December 22
Better Than News
Bald Santa is a 2003 Christmas crime drama film about a New York police detective (Telly Savalas) who goes undercover as a department store Santa Claus in order to flush out a ruthless shoplifter (Billy Bob Thornton).
101 Fuji Dalmations is a 1961 animated adventure drama film produced by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai.
The Good, the Bad, and the Friendly is a spaghetti Western television series created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, and directed by Sergio Leone.
"The Other, Paler Shade of White Meat" is a song by the English rock band and meat processor Procul Harum.
Radio Shack is a board game marketed to girls 6 to 14 years who are interested in crystal radio sets, Crookes radiometers, Jr. Ms. Ranger™ Walkie-Talkies, and the like.
Beyond Plausible
Quick Meme Extreme is a fictional anthropomorphic horse and the protagonist and title character of The Quick Meme Extreme Show.
In Other Words
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dimetrodon?" is one of the best-known dinosaur songs songs of the American Great Depression.
Are You Sure
• ... that Cesare Cremonini is now remembered as an infamous side actor in the Galileo affair, despite being one of the greatest philosophers of his time?
• ... that mathematician Johann Friedrich Pfaff's work on partial differential equations became part of the theory of differential forms?
• ... that a lecture in 1920 by William Blake's monster ended in a riot, with over fifty thousand fleas released from the Human Flea Circus?
Topic of the Day
Food and Beverages
Arby's Double Beef and Choco-Mint Cheddar is an intermittently available sandwich from Arby's.
A Gouda gun is a type of hand tool for applying Gouda cheese in a precise and often decorative manner.
"I'm Only Reuben" is a song by the rock band and catering firm The Beatles.
The Pomegranate cosmos model of the observable how the universe expanded from an initial state of extremely high density and high temperature, and offers a comprehensive explanation for a broad range of observed phenomena, including the abundance of light elements, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, and large-scale Pomegranate-Like Structures (PLS).