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Bookmark or Share- Bogart's lighter in 1941 "Maltese Falcon" - Straight DopeIn the 1941 movie “Maltese Falcon” starring Humphrey Bogart, Sam Spade has an interesting cigerette lighter on the table at his home. It looks like some kind of stick that he pushes and then pulls out of jar looking thing and it comes out lighted. It’s not a wooden match since he replaces it after he lights his cigerette. And he uses it over and over again. Would anybody happen to what ...
- What does "In and Out Calls" mean in ads for escort services?So my co-worker and I are sitting here reading the Free Times ad sections, and we noticed all the “escort services” offer “In and Out Calls”. Are we just naive that we can’t figure out what that means? I get that what an "escort service’ does is send you a girl nominally as date companionship, and that anything else you want to do you can negotiate with her privately. But we can ...
- Other moving ceremonies - Straight DopeIt’s the tallest building in town, with the children’s cancer ward on the top floor, which overlooks the university’s football stadium. At the halftime of every football game, all the players, the referees, and the entire stadium all stand up together, turn to face the hospital, and wave to the children watching from the windows above them.
- What's The Largest Solid Object You Can Swallow Whole And Still 'Pass'?The coal miner’s son was first admitted to the hospital with symptoms of schizophrenia and was later moved to a surgical ward when he complained of pain in the stomach and began to vomit. A X-ray revealed presence of a big metal object in the stomach but the doctors were later surprised to find as many as 90 articles, reports United News of ...
- Ending credits of Rocky and Bullwinkle show. - Straight DopeAccording to this site, that was, indeed, the fake name that Ward and Scott invented: Ponsonby Britt, O.B.E. The accredited executive producer of Rocky and Bullwinkle, doesn’t exist. When the series first became famous, many reporters contacted the studio and asked for the staff’s biographies.
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