Every year at Christmas time, when I hear someone sing or say “Let It Snow!” I am reminded of what I learned when I looked into the song that…
Year: 2016
“Out Where the West Begins”Begins“Out Where the West Begins”
On an early December night in 1911, journalist Arthur Chapman was trying to come up with a topic for his regular column in the Denver Republican newspaper, called “Center Shots.”…
“You say you want a revolution?”
“You say you want a revolution” is a line every Beatles fan knows. It’s from the song “Revolution” on the Beatles’ famed double album known as The White Album. John…
“We will bury you!” (Or something like that.)
On November 18, 1956, Communist leader Nikita Khrushchev, the head of the Soviet Union, attended a party at the Polish Embassy in Moscow. At that event, he made some boasting…
The 1984 presidential debate that launched the term “Spin Doctors” – and a famous quip…
Nowadays, most people are familiar with the term “spin doctors.” I think they’ve been more omnipresent than ever during the 2016 presidential campaign, though few people know how they got…
“Let Hertz put you in the driver’s seat!”
The real life “Mad Men” who formed the Norman, Craig & Kummel (NCK) advertising agency in 1955 share the credit for a number of classic advertising slogans and campaigns that…
About that “giant sucking sound” and what qualifies something as a “famous quotation”…
The huge amount of attention focused on the 2016 presidential debates between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton made me think of some of the famous quotations from past presidential debates.…
The infamous quote that revealed Earl was a bigoted Butz-hole…
Lest we forget, some politically incorrect remarks got a lot of press attention long before Donald Trump started using Twitter. In 1975, John Dean, former White House Counsel to President…