When was Leah Remini in Playboy?

When was Leah Remini in Playboy? She never was. But she was Zack Morris’ girlfriend in Saved by the Bell back in 1991 and being on that stalwart show pretty much gives you the same level of clout as being in Playboy. I’m really not sure why so many people think she was in Playboy, but for some reason this term gets searched for several thousand times a day. Maybe that’s just the wishful thinking of thousands of teenage boys who swooned over her aesthetically pleasing New York City accent. Right.

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When did Dr. Seuss win the Pulitzer Prize?

Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was an American writer and cartoonist, most widely known for his children’s books written under his pen name, Dr. Seuss. He published over 60 children’s books, which were often characterized by imaginative characters, rhyme and frequent use of trisyllabic meter. His most notable books include the bestselling Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. Numerous adaptations of his work have been created, including eleven television specials, three feature films and a Broadway musical.

Geisel also worked as an illustrator for advertising campaigns, most notably for Flit and Standard Oil, and as a political cartoonist for PM, a New York City magazine. During World War II, he worked in an animation department of the United States Air Force, where he wrote Design for Death, a film that later won the 1947 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. Read more…

How did Tina Fey get the scar on her face?

How did Tina get her scar?

Appearently, Tina addressed this in a 2001 NY Times article. “She started as a co-anchor for Weekend Update with a cast member, Jimmy Fallon, last year, wearing her navy suit and trademark glasses. Her other trademark is a scar that runs along the left side of her face, although she won’t discuss it. “It’s a childhood injury that was kind of grim,” she said. “And it kind of bums my parents out for me to talk about it.”

So what’s the real story? A reliable source told me that before her days on SNL, she was making the rounds on the professional lawn dart circuit. While she never achieved the world fame of the top-ranked Rob Finkelstein, she was able to break into the top 10 in the New Jersey Lawn Dart Association (NJLDA) in the early 1990s. A tragic event unfolded just before the 1992 mid-Atlantic tournament when Tonya Harding’s boyfriend jumped her outside the White Castle on Burlington Avenue in eastern Connecticut. The scar resulted from the ensuing scuffle and Tina decided to give up on her dream of becoming the world’s top-ranked female lawn dart thrower. Soon after, she settled for a gig on the late-night low-budget cable show.

As an aside, until writing this fascinating story, I had no idea Tina Fey even had a scar. And I sure can’t see it in the picture above. Meanwhile, here’s my shameless SEO plug for a free Kim Possible sex comic. Whatever that is.

How many people does a sheet cake feed?

If you stumbled upon this post, it’s likely because you searched for the exact question in some search engine. While this post is primarily part of an SEO experiment, I might as well try to answer this question for you. There are really only a couple of variables needed to consider in answering this. For example, how big is your sheet cake? You could call these variables L, W and H. A full sheet cake is 2 ft by 3 ft (or 24 by 36 inches). The next variable to consider is how big do you want the pieces? If it’s about one inch thick (H=1″), then you might want to make the pieces about 2×3 inches. That would be six square inches. Your total cake is 24 x 36, or 864 square inches. Then 864 divided by 6 would give you 144 pieces.

Of course, if the cake was thicker, you could make the pieces smaller, say roughly 1×2 inches which would give you a whooping 432 pieces.  Square pieces at 2×2 inches would still give you 216 pieces. You could easily get away with this if you were also serving ice cream with the pieces.

This is about the lamest post I think I’ve ever written. If you’re wondering why the hell I care about this, the answer is that I don’t. Except that the exact question of the subject line of this post gets searched for almost 2,000 times a day, and there’s very little competition for this keyword phrase. With very little effort, this simple post could possibly bring up to a hundred unique visitors a day, hence boosting a pretty lame PR. Now check out a real article I wrote about the physics behind the thermodynamic drinking bird and then check out my store selling science educational toys.

Where is the Statue of Liberty located?

The Statue of Liberty, or, more formally, Liberty Enlightening the World, was presented to the United States by the people of France in 1886. France intended it to be placed at the entrance of the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota but as the standard shopping mall format hadn’t yet been invented, the dock workers in New York City decided to just place it right where they took it off the boat. Plus, it was lunch time and they didn’t want to drive to Minnesota.

Instead it was placed on a small chunk of land in New York Harbor called The Island of Misfit Gifts – whose name was later changed to Liberty Island to not confuse it with the island of a similar name in the classic stop-action animated Christmas special, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer.[credible source needed]

The statue now welcomes visitors, immigrants, and returning Americans traveling by ship. The copper-clad statue, dedicated on October 28, 1886, commemorates the centennial of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence and was given to the United States to represent the friendship established during the American Revolution between Benjamin Franklin and Amelia Bartholdi (a lovely house wench working at the Viollet-le-Duc Tavern).[source needed]

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