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unusual facts about The Makers



Estrus Records

They have released such bands as Marble Orchard (second single released by Estrus) Soledad Brothers, The Drags, The Mummies, Impala, Man or Astro-man?, the Makers, Gas Huffer, The Mooney Suzuki, DMBQ, The Cherry Valence, Midnight Evils, Mono Men, Federation X, The Trashwomen, Satan's Pilgrims, Immortal Lee County Killers, The Dexateens, and Southern Culture on the Skids.


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A Home on the Mississippi

After the end of Prohibition in 1933, Currier and Ives licensed the image to the makers of Southern Comfort, who continue to use the lithograph on their liqueur labels today.

Abe Burrows

Mixing comic patter ("I guess I could tell you exactly what I look like, but I think that's a lousy thing to say about a guy") with his clever comic songs, The Abe Burrows Show was popular with listeners and critics but not with its sponsor, Lambert Pharmaceutical, then the makers of Listerine mouthwash but promoting a Listerine toothpaste on the show.

Abid Surti

Recently, he has sued the makers of the Bollywood film Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge, which he says used his Gujarati novel Bauter Varas No Babo, published in 1976 and later translated into Hindi as Bahatar Saal Ka Baccha.

Alan Peters

In 2009 fellow furniture designer maker Jeremy Broun made a film and wrote a book called "Alan Peters - The Makers' Maker".

Anil Dash

Previously an independent technology consultant and new media developer for the Village Voice, Dash was the first employee of Six Apart, the makers of Movable Type, TypePad, and Vox, and served as its Vice President and Chief Evangelist until moving to Expert Labs.

Armand de Brignac

An appearance in the Jay-Z music video of "Show Me What You Got" prior to the launch of the Armand de Brignac brand sparked wide discussion on sites covering hip-hop and popular culture, following his public fallout with the makers of Cristal.

Assi Nabbe Poorey Sau

Though the Hindi version was shelved in 2012, the recent success of Aditya Roy Kapur's Aashiqui 2 & Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, has led the makers to revive and release the Hindi film.

Blackbird Leys Choir

This performance was recorded for broadcast on BBC local radio, and filmed for inclusion in a 'one year on' documentary by the makers of The Singing Estate.

Blackphone

The Blackphone is a smartphone developed by the makers of Geeksphone, Silent Circle and PGP that will provide encryption for phone calls, emails, texts, and internet browsing.

Carte Bleue

In 2000, Serge Humpich, after failing to convince the makers of a serious flaw he had found two years before, purchased some metro tickets to prove it.

Cel-Ray

Cel-Ray was also mentioned in the Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention record albumI, "The Mothers at the Fillmore-1971. The character of Billy Rose (played by James Caan) in the 1975 film Funny Lady also habitually drank celery tonic, as an alternative to alcohol. Finally, it was used as a plot point joining assistant Harriet Smith and senator James Elton in the popular web series Emma Approved, written and directed by the makers of "The Lizzie Bennet Diaries".

Ceremonial of John XXIII

When asked about the tiara during its manufacture, John asked that the makers halve the number of jewels with which they planned to decorate it and give the money saved to the poor.

Chart Show TV

Chart Show TV is a British music television channel owned and operated by CSC Media Group (formerly Chart Show Channels), a company associated with the makers of The Chart Show, a television programme that had previously been on Channel 4 and ITV, before relaunching it themselves in 2008.

Clint Miller

"Miller Time" was a play on his name that happened to invoke a popular 1970's advertising campaign slogan by the makers of Miller Beer, the Miller Brewing Company to indicate to the consumer that after a hard task at work or play that it was "Miller Time", a "..time to relax.."

Colleen McMahon

Among the cases over which she has presided was a defamation case brought by Drug Enforcement Administration agents against the makers of the film American Gangster, which was alleged to have portrayed such agents as being corrupt.

Dead Rising 2

Rebecca reveals the cause of the gas seems to be in the underground access tunnels, and Chuck finds a hidden facility where pharmaceutical company Phenotrans, the makers of Zombrex, is harvesting the zombies.

Elemore Morgan, Jr.

Morgan contributed photography for a 1984 book titled The Makers of Cajun Music, which he co-produced with Cajun folklorist Barry Jean Ancelet, who wrote the text.

Fairbanks Rollergirls

In 2009, the Fairbanks Rollergirls were approached by the makers of Prilosec OTC, to take part in a National Advertisement Campaign for the drug in a marketing campaign titled "Project Fairbanks," which offered up a brief look into the lives of a diverse group of Fairbanksans with a common problem: heartburn.

