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Robin Warder: 5 Real People Who Were Mistakenly Declared Dead (Cracked)
The scenario is frequently played for laughs in sitcoms and movies …. You'd think that proving your own status as a living person would be a quick matter of showing up at the records building and not biting anybody in the brain. But no, it seems like trying to convince the world that you're still alive is almost worse than just rolling over, taking one for the team, and politely dying.
?DavidandApril WileandMaciborka: Pucker (YouTube)?
"Babies have an almost universally similar reaction to their first taste of a lemon. They are eager to try something new, they take a bite, and then it's shock, puckering, frowning, astonishment at your betrayal of their trust, maybe a little spitting, and then after a moment, they want another bite!" - Neatorama
'Uncle Martin' (Ray Walston in 'My Favorite Martian')
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My Favorite Martian is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1963, to May 1, 1966, for 107 episodes (75 in black and white 1963-1965, 32 color 1965-1966). The show starred Ray Walston as Uncle Martin (the Martian) and Bill Bixby as Tim O'Hara.
"Martin O'Hara's" real name is Exigius 12½. Revealed in "We Love You, Mrs. Pringle," it was heard again when his real nephew, Andromeda, crash-landed on Earth in the show's third season. Andromeda, originally devised to bring younger viewers to the aging show, disappeared without explanation after this single episode and was never referred to again. Andromeda was, however, a regular on the later animated series My Favorite Martians.
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Long, long time ago, my mom had a record with show tunes, and this was my absolute favorite -
Damn Yankees (OBC) - Those Were The Good Old Days - YouTube -
Ray Walston as Mr. Applegate (the devil) in the 1955 original Broadway cast of "Damn Yankees".
Charlie was first, and correct, with:
Martin O'Hara, a.k.a.Uncle Martin, a.k.a. "My Favorite Martian."
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
My Favorite Martian's "Martin O'Hara's" real name is Exigius 12½.
Deborah wrote:
That would be Uncle Martin, from "My Favorite Martian," a show I didn't watch much. For years I had a huge crush on Bill Bixby, however.
Adam answered:
Ray Walston in My Favorite Martian
Marian responded:
My Favorite Martian
Dale of Diamond Greensprings, Norcali, replied:
Kind of Braindeaded today! Uncle Martin O'Hara's" real name is Exigius 12½, Portrayed by Ray Walston in the stiflingly foolish TV show "My Favorite Martian". Snazzy Pamela Britton!
Sally said:
"Martin," the guy from the old TV show, "My Favorite Martian's" 'real' name was Exigius 12½.
This guy...
PS: Loved the cartoon of the frogs talking about 'climate change.' Funny, but sad at the same time.
PPS: Opening game of the Yankees, and boy does it look like it's gonna pour at any minute.
Dark as dusk now...
Space Cadet Lois Of Oregon replied:
Uncle Martin's REAL name was Exigius 12½, from the word
"exigent" meaning "urgent need" and "12 and one half"
meaning "big dick", explaining why he was everyone's
FAVORITE MARTIAN! Here is a picture of him recuperating from
an outbreak of something he picked up on Uranus.
DJ Useo responded:
The answer is Uncle Martin, from the classic 60s' sitcom
"My Favorite Martian".
That reminds me of a joke about that show we used to tell as children.
Q: How many Martians does it take to change a lightbulb? A: None, they like the dark.
Mind you, I was 5 or 6 years old at the time. Lol.
Alan J answered:
Martin O'Hara from My Favorite Martian
MAM wrote:
Martin O'Hara as "Uncle Martin" played by Ray Walston on My Favorite Martian 1963 - 1966.
BttbBob, said:
"Wild-Azz Guess" Moment - The robot from "Lost in Space"?... No, I am wrong. It was Tim O'Hara's fa-vo-rite Martian (aka Ray Walston) I'm crushed...
I shoulda known that... I loved that show being, then, a kid an' all, ya know?
I thought those antennae were, like, way cool an' I wanted a pair o' them along with all his dagnab powers! I woulda put paid to my sister, Kim, I'm tellin' ya...
