Mar. 7th, 2005 09:34 am
Mar. 7th, 2005
Popped Culture
When movie studios bankroll an expensive film, they hope to get some of their investment back by selling movie merchandise. But they couldn't do that with Titanic, a film that cost $200 million to make. Director James Cameron pointed out the trouble the studio faced trying to protect its huge investment in the story of the ocean liner that sank: "You can't do a sequel. You can't put out a Titanic toy line. And you can't make an amusement park ride out of it because people would think they wouldn't come out of the ride."
Military Unintelligence
During the Revolutionary War, when Americans fought for freedom from the British, thousands of black slaves fought in the Continental Army. But they weren't volunteers. They had been enlisted by their masters, who stayed at home out of the fight, yet received the combat pay their slaves earned.
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Mar. 7th, 2005 10:13 am
Well DUH! Calendar
Dumb Plays in the Face of Fate
Put down that hot dog. It's a crime and a sin. Well, it once was. In the third century, the Catholic Church declared sausages a sin. A hundred years later, Constantine the Great, Rome's Christian emperor, declared sausages illegal. Why? Because they were part of the libertine rituals practiced at a pagan festival for the Roman god Lupercus. But the sausage prohibition didn't work. Bootleg butchers continued to make sausages, and people ate them illegally behind closed doors. Eventually, the government gave up, and the sausage prohibition was repealed.
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Hulk's Diary That is On The Internet.
Also, the Eleanor Ciccone song (it's Eleanor Rigby mashed with Ray of Light) currently playing is from a collection of Beatles mash ups that can be found here.
Also, the Eleanor Ciccone song (it's Eleanor Rigby mashed with Ray of Light) currently playing is from a collection of Beatles mash ups that can be found here.
Mar. 7th, 2005 11:03 am
Google Fight
This is amusing. Thanks
Alexandra!
Some of my recent favorites: Jenna Jameson vs. Traci Lords, Paris vs. Nicky and Mary Kate vs. Ashley.
EDIT -- Whoa, The Cure applied the beats to The Smiths.

Some of my recent favorites: Jenna Jameson vs. Traci Lords, Paris vs. Nicky and Mary Kate vs. Ashley.
EDIT -- Whoa, The Cure applied the beats to The Smiths.
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