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From the Brian and Stewie wiki page:

“Brian & Stewie” is the seventeenth episode of the eighth season of the animated comedy series Family Guy. It aired on Fox in the United States on May 2, 2010. The episode features Brian and Stewie Griffin after they are accidentally trapped inside of a bank vault, and are ultimately forced to reveal their true feelings about each other. The two go on to question their own existence and purpose in life, as they become even closer to each other as time goes on. The show was celebrated as the 150th episode of the series.

The Parents Television Council, a conservative media watchdog group and frequent critic of MacFarlane-produced programs, called on the Federal Communications Commission to investigate Family Guy after the episode aired, citing the scenes where Brian is talked into eating Stewie’s feces and vomit. PTC president Tim Winter said that, “Given the patently offensive depictions of one character eating excrement out of a diaper, then eating vomit, and finally licking the remaining excrement from a baby’s bottom – while the baby expresses physical gratification from having his bottom licked – we believe that the broadcast decency law has been broken. It seems as though Family Guy creator, Seth MacFarlane, carefully reviewed the legal definition of broadcast indecency and set out to violate it as literally as he could.”^[4][15] The Parents Television Council went on to name the episode as its “Worst TV Show of the Week” ending the week on May 7, 2010, citing the indecency of the episode.^[16]

From the Pornographic Actor wiki:

Pay rates

Most male performers in straight porn are paid less than their female costars. Ron Jeremy has commented on the pay scale of women and men of the sex film industry: “The average guy gets $300 to $400 a scene, or $100 to $200 if he’s new. A woman makes $100,000 to $250,000 at the end of the year.^[9] “Girls can easily make 100K-250K per year, plus stuff on the side like strip shows and appearances. The average guy makes $40,000 a year.”^[10]

Some state that gay male porn generally pays men much more than heterosexual porn; a number of male performers, including Peter North, have appeared in both heterosexual and gay pornography.^[11] Ostensibly, men who perform in gay pornography but identify themselves as heterosexual, most notably Wolf Hudson, are said to do gay-for-pay, that is, perform in gay movies only for the paycheck, not because of any personal attraction they have to other men.

According to producer Seymore Butts who runs his own sex film recruitment agency, as well as producing sex films; “depending on draw, female performers who perform in both straight and lesbian porn earn more than those who do [just heterosexual scenes] usually make about US$200–800 while those who only do oral sex (blow job) usually only make about US$100–300 for the scene”.^[12] It was also noted in an interview conducted by Local10 news of Florida that individuals were offered $700 for sexual intercourse while shooting a scene of the popular series Bang Bus in 2004 ^[13] According to Videobox, a porn website, actresses make: Blowjobs: $200–$400, Straight sex: $400–$1,200, Anal sex: $900–$1,500, Double Penetration: $1,200–$1,600, Double anal: $2,000. For more unusual fetishes, women generally get 15% extra. ^[14]

In 2001 actress Chloe said of pay-rates; “In Gonzo, you’re paid not by the picture, but by the scene. So it’s girl-girl: $700, plus $100 for an anal toy. Boy-girl: $900. Anal: $1,100. Solo: $500. DP: $1,500.”^[5]

Pornographic actors and STDs

Main article: AIDS in the pornographic film industry

Because of the nature of their work, usually involving sex without condoms, pornographic actors are particularly vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases. Data suggest that pornographic actors have a higher rate of STDs (except for HIV) than the general American population. Among 825 performers screened in 2000–2001, 7.7% of females and 5.5% of males had chlamydia, and 2% overall had gonorrhea. These rates are much higher than in patients visiting family planning clinics, where chlamydia and gonorrhea rates were 4.0% and 0.7%, respectively…. Between January 2003 and March 2005, approximately 976 performers were reported with 1,153 positive STD test results. Of the 1,153 positive test results, 722 (62.6 %) were chlamydia, 355 (30.8%) were gonorrhea, and 126 (10.9%) were coinfections with chlamydia and gonorrhea. Less is known about the prevalence and risk of transmission of other STDs such as syphilis, herpes simplex virus, human papillomavirus, hepatitis B or C, trichomonal infection, or diseases transmitted through the fecal–oral route.^[15] According to actress Chloe, “After you’ve been in this business for a while, you have herpes. Everyone has herpes.”^[5]

In the 1980s, an outbreak of HIV led to a number of deaths of erotic actors and actresses, including John Holmes, Wade Nichols, Marc Stevens, Al Parker. This led to the creation of the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation, which helped set up a voluntary standard^[16] in the U.S. adult film industry where erotic actors are tested for HIV every 30 days.

