Saturday, October 27, 2012

Factoid of the day

Rocky's real name was Rocket J. Squirrel. J comes from Jay Ward, who invented the character.

And Frostbite Falls is International Falls, Minnesota, often the coldest spot in the lower 48...Moosesylvania is an island in the Lake of the Woods, also Minnesota..

yeah, I'm familiar with that because I lived near there:
U.S. Representative Collin Peterson proposed a constitutional amendment that would allow the residents of the Northwest Angle, which is part of his district, to vote on seceding from the United States and joining Canada, angering the leaders of Red Lake Indian Reservation, which holds most of the Northwest Angle's land

Another trivial fact:

Pottsylvania is probably East Germany.

Wikipedia article link

and his "voice" was done by a woman, June Foray.

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