Foggia

The makers of the well-known American TV sitcom All in the Family included in the biography of the main character Archie Bunker a World War II service at Foggia, in the ranks of the United States Army Air Corps.

Herbert Eugene Bolton

In 1904, Bolton and Eugene C. Barker published With the Makers of Texas: A Source Reader in Texas History, a textbook.

Intellectual rights to magic methods

1998: André Kole tried to sue the makers of the Masked Magician television specials to prevent exposure of the Table of Death trick.

Jajpur

From time immeorial Jajpur has remained the epi centre of cultural awakening.Besides that the district has immense contribution to odia literature.The prominent literary figures of the state like Bidagdha Kabi Abimanyu Samanta Singhar,Kabi Manjula Krushna Prasad Basu, Braja Sundar Das (Freedom Fighter and one of the makers of Modern Odisha ), Birupakshya Kar, dramatist Kamapal Mishra(Writer of First Oriya Movie Sita Bibaha)are son of the soil.

Kings Langley

Kings Langley was the home of the makers of Ovaltine and the listed factory facade is now all that is left and still stands alongside the railway line among a new housing development.

Manorama Six Feet Under

In a cinema-noir style, the makers of Manorama Six Feet Under acknowledge the inspiration from the original by playing the sequence where Jack Nicholson's character gets his nose slashed on the main character's (Satyaveer) television.

Mauricio Fernández Garza

In June 2005 he sold one of his companies, Especialidades Cerveceras, S.A. (the makers of premium beer Casta) to Fomento Económico Mexicano (FEMSA), world's second-largest Coca-Cola bottler.

Of Fungi and Foe

Obviously the makers of the subsequent Mushroom Men game and Pig Hunt film were very aware of my tastes and perspectives because the music oozed from me in such a natural way that I believe it came as much from my pores as it did my mind.

Oxo

OXO Tower, a London landmark formerly owned by the makers of Oxo food products

Passing off

An example of this is Erven Warnink v J Townsend & Sons (Hull) Ltd 1979 AC 731, in which the makers of advocaat sued a manufacturer of a drink similar but not identical to advocaat, but which was successfully marketed as being advocaat.

Pigskin 621 A.D.

At one time, the makers of Pigskin 621 A.D. offered tickets to the Super Bowl as part of a sweepstakes promotion associated with the arcade game.

Pooveli

The film completed 100 day run in theaters & became a commercial success, with the makers of the film coming together soon after to make another production, Rojavanam.

Product displacement

According to Danny Boyle, director of 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire, the makers had to resort to "product displacement" when companies such as Mercedes refused to allow their products to be used in non-flattering settings.

Silicon nanotubes

Researchers from LG Chem (the makers of the battery in the Chevrolet Volt), Stanford University and Hanyang University have been researching ways in which this technology could improve electric cars by making the battery smaller.

Sket

Released in October 2011, the film comes from the makers of Shank and Anuvahood.

Starsuckers

On 23 October 2009, six days before the Starsuckers premiere, the makers reported that they had received an e-mail from the law firm Carter-Ruck, acting on behalf of controversial publicist Max Clifford and threatening them with an injunction.

Stephen Gostkowski

(This is the reverse of what the makers of the video game Madden NFL 07 expected; in the game, New England's place kicker is Gramática, not Gostkowski, who is listed as a free agent.)

Susan Headley

At the time she was working as a RSTS system administrator for American Telecommunications Corp (the makers of the Mickey Mouse Phone) of Los Angeles.

Technical advisor

Technical advisors who have become actors include George Kennedy (an Army advisor to the Sgt. Bilko television show) and John Dierkes (an accountant working for the U.S. Treasury, who provided technical assistance to the makers of To the Ends of the Earth).

Terrorists, Killers and Middle-East Wackos

Terrorists, Killers and Middle-East Wackos (also Terrorists, Killers and Other Wackos in the UK) is a shockumentary video from the makers of Bumfights.

The Gender War

This decision led to the makers of the show reporting the Swedish Broadcasting Commission in 2006 to the Parliamentary Ombudsman of bias, since one of the commissioners in the board, Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, had been active in one of the women's shelters connected to ROKS.

Veppam

Nani and Nithya had starred together in the Telugu super hit Ala Modalaindi (2011), which prompted the makers to dub and release the film in Telugu as well.

Violent Shit

The makers of this film illegally used a song by the metal band W.A.S.P. entitled "The Torture Never Stops" during a scene in the film.

World of Mixed Martial Arts

The World of Mixed Martial Arts (WMMA) is a PC game designed by Adam Ryland and Grey Dog Software, the makers of the Total Extreme Warfare series.