From the Air Transat Flight 236 wiki article:

Air Transat Flight 236 was an Air Transat route between Toronto, Canada and Lisbon, Portugal flown by Captain Robert Piché and First Officer Dirk DeJager. On August 24, 2001, the flight ran out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean with 306 people (293 passengers and 13 crew) aboard. The flight crew managed to successfully glide the plane, and safely landed in the Azores with no loss of life.^[1]

Incident

Unknown to the pilots, the aircraft had developed a fuel leak in a fuel line to its right engine. During the course of the flight, the pilots had noticed a fuel imbalance between the fuel tanks in the left and right wings of the aircraft and had attempted to remedy this by opening a cross-feed valve between the tanks. This caused fuel from the operational tank to be wasted through the leak in the engine on the other side.

On the Airbus A330, as with most large modern passenger aircraft, an emergency ram air turbine is deployed automatically to provide essential power for sensors and instruments to fly the aircraft.

When the engines suffered a flame out, important systems became unavailable. Specifically, the aircraft lost its main hydraulic power which operates the flaps, brakes, and spoilers. Additionally, an aircraft without operating engines cannot use its thrust reversers to slow the plane after touchdown.

The pilots of the Airbus A330 were able to glide the aircraft to a landing at Lajes Air Base, Terceira Island in the Azores. The reported landing speed was about 200 knots (370 km/h) indicated airspeed (IAS), which is higher than the normal speed of 130 to 145 knots (240 to 269 km/h) IAS. There were no fatalities, but there were minor injuries. The favourable outcome was also due to the flight being rerouted on a more southerly route across the Atlantic to prevent congestion, bringing them closer to the Azores.

Sequence of events

At 04:38 UTC (estimated), a fuel leak started in the area of engine no. 2 (right engine).

At 05:16 UTC, a cockpit warning system chimed and told of low oil temperature and high oil pressure on engine no. 2. There is no obvious connection between an oil temperature or pressure problem and a fuel leak. At first, Captain Piché and co-pilot DeJager suspected these warnings were computer bugs and communicated with their Maintenance control center.

At 05:36 UTC, the pilots received a warning of fuel imbalance and diverted fuel from the port (left side) wing tanks to the starboard tanks, which were showing close to empty. Because the fuel leak in the starboard engine had still not been diagnosed, this diversion had the effect of sending fuel to the leak and causing further loss.

At 05:45 UTC, as it became clear that fuel was dangerously low, the crew decided to divert to Lajes Air Base in the Azores.

At 05:48 UTC, an emergency was declared with Santa Maria Oceanic air traffic control because of fuel shortage.

At 06:13 UTC, 28 minutes after the emergency declaration and 135 miles (217 km) from Lajes^[3], engine no. 2 on the right wing flamed out, exhausted of jet fuel. Captain Piché then ordered full thrust from engine no. 1 on the left wing, and the plane descended to 33,000 feet (10,000 m), unable to stay at its 39,000 feet (12,000 m) cruising altitude with only one engine operating.

At 06:23 UTC, Mayday was declared with Santa Maria Oceanic air traffic control.

At 06:26 UTC, engine no. 1 flamed out at about 65 nautical miles (120 km) from Lajes Air Base^[4].

Without engine power, control of the aircraft depended on the last backup, a ram air turbine, which supplied limited power to hydraulic and electrical systems. While Piché flew the plane, DeJager monitored its descent rate — around 2000 feet (600 metres) per minute — and calculated that the plane had about 15 to 20 minutes left before they had to ditch the plane in the water.

The crew flew the plane a few more minutes, until sighting the air base. Piché then had to execute a series of 360 degree turns to lose altitude. Although they successfully lined up with Runway 33, they faced a new danger. The plane was on a final descent, going faster than normal. Although they had unlocked the slats and deployed the landing gear, the airspeed was 200 knots (370 km/h), compared to the preferable 140 to 160 knots (260 to 300 km/h).

