The title of the 1966 pop hit "No Milk Today" by UK band Herman's Hermits refer to a common notice instructing the milkman not to leave the usual order of milk on a particular day (in the song it symbolizes the singer's recent breakup with his love interest, who has just moved out of his house).
Among Finckel’s arrangements were “March of the Boyds,” “Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet,” “Little Boyd Blue,” “Boyd Meets Stravinsky,” and an outstanding chart of Dizzy Gillespie’s first major composition, “A Night in Tunisia”.
Rafael Benitez in a press conference referred to 'John the milkman' in the Wirral while launching cryptic attack on previous Liverpool club owner Tom Hicks and managing director Christian Purslow.
In 2001 he directed a music video for the Aphex Twin’s Milkman song, and a short film, Cryo, that won awards in short film festivals.
The album contains both politically charged songs, such as the attack on the school system and unemployment, "To Have and To Have Not," and love songs such as "The Milkman of Human Kindness" and "A New England" (which was later a hit for singer Kirsty MacColl.)
In the Futurama episode "A Clockwork Origin," Farnsworth remarks his water is "as sterile as my milkman-trusting father."
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In the Blackadder the Third episode "Dish and Dishonesty," Blackadder mockingly asks if William Pitt the Younger's little brother is called "Pitt the Toddler," "Pitt the Embryo," or "Pitt the Glint in the Milkman's Eye."
First, Milkman argues that emergence of relatively innovative unions such as the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), UNITE HERE and the United Food and Commercial Workers from the conservative AFL-CIO is as noteworthy as the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1935.
Its dairy used horse drawn delivery floats until 1985, and between 1944 and 1959 employed the future actor Sean Connery as a milkman.
The milkman-turned-prizefighter concept had been previously used in both Harold Lloyd's The Milky Way and its remake, Danny Kaye´s vehicle, The Kid from Brooklyn.
The Kid from Brooklyn (1946) is a comedy film starring Danny Kaye and co-starring Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Steve Cochran, Walter Abel, Eve Arden, and Fay Bainter, about a milkman who becomes world boxing champion.
It was also featured in the Channel Four series Eurotrash, the 1997 film Twin Town, and was milkman Pat Mustard's theme on the comedy series Father Ted.