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Thursday, February 9, 2023 Volume 69 | Number 23
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THE DESERT MOBILE HOME NEWS CELEBRATING THE DESERT COMMUNITIES FOR 69 YEARS
• A Calvin and Hobbes comic from 1992 referred to the start of the universe as the “Horrendous Space Kablooie” because they thought “The Big Bang” was too boring. • When a man noticed that his food supply was mysteriously diminishing he set up a webcam, only to discover that a woman had been living in one of his closets -for a year! • The cable car is the only moving National Historic Monument in the world. • In 2013, Belgium created five limited edition stamps that smelled and tasted like chocolate. • A service operated in several Chinese cities that we’d like to see replicated in America is that of “jam busting.” Drivers stuck in traffic snarls who urgently need to be somewhere make a phone call and two people show up on a motorbike. While one stays with the driver’s car, the other transports the frustrated driver to their destination. • Modern negligence law resulted from a 1932 Scottish court case, Donoghue v. Stevenson, aka the “Snail in the Bottle” case, in which Mrs. May Donoghue sued beer manufacturer Mr. David Stevenson after she drank a bottle of ginger beer with a dead snail in it and became ill. (c) 2022 King Features Synd., Inc.
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A Master of Disguise Takes Palm Canyon Theatre by Storm
aroness Orczy’s classic novel, “The Scarlet Pimpernel,” is now a sweeping and exciting musical by lyricist/book writer Nan Knighton and composer Frank Wildhorn. This lavish musical, directed and choreographed by multi-Desert Theatre award-winner Derik Shopinski creatively combines history with dynamic music and a swashbuckling storyline. It’s 1794 and “Madame Guillotine” is busily balancing the scales between the classes; as France’s Reign of Terror surges forward, a brave band of Englishmen risk their lives to rescue the intended victims of the guillotine. Their leader and hero is an enigmatic master of disguise known by his calling card: the red, star-shaped wildflower known as the Scarlet Pimpernel. The tale of The Scarlett Pimpernel begins in a theatre in France. The heroine Marguerite, played hauntingly by Se Layne, is performing with her troop; she announces it is her last performance as she has met and
fallen in love with a handsome English Lord, Percival Blakeney, played with panache by Paul Grant. The show is abruptly halted in the name of the Revolutionary Tribunal by Citizen Clavelin, Marguerite’s former lover – played with dastardly intent by Eric Stein-Steele. Blackmailed by Chavelin, Marguerite reluctantly assists him by revealing the location of St. Cyr who is slated for execution. This provides the foundation for this not-to-be-missed adventure, which resonates with historical references and is filled with undercurrents of love, sacrifice, deception and loyalty. The Scarlet Pimpernel runs February 10-March 5. Show times are 7 p.m. on Thursdays, 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, and 2 p.m. on Sundays. Tickets are $38 for adults; $34 for seniors; $17 for students. Group discounts are available. For tickets, call 760323-5123 or palmcanyontheatre.org. Located at 538 N. Palm Canyon Dr.
Fascinating facts about the Super Bowl • The Super Bowl is the second-highest eating day for Americans (behind Thanksgiving). About 8 million pounds of guacamole is consumed on Super Bowl Sunday! • 12 NFL teams have never won the Super Bowl (4 have never even been). The four teams are the Houston Texans, Jacksonville Jaguars, Detroit Lions, and Cleveland Browns. The other seven teams who have been and lost are the Minnesota Vikings, Buffalo Bills, Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers, Arizona Cardinals, Tennessee Titans, and Los Angeles Chargers. • The University of California at Berkeley is the school which produced the most Super Bowl QBs. This includes Jared Goff, Joe Kapp, Craig Morton, Vince Ferragamo, and Aaron Rodgers.
• Each team gets a lot of footballs. And by lots, I mean 108 total footballs per team. 54 of those are meant for practice and 54 are meant for the actual game. On average during the Super Bowl, 120 footballs are used with the rest used for the kickers. • The NFL has traditionally not held the Super Bowl in stadiums with a climate of less than 50 degrees Farenheit unless it is covered or has a retractable roof. That is why most of them are held in warm-weather cities, 11 of the 55 being in Miami. • A special coin is used for the coin toss. Highland Mint crafts a specific unique coin to use for the toss, with an image of the Lombardi Trophy to signify “heads” and another image representing the current Super Bowl for “tails”.
1. ART: Where is the Prado Museum located? 2. GEOGRAPHY: What is the only country that the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn pass through? 3. LANGUAGE: What does the Latin phrase “tempus fugit” mean? 4. MATH: What is another name for the division sign? 5. MUSIC: How long did it take singer Bob Dylan to write the big hit “Blowin’ in the Wind”? 6. ANIMAL KINGDOM: How many times on average does a ruby-throated hummingbird flap its wings in one second? 7. MOVIES: Which movie features the line, “Keep the change, ya filthy animal”? 8. LITERATURE: Which novel features four children named Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy? 9. TELEVISION: What is Joey’s famous line in the sitcom “Friends”? 10. ANATOMY: What is a common name for the pinna in human anatomy? (c) 2022 King Features Synd., Inc. Answer on page 6