At 06:45 UTC, or 02:45 EST, after 19 minutes without engine power, the plane touched down hard 1,030 feet (310 m) down Runway 33 with about 200 knots (370 km/h). The aircraft bounced back into the air but touched down again 2,800 feet (850 m) from the approach end of the runway and came to a stop 7,600 feet (2,300 m) from the approach end of the 10,000 feet (3,000 m) runway. With the operation of the emergency brakes, several tires burst. Fourteen passengers and two crew members suffered minor injuries during the evacuation of the aircraft. Two passengers suffered serious, but not life-threatening injuries.

Investigation

The Portuguese Gabinete de Prevenção e Investigação de Acidentes com Aeronaves (GPIAA) investigated the incident along with Canadian and French authorities.^[2]

The investigation revealed that the cause of the incident was a fuel leak in the number two engine, caused by an incorrect part installed in the hydraulics system by Air Transat maintenance staff. The part did not maintain adequate clearance between the hydraulic lines and the fuel line. This allowed vibration in the hydraulic lines to degrade the fuel line and cause the leak. Air Transat accepted responsibility for the incident and was fined 250,000 Canadian dollars by the Canadian government, which as of 2009 is still the largest fine in Canadian history.^[2][update]

Although pilot error was listed as one of the lead causes for the incident, it was the skill of the pilots, and of the military Air Traffic Controller in service at the time, 1st Sgt. José Ramos,^[5] that allowed the flight to land without fuel, causing only minor injuries to the passengers and minor damage to the airplane, which is still in service. The pilots returned to a heroes’ welcome from the Québec press.

From the Robert Piché wiki article:

Personal history

During the 1980s, Piché was sentenced to five years in prison for flying illegal drugs into Georgia, USA. He was released after serving part of his sentence, and later pardoned in 2000 because the state considered him fully rehabilitated. [1]

From the Project A119 wiki article:

Project A119, or “A Study of Lunar Research Flights” was a 1950s top-secret plan developed by the United States Air Force with the intention of dropping an atomic bomb on the Moon. It is presumed that the purpose of such an action would be to display U.S. superiority to the Soviet Union and the rest of the world during the Cold War. The plans were never carried out, possibly because landing on the moon would be more acceptable to the American public.

The A119 project is allegedly classified. The sole source for information on the nature of project comes from a retired NASA executive, Dr Leonard Reiffel, who claimed to have fronted the project in the late 1950s at the US military-backed Armour Research Foundation.

Dr. David Lowry, a British nuclear historian, commented: “It is obscene. To think that the first contact human beings would have had with another world would have been to explode a nuclear bomb. Had they gone ahead, we would never have had the romantic image of Neil Armstrong taking ‘one giant leap for mankind.’”

From the Dan Rather wiki article:

Daniel Irvin “Dan” Rather, Jr. (born October 31, 1931) is an American journalist and former news anchor for the CBS Evening News and is now managing editor and anchor of a television news magazine, Dan Rather Reports, on the cable channel HDNet. Rather was anchor of the CBS Evening News for 24 years, from March 9, 1981, to March 9, 2005. He also contributed to CBS’ 60 Minutes. Rather became embroiled in controversy about a disputed news report involving the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election and subsequently left CBS Evening News in 2005 and left the network in 2006.

“Courage”

For one week in September 1986, Rather signed off his broadcasts to CBS with the single word “Courage”.^[65] Apparently it was just a signature line and had nothing to do with the news at the time (which included the Joseph Cicippio abduction and a threat by Arab extremists to “become familiar with your skyscrapers and extend the terror campaign to the United States”), although TV critic Peter Boyer suggested it may have been in response to recent staff cutbacks at CBS News. Other newscasters ridiculed and parodied him, and he dropped it. Afterward, Rather said “And that’s part of our world.” On his last CBS Evening News broadcast, he once again signed off with “Courage”, this time linking it to the September 11, 2001 attacks as well as courage shown by fellow journalists.

Dead air

On September 11, 1987, Rather walked off the set in anger just before a remote Evening News broadcast from Miami, where Pope John Paul II began a rare U.S. tour, when a U.S. Open tennis match was being broadcast into the time scheduled for the newscast. He was upset that the news was being cut into to make room for sports and discussed it with the sports department. The Steffi Graf-Lori McNeil tennis match then ended sooner than expected at 6:32 p.m., but Rather was nowhere to be found. Over 100 affiliates broadcast six minutes of dead air.^[66] The next day, Rather apologized for leaving the anchor desk.

