(useless as USELESS Gets) When it comes to useless information, I tend to be a fountain of it. Useless info is a treasure of power, knowledge, and the ability to show off & correct that person that thinks they know it all. Maybe these following useless facts will come in useful shall we say.
Ed Cahill – Det. Don Flack on CSI: NY He is left handed.Denis Leary– NYCFF: Tommy Gavin Denis donated every paycheck from the show, to the 911 FundGary Sinise – CSI NY : Det. Mac Taylor. Gary just like Denis Leary, he as well donated his pay from the show to the 911 Fund. In the show Det. Taylor’s wife Claire was a victim on 9-11 she was in the North Tower.Alcatraz – translated the word alcatraz means “pelican”. The photo is from 1895Buford T. Justice – was a real life Florida Hi-Way Patrol Officer, Burt’s dad was once the Chief of Police in Riviera Beach Florida, who was friends with Buford. Burt’s dad was the one who always said “sumbitch”.Jean-Baptiste Poquelin his stage name was Moliere – he collapsed & died on stage in 1673 Paris. In a fit of coughing and haemorrhaging while performing in the last play he had written, he suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis, possibly contracted when he was imprisoned for debt as a young man.Donnell Clyde Cooley – aka Spade Cooley, Died in 1969 backstage at a concert. Cooley was serving a life term in prison for beating his wife to death in front of their daughter, and played the show on a weekend furlough. He was scheduled to be paroled 3 months later, in Feb 1970. The benefit concert was for the Deputy Sheriffs Association of Alameda County, In the Oakland Auditorium it is now known as the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center.Jerome Irving Cohen – Known for Organic gardening died of a heart attack while seated next to Pete Hamill who is being interviewed by Dick Cavett in 1971. Hamill, noticing something was wrong when Cohen slumped over. Said in a low voice to Cavett, “This looks bad.” The episode was never aired.Aeschylus – Playwright and soldier, this dude was killed in 455 BC, when an eagle dropped the tortoise it was carrying, thinking his bald head was a rock, which was done to open the shell.Chrysippus – a 3rd century BC Greek Stoic philosopher, he died in 206 BC of laughter after he saw a donkey eating his figs; he told a slave to give the donkey some wine to drink so it could wash them down, “…having laughed too much, he died”Johnny Carson – Hosted The Tonight Show from Oct. 1st 1962 till May 22nd 1992 total of 4,531 shows. Well that’s just a few interesting useless facts. But now you know some, until next time…….
