Useless Trivia - 1st one to answer gets to ask

Sounds to me like Ye Olde English writer, but not Shakespeare or Chaucer. Hmm...

 

Lighten up, dude! Saminjax started the thread and she didn't seem offended. The answer is Samuel Johnson.

 

*DING* - Hyo was closer but canesfan is correct - it's the remarkable Dr. Johnson.

 

So as not to be chastised by Daniel, here is my question: For whom specifically was the original Band-Aid invented?

 

Milli Vanilli?

 

Uhhh, no. I am talking first aid supplies here, not the fund raiser.

 

"The Band-Aid was invented in 1920 by Earle Dickson, an employee of Johnson & Johnson, for his wife Josephine, who frequently cut and burned herself while"... piece of cake with wikepedia.

 

"Pins and needles needles and pins a happy man is a man that grins".

 

The offensive "F-word" is actually an acronym dating to (I think) the middle ages -- when an individual might have been arrested for taking undue sexual 'liberties.'

The trivia question is: As an acronym, what does that F-word stand for?

 

ralph kramden. eat that cake!

 

"Needle & pins-a; That's how it begins-a...."
--- The Searchers, circa 1965

 

Nope no "A" first. Your guess is wrong. This is from over 20 years earlier (Than 1965).

 

fornicate under the command of the king

 

ralph kramden!

 

Wow cool! Correct!

"Pins and needles needles and pins a happy man is a man that grins. Then I say what was I mad about? A believe me Alice I couldn't remember what I was mad about."

Its the episode when Ralph gets a rent increase and baracades himself in his apartment so he does not have to pay.

 

I've lost track - who gets to ask the next trivia question?

 

useless trivia: as a child my hubby lived in Jackie Gleason's neighborhood in Florida.

 

I know this is where **** comes from. Is that what you mean?

 

I don't want to, requires too much brain power. besides, daniel yelled at me

 

it was my answer to Spectra's query