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	<title>The City Desk &#187; Count Film-Ula</title>
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		<title>Friday Facts: The Honorable Harold Ramis, No Batmobiles</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/07/24/friday-facts-the-honorable-harold-ramis-no-batmobiles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: On this day in 1889, boxer John Lawrence Sullivan punched Mayor John Overholt&#8217;s wife directly in the face, knocking her out instantly. No reason was ever given for the assault, and neither the mayor nor Sullivan ever chose to speak of it again. :: A 1971 city ordinance prohibits the display of the Batmobile (from the famously campy 1960s Batman television show) at any promotional event within city limits. :: Chief City Health and Hygiene Inspector “Guy” Fenimore celebrates his 57th birthday this week, making him the oldest individual to ever hold that office and, in fact, the only sitting Chief Inspector to ever reach fifty-seven. :: Other birthdays this week include television meteorologist Howard Tidleiver (43), outspoken former city ombudsperson Claire Dolan (57) and former late-night television host Count Film-Ula (age estimated at either 93 or 97). :: In a local poll conducted earlier this week, sixteen percent of respondents admitted to participating in physical conflicts stemming from disagreements over the best local pizza restaurant. :: The Doig Museum of Natural Science was forced to cancel its upcoming exhibit &#8220;The Beauty Inside the Human Body,&#8221; which was to feature the plasticized remains of actual cadavers, posed artfully to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The History of Barkay Bros. Funeral Home: Part II</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/07/13/the-history-of-barkay-bros-funeral-home-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joel and Isaac Barkay, proprietors of Barkay Bros. Funeral Home on East Folkim St., announced recently that they had accepted an undisclosed sell their business. The local funeral home had been run by the Barkay family for 72 years. Joel and Isaac, lifelong bachelors aged 69 and 67 respectively, agreed to sit for an interview with The City Desk to tell the story of the rise and fall of Barkay Bros., and to reminisce over the most memorable moments on the job. Part one may be found here. Building upon the success of their late father, Joel and Isaac Barkay’s Barkay Bros. Funeral Home became the trendiest place in the city to have your corpse embalmed. Barkay Bros., over the last 47 years, has filled nearby posh Elmwood Memorial Cemetery to near capacity with a veritable Who’s Who among the city’s dead. “The most important quality an undertaker can possess, aside from a strong stomach, is discretion,” insisted Joel Barkay in a recent interview with The City Desk. “We’ve buried all sorts of famous people here. I could tell you who had tattoos, false teeth, false hair and false limbs. I could tell you who had plastic surgery or breast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Budget Woes, FDR, Himmler Bay</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/01/09/friday-facts-budget-woes-fdr-himmler-bay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Estimated five-year city budget deficit awaiting Maribeth Cosgrove when she is sworn in as mayor on Monday: Over $650 million :: Portion of the city budget in ten years that will have to be paid for pension and benefits, according to current union contracts : 61% :: City union contracts up for renewal this year: Police, fire, administrative staff :: When asked during an informal poll, more than twenty percent of respondents believed that the most physically powerful American president was either Teddy Roosevelt or George Washington. Physically weakest American presidents selected by the majority of respondents included Martin van Buren, John Quincy Adams or George H.W. Bush (though, surprisingly, not Franklin Delano Roosevelt) :: The so-called “Gipsie Murals” were sand-blasted into obscurity on this day in 1960. :: Memorial services for Laura Bonnie Tripp will be held this Tuesday at the viewing promenade at Mabel Tripp Gardens, the public parks facility named after her great-grandmother. The 70-year-old was better known as a former Playboy pin-up girl and third wife of local late night horror show host Count Film-Ula. :: Until popular opinion forced the change in 1944, Mean Harbor had been originally known as ‘Himmler Bay.’ (It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Thanksgiving Parade, Freon, Events</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/11/16/friday-facts-thanksgiving-parade-freon-events/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Number of states represented by marching bands in this year&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day Parade: 5 :: Number of people saved by this year&#8217;s parade Grand Marshal, Janelle Welks, when that van went off of Pier 8 in June: 7 :: Number of candidates for next year&#8217;s mayoral race who will be marching in the parade: 3 :: This year&#8217;s balloons: Farley, a tin soldier, Batman, the Haddon Bros. Meats Tom Turkey :: Number of elves used for the penultimate Santa float: 12 (8 on the float and 4 alternates) :: An upcoming episode of the Discovery Channel series Mythbusters is scheduled to explore the myth that rock candy stored in the back of a refrigerator will absorb free-floating freon molecules and, if ingested, result in a &#8220;serious high.&#8221; This urban legend is believed to have originated with local late night horror tv host Count Film-Ula during a spirited 1978 broadcast. :: Due to a change in their membership’s male/female gender ratio from 19:1 in 1968 to 1:3 in 2006, the 39th annual Sadie Hawkins Day Dance, held as a fundraiser by the Westside Independent Business Owner’s Group (WIBOG) on the third Saturday of every November, will feature a bachelorette auction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: 311 is Not a Joke</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/11/09/311-is-not-a-joke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Today, at 5pm, the city&#8217;s Office for Information and Complaints hotline will shut down after 33 years of service. It will be subsumed into the city&#8217;s new 311 information service. :: Number of staffers for the hotline in 1974: 1 :: Number today: 28 :: Number to be staffing the new 311 line: 35 :: Former Channel 6 local horror show host Count Film-Ula will no longer be participating in next season&#8217;s broadcast of the CBS reality-based game show, The Amazing Race, as previously announced. The Count&#8217;s scheduled Amazing Race partner, nephew and publicist, Anthony Reno, cited the Count&#8217;s declining health as the reason behind the pullout, although he added that his uncle continues to be very dedicated to his hobby of creating chainsaw sculptures. :: Due to pressure from the AARP and local advocates for the aged, the Geriatriclympics has been canceled. The second annual event, which was to be held this weekend in the parking lot of the Sunny Tomorrows Assisted Living Center on 117th and Carrey St, had come under fire as not being particularly sensitive. Among last year&#8217;s events were a colostomy bag toss, a 100-meter shuffle and the Rascal demolition derby. :: Funeral services [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Slaughterhouse, Partridge, Megatron</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/03/23/friday-facts-slaughterhouse-partridge-megatron/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: On Monday, Chief Health Commissioner Rudolph “Guy” Fenimore sent a press release reminding hungry citizens that the city’s three-year long ban on open air barbecue restaurants ends this Saturday. Blowout celebrations are currently planned at Roy’s BBQ, Captain Jack’s Rib Shack, Shiney’s, the Thai Barbecue House (which will be removing its temporary tarpaulin after closing time on Friday evening), and South Street Jimmy’s, among others. :: Think you know which building has the greatest number of floors on the west side? If you said the First National Bank building, think again! It&#8217;s actually the Richards Center at the corner of Willow Avenue and 5th. Despite its stunted appearance the building, a former slaughterhouse, has five sub-basements! :: According to a 2006 poll, more residents of the city are worried about red ant infestations than possible corruption at City Hall. :: Charles Medfield has run Medfield&#8217;s 24-Hour Cheesery continuously for over 60 years. It has been closed only once, during the birth of his third child, Marilyn. :: Animal Planet filmed 3 episodes of the series Animal Cops in the city in the summer of 2006, but the project was canceled and the footage never aired due to the death [...]]]></description>
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