On October 11, 1975, at 11:30pm Eastern Time, a new TV comedy show debuted on the NBC network. It opened with a wacky skit featuring three comic actors who were…
Category: Pop Culture
The stirring words of Haile Selassie that Bob Marley used for the song “War”…
On October 4, 1963, Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, gave a speech to the United Nations General Assembly that includes a famous quotation you almost surely know if you’re…
The odd links between “Louie Louie” and Ralph Nader’s “Unsafe At Any Speed”…
It’s truly odd, but true: the renowned rock song “Louie Louie” and the history-making book about car safety by Ralph Nader, titled Unsafe At Any Speed, are connected by both…
True or false: Stephen Colbert coined the word truthiness? (Hint: you’re right!)
During the very first Colbert Report show on October 17, 2005, the witty faux Conservative media pundit Stephen Colbert unleashed the word truthiness on the world. (Click here to see…
OCTOBER 2 – The day we crossed over into The Twilight Zone
On the evening of October 2, 1959, CBS aired the first episode of a new television series created by Rod Serling called The Twilight Zone. It became one of the…
“Elvis has left the building.”
Even people who aren’t Elvis Presley fans know the line “Elvis has left the building.” Credit for popularizing this famous quote goes to Al Dvorin, a Chicago bandleader and…
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness…”
Three years after Jack Kerouac coined the term “The Beat Generation” a group of Beat poets gathered at the Six Gallery on Fillmore Street in San Francisco for a poetry…
“I love it when a plan comes together.”
You may or may not be a fan of the ‘80s TV series The A-Team, but you probably know the famous catchphrase from the show: “I love it when…
“Coffee, Tea or Me?” – the catchphrase popularized by a hoax based on a joke…
Back in the 1960s, when air travel was more pleasant and our culture was less politically correct, airline stewardesses were hot – at least in terms of their popular image.…
“Don’t Bogart that joint, my friend…”
[Reposted by popular demand…] On June 24, 1968, ABC Records released the self-titled first album by The Fraternity of Man, a California-based rock band whose members included former Mothers of…