Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Forrest Gump's soft-porn origins, and Oprah knows molting
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., April 13, 2007
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Tom Hanks may have based some of Forrest Gump's aspects on those of a character played by his brother Jim Hanks in the soft-porn romp, Buford's Beach Bunnies. Jim's character, Jeeter Buford, is a naive, wide-eyed wanderer through life.
The name of the planet in the movie Forbidden Planet is Altair IV.The Bates Casket company churns out a new casket, on average, every 50 seconds.
Rats can chew through glass, metal, and concrete, can fit inside a pipe as small as half an inch, and destroy about 20% of the world's food crop before it gets to market.