“Ratherisms”

Rather is known for his many off-the-cuff colorful analogies and descriptions during live broadcasts. Similar to those used by baseball announcer Red Barber, and cycling commentator Phil Liggett, these “Ratherisms” are also called “Texanisms” or “Danisms” by some. A few of the more colorful ones, several of which were used throughout the 2008 HBO made-for-TV movie Recount (film) about the 2000 Election, include:^[69]

• “This race is shakier than cafeteria Jell-O.”
• “Things are getting hotter than a Times Square Rolex.”
• “This thing is as tight as the rusted lugnuts on a ‘55 Ford.”
• (When Georgia is called for Clinton in 1992)”Clinton is off to a start, rolling like a big wheel through a Georgia cotton field.”
• “This race is tight like a too-small bathing suit on a too-long ride home from the beach.”
• “He swept through the South like a tornado through a trailer park.”
• “Don’t bet the trailer money on it yet.”
• “It’s a ding-dong battle back and forth.”
• “Look at that. Can’t get a cigarette paper between ‘em.”
• “His chances are slim to none right now, and if he doesn’t carry Florida, Slim will have left town.”
• “If a frog had side pockets, he’d carry a hand gun.”
• “You would sooner find a tall talking broccoli stick to offer to mow your lawn for free.”
• “Turn the lights down, the party just got wilder.”
• “It’s cardiac-arrest time in this presidential campaign.”
• “It’s too early to say he has the whip hand.”
• “It’s about as complicated as a wiring diagram to some dynamo.”
• “This election swings like one of those pendulum things.”
• “This will show you how tight it is – it’s spandex tight.”
• “Al Gore has his back to the wall, shirt tails on fire with this race in Florida.”
• “Smelling salts for all Democrats please.”
• “Maybe you can bring some perspective on this, we’re plumb out.”
• “When the going gets weird, anchor men punt.”
• “She didn’t go to school just to eat her lunch.”

Illegal drugs

In a July 1980 interview with Ladies’ Home Journal, Rather said that “in 1955 or ‘56, I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to ’smack,’ and quickly.”

According to journalist Cliff Jahr, Rather said, “As a reporter – and I don’t want to say that that’s the only context – I’ve tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I’ve never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas.”^[71]

From the What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? wiki article:

“What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?” is a song by the American alternative rock group R.E.M. from their 1994 album Monster. It was the first single taken from the album, released three weeks later. It peaked at number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at number 9 on the UK Singles Chart.

“What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?’ is notable for being the first song in history to debut at number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.

The title of the song is not original to the band, which guitarist Peter Buck explains in the liner notes to In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003. It refers to an incident in New York City in 1986, where news anchor Dan Rather was the victim of an unprovoked attack by one or two assailants who, between beatings, would ask, “what’s the frequency, Kenneth?”^[5] (although the phrase Dan Rather says he actually heard was, “Kenneth, what is the frequency?”). One of the assailants has been since identified as William Tager, who attacked Rather because he thought the media had taken control of him. Furthermore, in a 2001 Harper’s article (”The frequency: Solving the riddle of the Dan Rather beating”) this incident was tenuously linked by Paul Limbert Allman back to the late Postmodern literary giant Donald Barthelme’s writings, which contained recurrences of a character named Kenneth and in the text “Kierkegaard Unfair to Schlegel” asks, “What is the frequency?” ^[6]

Although not obviously audible, the song slows down slightly towards the end (from an original tempo of 96 BPM down to 94 BPM) because of bassist Mike Mills, who was in severe pain but, following his lead, the band continued to record the song until the end. Mills was then taken to the hospital and it was discovered he had appendicitis, which disrupted parts of the 1995 Monster tour (resulting in dates between 10 July, 1995 and 20 July, 1995 to be cancelled^[7]). R.E.M. never got around to re-recording the song.

From the Dan Rather wiki article:

On October 4, 1986, as Rather was walking along Park Avenue in Manhattan to his apartment, he was attacked and punched from behind by a man who demanded to know, “Kenneth, what is the frequency?”, while a second assailant also chased and beat him. As the assailant pummeled and kicked Rather, he kept repeating the question over and over again. In describing the incident, Rather said, “I got mugged. Who understands these things? I didn’t and I don’t now. I didn’t make a lot of it at the time and I don’t now. I wish I knew who did it and why, but I have no idea.”

