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From the Don’t Have a Cow wiki page:

Don’t have a cow may refer to:

• a humorous cautionary phrase, dating from the late 1950s at least, possibly of UK origin. Means “don’t get so worked up”. If one pauses to reflect on the physical aspects of a human being giving birth to a full-grown cow, one can see what this phrase alludes to in terms of emotional expressiveness. Prior to “Don’t have a cow”, the phrase was “Don’t have kittens” (or “Don’t have a cat”). A variation in the past tense is also used when someone has already become worked up, e.g. “She had a cow when she found out he’d been smoking.”
• Bart Simpson’s usage of the phrase as a catch phrase in early episodes of The Simpsons.
• According to essayist Diana Souhami, in her biography of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Stein used the term to have a cow to refer to her partner’s orgasms

From the Devo 2.0 wiki page:

Devo 2.0 (also known as DEV2.O) is a quintet, created for Walt Disney Records (with the participation of Devo), of child actors who sing, dance, and (in their music videos and photo shoots) mime playing instruments along to songs re-recorded by some of the original members of Devo. Jerry Casale directed all nine of the videos.

While the music on the album was written and recorded by DEVO and merely dubbed in over footage in which the four dancing children appear to be performing, some of the members are actually credible musicians. Devo 2.0 band member Nathan Norman states they do play their own instruments with mild help from sequencers.^[1]

Altered lyrics

The lyrics to some of the songs they perform have been edited to make them more “family friendly” and remove much of the innuendo and irony typical of Devo songs.

In “Through Being Cool”, for instance, the line “Eliminate the ninnies and the twits” is changed to “Eliminate the time you waste in cliques”.

The song “Beautiful World” remains mostly unchanged until the end, where the words, “It’s a beautiful world for you/It’s not for me” have been changed to “It’s a beautiful world for you/I guess me too”. In addition, the bridge lyrics “Boy and girl with the new clothes on/You can shake it to me all night long hey hey” have been changed to “Boy and girl with the new clothes on/You can pose and party all day long hey hey”.

The theme of “Uncontrollable Urge” changed from social anxiety to craving snack foods, and “Jerkin’ Back ‘N Forth”, a techno dirge with a masturbation double-entendre, is now a perky song about dancing.

From the Denise Crosby wiki page:

Denise Michelle Crosby (born November 24, 1957) is an American actress who is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Security Chief Tasha Yar on the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Initially one of the top-billed characters and featured prominently in episodes such as “The Naked Now” and “Code of Honor“, the role of Tasha gradually moved into the background as other members of the ensemble cast became a greater focus of the series. It has been reported that Crosby grew disillusioned with her role because of the “Uhura-like” status of her role: Tasha was always present, yet her character was never expanded upon.

Ultimately, Crosby decided to leave the show. Her character was unceremoniously killed by the alien creature Armus during the episode “Skin of Evil“. She had starred in 22 episodes of the program at the point of departure.

Following her appearance on Star Trek: The Next Generation, previously unpublished nude photos of Crosby originally shot for a pictorial in the March 1979 edition of Playboy magazine appeared in the May 1988 issue of Playboy (see List of people in Playboy 1980-1989). In the first pictorial, Crosby was featured as a new-wave model, with the additional angle of being the granddaughter of the legendary Bing Crosby.

From the Stonewall Riots wiki page:

The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969 at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. They are frequently cited as the first instance in American history when gays and lesbians fought back against a government-sponsored system that persecuted homosexuals, and they have become the defining event that marked the start of the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world.

