SS Mousetrap - 2 trivia items

The great thing about blogging is you can go back to see what you have written. That way you don't repeat your stories. I was sure I had posted the first of these 2 items, but low and behold, I hadn't.

So, do you remember the game "Mousetrap", shown left? You moved around the board and added pieces to the Rube Goldberg machine that eventually dropped a mousetrap on your opposition.

Any idea who invented it?

Answer: Rube Goldberg.


OK, Item two. This one comes from a guest blogger, my brother David. On May 9, 1961, Newton Minow, then Chairman of the FCC gave a speach in which he decried the television landscape as a "vast wasteland." Click here for an edited version of that speech: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasteland_Speech

In 1964 Gilligan's Island premiered and the "mighty ship" was named the SS Minnow to express the producer's displeasure with Mr. Minow's assessment of the quality of television.