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Eddie Izzard is a British cross dressing comic. Though I haven't seen him doing the cross dressing thing since the 90s. He's been in quite a few movies. My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Oceans 12, and the upcoming Oceans 13 to name a couple. Also in the new TV show "The Riches".

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0412850/

Absolutely hilarious man.

If I wish to avoid any Energy Drinks, I have to have my Morning Tea.

At local taverns, pubs, and bars, people drank from pint and quart-sized
containers. A bar maid's job was to keep eye on the customers and keep
the drinks coming. She had to pay close attention and remember who was
drinking in "pints" and who was drinking in "quarts," hence the term
"minding your "P's and Q's."

It snows in the tropics:

http://www.alohablooms.com/img/snow0123 ... jogger.jpg

Evergreens, because of their long life span and their needles' year-round exposure to pollution, are the most vulnerable trees to air pollution.

The Flaming Lips also like:

animal suits that aren't bunnies

SpongeBob

nicely tailored suits

the color pink

Japan

girls

Fortean "damned things"

doing live concerts

zoos

being industrial grade strange

In 2005, Turkey introduced the New Turkish Lira. It helped cut inflation in that country to under 10%.

The Beatles played the Las Vegas Convention Center in 1964. Some 8,500 fans paid just $4 each for tickets.
(That would, BTW, be about $16 today.)

cola champagne isnt really champane.........or cola!

When baby opossum are born, they are so small that an entire litter can fit in a tablespoon. They live inside their mother's pouch for three months before climbing out and riding on her back.

Are there opossum where you live?

no opossums...........baby polor bears are only as big as a grain of rice..........man, the mama bear lucked out one that one

Sports historians have traced roller skating to the early 1800s when an unknown Dutchman sought to find a warm-weather equivalent to ice skating. He decided to attach wooden disks to shoes; after a short period of refinement, roller skating became a popular pastime in Holland. The sport attained even greater popularity among the North American public with the introduction of the steel wheel with ball bearings.

The USN airships Akron and Macon were flying aircraft carriers - fully capable of launching and retreiving airplanes whilr in flight.

Dunno if opossums here but certainly about 1500 feet lower, and nearby.

The dog and the turkey were the only two domesticated animals in ancient Mexico.

The Groucho Marx "stupid disguise" glasses/nose/mustache were a cheap knockoff of Civil War era prosthetics to cover battle damage.

Wow, that's actually interesting.

Dancing sensation Ann Miller began her Hollywood career at age eleven. With her vibrant personality, shapely legs, and flawless tap dancing, won a seven-year contract with R.K.O. at the age of thirteen, although the studio thought she was eighteen. Miller was so remarkable that by age fourteen, she played Ginger Roger's dancing partner in Stage Door, which started a film career that spanned 20 years. Miller appeared in more than 40 films.