It’s been a hectic week with life once again getting in the way. I thought a few tidbits of unusual trivia would keep everyone interested and entertained for a few minutes. Now I can return to my life such as it is.

• The original name of Scrabble was “Lexico“. It was later called “Criss-Cross” before eventually becoming Scrabble.

• During WWI sauerkraut was called “Liberty Cabbage” by the Americans. Hamburgers were called “Liberty Steaks“.

• “Meetinghouse” was the WWII Allied codename for Tokyo.

• The spacecraft Gemini 3 was nicknamed the “Molly Brown” by the astronauts Grissom and Young because in 1961 it sank upon reentry.

• Alvin Karpus AKA “Old Creepy” was arrested by J. Edgar Hoover and sentenced to serve time in Alcatraz. He spent 26 years there from 1936-1952, more than any other inmate.

• “Professor Tigwissel’s Burglar Alarm” was the first comic strip to appear in a newspaper, the New York Graphic, on September 11, 1875.

• Betty Boop’s pet dog was named “Pudgy“.

• The 1948 tune by Muddy Waters, “Rollin” Stone“, inspired the name of the rock group, the Rolling Stones.

• Steve Trachsel was the Chicago pitcher who gave up Mark McGwire’s 62nd homerun in 1998 in Busch Stadium.

• “A Wild Hare” was the 1940 Warner Brothers cartoon in which Bugs Bunny first said, “What’s Up Doc?”

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One of My Fav’s

“Manhattan Melodrama” was last movie watched by John Dillinger at the Biograph

Theatre in Chicago in 1934 just minutes before being gunned down by FBI agents.

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ANOTHER DAY HERE IN PARADISE