Don't go in the TRIVIA QUIZ!
Today is Jaws Day, marking release of the popular film on this date in 1975. Don't go in the water!
It’s National Vanilla Milkshake Day, sometimes called Ice Cream Soda Day.
Today is World Refugee Day, a day for the world to honor the courage, resilience and strength of refugees. Sponsored by the United Nations.
On this day in 1972, the old Tallahatchie Bridge, made famous in Bobbie Gentry’s 1967 blockbuster "Ode to Billy Joe," collapsed in Mississippi.
On this day in 1973, "American Bandstand" celebrated its 20th anniversary with a 90-minute television special featuring Little Richard, Paul Revere & the Raiders, Cheech and Chong, Three Dog Night and, of course, Dick Clark.
On this day in 1986, in Rochester, New York, eating champ Peter Dowdeswell ate 144 prunes in 32 seconds.
On this day in 1996, police seized ten thousand ice cream bars and pad-locked the factory in Xuzhou, China, after children reported the sticks in their ice cream bars turned out to be plastic models of naked women.
Le trivia: When she was 17, did Cyndi Lauper hitchhike across Canada: (a) with her boyfriend; (b) with her dog Sparkle; or (c) with assorted hobos?
Good luck :)
4 Comments:
Oh, it's gotta be her dog Sparkle. Girls just wanna have fun!
Why would anyone ever want to enter a prune-eating contest? How about a no-prune-eating contest? I think I'd win that one.
I think JD is probably right, but just to keep things interesting I'll guess she hitchhiked with a bunch of hoboes :)
Also, I used to love that song Ode to Billy Joe and all the mystery surrounding what they threw off the bridge. A ring? A baby? What? The movie was kind of disappointing though.
Yup, it was her dog Sparkle!
JD, good question, although I'd imagine that the no prune eating contest would end up with a giant tie for first place :)
Kim, I agree that the song doesn't really answer any questions. Perhaps there's a sequel in the works!
Yes, in the movie, Billy Joe accidentally sleeps with his boss (a man) and the girl ends up throwing her rag doll over the bridge at the end. But it just didn't make sense to me, how do you accidentally sleep with someone and not realize they are a man?? But the song was written first and then somebody wrote a screenplay about it.
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