A scuffle broke out when a woman in handcuffs was escorted from the door of the bar to the waiting police wagon several times. She escaped repeatedly and fought with four of the police, swearing and shouting, for about ten minutes. Described as “a typical New York butch” and “a dyke—stone butch”, she had been hit on the head by an officer with a billy club for, as one witness claimed, complaining that her handcuffs were too tight.^[57] Bystanders recalled that the woman, whose identity remains unknown,^{[note 3]} sparked the crowd to fight when she looked at bystanders and shouted, “Why don’t you guys do something?” After an officer picked her up and heaved her into the back of the wagon,^[58] the crowd became a mob and went “berserk”: “It was at that moment that the scene became explosive”.^[59]

Witnesses attest that “flame queens”, hustlers, and gay “street kids”—the most outcast people in the gay community—were responsible for the first volley of projectiles, as well as the uprooting of a parking meter used as a battering ram on the doors of the Stonewall Inn.^[65] Sylvia (Ray) Rivera, who was in full drag and had been in the Stonewall during the raid, remembered: “You’ve been treating us like shit all these years? Uh-uh. Now it’s our turn!… It was one of the greatest moments in my life.”^[66] The mob lit garbage on fire and stuffed it through the broken windows as the police grabbed a fire hose. Because it had no water pressure, the hose was ineffective in dispersing the crowd, and seemed only to encourage them.^{[note 6]} When demonstrators broke through the windows—which had been covered by plywood by the bar owners to deter the police from raiding the bar—the police inside unholstered their pistols. The doors flew open and officers pointed their weapons at the angry crowd, threatening to shoot. The Village Voice writer Howard Smith, in the bar with the police, took a wrench from the bar and stuffed it in his pants, unsure if he might have to use it against the mob or the police. He watched someone squirt lighter fluid into the bar; as it was lit and the police took aim, sirens were heard and fire trucks arrived. The onslaught had lasted 45 minutes.^[67]

From the Yamaguchi-gumi wiki page:

The Sixth Yamaguchi-gumi (六代目山口組 ,Rokudaime Yamaguchi-gumi^?) is Japan’s largest and most infamous yakuza organization, and is named after founder Harukichi Yamaguchi.

It is one of the largest criminal organizations in the world. Estimates put the number of active members at just over 39,000, with thousands more having strong associations. It is, by far, the largest of the boryokudan groups, and its membership encompasses roughly 45% of the 86,300 yakuza in the Japanese underworld. Formal members of the Yamaguchi-gumi are 102 total people; 1 kumicho, 15 shatei (younger brother) and 86 wakachu (child) as of November 2005.

The Yamaguchi-gumi are among the world’s wealthiest gangsters, bringing in billions of dollars a year from extortion, gambling, the sex industry, guns, drugs, and real estate and construction kickback schemes. They are also involved in stock market manipulation and Internet pornography.

Relief support after the Kobe Earthquake

Immediately after the Kobe Earthquake of 1995, the Yamaguchi-gumi started a large-scale relief effort for the earthquake victims, helping with the distribution of food and supplies. This help was essential to the Kobe population, because official support was inconsistent and chaotic for several days.^{[5] [6]}

Assassination of Iccho Itoh

On April 17, 2007, Tetsuya Shiroo, a senior ranking member of the Yamaguchi-gumi, assassinated Iccho Itoh, the mayor of Nagasaki, over an apparent dispute over damage done to Shiroo’s car at a public works construction site.^[7] On May 26, 2008 Tetsuya Shiroo was sentenced to death.^[8]

From the Chub (gay slang) wiki page:

The chubby community is a subculture in the gay community. Chubbies (or “chubs”) are gay men who are overweight or obese. Although there is some overlap between the chubby community and the bear community, the chubby culture is its own distinct subculture and community. It is somewhat parallel to the fat admirer subculture which centers around Big Beautiful Women. The latter subculture is primarily heterosexual, and there is some overlap with the fat acceptance movement.

In the United States, there is an annual national event, Convergence, as well as several annual regional gatherings. There is also an annual event in Europe called European Big Men’s Convergence. These events are held in different cities each year and are usually hosted by that city’s local big men’s organization.

Terminology

These definitions are general in nature; specific definitions may vary depending on the perspective of the individual.

