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I LOVE trivia - 5/12/2012 1:00:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		Today I read that the reason "for He's a Jolly Good Fellow" is frequently sung at birthday party scenes on TV, as opposed to Happy Birthday", is that the rights to the latter are held by Warner/Chappell, which demands royalty payments for its use.

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RE: I LOVE trivia - 5/12/2012 2:07:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		That is the same reason, as I understand it many restaurants (esp bigger chains) have developed their own birthday songs. Last week I was at a very small place that did actually sing Happy Birthday. It was nice.

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RE: I LOVE trivia - 5/12/2012 10:37:51 PM   
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RE: I LOVE trivia - 5/13/2012 4:48:58 AM   
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Today I read that the reason "for He's a Jolly Good Fellow" is frequently sung at birthday party scenes on TV, as opposed to Happy Birthday", is that the rights to the latter are held by Warner/Chappell, which demands royalty payments for its use.


Years ago, there was a fascinating article in Playbill about the unforeseen costs of producing a Broadway show, and one example was that it had never occurred to the producers of The Gin Game that "Happy Birthday" was copyrighted. It wound up costing them 25 bucks a performance, if I recall correctly.

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RE: I LOVE trivia - 5/13/2012 9:19:25 AM   
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Status: offline 		Life in the 1500's:

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May and were still smelling pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the b.o.

Houses had thatched roofs. Thick straw, piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the pets...dogs, cats, and other small animals, mice, rats, bugs lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying, "It's raining cats and dogs."

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt, hence the saying "dirt poor". The wealthy had slate floors which would get slippery in the winter when wet. So they spread thresh on the floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on they kept adding more thresh until when you opened the door it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed at the entry way, hence a "thresh hold".



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RE: I LOVE trivia - 5/13/2012 10:28:04 AM   
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RE: I LOVE trivia - 5/14/2012 5:18:04 PM   
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RE: I LOVE trivia - 5/14/2012 6:52:48 PM   
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ORIGINAL: ResidentSadist

Life in the 1500's:

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May and were still smelling pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the b.o.

Houses had thatched roofs. Thick straw, piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the pets...dogs, cats, and other small animals, mice, rats, bugs lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying, "It's raining cats and dogs."

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt, hence the saying "dirt poor". The wealthy had slate floors which would get slippery in the winter when wet. So they spread thresh on the floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on they kept adding more thresh until when you opened the door it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed at the entry way, hence a "thresh hold".




May's almost over.....(I need to buy some soap).

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RE: I LOVE trivia - 5/25/2012 7:15:03 PM   
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RE: I LOVE trivia - 5/25/2012 7:58:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		Edith Bolling Galt Wilson was a descendant of Pocahantas.
Nancy Reagan, Admiral Richard Byrd and Robert E Lee
are also descended from Pocahantas.
Wayne Newtan is related to Pocahantas as he is
descended from her father Chief Powatan.
Pochahantas's given name was Matoaka. She took the
name Rebecca when she converted to
Christianity and married John Rolfe.

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RE: I LOVE trivia - 5/25/2012 10:08:54 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Iamsemisweet

Today I read that the reason "for He's a Jolly Good Fellow" is frequently sung at birthday party scenes on TV, as opposed to Happy Birthday", is that the rights to the latter are held by Warner/Chappell, which demands royalty payments for its use.

Know any trivia you would like to share?


I was at a party a week and a half ago, and I found that 3 people left the party an hour early, largely because they were certain their stereo was listing to one side.

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RE: I LOVE trivia - 5/26/2012 6:53:10 PM   
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Edith Bolling Galt Wilson was a descendant of Pocahantas


Yes, indeed! And she was incredibly proud of it. There are four portraits of Pocahontas in Mrs. Wilson's bedroom in the Washington house (now a museum) where she lived for 40 years after leaving the White House.

According to maid-memoirist Lillian Rogers Parks, the backstairs nicknames for the Wilsons were "the Professor" and "Pocahontas." Some of the staff, Parks recorded, grumbled about having to serve an "Indian."

It happened at the time to be illegal to serve alcohol to Native Americans, and one concerned citizen was so perturbed that he wrote to the President, chastising him for serving wine to his wife!

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RE: I LOVE trivia - 5/26/2012 7:00:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		Most people know that JFK is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, but fewer folks realize that another President was interred there first: William Howard Taft. Taft was the only person to serve as both President (which he hated) and Chief Justice (which he loved). Helen Taft, famous for brining the cherry trees to DC, lies beside her husband.

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RE: I LOVE trivia - 5/28/2012 8:39:00 AM   
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Status: offline 		Memorial Day was originally called Decoration Day because people would adorn the graves of Civil War soldiers.

Officially, the flag should fly at half-staff till noon, at which point it should be raised to its full height.

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RE: I LOVE trivia - 5/28/2012 8:54:35 AM   
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Status: offline 		One more bit of flag protocol: When flying the flag at half-staff, the procedure is to raise it briskly all the way to the top of the pole, then slowly lower it halfway down.

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RE: I LOVE trivia - 5/29/2012 6:17:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		Theodore Roosevelt was . . .

-- the youngest person (at 42) to become President.

-- the first President to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

-- the first President to leave the U.S. (for Panama) while in office.

-- the only third party candidate (as a Progressive in 1912) to win more votes than a candidate from one of the two major parties. (He beat out Taft, the Republican, but lost to Wilson, the Democrat.)

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RE: I LOVE trivia - 5/29/2012 6:26:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh was, imho, one of the great portraitists of all time, and he's particularly famous for his image of a glowering Churchill. He got that marvelous expression in part by plucking the prime minister's cigar out of his mouth!




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