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The Blue Meanies launch an attack on Pepperland, a paradise where music and peace reign, in an attempt to crush its spirit. This prompts one of Pepperland's sailors, the former Commander, now the newly appointed Lord Admiral, known as "Old Fred" (or "Young Fred", according to the even older Lord Mayor), to escape in the Yellow Submarine to find help.
Acceptance of clinking varies by culture. For example, the habit of clinking glasses is a standard behavior in the Russian culture, [7] rejected in the Japanese one, [14] attitude toward clinking in most European cultures is cautious: [7] clinking glasses is considered to be difficult in large groups and might damage the glasses. [6]
Super Chicken was designed as a parody of the affluent WASP archetype of the 1950s—complete with martini drinking and a sense of social obligation. [citation needed] The character’s civilian name, Henry Cabot Henhouse III, is a nod to politician Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. [2] The character of Super Chicken is an exaggerated play on these traits, much like the crime-fighting millionaire Bruce ...
[26] [27] Martin strips have also been adapted on Cartoon Network's Mad and the Fox sketch program MADtv. The name of the Fone Bone character in cartoonist Jeff Smith 's epic graphic novel Bone is derived from Fonebone, the generic surname that Martin gave to many of the characters that appeared in his Mad magazine strips.
A Nick & Nora glass is a stemmed glass with an inverted bowl, mainly used to serve straight-up cocktails. The glass is similar to a cocktail glass or martini glass. [1] Use of the glass became widespread beginning in the late 1980s, when bartender Dale DeGroff had several made for the Rainbow Room restaurant in New York City. The design was ...
The shaken Martini is mentioned twice in the first Bond film Dr. No (1962). When Bond has presumably ordered a drink from room service to his hotel room, it is mixed by a waiter, who says "one medium dry vodka martini mixed like you said, sir, but not stirred." (A slice of lime was in the bottom of the glass.) Later, Dr.
Imprisoned rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs is expected to face more than 10 new civil lawsuits in the coming days, according to a lawyer who represents dozens of accusers.
Starred in a spinoff cartoon, voiced by Harry Enfield. According to Viz cartoonist Graham Dury, "half the readers thought [the strip] was shit, and the other half thought it was really shit." Undaunted, Viz cheerfully called one installment "Billy the Shit". Each episode ends with an 'on the brink' promising to resolve in the next publication ...