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Listomania
Hello Ladies and Gentlemen and welcome to another episode of Listomania! Today on Listomania we’ve got another fine assortment of random lists for you to enjoy! Without further ado, the lists!
List 1

Geddy Lee is the lead vocalist, bassist and keyboardist of the rock band Rush. Lee has kept it secret for years what Geddy is short for. Here’s a list, compiled painstakingly by some of Rush’s greatest fans, of what Lee’s full first name might be:
A) Geddrick - Named after the Earl of Geddrick, one of the founders of the village of Willowdale, now part of Toronto, which is Lee’s hometown.
B) Geddius - Named after Geddius Maximus, one of the Roman Empire’s most beloved gladiators, who served as the inspiration for the Ridley Scott film.
C) Geddimillion - Named after Geddimillion Pahktsfil, Canadian oil tycoon, playboy, and philanthropist of the early 20th century.
D) Geddelium - Named after Geddelium, a chemical element, chemical symbol Gd, discovered in Ontario in early 1953 - the year of Lee’s birth. It has since been removed from the Periodic Table of Elements due to strange fluctuations in its chemical behavior
List 2

John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. Many historians believe Booth to have committed this heinous deed because of the South’s defeat in the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. However, recent findings have found three more reasons to explain Booth’s hatred for Lincoln, which are listed below:
1. The Penny - Reports claim that Booth was often in a rage over the one cent piece, which features the head of President Lincoln. Booth thought the coin worthless and its “smug copper jangle” a great distraction when in his trouser pockets.
2. Height - President Lincoln was 6’4” in height. It was little known, due to actors looking larger on stage, but Booth was actually 4’2”. Was he a little jealous?
3. The Method - Booth was one of the first actors to use Method acting. It’s been recently discovered that Booth was researching the role of Michael Corleone in a stage version of The Godfather and his assassination of Lincoln was Booth getting carried away with the restaurant scene between McCluskey, Sollozzo and Michael.
List 3

Today the new Michael Mann-directed crime drama Public Enemies, starring Johnny Depp as 1930’s gangster John Dillinger, opens in theaters across the country. The film is an adaptation of Bryan Burrough’s non-fiction book Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34. Like many film adaptations of books, certain bits of information had to be left out due to time and plot constraints. Here’s a list of facts that didn’t make it into the film:
A. True Origins of Dillinger’s Nickname - John Dillinger’s nickname was “Jackrabbit”. Many stick with the reason for this being his sprightly movements during bank heists. However, the real reason Dillinger was called “Jackrabbit” was due to the pet jackrabbit who he plotted all of his robberies with. Dillinger’s choice to keep his pet and accomplice a secret ultimately lead to the jackrabbit betraying Dillinger - the jackrabbit wanted to share the glory that was rightfully his - by informing police of his whereabouts at the Biograph Theater.
B. The Baby Face and Pretty Boy Shuffle - Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd, fellow gangsters, wrote and performed a song called “The Baby Face and Pretty Boy Shuffle”. The song spent six weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart in 1932. Mann has stated that a musical number would be too jarring in his film.
C. Melvin Purvis’ Great American Knockwurst Hunt - FBI agent Melvin Purvis, while tracking down Dillinger, stopped at diners across the country looking for the best knockwurst in America. Remarkably, he found it in Chicago at a diner next to the Biograph Theater.
D. Gangsters vs. Pranksters - In addition to the FBI, Dillinger and his crew was also tormented by a group of pranksters. These pranksters mimicked the crew by following them to heists, wearing neon suits and depositing flowers into the bank accounts. This battle was memorialized in the Pavement song “Gangsters and Pranksters”.
List 4

The Fourth of July is this Saturday. Here’s a list of things I’ll be doing to celebrate:
1) Patriotic Spirit vs. Morals - I’ll be going out on the streets of New York to test which is stronger in the average American, their patriotic spirit or their morals, by donning a suit made entirely out of firecrackers and waving a pack of matches in their face.
2) Americanetics - I’m setting up a station in Times Square for any and all to take a Terrorist Test. The findings of these tests will let me know if you need my new book Americanetics. Americanetics is about how every American has little terrorists inside of them from the evil Terrorland. With my book Americans can learn to expel these little terrorists and evolve into true Americans with a Patriotic Mind.
3) Bounty Hunting - I get paid double-time to bounty hunt on holidays so forget the fireworks. I’m gonna bust me some dirt bags and get real paid.






