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The store used for higgbee's in A Christmas story, still uses the slide and platform every Christmas for the Santa photo op.

A Christmas story had a sequel ( no not a Christmas story 2) called my summer story, originally released as it runs in the family in 1994.


And on an unrelated note, Almost everyone working on the crew of original star wars film hated it and thought it was going to be a box office bomb because it was a "silly little science fiction B movie." This is where the infamous man in pink shorts comes from

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this guy's identity remained a mystery for years and when it was revealed he says he wore the shorts and no shirt because nobody on the UK based crew was taking the filming seriously.
 
Jasonfan89 said:
The store used for higgbee's in A Christmas story, still uses the slide and platform every Christmas for the Santa photo op.

A Christmas story had a sequel ( no not a Christmas story 2) called my summer story, originally released as it runs in the family in 1994.


And on an unrelated note, Almost everyone working on the crew of original star wars film hated it and thought it was going to be a box office bomb because it was a "silly little science fiction B movie." This is where the infamous man in pink shorts comes from

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this guy's identity remained a mystery for years and when it was revealed he says he wore the shorts and no shirt because nobody on the UK based crew was taking the filming seriously.
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It is well known that Star Wars turned into a different movie in editing, , one of those editors was Lucas's wife at the time. There are some old cut scenes floating around and watching those is a real "wtf is this lame shit".

Lucas had so little confidence in the movie that he traded 2.5% of box office proceeds against 2.5% of proceeds from Spielberg's "Encounters of the Third Kind". Star Wars: A New Hope ended up earning $1.5 billion dollars adjusted for inflation. It also became a toy sensation, I can't imagine how much Lucas made from those alone.

It's also trippy that Microsoft bought Minecraft for $2.5 billion dollars while Disney bought Lucasfilm for $4 billion. A Java block game was worth 2/3rds of Star Wars, Indiana Jones, all the LucasArt games and Industrial Light & Magic.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
It's also trippy that Microsoft bought Minecraft for $2.5 billion dollars while Disney bought Lucasfilm for $4 billion. A Java block game was worth 2/3rds of Star Wars, Indiana Jones, all the LucasArt games and Industrial Light & Magic.
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I'm too lazy to look it up but I'm pretty sure MS made their money back too.
I am surprised Minecraft 2 hasn't been announced yet though.
 
The Simpsons episode Bart, the mother was the last appearance of Troy McClure and his voice actor Phil Hartman. Who was murdered by his ex-wife in 1998
 
I thought she was still his wife.

IIRC, she killed him then herself while their kids slept in another room.

On a lighter or more horrifying thought depending on your feelings on Christmas, the Philippines has the longest Christmas season of any country, beginning in September and ending in January.
 
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Smurfette being the only female in a large population of males implies that Smurfs would have to be an egg laying species
 
Shatterstar was disowned by his creator Rob liefield after a writer for the X-Men comics made him canonically gay or possibly bi..can't say I blame Rob for doing so. Wonder how he feels about @Deadpool seeing as he's known to go both ways too.
 
TiggerNits said:
Smurfette being the only female in a large population of males implies that Smurfs would have to be an egg laying species
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The Smurfs were an all-male society before Smurfette came along - she was originally created by Gargamel to be evil and cause trouble between the Smurfs, and got turned into blonde Smurfette by a spell. Later episodes of the Smurfs included a Grandpa Smurf and four Smurf kids, two boys and two girls.

But yes, Smurfs are incredibly unlikely to reproduce like mammals, and probably involves magic.
 
Johnny Cash:

-Was the first US citizen to learn that Stalin had died
-Was the first US citizen to be convicted of starting a forest fire
 
Even though the word salary is derived from the Latin salarium, which is tied to sal (salt), the concept of the Roman Legion being paid in salt wages instead of actual money was total bullshit.
 
Walrus in captivity love milking so much that Their tanks often require frequent cleaning because of all the semen that builds up in their tanks. Chimps and most great apes in captivity often jack off more frequently than those in the wild because unlike wild apes they have all their needs meet by humans and don't need to put effort into finding food or building shelter.
 
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Jasonfan89 said:
Walrus in captivity love jerking off so much that they're tanks often require frequent cleaning because of all the semen that builds up in their tanks. Chimps and most great apes in captivity often jack off more frequently than those in the wild because unlike wild apes they have all their needs meet by humans and don't need to put effort into finding food or building shelter.
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Sounds more like they're bored and just jack off for fun.
 
Cocaine was invented by the Germans; although plenty of European scientists tried to isolate the coca plant alkaloid, it was only due to Friedrich Gadecke and advancements in scientific and technological standards into 1855.

And if you think the 1980s Crack epidemic was only something recent, think again. Back when Cocaine was legal pre 1922, blacks were encouraged and even supplied to get high as laborers, and out down south, blacks who became high and angry as fuck lead to measures of instating higher bullet calibers for guns.

And the US is the highest consumer of cocaine in the world.
 
Stomachs, intestines, and other organs of animals are consumed regularly in Japan, usually grilled over coal flames.
These pieces of meat are called Horumon. Though this may sound like we took the name from the word "hormone", it's actually a play on the Japanese phrase for "discarded thing", as butchers in the old days threw out those parts of meat in favor of regular flesh.
 
At one point during development for Windwaker, Zelda as Tetra was going to be black (or at the very least very dark-skinned with thick curly hair), and the story was going to take place through several years with Link gradually growing older until he was a full grown adult by the final quarter of the game.

There was also going to be a system where Link could sink down into the ocean and explore Hyrule whenever he wanted, and he’d have to grab onto the lures of various fisherman scattered around the map to return to the surface. While this idea is kind of stupid, I kind of wish Hyrule was more fleshed out in the final game.
 
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