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Sdog1981 t1_jdhkp9p wrote

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DanHero91 t1_jdhkaom wrote

>The song was removed from the BBC Radio 2 playlist, with the station's executive music producer Colin Martin describing the song as being "too frivolous in light of the news that was breaking".

Only one radio station removed it, and Radio 2 wouldn't typically play that kind of music anyway outside of the chart recaps. Considering how openly most radio DJs hated how often they had to play the song, I'm guessing Colin just took any opportunity he could to get rid of it.

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akunis OP t1_jdhg07v wrote

I saw a question on a YouTube quiz that asked “which of these animals don’t have bones?” and shark was the correct answer. I thought that was bogus and was about to correct them in the comments, but didn’t want to look stupid so I googled it first and low and behold, I was wrong.

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Latter_Feeling2656 t1_jdhea73 wrote

"There's a great interview with one of the writers on the Dick Van Dyke Show— of which there were three."

They used a plethora of writers. Reiner himself wrote about a third. Bill Persky and Sam Denoff wrote a lot, and became the script consultants (finishers). Garry Marshall and Jerry Belson wrote a lot, and then the rest were spread out among others. Bill Idelson, who played Herman Glimpsher, wrote a few scripts.

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Latter_Feeling2656 t1_jdhd0wo wrote

The great Sheldon Leonard is the one who actually sat Reiner down and told him that he was the problem with the pilot. Leonard also saved the show after the low-rated first season by convincing sponsors to continue their funding.

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Pinglaggette t1_jdhar7i wrote

Feral horse populations come from the American Civil War, not from the first instances of Eurasian horses arriving in North America. The Union couldn’t afford to house and feed the massive amounts of cavalry horses they had acquired for the war, so they just let them loose, figuring that they wouldn’t survive. Well, they did and they are literally destroying the environment and killing off the actual native populations out there.

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