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[Street Worm]

The question of which TV sitcom was the first to feature a husband and wife sleeping in the same bed (rather than twin beds) has been asked many times. For years Florence Henderson claimed that Mike (Robert Reed) & Carol (Florence Henderson) Brady were the first. Then she announced that she was incorrect; it was Herman & Lily Munster. I announced that the correct answer was on January 17, 1955 when Fred (William Frawley) & Ethel (Vivian Vance) Mertz demonstrated their unique way to cope with a sagging mattress in the "I Love Lucy" episode entitled "First Stop."

Many people reject this account as Fred was pretty much a prisoner of the bed and it was a one-time occurrence.

I was later corrected, Ozzie and Harriet had a queen-size bed.

But they are all wrong! "Mary Kay and Johnny" were the first in 1947, Mary Kay also was shown pregnant on this early sit-com. And since "Mary Kay and Johnny" was the first sit-com, I don't think I'll ever have to correct my answer again!

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[pairadocs]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was the Bradys who were IN bed together first, but technically, there was one prior to it where the couple had one bed... not separate beds. I'm not sure if they were ever seen IN it together though on the show. I want to say it was the Mary Tyler Moore show, but I'm not sure, as I never watched it. I'm a little rusty on my useless trivia too. [img]wink.gif[/img]

And yeah... if the public knew Mike Brady was gay in real life, they probably would have pulled it off the air from fan outrage... sad, but true.

[toymank]

I thought I heard it was the Munsters or the Honeymooners, but, it could be the Honeymooners that Im thinking of that DIDN'T, and thats why it stands out to me...

[Dajistano]

Here's some stuff I had saved:

Jim Morrison (of the 60's rock group The Doors) was the first rock star to be arrested on stage.

The average sperm count in one ejaculation is 400,000,000. (And YOU were the fastest)

Alexander the Great, Benjamin Franklin, Billy the Kid, Julius Caesar and Napoleon Bonaparte are all left-handed.

The first German soldier killed in WWII was killed by the Japanese in 1937.

The first american soldier was killed by the Russians in 1940.

There's an average of two disapearances a week in the Bermuda Triangle. The Coast Guard keeps it low-profile so as not to alarm people.

During WWII, UFO sightings increased 150%. The so-called "Foo Fighters".

Again during WWII, a P-51 Mustang pilot and his wingman chased a UFO. The wingman reported that a green beam aimed at his leader's plane, and that the plane simply fell apart in the sky. The pilot, that baled out, reported intense heat in the cockpit, and got 2nd Degree burns. This happened several times during the war.

In Bosnia, some rural villages still bury their dead face-down. This because if they come back to life as vampires, and try to dig out, they'll dig deeper and deeper into the ground.

Vlad the Impaler was a devout catholic. He had built over 50 churches and monasteries.

He also got rid of the poor by inviting them into a banquet, sealing the doors of the barn they were eating in, and setting it on fire.

He got rid of his political oponents in a mass-poisoning dinner at his estate.

There is a tree in France that reportedly serves as a gateway to Hell. The tree is, acording to witnesses, always guarded by daemons and apparitions.

Hitler had the Reich's religion modeled after the Tartars and Cathars, and the Knight Templars' rituals.

Zombies are a true event from Haiti. The "dead" (in fact, put in a semi-comatose state) are brought back to life bu Juju Priests to work for them in a state of permanent amnesia and confusion.

At the time of Pearl Harbor bombing, the American NAvy Command was called CINCUS (pronounced "sink us").

The insignia for the 45th Infantry was a Swastika.

Hitler's private train was called "Amerika".

In the U.S.Air Force, you chance of being killed was 71%.

Generally speaking there was no such thing as an average fighter pilot. You were either an ace or a target. For example, Japanese ace Hiroyoshi Nishizawa shot down over 80 planes. He died while a passenger on a cargo plane.

When allied armies reached the Rhine the first thing men did was pee in it. This was pretty universal from the lowest private to Winston Churchill (who made a big show of it) and Gen. Patton (who had himself photographed in the act).

German Me-264 bombers were capable of bombing New York City but it wasn't worth the effort.

German submarine "U-120" was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet. No survivors.

Among the first "Germans" captured at Normandy were several Koreans. They had been forced to fight for the Japanese Army until they were captured by the Russians and forced to fight for the Russian Army until they were captured by the Germans and forced to fight for the German Army until they were captured by the US Army. Poor guys...

Following a massive naval bombardment 35,000 US and Canadian troops stormed ashore at Kiska. 21 troops were killed in the firefight. It would have been worse if there had been any Japanese on the island.

In the planes during WWII, they had "piss-pipes", for the pilots to urinate into during long flights.
On one mission, a pilot aborted his run, and returned home. In his log, he wrote: "Reason for early homecoming: Piss-pipe too short."
The flight engineer, mad at the pilot, then added to follwoing: "Piss-pipe by regulation measurements. Pilot's dick is too small"

The Russians tried to wreak havoc on German Panzer divisions durin by strapping bombs to the backs of dogs and teaching them to associate food with the underneath of their enemies' tanks. Unfortunately, the dogs only associated food with their own tanks and forced an entire Soviet division to retreat.

Japanese soldier Hiroo Onodo refused to stop fighting long after WWII was over, claiming that stories of the war's ending were mere propaganda. It wasn't until his commanding officer flew out to the remote Pacific island where Onoda was holed up and ordered him to lay down his arms that he finally complied... in the late 70's.

The most strange sinking of a U-Boat ocurred when a german submarine fired torpedoes at a cargo ship in the atlantic. The cargo ship was carrying, among other things, trucks for the russians. When the torpedoes hit, a massive explosion tore the ship apart, and sent the trucks flying. One of them landed smack down on the U-Boat and sliced it in half.

[Spliff]

While those are all badass Daj, this one made me feel awesome.

The average sperm count in one ejaculation is 400,000,000. (And YOU were the fastest)

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[Dajistano]

I think sitting in a hotbath shuts down spermatosis (I think that's what it's called) and your sperm count drops drastically.

Something about the excessive testicular heat.

Ideal if you want to shoot blanks. [img]wink.gif[/img]

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[toymank]

nah, that ones a lie, dont ask how I know
(it's not funny, it just involved watching a really long, boring documentary, fooled ya!) [img]graemlins/hmmm.gif[/img]