Tom Danehy: Remembering the lousy treatment of the Wyoming Black 14, 50 years later (Tucson Weekly)
Back in the 1960s, the University of Wyoming Cowboys football team was an unlikely national powerhouse. In the same Western Athletic Conference with the University of Arizona, the Cowboys won three consecutive conference championships, beat Florida State one year in the Sun Bowl, and then nearly upset LSU in the Sugar Bowl on New Year's Day in 1968. Heading into the 1969 season with high hopes, the Cowboys had won 31 of their previous 36 games and were ranked nationally.
Certs is a breath mint (or, according to some, a candy mint) manufactured by Mondelez International, and it has long been one of America's most popular mints. Certs was the first breath/candy mint to be nationally marketed in the United States, and has been a fixture at American drug stores and convenience stores since its debut on the market in 1956.
Certs are classified as mints, but they actually contain no oils of any mint plant. Instead, as has long been advertised, the mints contain "Retsyn," a trademarked name for a mixture of copper gluconate, partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil, and flavoring. It is the copper gluconate in Retsyn which gives Certs its signature green flecks.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Certs was heavily advertised on American television with a famous campaign featuring two attractive young people earnestly arguing over the proper classification of the mints. The one participant would assert, "It's a breath mint!" The other would assay a rebuttal by stating, "It's a candy mint!" This taxonomic dilemma would finally be resolved by the unseen announcer, who would achieve synthesis by explaining that Certs was "Two, two, two mints in one!" Saturday Night Live lampooned the ads with a fictitious product called "Shimmer", with Gilda Radner's argument "It's a floor wax!" vs. Dan Aykroyd's "It's a dessert topping, you cow!" being resolved by announcer Chevy Chase's declaration that "New Shimmer's a floor wax and a dessert topping!". Indeed, the phrase "Two, two, two [insert almost any word or short phrase here] in one" remained an American idiomatic expression into the 21st Century.
In 1999, the United States Customs Service classified Certs as a candy mint for tariff purposes, since candy was taxed differently from oral hygiene products. In the ensuing suit before the United States Court of International Trade, Cadbury introduced expert testimony that Certs stimulate the flow of saliva, thus flushing bad odors from the mouth, and that its flavors and oils mask bad breath. But the court ruled that, since Certs did not contain anti-bacterial ingredients, they were, indeed, simply a candy mint. This ruling was, however, overturned at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, making Certs legally a breath mint.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Certs breath mints.
Alan J answered:
Certs.
mj said:
Was it a candy mint or a breath mint?
That was the question about the double layered Certs. The answer was "Both".
Randall wrote:
CERTS
Dave replied:
Certs breath/candy mints. Certs contains no mint oil of any kind- much less two mints. Certs' advertising would have people believe that Certs is both a breath 'mint' and candy. Whatever Certs is, it is only 5 calories/disk so you won't get fat from an occasional Certs.
Introduced in 1956 by the British firm Cadbury's, which is now owned by Mondelez International.
Photos: Twins were used to show Certs really is 2 mints in 1, it just stands to reason | This guy sold a jingle to Certs, that assures women that if her mouth tastes like Certs she will be certain to get a second kiss from her boyfriend | One of the Certs flavors
Stephen F responded:
Certs
zorch said:
Certs Breath Mints
Deborah wrote:
I think that slogan was used for Certs mints. Are they still around?
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Cal in Vermont replied:
Certs®? were a breath and candy mint and were two, two, two mints in one. It had Retsyn®? in it, which of course it did because it would stop bad breath in it's tracks. We had a math teacher in 8th grade whose breath would stun a moose 2 miles upwind. I bet he didn't use Certs with Retsyn.
John I from Hawai`i says,
Certs
Daniel in The City responded:
Certs
Dave in Tucson wrote:
Certs is the product. The campaign was hilariously lampooned by SNL in their first season:
It's a floor wax & a dessert topping!
Tastes great! And look at that shine!
DJ Useo said:
I remember that ad. It was for "Certs". I didn't care for the taste, though. I always carried "Dentine", & "Tic-Tacs". Yum!
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• Mel Brooks is the co-creator of the TV series Get Smart. One of his contributions to the series was the shoe phone worn by Control spy Maxwell Smart. The idea came to Mr. Brooks when every phone in his office started ringing, and as a joke he took off his shoe and started talking into it.
Plagiarism
• The 1957 B-movie Zero Hour provided inspiration for the disaster movie spoof Airplane!, which was created by Jerry and David Zucker and Jim Abrahams, aka ZAZ. The movie featured a traumatized veteran being forced to land an airplane after the pilots and crew and passengers are made ill by food poisoning. In fact, many of the plot elements and even dialogue for Airplane! are taken directly from Zero Hour. For example, the line "We have to find somebody who cannot only fly this plane but who also didn't have fish for dinner" appears in both films. Paramount ended up buying the rights to Zero Hourso that it would not be accused of plagiarizing the film in Airplane!
• Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner used to do a comedy routine in which Mr. Reiner interviewed Mr. Brooks, who played a 2,000-year-old man. However, they performed the routine only at private parties, not in public. Other comedians were impressed by the act. George Burns asked if the routine had been recorded on a comedy album yet. It hadn't, so Mr. Burns told them, "If you don't put it on an album, I'll steal it. I'm serious." They did, and it became famous.
• Many comedians plagiarize, especially early in their careers. Early in his career, Jackie Mason introduced a comedian named Phil Foster. As he did so, he used much of Mr. Foster's own material. When Mr. Mason finished the introduction, Mr. Foster walked out on stage, said, "How do you do, ladies and gentlemen? You just heard my act, so good night." He then walked off the stage and left the building.
• Ollie Joe Prator, a comedian from Michigan, stole other comedians' acts and did not even hide the fact that he was stealing their acts. He would go on the road, do another comedian's act, and tell the comedian later, "Man, you killed in Cleveland!"
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• Zero Mostel took the Fifth Amendment when questioned by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, perhaps in part because saying that he was not a Communist would have opened him up to prying questions about friends of his who may have been Communists. Certainly Mr. Mostel was a leftist when it came to politics. He survived the blacklist, partly by working as a nightclub comic at prices far lower than he had been receiving, partly by selling paintings, and partly because his wife went back to work. Late in life, he starred in The Front, a film about the blacklist that also starred Woody Allen. However, Mr. Mostel never forgave those who cooperated with the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Whenever he met an informer on the street, he called out cheerfully (but sarcastically), "Hello, Looselips!"
• As a magician, Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller fame knows that it is possible to "force" a card upon a member of the audience when doing a card trick - that is, to make audience members choose the card the magician wants them to choose, although they think they are freely choosing that card. Occasionally, after Penn explains this, a member of the audience will protest that he really did freely choose a particular card. When this happens, Penn responds, "You must have loved the last election."
• In 1948, Harry S. Truman won the election for President of the United States. He was already living in the White House, having become President after Franklin Delano Roosevelt's death. (Mr. Truman was Mr. Roosevelt's Vice President.) Many people had expected President Truman to lose the Presidential election and to have to move out of the White House. Following President Truman's upset victory, comedian Bob Hope sent him this short telegram: "UNPACK!"
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Hawaii Five-0', followed by a FRESH'Magnum PU', then a RERUN'Blue Bloods'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Mark Harmon and Caitlin Weierhauser.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 10/21/19) are Paul Rudd, Hasan Minhaj, and Anthony Ramos.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'The Blacklist', followed by 'Dateline'.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 11/22/19) are John Legend and M. Night Shyamalan.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 11/21/19) are Dolly Parton, Tobias Menzies, Rep. Ro Khanna, and Jon Theodore.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh are John Cena and Bindi Irwin.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'American Housewife', followed by a FRESH'Fresh Off The Boat', then '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 12/4/19) are Tom Holland, Ana Gasteyer, Adam Levine, and Angel Olsen.
The CW here fills the night with the FRESH, but pre-taped & edited, 'The 88th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'WWE Friday Night SmackDown'.
MY recycles an old 'CSI: Miami', followed by another old 'CSI: Miami'.
A&E has 'Live PD', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Rewind', then a FRESH'Live PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Polar Express', followed by the movie 'How Murray Saved Christmas', then the movie 'The Year Without A Santa Claus'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 13-Irresistible
[7:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 14-Die Hand Die Verletzt
[8:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 15-Fresh Bones
[9:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 16-Colony
[10:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 17-End Game
[11:00AM] PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS (2012)
[1:00PM] WARGAMES (1983)
[3:30PM] GREMLINS (1984)
[6:00PM] WARGAMES (1983)
[8:30PM] FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF (1983)
[11:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - SEASON 26 - EPISODE 10
[12:00AM] FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF (1983)
[2:30AM] GREMLINS (1984)
[5:00AM] CHIMPS OF THE LOST GORGE - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-Chimps of the Lost Gorge (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has the movie 'Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows: Part 2', followed by the movie 'Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows: Part 1'.
FX has the movie 'Minions', followed by the movie 'Despicable Me 3'.
History has 'UFOs: The White House Fiels', 'UFO Conspiracy: Hunt For The Truth: Special Edition', followed by the FRESH'UFOs: Secret Missions Exposed'.
