Who Knew? Some Fun Facts

RFW said:
Yep.

Must be nice to have access to street cars right outside your front door. :)
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Yes but I cannot remember the last time I was on a TTC street car or a bus, for that matter. I drive . JImB.
 

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JonSR77 said:
I saw something like that. One of my jobs was doing deliveries for restaurants. I worked with one mob restaurant. I directly saw the mob boss's kids yelling at him. Some of the waitresses were his cousins. They used to yell at him. Was crazier than any fiction I ever saw about the mob. But also scary. Never forgot that. Extremely, extremely disturbing and scary t be around those guys.
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Fun fact about Joe Pesci. Way back when he played bass in a Jersey rock band. Guess who the lead guitar player was for a few months ? Jimmi Hendrix. True. JimB.
 
JonSR77 said:
I saw something like that. One of my jobs was doing deliveries for restaurants. I worked with one mob restaurant. I directly saw the mob boss's kids yelling at him. Some of the waitresses were his cousins. They used to yell at him. Was crazier than any fiction I ever saw about the mob. But also scary. Never forgot that. Extremely, extremely disturbing and scary to be around those guys.
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I loved The Sopranos! I don't know the names of the Jersey families, but the 5 NY families names are familiar, or used to be.

You got a little too close, huh? Scary. Hey, we're going off topic...:oops:
 
Ok, back to fun facts...

Yankee catcher Mo Berg was actually a spy for the OSS and later for the CIA.

From NJ, from Newark, NJ.

My mother was a school teacher in Newark.

She worked with Mo Berg's sister. She said that Mo Berg's sister was extremely, extremely intelligent, but also very quirky.

I think some years after the war, he lived with his sister for awhile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_Berg

they made a movie of his life with Paul Rudd:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_Was_a_Spy_(film)


In later years, when it was revealed that he had been a spy, a reporter talked to baseball legend Casey Stengel about him. Mo Berg was known to speak 12 languages. Casey Stengel's reply was, "and he couldn't bat in any of them..."

I think his lifetime batting average was something like .220.....
 
RFW said:
"May you live in interesting times"?
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yes, that's it. Guess I am cursed, then, huh? But yes, it is definitely true. A bit of different stuff is fun and interesting. Beyond that it is just a big mess. And that is what my life has been like...just a big crazy mess. And I don't mean in a fun way, I just mean in a chaotic, frenzied race to nowhere.

I miss very simple things, like Sunday dinner over at Grandma's house. Nice, simple, normal stuff, where there is a lot of peace.
 
JonSR77 said:
Ok, back to fun facts...

Yankee catcher Mo Berg was actually a spy for the OSS and later for the CIA.

From NJ, from Newark, NJ.

My mother was a school teacher in Newark.

She worked with Mo Berg's sister. She said that Mo Berg's sister was extremely, extremely intelligent, but also very quirky.

I think some years after the war, he lived with his sister for awhile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_Berg

they made a movie of his life with Paul Rudd:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_Was_a_Spy_(film)


In later years, when it was revealed that he had been a spy, a reporter talked to baseball legend Casey Stengel about him. Mo Berg was known to speak 12 languages. Casey Stengel's reply was, "and he couldn't bat in any of them..."

I think his lifetime batting average was something like .220.....
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Fascinating... I've never hear of Mo Berg (Mo Green, yes 🤣) So, I loved reading about him here. Thanks, JonS.

I used to have cousins in Newark. One cousin's huband was a cop way back when.
 
JonSR77 said:
yes, that's it. Guess I am cursed, then, huh? But yes, it is definitely true. A bit of different stuff is fun and interesting. Beyond that it is just a big mess. And that is what my life has been like...just a big crazy mess. And I don't mean in a fun way, I just mean in a chaotic, frenzied race to nowhere.

I miss very simple things, like Sunday dinner over at Grandma's house. Nice, simple, normal stuff, where there is a lot of peace.
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I hope things get better for you!
 
RadishRose said:
Fascinating... I've never hear of Mo Berg (Mo Green, yes 🤣) So, I loved reading about him here. Thanks, JonS.

I used to have cousins in Newark. One cousin's huband was a cop way back when.
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my friend Jerry's Dad was an officer in Newark. Ask your cousin if he ever heard of Emil Barone...
 
Ok, another fun, weird factoid, from my town here, Union, NJ.

So, Thomas Edison worked in West Orange, not all that far from here.

He decided to experiment with housing and creating poured concrete houses. There are about 8 of these in town here.

They look ok. People decorated the outside with siding and other things that make them look less "boxy."

They are just off of Morris Avenue, on Ingersoll Terrace

https://www.treehugger.com/one-hundred-years-ago-thomas-edison-built-houses-out-concrete-4857169

Google map...981, 983, 989, 991 are a few of them...

https://www.google.com/maps/place/M...d0eb87947360af!8m2!3d40.7036027!4d-74.2926111
 
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There are many suggestions as to how this expression arose, but it seems unlikely that it refers to a suit of clothes. Although this is a common expression referring to dress, it first appears in the 17th century when 'to the nine(s)' simply meant 'to the highest standard' or perfection. So 'Dressed to the nines' would simply appear to mean 'dressed perfectly' irrespective of the material in the clothing.
 

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