsuits from angry atheists, as Madelyn Murray O'Hare had filed suit after Apollo 8 astronauts read from Genesis while orbiting the moon at Christmas.
What novel, later adapted as a movie, did Rick Moody want to call "F.F." in reference to both the Fantastic Four and the notation for "fortissimo"? A) "Brokeback Mountain" B) "The Ice Storm" C) "Mystic River" D) "No Country for Old Men"
Previous answer: Don DeLillo decided not to annoy the trademark lawyers with his book title.
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