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Bruce Link comment - Thanks, Bruce (via Ms Upton) for the Native American (I prefer the word, 'Indigenous') - European diseases article! As part of the Soo Tribe of the Chippewa (Ojibwe) I am drawn to any such info. In return I offer back to you, sir -
Native Americans Were Not Introduced to Alcohol by Europeans. Additionally, I am overjoyed to have discovered a brand new website that will increase the amount of mostly useless, but extremely fascinating (an' often fun) facts to add to my cranial database. Oh, boy! (I'm sayin'...) i.e.
Today I Found Out | Learn Interesting Facts Every Day
Hoo ha, an' I'm thinkin' this one could end up takin' up a LOT o' my time...
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'... zum Beispiel' Moment - The Martin Luther (Yeah, that Martin Luther) Quote (on celibacy) from via the Bruce Link: "Nature never lets up… We are all driven to the secret sin. To say it crudely but honestly, if it doesn't go into a woman, it goes into your shirt."...
Now, I'm askin' ya, is that a fun fact to know, or what? ~ Har!
Been there! Done that! An' occasionally froze my azz off as a 'deck seaman' doin' this and that, like, outside, Hello? Hoo boy, I'm tellin' ya...
Yeah, sometimes like this... that's me, winter '80-81... with those dagnab 'Black Gang Snipes' all toasty warm in the engine-room just a-laughin'... Well, screw them! 'Deck Force' rules! (an' freezes, from time to time)
This year's shipping season officially opened March 31st, but there's damn'd hard goin' fer the 'Lakers' trying to bring iron ore and grain etc down from Lake Superior into Lake Huron and beyond... an' the cutters are goin' darn near none stop, too, I'm thinkin'.
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CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'NCIS: The 2nd One', then a RERUN'Person Of Interest'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Rob Lowe, Brooklyn Decker, and London Grammar.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Jon Hamm and Pam Dawber.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'About A Boy', then a FRESH'Growing Up Fisher', followed by a FRESH'Chicago Fire'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Anne Hathaway, Marlon Wayans, and Yusuf.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Kristen Wiig, Colin Hanks, and Mario Batali.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Judy Greer, Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion, and "TripTank".
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD', followed by a FRESH'The Goldbergs', then a FRESH'Trophy Wife', followed by a RERUN'Resurrection'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Tracy Morgan, Kate Mara, and Birds of Tokyo.
The CW offers a RERUN'The Originals', followed by a RERUN'The 100'.
Scheduled on a FRESHArsenio Hall are Kevin Smith and Ernestine Johnson.
Faux has a FRESH'Glee', followed by a FRESH'The Mindy Project'.
MY recycles an old 'Bones', followed by another old 'Bones'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', yet another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Storage Wars', then a FRESH'Barry'd Treasure', and 'Storage Wars' .
AMC offers 'Game Of Arms', another 'Game Of Arms', still another 'Game Of Arms', followed by a FRESH'Game Of Arms'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 12 - Closing Time
[9:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 13 - The Wedding of River Song
[10:00AM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 7 - Parts Developed in an Unusual Manner
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 7 - Reunion
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 8 - Future Imperfect
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 10 - Anna Vincenzo's
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 12 - Charlie's
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 6 - Revisited: Cafe Hon, Chiarella's, Leone's
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 3 - Episode 3
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 3 - Episode 4
[6:00PM] THE BLUE PLANET - Ep 2 - The Deep
[7:00PM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 2 - Ep 2 - Ghost Bat
[8:00PM] THE BLUE PLANET - Ep 5 - Seasonal Seas NEW
[9:00PM] LIFE - Ep 3 - Mammals NEW
[10:00PM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 2 - Ep 3 - Lemur Leaf Frog NEW
[11:00PM] THE BLUE PLANET - Ep 5 - Seasonal Seas
[12:00AM] LIFE - Ep 3 - Mammals
[1:00AM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 2 - Ep 3 - Lemur Leaf Frog
[2:00AM] THE BLUE PLANET - Ep 5 - Seasonal Seas
[3:00AM] LIFE - Ep 3 - Mammals
[4:00AM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 2 - Ep 3 - Lemur Leaf Frog
[5:00AM] THE BLUE PLANET - Ep 2 - The Deep (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of BH', 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NYC', then a FRESH'Online Dating Rituals Of The American Male'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Inside Amy Schumer', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Tosh.0', then a FRESH'Inside Amy Schumer'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Denis Leary.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Jane Goodall.
