Jo-Ann Stores

Jo-Ann Stores is a retail chain that sells crafts and fabrics. It is based in Hudson, Ohio.

Wikipedia doesn't say who Jo-Ann is or was, but that's okay. I respect the store, because fabrics are important. Without them, nothing would be made out of anything.


Skin. The fabric of our lives.
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Louisiana House of Representatives

Louisiana House of Representatives is the Lower House in the Louisiana State Legislature. It convenes in Baton Rouge.

Baton Rouge is the answer to a trivia question that Cindy Brady can't answer on the Brady Bunch when she is a contestant on a kids' game show and she panics and freezes and just looks at the red light on the camera and Marsha watching on TV back home says "Baton Rouge, Cindy. Baton Rouge."

I always think of that when I hear Baton Rouge.

What do you think of when you hear Baton Rouge?


The Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge looks like a big penis.
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Rómulo Gallegos Center for Latin American Studies

Rómulo Gallegos Center for Latin American Studies is a foundation of the Venezuelan government whose purpose is to promote Latin American culture, especially the work of Rómulo Gallegos. Rómulo Gallegos was a Venezuelan novelist and politician.

No relation to former Oakland A's second baseman Mike Gallego.


Mike Gallego.
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Harold Furth

Harold Furth was an Austrian-American physicist. In the late 1960s he "contributed some important theoretical work on resistive magnetohydrodynamics instabilities in a slightly resistive plasma."

He sounds like a real asshole.


What a bunch of bullshit.
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Plettenberg

Plettenberg is a town in Germany. Germany is a country in Europe. Europe is a continent on Earth. Earth is a planet in the Solar System. The Solar System is a group of bodies orbiting a star in the Milky Way galaxy. Milk is a beverage that comes from a breast. A breast is more delicious on some animals than on others. But that's all in the eye of the beholder. For example, I like chicken breast, but a lion prefers zebra breast. It's nonsense to say that one animal's breast inherently tastes better than another's.

And that brings us back to Plettenberg, a town in Germany. Life is a round-trip journey.


Plettenberg is one-way.
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Stillicidium

Stillicidium is water dripping from the eaves of a building. Or maybe it was just the term for water dripping from the eaves of the Etruscan temple. I don't know, the article's weird and very short. So is Danny Devito.


Some of the finest stillicidium I've ever seen.
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Charles Gray (actor)

Charles Gray (actor) was an English actor. He played a villain in a James Bond movie and was the narrator in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He went to school with Benny Hill. His name when he was born was Donald Marshall Gray, but he changed it. He first appeared on Broadway in 1961 in the musical Kean. His film breakthrough came in 1967 in the WWII murder mystery The Night of the Generals. Between 1968 and 1979, he was in more than 40 major film and television productions.

He died in 2000. Now he is made of ashes.


Close-up of Charles Gray's last name.
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