The incident and Rather’s account led some to doubt the veracity of Rather’s story, although the doorman and building supervisor who rescued Rather fully confirmed his version of events. The story entered popular lore and remained unsolved for some time. The incident inspired a song called “Kenneth, What’s the Frequency?” by the band Game Theory in 1987. In October 1990, the phrase “What’s the frequency, Kenneth?” appeared in an issue of the Daniel Clowes comic Eightball^[58] as part of the serialised graphic novel Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, and was revealed in a later episode to be a key part of the Mister Jones conspiracy theory^[59]. Also in 1990, Scott McCloud used the phrase in the first 24-hour comic. In 1994 the band R.E.M. released the song “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?” on the album Monster. The phrase became the subject of many jokes over the years and slang for a confused or clueless person. Rather was a good sport about it, and actually sang with R.E.M. during a soundcheck prior to a gig at Madison Square Garden, New York, which was shown the following night on The Late Show With David Letterman before their performance of Crush With Eyeliner.

From the Kappa wiki article:

Appearance

Most depictions show kappa as child-sized humanoids, though their bodies are often more like those of monkeys or frogs than human beings. Some descriptions say their faces are apelike, while others show them with beaked visages more like those of tortoises or with duck beaks. Pictures usually show kappa with thick shells and scaly skin that ranges in color from green to yellow or blue.^[5][6][7]

Behavior

Kappa are usually seen as mischievous troublemakers. Their pranks range from the relatively innocent, such as loudly passing gas or looking up women’s kimonos, to the more troublesome, such as stealing crops or kidnapping children. In fact, small children are one of the gluttonous kappa’s favorite meals, though they will eat adults as well. They feed on these victims by sucking out their shirikodama (尻子玉^?), a mythical ball inside the anus.^[10][11] Even today, signs warning about kappa appear by bodies of water in some Japanese towns and villages. Kappa are also said to be afraid of fire, and some villages hold fireworks festivals each year to scare the spirits away.

It was believed that if confronted with a kappa there was but one mean of escape: kappas, for one reason or another, obsess over being polite, so if you were to gesture a deep bow to a kappa it would more than likely return the bow spilling the water in its lilypad-like bowl on its head. If you could trick the kappa into bowing, the water kept in the lilypad-like bowl on their head would spill out and the kappa would be rendered unable to leave the bowed position until the lilypad like bowl was refilled with water from the river it lived in. If a human were to refill it, it was believed the kappa would serve them for all eternity.^[12]

Kappa are not entirely antagonistic to mankind, however. They are curious of human civilization, and they can understand and speak Japanese. They thus sometimes challenge those they encounter to various tests of skill, such as shogi or sumo wrestling.^[2] They may even befriend human beings in exchange for gifts and offerings, especially cucumbers, the only food kappa are known to enjoy more than human children. Japanese parents sometimes write the names of their children (or themselves) on cucumbers and toss them into kappa-infested waters in order to mollify the creatures and allow the family to bathe.^[13] There is even a kind of cucumber-filled sushi roll named for the kappa, the kappamaki.^[12]

Once befriended, kappa have been known to perform any number of tasks for human beings, such as helping farmers irrigate their land. They are also highly knowledgeable of medicine, and legend states that they taught the art of bone setting to mankind.^[12][14][15] Due to these benevolent aspects, some shrines are dedicated to the worship of particularly helpful kappa.^[16] Kappa may also be tricked into helping people. Their deep sense of decorum will not allow them to break an oath, for example; so if a human being can dupe a kappa into promising to help him, the kappa has no choice but to follow through.

From the Kane Hodder wiki article:

Kane Warren Hodder (born April 8, 1955)^[1] is an American actor and stuntman. Standing 6 ft 4 in (193 cm),^[2] he is best known for his portrayal of Jason Voorhees in four films from the Friday the 13th film series (parts VII through X), the only actor to reprise the role of Jason. He is also known for his role as Victor Crowley in Hatchet.

Hodder is an avid poker player and often plays celebrity tournaments on hollywoodpoker.com.^[6] He has the word “Kill!” tattooed on the back of his bottom lip.^[7] He spends time working with children in burn centers,^[8] and despite the roles he often plays, Hodder has often been described as a very friendly man who loves to meet his fans. A good portion of Hodder’s body was severely burned in a 1980s stunt mishap; his arms and hands took the worst of it, and he normally wears gloves to hide the scars on his hands as a result.

