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War Master

The album was extensively sampled on Dutch breakcore producer Bong-Ra's album Full Metal Racket, with allusions also including song titles such as "Bloody Cenotaph" and "Jo Bench".


Bong Load Custom Records

Other notable bands from the original Bong Load Custom Records include Wool, Kyuss, Dog Society, The Obsessed, Fatso Jetson and Los Angeles Bands Lutefisk and Project K.

Bong Town

Bong town is connected by a partially paved road to Kakata and a rail line to the Freeport of Monrovia.

Bong tree

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson by Beatrix Potter, written as a prequel to Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat" and features the land where the Bong tree grows as a locale

"The Owl and the Pussycat", a poem by Lear, where the famous phrase where the Bong-tree grows originates

Boom Bang-a-Bang

The song was the second consecutive entry with a nonsense title to win the contest (after Massiel's triumph in 1968 with "La La La"), and became infamous in the comedy world - most notably inspiring Monty Python's Flying Circus to parody it with "Bing Tiddle-Tiddle Bong" (Python precursor I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again had previously had Bill Oddie do something similar with a song for which the title was rendered entirely in sound effects).

Byun Hee-bong

Byun In-chul was born in Jangseong County, South Jeolla Province, and attended Salesian High School in Gwangju.

Choi Sung-bong

Choi's performance clip was posted to YouTube and triggered a worldwide Internet sensation, receiving praise from pop stars Justin Bieber, BoA, Jung-Hwa Um, several hundred thousand fans on Facebook and also political figures including South Korea's former president Lee-Myung-Park.

Cutter John

(In those days his name was given as "Saigon John" and his war injury is described as taking a shot (presumably friendly fire) while smoking a bong (improvised from his M16) with a North Vietnamese soldier, making his tunnel rat story presumably a retcon.

Dusty in Memphis

Samples from "Son of a Preacher Man" were used on Cypress Hill's cult-classic stoner-culture song "Hits from the Bong" on their album Black Sunday in 1993 and on Adil Omar's "Known to Kick It" in 2008.

Environmental Foundation for Africa

Liberia - Active in Bong, Grand Cape Mount, Lofa, Montserrado, and Nimba counties, EFA conducts environmental education and livelihood training in tree nursery management, agroforestry, and domestic energy conservation with an emphasis on war-affected populations.

Federation Regiment

In 1954 and 1955, 1 Bn Federation Regiment under the command of Lt. Col. Trevor, OBE, had one confirmed kill in Sungai Bong, Butterworth by 8 Platoon, C Company.

Foxy Festival

Ja-hye's mother (Shim Hye-jin), who sells hanbok (traditional Korean female dress), discovers the owner of a hardware shop opposite, Gi-bong (Sung Dong-il), is into S&M and starts having sessions with him in the back of his shop, assuming a dominatrix role.

Gingerdead Man vs. Evil Bong

Gingerdead Man vs. Evil Bong is a crossover horror comedy film produced by Full Moon Features.

Gun truck

During the Vietnam War, it was the mission of the US Army Transportation Corps to ferry supplies from the coastal ports of Qui Nhon and Cam Ranh Bay to inland bases located at Bong Son, An Khe, Pleiku, Da Lat, and Buon Ma Thuot.

Horsley, New South Wales

On 4 November 1942, a Royal Australian Air Force Lockheed Hudson crashed on Bong Bong Mountain, just west of Horsley, killing all four crew members.

Im Yoona

Yoona was a guest on SBS TV Family Outing which ended February 14, 2010, and a permanent cast member on Family Outing Season 2 with Yoon Sang-hyun, Kim Won-hee, Ji Sang-ryeol, Shin Bong-seon, Jang Dong-Min, Super Junior's Kim Heechul, 2AM's Jo Kwon and 2PM's Ok Taecyeon.

Kevin Crease

He was the father of Frenzal Rhomb bassist Tom Crease, and appeared in their video clip Bucket Bong.

Kim Bồng woodworking village

The village's name comes from the Vietnamese kim (yellow) and bồng (floating), supposedly after the jackfruit wood that sometimes floats on the Thu Bồn River.

In more recent years, woodworking as a profession fell out of favour with young people, mainly due to poor returns: the average income of a woodworker in Kim Bồng is about VND 1.5 million (US$85) per month.

Kim Bồng was settled in the 15th century, supposedly by four soldiers from the army of Emperor Lê Lợi, who founded the Later Lê Dynasty.

Kim Tu-bong

His most famous work was under Ju Sigyeong; later, after participating in the March 1st Movement, he with other Korean leaders of the time established the Provencal government in China and because of his communist beliefs he played an important role in the early North Korean communist regime.

After the Japanese invaded China he and other members of the Korean government in Shanghai fled to Yanan and there Kim would become the head of the independence club and became a very important figure in combining the conflicting views of both communist and democratic ideas.

After the March 1st Movement (March 1, 1919) he and other members of the independence club fled in to China and in April 1919 set up a provisional government in Shanghai.

Korea's Got Talent

Kim Chan-Yang displayed a swordfighting dance, and then World Sensation Choi Sung-Bong sang an encore of his DaeJeon audition performance, Nella Fantasia.

Looking Back in Anger

At the advice of Bong, he and Hong remove the car's identification, and dispose of the car in the sea.

Madly Bangalee

During his previous film "Bong Connection" shot in Houston, Director Anjan Dutt received lot of help and support from Houston filmmaker San Banarje who arranged for the film's American cast and crew and saved the film.

National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws

Also in early 2009, when the Kellogg Company dropped its contract with Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps after pictures of him using a bong surfaced in the media, head members of NORML began boycotting Kellogg products and urging all members and supporters of NORML to boycott Kellogg, until the company reversed the decision.

Queen of Reversals

Too much of a workaholic to make time for romance, she is taken aback when she falls hard for Bong Joon-soo (Jung Joon-ho).

Selphie Bong

Selphie Bong was noted as one of the top 15 fashion designer in Indonesia and was called the Indonesian Christian Dior.

Surgeon Bong Dal-hee

Surgeon Bong Dal-hee was a hit; it recorded average ratings of 22.4% and a peak of 29.3%, and was number one in its timeslot for most of its run (beating the competition Dal-ja's Spring on KBS2 and Goong S on MBC).

The Love Doctors

Occasionally, the Love Doctors may play a comedy bit, such as Adam Sandler's "The Chanukah Song" or one in which Paul Harvey endorses bongs.

The Stinsons

Loretta mentions sleeping with the members of Grand Funk Railroad, when she spent three weeks being passed around like a bong.

Woo-jin

Yeon Woo-jin, birth name Kim Bong-hee (born 1984), South Korean actor

Workers' Party of Korea

The Yanan faction, led first by Mu Chong and then by Kim Tu-bong and Choe Chang-ik, were those Korean exiles who had lived in China's Shaanxi province and joined the Communist Party of China whose regional headquarters were at Yan'an.

Yeon Woo-jin

Kim Bong-hee began his career as a fashion model at the 2007 Seoul Fashion Week and for jeans brand Evisu in 2008.


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