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[7:45A] Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
[10:15A] National Lampoon's Vacation
[12:30P] Gremlins
[3:00P] That '70s Show - Stone Cold Crazy
[3:30P] That '70s Show - Long Away
[4:00P] That '70s Show - Fun It
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[6:00P] Two and a Half Men - That Darn Priest
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men - Pilot
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[7:30P] Two and a Half Men - Go East on Sunset Until You Reach the Gates of Hell
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men - If I Can't Write My Chocolate Song, I'm Going to Take a Nap
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men - The Last Thing You Want Is to Wind Up With a Hump
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men - Did You Check With the Captain of the Flying Monkeys?
[9:30P] Two and a Half Men - If They Do Go Either Way, They're Usually Fake
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men - Twenty-Five Little Pre-Pubers Without a Snoot-Ful
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men - Phase One, Complete
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men - Merry Thanksgiving
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men - Alan Harper, Frontier Chiropractor
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men - The Ol' Mexican Spinach
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men - A Chic Bar in Ibiza
[1:00A] That '70s Show - Stone Cold Crazy
[1:30A] That '70s Show - Long Away
[2:00A] That '70s Show - Fun It
[2:30A] That '70s Show - Good Company
[3:00A] That '70s Show - Who Needs You
[3:30A] Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (ALL TIMES EST)
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[6:35am] The Andy Griffith Show
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[8:20am] The Andy Griffith Show
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[9:30am] Snow Day
[11:30am] A Dennis the Menace Christmas
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[5:00pm] Law & Order
[6:00pm] Law & Order
[7:00pm] Law & Order
[8:00pm] Law & Order
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[11:00pm] Law & Order
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[2:00am] Short Circuit
[4:00am] The Rifleman
[4:30am] The Rifleman
[5:00am] The Rifleman
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SyFy has the movie 'Friday The 13th, Part II', followed by the movie 'Friday The 13th', then a FRESH'Van Helsing'.
The USA Network has somehow managed to make a TV show based on the days in the Purge universe when all crime isn't legal, so now HBO Max is doing something similar with The Griswolds, a series about the family from the Vacation movies and what they do when they're not, you know, on vacation. This comes from Deadline, which says the series is coming The Middle writer Tim Hobert and Big Bang Theory's Johnny Galecki, who played Rusty in Christmas Vacation and is on board as a producer with Alcide Bava Productions.
The show is going to be set in the "suburbs of modern-day Chicago," but Deadline doesn't specifically say if it'll reboot the timeline entirely or operate in some alternate universe where all of the members of the Griswold family look a little different than the last time we saw them (which would at least be a pretty common occurrence for the Vacation series). Maybe Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo will show up here? Or Ed Helms and Christina Applegate from the 2015 sequel/reboot? We should probably assume that none of them will, but HBO Max certainly has some money it can throw at celebrities if it's serious about this thing.
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee (R-Philistine) says he has been "named to head up" what would be an unconstitutional 2024 re-election campaign for Donald Trump (R-Fake Hair).
Mr Huckabee, father of former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders (R-Spokes Liar), made the explosive claim in a pair of tweets on Thursday afternoon in which he also said the US president was "eligible" for a third term due to congressional investigations into him.
"Greatly honored to be asked to chair @realDonaldTrump re-election campaign for @POTUS in 2024. Gives me lots of time to plan!" Mr Huckabee said without providing evidence.
It was unclear if Mr Huckabee was serious, but there is no indication there exists any official 2024 re-election campaign for Mr Trump, who faces a battle just to win a second term in November 2020.
Mr Trump has repeatedly joked about serving three or more terms during press briefings and at election rallies, but normally insists he is only doing so to provoke liberals.
A new portrait of Emiliano Zapata has caused a firestorm of outrage for its portrayal of the Mexican revolutionary hero striking a seductive pose - clad only in a pink sombrero and high heels.
Furious campesinos stormed one of the country's most renowned art museums on Thursday to demand the removal of the painting, part of a new exhibition titled Zapata after Zapata that seeks to present alternative views of the Mexican revolution.
The small painting by Fabián Cháirez depicts a naked Zapata, astride a white horse. His willowy frame is bound by a ribbon striped with the Mexican tricolor of red, white and green, while his lips pout under his distinctive curved moustache.
Press pictures of the painting provoked strong reactions in Mexico, where Zapata has maintained an unambiguously heroic reputation since the revolution of 1910 - when he called for "reform, freedom, justice and law".
Some of Zapata's heirs - with matching droopy moustaches - vowed to take legal action against the exhibition.
In an unusual public spat, the Roman Catholic diocese of Peoria, Illinois, is accusing the Rochester, New York, diocese of trying to "sabotage" the beatification of Archbishop Fulton Sheen.
Sheen, who before his death in 1979 was famous for his radio and TV preaching, had been scheduled to be beatified - the last step before sainthood - in a ceremony in Peoria on Dec. 21.