FX has '2&frax12; Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance', then a FRESH'Justified'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'Counting Cars', another 'Counting Cars', still another 'Counting Cars', yet another 'Counting Cars', still another 'Counting Cars', and yet another 'Counting Cars'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Maron-Dead Possum
[6:30AM] Suicide Kings
[8:45AM] Five Minutes of Heaven
[10:45AM] The Objective
[12:45PM] Suicide Kings
[3:00PM] The Perfect Storm
[5:45PM] Wonderland
[8:00PM] No Country for Old Men
[10:45PM] The Wrestler
[1:00AM] No Country for Old Men
[3:45AM] Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
[5:30AM] Portlandia-Bahama Knights (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Wordplay
[7:45AM] Rising Sun
[10:30AM] Dr. T & the Women
[1:15PM] Brothers
[3:30PM] The Prime Gig
[5:30PM] The Order
[7:45PM] Superman: The Movie
[11:00PM] Law & Order-Purple Heart
[12:00AM] Law & Order-Switch
[1:00AM] Traffic
[4:15AM] Waiting for Guffman (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Face Off', another 'Face Off', followed by a FRESH'Face Off', then a FRESH'Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Anthony Mackie, Kumail Nanjiani, and Bad Suns.
Ellen Burstyn and Jennifer Garner seen at Los Angeles Premiere of Summit Entertainment's 'Draft Day,' on Monday, April 7, 2014 in Westwood, CA.
Photo by Eric Charbonneau
Pioneering American TV journalist Barbara Walters, who was the first woman to co-anchor an evening news program, will make her final television appearance on the morning talk show "The View" next month, the network ABC said on Monday.
Walters' last day as a co-host on the all-women talk show she created in 1997 will be on May 16. The network, a unit of Walt Disney Co., will also air a two-hour evening special focusing on her career and her life on the same day.
In honor of her many years on television, the ABC News headquarters in New York will be named for her in a dedication ceremony this spring and "The View" will host a week-long celebration of her career.
The most pirated series on TV is showing no signs of losing that dubious distinction.
The fourth-season premiere HBO's "Game of Thrones" Sunday became an instant hit on file-sharing networks worldwide, exceeding first-day piracy levels achieved by its third-season premiere well before its first 24 hours on the Internet. By all accounts, "Thrones" is peerless among TV shows in its ability to drive peer-to-peer copyright infringement.
Piracy-tracking firm Excipio detected 1.17 million unique IP addresses accessing torrents of the season premiere within the first 15 hours of the episode popping up online. That's more than "Thrones" racked up in the first 24 hours following its April 1 release of the third season last year, which reached 1.15 million.
While the prospect of mass freeloading on its hit series might seem worrisome to HBO, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes has professed to not be concerned by the piracy, citing its promotional value. "Thrones" has also spurred some other digital issues, with the fourth season premiere causing HBO Go to crash Sunday.
Ten world-class soloists put costly Stradivarius violins and new, cheaper ones to a blind scientific test. The results may seem off-key to musicians and collectors, but the new instruments won handily.
When the lights were dimmed and the musicians donned dark glasses, the soloists' top choice out of a dozen old and new violins tested was by far a new one. So was the second choice, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Of the six old violins tested, five were by made by the famous Stradivari family in the 17th and 18th centuries. The newer violins were about 100 times cheaper, said study co-author Joseph Curtin, a Michigan violin maker. But the Strads and other older Italian violins have long been considered superior, even almost magical.
