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From Uncle John's Absolutely Absorbing Bathroom Reader: Poker odds:      One pair in a hand of poker: 1 in every 1.37 hands      Three of a kind: 1 in every 46 hands      A straight: 1 in every 508 hands      A full house: 1 in every 693      A straight flush: 1 in every 72,192 hands      A royal flush: 1 in every 649,739 hands Play "I spy.."      Wes Craven: Scream (1996), He's the school janitor, wearing a Freddy Krueger sweater form his Nightmare on Elm Street movie.      Harrison Ford: E.T. (1982), He's the biology teacher who explains that "the frogs won't feel a thing."  His back is to the camera; his wife, and E.T. screenwriter, Melissa Mathison wrote the part for him.      Jerry Garcia: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), He's among the masses in the Indian crowd scene.      Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) and Jake (John Belushi) Blues: Beetlejuice (1988), Elwood and Jake are peeking through the blinds in the scene where Barbra (Geena Davis) and Adam (Alec Baldwin) go to the caseworker's office.      Barry Sonnenfield: The Adams Family (1991), The film's director is in the scene which Gomez (Raul Julia) is playing with his train set; Sonnenfield is a tiny commuter inside the tiny train car.      Easter Eggs: Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), Various places in the movie, for example, one is under Frank's throne, one is in a light fixture in the main room, and in an elevator to the lab.  The film crew had an Easter Egg hunt on the set but didn't find all the eggs...      Big Kahuna burgers and Red Apple cigarettes: True Romance (1993), Pulp fiction (1994), Four Rooms (1995), From Dusk Til Dawn (1996), Quentin Tarantino, writer/director, uses them as a special signature of his work.  They first show up in True Romance; Samuel L. Jackson recommends Big Kahuna burgers and both Bruce Willis and Uma Thurman smoke Red Apple cigarettes in Pulp Fiction; George Clooney carries a Big Kahuna burger bag and a pack of Red Apple cigarettes are in his car in From Dusk Til Dawn; Red Apple cigarettes are near the switch board in Four Rooms.      William Shatner: Halloween (1978), The film's budget was so low that they could not afford a custom-made mask.  So they bought a William Shatner mask, painted it white and teased out the hair.      Steven Spielberg: The Blues Brothers (1980), He plays the Cook County small-claims clerk.      Dan Aykroyd: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), He played the English ticket agent at the airport.      The phrase, "See you next Wednesday": Trading Places (1983), Twilight Zone-The Movie (1983), Coming to America (1988), The Stupids (1996), John Landis, director, says it was the title of his first screenplay and he always tries to get it into a film somewhere.  In Trading Places and Coming to America, it's on a subway poster.  In The Blues Brothers, it's on a billboard.  In The Stupids, it's on the back of a bus.  In Twilight Zone, someone says it aloud...in German.      Estelle Reiner: When Harry Met Sally (1989), Rob Reiner used his mother for the role of the woman who tells the waiter: "I'll have what she's having," when Meg Ryan fakes an orgasm in a restaurant.      Dustin Hoffman's family: Rain Man (1988), When Hoffman recites names from the phone book.  Two of them, Marsha and William Gottsegen, are his real life in-laws.      The band, Blink 182: American Pie (1999), They are the band which stops practicing to watch the "web show" on their computer.      A way to get into Universal Studios free: National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), In the final credits it says, "Ask for Babs"-referring to a character in the film who supposedly became a tour guide there.  For many years, if someone really did ask for Babs, they'd get free or discounted admission to the tour.  Bad news: Universal doesn't honor the promotion anymore. That kid from Jerry Maguire has nothin' on me... More babies are born in the month of September than any other month. Freddy Krueger was named after a high school bully who harassed writer/director Wes Craven. There are nine muscles in your ear. The darker the vegetable, the more vitamin C it contains. First announcer to say, "He shoots, he scores!" during a hockey game: Foster Hewitt, in 1933 Ketchup was once sold as a medicine. The navel divides the body of a newborn baby into two equal parts. Two dogs were hanged in Salem, Massachusetts for witchcraft, during the Salem witch trials. If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long on the day he died. An "Oscar" used in the Academy Awards is worth about $300. Goldfish have a memory span of three seconds. In Antarctica, sunsets can be green. When snow skiing: Most men fall on their faces, most women fall on their behinds. The average cat has 24 wiskers...12 on each side of its nose. Most-mentioned woman in the Bible: Sarah, 56 times. The real name for the Looney Tunes theme song is "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down."  It's a pop tune from the 1930's Drunk ants always fall over on their right side. In the 13th century, Europeans baptized children with beer. How did "venereal disease" get its name?  From Venus, the Roman goddess of love. Honeybees can fly up to 30 mph. What do roadrunners, gorillas, and cats have in common?  They all purr. Toto the dog was paid $125 a week for his work in The Wizard of Oz. One study has concluded that if a woodchuck could chuck wood, it would chuck about 700 lbs. Squirrels cannot see the color red. Al Capone's older brother, Vince Capone, was a police officer in Nebraska. When you look at someone you love, your pupils dilate; when you look at someone you hate they do the same thing. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. A pig's orgasm can last up to 30 minutes. Right-handed people live, on average, 9 years longer than left-handed people. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Starfish don't have brains. These are real laws: In Montreal, Canada, it's illegal to water a garden in the rain. In Macomb, Illinois, it's illegal for a car to impersonate a wolf. In Rumford, Maine, it's against the law to bite your landlord. An ordinance in San Francisco bans picking up used confetti to throw it again. It's against the law in Atlanta, Georgia, to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp. It's against the law in Chicago to eat in a place that's on fire. In International Falls, Minnesota, it's against the law for a cat to chase a dog up a telephone pole. It's illegal to catch fish while on horseback in Washington, D.C. It's illegal to take a lion to the theater in Maryland. It's illegal to drive more than 2,000 sheep down Hollywood Boulevard. Brawley, California, passed a resolution banning snow within city limits. In Tennessee, it's illegal to drive a car while you're asleep. Anyone found underneath a sidewalk in Florida is guilty of disorderly conduct. It's illegal in New Jersey to slurp your soup. A Texas law states that when two trains meet at a railroad crossing, each must come to a complete stop, and neither shall proceed until the other has gone. It's illegal in Hartford, Connecticut, to kiss your wife on a Sunday. It's against the law in Kentucky to remarry the same man four times. In Marshalltown, Iowa, it's illegal for a horse to eat a fire hydrant. In Tennessee, it's illegal to shoot game other than whales from a moving car. It's illegal in Fairbanks, Alaska, for two moose to have sex on city sidewalks. 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