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*** Nintendo were, as you might expect, very grateful to this lawyer, and later showed that in the form of a game. What was that lawyer's name? [[Kirby]].

* A columnist several years ago predicted that someone was going to make a film called ''Saturday the Fourteenth,'' ripping off the ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th]]'' series. That had already been done, in 1981, with the tagline, "Just when you thought it safe to get up in the morning."

** Purple drank is typically Sprite and prescription-level cough syrup. The prescription cough syrup is used because it contains high levels of codeine. But I always assumed they stole the idea from the Flaming Moe. I doubt the producers are going to sue.

* It's a mostly unknown fact that softball was invented in the Netherlands during the Second World War. The lack of transatlantic communication caused by the Nazi occupation prevented the inventor from learning that his new sport had reached America before liberation. When he did find out, it did not stop him from founding the Dutch Softball Association, abbreviated as "NSB." But during the war, "NSB" was the Dutch Nazi party, so the letter combination carried an [[Unfortunate Implications|unfortunate]] [[Those Wacky Nazis|association]]. The softball association had to change its name to Dutch Ladies Softball Association, which had a negative impact on softball and baseball gender emancipation.