And when the soloists were asked to guess whether the violins they were playing were old or new, the soloists got it wrong 33 times and right 31 times.
Actress Vanessa Redgrave attends special screening of "Turks and Caicos" hosted by Vogue and The Cinema Society at the Crosby Street Hotel on Monday, April 7, 2014, in New York.
Photo by Evan Agostini/
A Fabergé Imperial Easter Egg made for Emperor Alexander III of Russia and not seen in public for more than a century will go on show in London after being saved from the melting pot by an American scrap dealer who only accidentally realized its value.
The Lost Third Imperial Easter Egg was made by Peter Carl Fabergé as a gift for Empress Maria Feodorovna for Easter 1887.
The 8.2 cm (3.2 inches) tall egg, made from gold and studded with diamonds and sapphires, was last displayed in St Petersburg in 1902.
It was seized by the Bolsheviks during the 1917 Russian Revolution and mysteriously made its way to the United States.
By chance, an unidentified man bought it at a market in the U.S. Midwest for $14,000, intending to sell it for scrap. Unable to find a buyer, he searched the Internet and realized that he may have found Empress Maria Feodorovna's lost Easter egg.
Singer Chris Brown's assault case is going forward after a judge in Washington on Monday rejected a request to dismiss it.
Lawyers for the Grammy-winning singer had argued the case should be dismissed because prosecutors abused the grand jury process to prepare for trial. Brown's lawyer, Mark Geragos, said prosecutors used the grand jury to "freeze" the testimony of the alleged victim in the case, a man who says Brown and his bodyguard punched him outside a Washington hotel in October.
Geragos called the incident "the most investigated misdemeanour of all time."
But Judge Patricia Wynn agreed with prosecutors that they had a right to use the grand jury to assess the strength of their case.
Wynn also on Monday ordered that Brown and his bodyguard be tried separately. Brown's bodyguard, Christopher Hollosy, will start his trial April 17. Brown's trial will begin after Hollosy's ends. Both cases will be decided by a judge, not a jury.
Swedish singer's Bjorn Ulvaeus, left, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, of the pop group ABBA, pose on the red carpet for the band's International anniversary party at the Tate Modern in central London, Monday, April 7, 2014. The event marks the launch of ABBA - The Official Photo Book, the first ever authorised photographic biography of the band.
Photo by Joel Ryan
A married Republican U.S. representative apologized on Monday after a Louisiana newspaper posted a surveillance video showing a man it identified as the congressman kissing a woman from his office staff.
Vance, who took office last November in a special election that he won partly by touting his Christian values, made the statement after the Ouachita Citizen in West Monroe, Louisiana, posted the video on its website.
It shows a man the paper identified as Vance walking into the frame and turning out the lights in front of an office doorway. The camera shifts into a grainy, low-light mode before a woman enters the frame. The two embrace and kiss passionately for about 30 seconds before leaving together, picked up by other security cameras in the building.
The paper said the woman was a married member of McAllister's staff.
Actor David Hasselhoff poses with a replica of himself built for "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie", during an auction in Beverly Hills, California April 7, 2014.
Photo by Lucy Nicholson
The heir of a Nazi-era art dealer said Monday he had struck an accord with the German government setting a one-year deadline on provenance research for his vast hoard of paintings.
The agreement more than two years after their shock discovery in a customs probe means that Cornelius Gurlitt, 81, will likely get back many of the hundreds of artworks that were seized by German authorities.
But the deal with the federal and Bavarian state governments will also speed up the search for rightful owners of the works, many of which are believed to have been looted from Jewish collectors under Adolf Hitler.
Gurlitt had stashed around 1,400 artworks in his Munich apartment including long-lost paintings by Picasso, Matisse and Chagall.
Despite a late-season boost from the cold weather patterns similar to those that blasted England with terrific storms in February, Arctic sea ice is still on a long-term decline, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
The Arctic ice cap expands every winter and shrinks every summer, in response to changing temperatures, sunlight and weather conditions. The sea ice hit its annual peak on March 21, covering 5.76 million square miles (14.91 million square kilometers), the NSIDC reported last week. That's the fifth-lowest maximum extent since satellite record keeping started in 1979.