• Chubby or chub – A chub is defined as a large, overweight, or obese man
• Superchub – A chub who is extremely large
• Bear – a man with a stocky or heavyset build; typically hairy body and facial hair; often older (or older looking) and displaying a masculine appearance and mannerisms
• Daddy – an older man, usually a bear
• Cub – a younger version of a bear
• Chubby chaser – A man who is of smaller body size and/or stature who is sexually or romantically attracted to chubs or bears. The term chaser is used in various communities to describe an outsider who has sexual attraction to people within the community
• Chub for chub (also referenced as chub4chub, internet shorthand) – a chub who is sexually or emotionally attracted to other chubby men

From the Lidice wiki page:

Lidice (German: Liditz) is a village in the Czech Republic just north-west of Prague. It is built on the site of a previous village of the same name which, as part of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, was completely destroyed by German forces in reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich during World War II. On June 10, 1942, all 192 men over 16 years of age from the village were murdered on the spot by the Germans in a much publicised atrocity. The rest of the population were sent to Nazi concentration camps where many women and nearly all the children were killed.

Heydrich’s assassination

Main article: Operation Anthropoid

On the morning of Wednesday May 27, 1942, Heydrich was being driven from his country villa at Panenské Břežany to his office at Prague Castle. When he reached the Holešovice area of Prague, his car was attacked by two Czechoslovak resistance fighters, Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš. These men who had been trained in Great Britain had parachuted into Bohemia in December 1941 as part of Operation Anthropoid. After Gabčík’s Sten gun failed, Kubiš threw a bomb at Heydrich’s car. Heydrich was fatally injured by the explosion. Both the parachutists managed to escape the scene of the assassination and hide in places that had been prepared in advance. On June 4, 1942, after lingering for days, Heydrich died in Bulovka hospital in Prague from blood poisoning caused by pieces of upholstery entering his body when the bomb thrown at his car exploded. Hitler, the Führer of the German Reich, shocked and enraged by the assassination, ordered Kurt Daluege, Heydrich’s replacement, to `wade through blood` to find Heydrich’s killers. The Germans began a massive and bloody retaliation campaign targeting the entire Czech population.

The mourning speeches at Heydrich’s funeral in Berlin were not yet over when on June 9, 1942 the decision was made to “make up for his death”. Karl Hermann Frank, Secretary of State for the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, reported from Berlin that the Führer had commanded the following concerning any village found to have harboured Heydrich’s killers:

1. Execute all adult men
2. Transport all women to a concentration camp
3. Gather the children suitable for Germanisation, then place them in SS families in the Reich and bring the rest of the children up in other ways
4. Burn down the village and level it entirely

From the 1955 Le Mans disaster wiki page:

The 1955 Le Mans disaster occurred during the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans when a racing car involved in an accident flew into the crowd, killing the driver (Pierre Levegh) and 80 spectators. In terms of human toll, it is the most catastrophic accident in motorsports history.

Levegh, being ahead of Fangio on the track, did not have time to react. Levegh’s car made contact with the left rear of Macklin’s car as he came quickly upon the slowed car. The aerodynamic design of the Austin-Healey featured a long, ramp-like rear bodywork. When Levegh hit the Austin-Healey from behind, his car became airborne, soaring towards the left side of the track, where it impacted an earthen mound set on the side of the track to protect spectators.

The 300 SLR struck the mound at such speed and angle that it was launched into a somersault, which caused loosened and damaged parts of the car to be flung away from the car. This included the bonnet and the front axle, both of which separated from the frame and landed in the crowd. With the front of the spaceframe chassis—and thus crucial engine mounts—destroyed, the car’s heavy engine block also broke free and slammed into the crowd. Levegh was also thrown free of the somersaulting car, fatally crushing his skull when he landed.