However, the Vatican recently took the rare step of indefinitely postponing the ceremony at the request of the Rochester diocese, which said more time was needed for further investigations.
Sheen was interred under the altar of New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral's after his death. His remains were returned to Peoria from New York in June after a court ruled Sheen's niece could bury him there.
In July, Pope Francis approved a miracle attributed to Sheen, clearing the way for beatification - one step short of sainthood.
Christians in the Gaza Strip will not be allowed to visit holy cities such as Bethlehem and Jerusalem to celebrate Christmas this year, Israeli authorities said on Thursday.
Gazan Christians will be granted permits to travel abroad but none will be allowed to go to Israel and the occupied West Bank, home to many sites holy to Christians, a spokeswoman for Israel's military liaison to the Palestinians said.
The spokeswoman said that following "security orders", Gazans would be allowed to travel abroad via Israel's Allenby Bridge border crossing with Jordan but not to visit cities in Israel or the West Bank.
Gaza has only around 1,000 Christians - most of them Greek Orthodox - among a population of 2 million in the narrow coastal strip.
This year's decision is a break with usual policy. Last year, Israel granted permits for close to 700 Gazan Christians to travel to Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth and other holy cities that draw thousands of pilgrims each holiday season.
Far below the frozen cover of the Greenland ice sheet sprawls miles of bedrock - and extending through that bedrock for close to 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) is a valley that may contain a subterranean river, transporting water from central Greenland to the northern coast.
In the past, planes flying overhead had partially mapped a rocky, subsurface valley under the ice, but their radar coverage of the region left gaps, said Christopher Chambers, a researcher at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan.
To build a clearer picture of what lurks below Greenland's surface, Chambers and his colleagues created simulations to explore the valley at different depths and model how water might melt from the surface of a glacier to the depths below - perhaps creating a flowing river, Chambers told Live Science. He presented their findings on Dec. 9 here at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
Radar maps showed that the valley floor was extremely level at depths of 980 feet and 1,640 feet (300 meters and 500 meters) below the surface, Chambers said. This is highly unusual for a feature that is so long, "and that in itself is like a potential smoking gun that this could be" a spot with active erosion or sediment deposition, such as a river, he explained.
Because this river would be running in darkness for hundreds of miles under the ice, the researchers named it "the Dark River," they wrote in a summary of their research. The Dark River likely doesn't have a very strong or constant flow, because glacier melt disperses over a large area, Chambers said. The river could occasionally be quite powerful "but only at certain times," when large reservoirs of meltwater build up and then release into the valley, he added.
A storehouse of ancient treasures, including precious jewels and gold beads, has been uncovered by archaeologists on an island near Crete devoted to making a precious purple dye from sea snails thousands of years ago.
The finds on Chrysi - a now uninhabited island - show the high value placed on the rare purple dye and the flourishing economy of the settlement between 3,800 and 3,500 years ago, during the Protopalatial and Neopalatial periods of the Minoan civilization on Crete.
Archaeologists think the largest building in the settlement was inhabited by a local elite who may have governed the Minoan settlement on the tiny island, south of the east end of Crete, Greece's culture ministry said in a statement.
The team found deep beds of thousands of the shells of spiny sea snails called Murex - which make the vivid purple substance within their bodies - in several small buildings in the settlement but not in the large building.
Instead, the large building was equipped with terraces, work desks, stoves, buckets and a stone staircase, suggesting that it was once inhabited by those who managed the settlement's production of the purple dye, and perhaps its promotion and trade to buyers who visited the island by ship, as well as payments wherein precious metals, jewelry and gemstones.
The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
1. Elton John; $2,870,863; $130.86.
2. Sandy & Junior; $2,291,602; $53.44.
3. Phil Collins; $2,145,965; $144.69.
4. Guns N' Roses; $2,003,111; $127.13.
5. Muse; $1,921,982; $85.11.
6. Post Malone; $1,913,809; $116.49.
7. Cher; $1,711,513; $132.60.
8. Jonas Brothers; $1,705,231; $103.32.
9. Ariana Grande; $1,696,652; $91.76.
10. Tool; $1,485,557; $105.22.
11. Eric Church; $1,471,468; $85.74.
12. John Mayer; $1,427,545; $95.41.
13. Iron Maiden; $1,351,786; $63.19.
14. Michael Bublé; $1,297,724; $111.91.
15. Little Mix; $1,274,903; $58.85.
16. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band; $1,250,039; $117.47.
17. Zac Brown Band; $1,241,128; $60.24.
18. Hugh Jackman; $1,212,240; $85.06.
19. Backstreet Boys; $1,206,222; $98.44.
20. Florida Georgia Line; $1,200,401; $70.19.
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