But until mid-March, researchers monitoring the icy blanket's annual growth thought the sea ice would be even smaller this year.
This winter, the Arctic ice cover was hovering significantly below long-term averages through the beginning of March, the NSIDC said. But ice pack surged toward the Barents Sea north of Norway and the Bering Sea between Alaska and Russia in mid-March, driven by strong winds. The surface winds were kicked up by an low-pressure weather system in the eastern Arctic and North Atlantic associated with a positive phase of the Arctic Oscillation, the NSIDC said. The Arctic Oscillation is an atmospheric circulation pattern over the northern polar region that affects the jet stream. It causes stormy conditions over the North Atlantic when it is in a positive, low-pressure phase.
A Sotheby's employee poses with a 18th century Mughal gem-set rock crystal cup, on display at the auction house in London, Monday, April 7, 2014. The crystal cup is to be auctioned in the Arts of the Islamic World sale on April 9 with an estimated price of 30,000 to 50,000 pounds (US$49,770 to 82,950 or 36,260 to 60,433 euro).
Photo by Sang Tan
The east coast of North America was once as wild as the West, with massive mountains rising between colliding tectonic plates, volcanoes belching lava and giant faults slicing the crust.
That's because millions of years ago, eastern North America was part of Gondwana and Pangaea, the supercontinents that formed as Earth's tectonic plates collided, split apart, and then crashed together again before rifting and drifting toward the spots where they're located today. Though North America's east coast is relatively quiet now, clues to these ancient tectonic mash-ups remain buried deep underground.
A new look at one of these clues reveals that a weird magnetic signal near Florida shows the peninsula stuck to North America's heel like a piece of old tape about 300 million years ago, when the central and southern Appalachian mountains were built.
The rocks beneath Florida suggest the peninsula originally wasn't part of North America. Rather, it's a fragment of either Africa or South America, sutured onto the southeastern United States near an unusual feature called the Brunswick Magnetic Anomaly, researchers say.
The Brunswick Magnetic Anomaly is a geological feature that snakes from Alabama across Georgia, and offshore to North Carolina's Outer Banks. Anomalies in Earth's magnetic field are caused by structures such as faults, and by the varying magnetic intensities of different rock types. These slight differences in rock magnetism can be measured and mapped to find hidden geologic structures.
Peaches Geldof, the wild-child second daughter of concert organizer Bob Geldof who filled the pages of British tabloids with her late-night antics as she flirted through the fashion and celebrity world, was found dead Monday at age 25.
There was no immediate word on the cause of her death at her home in Wrotham, Kent, southeast England but police called it "unexplained and sudden."
The news came as a shock to Britain's entertainment and fashion circles, where Peaches had been active as a model, television presenter and fashion writer. She was a frequent attendee at fashion shows and was photographed just last week at a London show for the Tesco brand F&F.
Peaches was only a girl of 11 when her mother Paula Yates died of a drug overdose in 2000 and those who knew her said it hit her extremely hard.
The last tweet Peaches sent on Twitter came on Sunday, when she posted a photograph of herself as a toddler with her mother and the caption: "Me and my mum."
Peaches was married twice and leaves behind two sons, 23-month-old Astala and Phaedra, 11 months.
Her first marriage, at age 19 to Max Drummey, a vocalist with U.S. indie rock band Chester French, began at a drive-through chapel in Las Vegas. It lasted six months and ended in 2009.
Her second marriage was to Tom Cohen, lead singer of the defunct London punk band S.C.U.M
Twin polar bear cubs Nela and Nobby and their mother Giovanna play outside their enclosure at Tierpark Hellabrunn zoo in Munich, April 7, 2014. The cubs born in 2013 are presented to media on Monday on occasion of their name giving ceremony.
Photo by Michael Dalder
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