One story that Hodder loves to share takes place after he completed one night of filming Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988). He was walking back to his dressing room, which was about a quarter of a mile away. Still dressed as Jason, he cut through the woods on a path to his dressing room. As he was walking, he crossed paths with a man. The man asked Hodder if he was in the new Friday the 13th film. Hodder, thinking that was a stupid question, did not respond, considering that he was standing in front of him dressed entirely as Jason. The man asked again. Hodder lunged and grunted at the man. The man took off running and tripping. The next day, director John Buechler told Hodder the local sheriff was going to stop by to discuss the incident with the actor/stuntman, but never showed.

He has also been known to frequently object to some of Jason’s acts in the films he starred in, most notably a scene in Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, in which Jason was scripted to kick a dog, to which he insisted that Jason was not bad enough to hurt animals. He also objected to the ending of Jason Takes Manhattan, where Jason regresses to a child after exposure to toxic waste.

For a long time, Hodder claimed his favorite kill-scene was the “sleeping bag against a tree” from Jason X. But now, he considers the one where he rips a woman’s face in half from Hatchet (2006) to be his favorite.^[9]

From The Bangles wiki article:

The Bangles are an American all-female band that originated in the early 1980s, scoring several hit singles through much of the decade.

History

Formation and early years (1981–1983)

Susanna Hoffs joined sisters Vicki and Debbi Peterson to form a band in Los Angeles in December, 1980. The trio briefly christened itself The Colours, then renamed itself The Supersonic Bangs, and shortly afterwards The Bangs.

The early Bangles line-up of Susanna Hoffs (vocals/guitars), Vicki Peterson (guitars/vocals), Debbi Peterson (vocals/drums) and Annette Zilinskas (vocals/bass) recorded an EP in 1982, and released the single “The Real World”. A legal issue forced the band to change their name at the last minute so they dropped “The” and added the letters “les” to the end to become Bangles. Their first EP was retitled Bangles and released. In 1983, Faulty Products issued a 12 inch “remix” single of “The Real World” to radio and media, but another setback came as the label folded. I.R.S. Records picked up distribution and re-issued the EP. After Zilinskas left the band to focus on her own project Blood on the Saddle, she was replaced by Michael Steele, formerly of the all-girl band The Runaways, Toni & The Movers, Slow Children and Elton Duck.

Friction

There was friction among band members after the media began singling out Hoffs as the lead singer of the group, due to Columbia Records’ practice of releasing mostly singles on which Hoffs sang lead vocal. In fact, the group’s albums were fairly evenly divided among all of the band’s members, all of whom wrote or co-wrote their songs.^[3] In 1987, Hoffs starred in a film, The Allnighter, which was directed by her mother, Tamar Simon Hoffs, and was critically panned. That, and the firing of their manager Miles Copeland, further exacerbated the dissent among the band members.^[4] But they soon had another US #2 hit with a cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s “Hazy Shade of Winter” from the soundtrack of the film Less Than Zero, and the melancholic “If She Knew What She Wants,” written by Jules Shear, reached the U.S. Top 30 and the German Top 20.

1988’s Everything was another multi-platinum smash and included their biggest-selling single, the soft ballad “Eternal Flame“. Co-writer Billy Steinberg came up with the title after Susanna Hoffs told him about the band’s visit to Graceland, Elvis Presley’s former estate in Memphis, Tennessee. An “Eternal Flame” in memoriam to Presley is maintained on the site, but on the day the band visited, the flame had gone out and its clear-plastic enclosure was flooded. When they asked what was in the box, they were told, “That’s the eternal flame.” ^[5] The single became another worldwide hit.^[6] Susanna, who is notoriously gullible, was actually naked when she recorded the song, after being convinced by producer Davitt Sigerson that Olivia Newton-John got her amazing performances by recording everything while naked. ^[7]

From the Camille Jenazty wiki article:

Camille Jenatzy (1868, Schaerbeek – 8 December 1913, Habay la Neuve) was a Belgian race car driver. He is known for breaking the land speed record three times and being the first man to break the 100 km/h barrier. He was nicknamed Le Diable Rouge (”The Red Devil”) after the colour of his beard .^[1]

Jenatzy died in 1913 in a hunting accident. He went behind a bush and made animal noises as a prank on his friends who were hunting with him. It worked too well, they heard the noise and one of them, Alfred Madoux, director of the journal L’Etoile Belge,^[5] fired, believing it was a wild animal. When they realised it was Jenatzy, they rushed him to hospital by car; he bled to death en route, fulfilling his own prophecy he would die in a Mercedes.^[6]