As the remains of the 300 SLR slowed its somersault, the fuel tank, situated behind Levegh’s seat, ruptured. The ensuing fuel fire raised the temperature of the remaining Elektron bodywork past its flashpoint, which due to its high magnesium content was already very low. Magnesium’s properties mean that a combustion in oxygen is possible at relatively low temperatures, allowing the alloy to burst into white hot flames, sending searing embers onto the track and into the crowd. Rescue workers attempting to put out the burning wreckage were initially unsuccessful, as they unknowingly used water on the magnesium fire, which only intensified the inferno. As a result, the car burned for several hours. In total, 80 spectators were killed either by flying parts or from the fire.

From the Tsutomu Miyazaki wiki page:

Tsutomu Miyazaki (August 21, 1962–June 17, 2008), also known as The Otaku Murderer, The Little Girl Murderer, and Dracula^{[citation needed]}, was a Japanese serial killer.

Miyazaki’s premature birth left him with deformed hands, which were permanently gnarled and fused directly to the wrists, necessitating him to move his entire forearm in order to rotate the hand.^[1] Due to his deformity, he was ostracized when he attended Itsukaichi Elementary School, and consequently kept to himself.   Between 1988 and 1989, Miyazaki mutilated and killed four girls, ages four to seven; he then sexually molested their corpses. He drank the blood of one victim and ate her hand.^[2] The crimes—which, prior to Miyazaki’s apprehension and trial were classified “The Little Girl Murders”, and would become known as the Tokyo/Saitama Serial Kidnapping Murders of Little Girls - shocked Saitama Prefecture, which had a long-standing record of low occurrences of crimes against children.

During the day, Miyazaki was a mild-mannered employee. In his own time, he selected children to kill randomly. He terrorized the families of his victims, sending them letters recalling in graphic detail what he had done to their children. To the family of victim Erika Nanba, Miyazaki sent a morbid postcard assembled using words cut out of magazines, spelling out: “Erika. Cold. Cough. Throat. Rest. Death.”

He allowed the corpse of his first victim, Mari Konno, to decompose in the hills near his home, then chopped off the hands and feet, which he kept in his closet, and which were recovered upon his arrest. He charred the remaining bones in his furnace, ground them into powder, and sent them to her family in a box, along with several of her teeth, photos of her clothes, and a postcard reading: “Mari. Cremated. Bones. Investigate. Prove.”

Police found that the families of the victims had something else in common: they had all been bothered by strange phone calls. The phone would ring, but when answered, the person on the other end (presumably Miyazaki) would say nothing; if they didn’t pick it up, the phone would sometimes ring for 20 minutes.

On July 23, 1989, Miyazaki, while attempting to insert a zoom lens into the vagina of a grade school-aged girl in a park near her home, was attacked by the girl’s father.  Miyazaki fled on foot, but returned to the park to retrieve his car, whereupon he was promptly arrested.  Miyazaki, who retained a perpetually calm and collected demeanor during his trial, appeared indifferent to his capture.

Miyazaki often talked in a nonsensical manner during his trial, which began on March 30, 1990. He blamed his atrocities on a “rat man” alter ego, a character that he often drew in cartoon form for the court.^[6] He described his serial murders as a “good job” and never apologized.^[8][9] Child killer Kaoru Kobayashi described himself as “the next Tsutomu Miyazaki or Mamoru Takuma.”^[10] However, Miyazaki claimed that “I won’t allow him to call himself ‘the second Tsutomu Miyazaki’ when he hasn’t even undergone a psychiatric examination.”^[11]

From the Itasha wiki page:

Itasha (痛車 ^?) is a Japanese term for an otaku fad of individuals decorating the bodies of their cars with fictional characters of anime, manga, or video games (especially bishōjo game or eroge). These characters are predominately “cute” female. The decorations usually involve paint schemes and stickers. Automobiles are called Itasha, while similar motorcycles and bicycles are called itansha (痛単車 ^?) and itachari (痛チャリ ^?), respectively.

The cars are seen prominently in places such as Akihibara (Tokyo), Nipponbashi (Osaka), or Ōsu (Nagoya). Itasha also appears in customizable video games, such as Forza Motorsport 2. ^[1] Itashas also participated various motorsport events in real world.