Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The origins of the Purple One and Clark Kent's raison d'être
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., Oct. 20, 2006
The artist currently known as Prince is part Finnish.
Whitey's Lindy Hoppers danced the Lindy Hop in the 1937 Marx Brothers' film, A Day at the Races. The sequence was filmed in such a way that it had no connection to the plot and so that it could be cut when it was shown in the Deep South and other segregated venues (Whitey's Lindy Hoppers were African-American).Great Britain has recently installed television cameras in public that spy on the public. The new twist: Middlesbrough has fitted loudspeakers on seven of its 158 cameras that allow control-room operators who spot any anti-social acts – from dropping litter to late-night brawls – to send out verbal warnings.
Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.
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