krakatoa: 2005.05

Saturday, May 28, 2005

Or, more specificially, I think they mean something else.

Well, I obviously confused/conflated Anita Baker and Josephine Baker.
Then, I somehow called 'Covenant Marriages' 'Contract Marriages'...
... while introducing the dubious concept of the 'Starter Marriage', something based on a bad statistical analysis with no real basis that I could find, at least not from an unbiased party. However, introducing it did derail the conversation, so my heart was in the right place.

According to the imdb's trivia page, it is a common misconception, one which I held, that Happy Days is based on American Graffiti. Happy Days is really a full version of a Love American Style sketch from before American Grafiti's release.
Saipan is an island in the Marianas. Japan controlled it during World War II, but only from 1914 until the United States invaded. Before that, it was controlled by a series of European occupiers, who wiped out the native population.
While the Magna Carta did establish limits on the regent's power, and specifically states that legal judgetment or law breaking is required for punishment or imprisonment, there is no specific reference to Habeas Corpus, with the term first appearing in use 90 years later.
Paper Moon was released in 1973; Tatum O'Neal was born in 1963. That is pretty different from what I said (1970/1978, I think).
The hottest outdoor ambient temperature was recorded not at Death Valley, but in Al'Aziziyah, Libya, at 58.0 C (136.4 F).
The Charge of the Light Brigade was during the Crimean War, not the Franco-Prussian War.
Crimson and Clover is sung by Tommy James & the Shondells. I was never going to guess that; if anything, it makes me want to find some of their stuff. When asked who sang it, I said 'Some supergroup, I think, you know, like Fleetwood Mac, but not them', not a category in which I would place the Shondells.