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The studio audience participated as judges for the sketches. They disqualified a contestant by yelling out, "Sponk!". When time ran out, the audience voted the winner by raising the side of their "Spaddle" to vote for the red team or blue team. The "prize" that the performers competed for was the Sponk Trophy, a golden rubber chicken.
The origin of the rubber chicken is obscure, but it is possibly based on the use of inflated pig bladders attached to sticks and used as props or mock weapons by jesters in the days before the development of plastic and latex. Chicken corpses were readily available; therefore jesters could employ them as variations of slapsticks. [1]
The show airs both low-budget and classic horror and science-fiction movies, with host "Svengoolie" – a portmanteau of the words Svengali and ghoul – played by Rich Koz [4] (pronounced "Koze"), who wears thick skull-like makeup around his eyes and cheekbones, a moustache, goatee, and long wig, all black, and a black top hat with a tuxedo jacket over a bright-red, open-collared, pleated ...
Dec. 29—Today, New Year's often means fireworks, parties or just a relaxing night with family to watch the ball drop on TV. But in decades gone by, the revelry sometimes had a different look.
Aug. 29—In 2017, Spokane County promised to pay Costco about $5 million if it built one of its wholesale retail stores in its jurisdiction. Now it's time to pay up. County CEO Scott Simmons said ...
The history of Spokane, Washington in the northwestern United States developed because Spokane Falls and its surroundings were a gathering place for numerous cultures for thousands of years. The area's indigenous people settled there due to the fertile hunting grounds and abundance of salmon in the Spokane River.
Rubber, squeaky chickens were handed out this weekend at the Libertarian Party convention in Washington, D.C., to call on former President Trump to debate independent presidential candidate Robert ...
The Latah Creek Bridge and the Town of Waverly, pre-1968. Waverly was settled by white immigrants as early as 1878, and was named by two settlers after Waverly, Iowa in 1879.