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7 unusual facts about William Garnet "Bing" Coughlin


4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards

"Herbie" the cartoon soldier that appeared in the Canadian Army's newspaper, The Maple Leaf, was the brainchild of Sergeant William Garnet "Bing" Coughlin of 4th PLDG.

Bing, Bing, Bing!

The neon sign, 500 Club, is a landmark bar in San Francisco's Mission District, a few blocks away from the Elbo Room nightclub where the trio made a name for themselves (see Track 10).

Charles Marsh House

Although, as of November 2009, the house is present in both Google and Bing satellite views at the coordinates shown above, it has been demolished in favor of the construction shown in the image.

John Coughlin

John W. Coughlin (1861–1920), American physician and politician who served as mayor of Fall River, Massachusetts

Kevin A. Ring

Prosecutors relied on e-mail messages associated with work on behalf of the Wampanoag to show that Ring provided tickets to sporting events and pricey meals to Robert E. Coughlin, the former Deputy Chief of Staff, Criminal Division, of the United States Department of Justice who had pleaded guilty in April 2008, admitting that he accepted meals, concert tickets and luxury seats at Redskins and Wizards games from Ring.

Robert E. Coughlin

In exchange for these gifts, worth $4,800 to $6,180, Coughlin helped Ring and Abramoff get a $16.3 million grant from the Justice Department to build a jail for Abramoff's client, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.

SNCF BB 1280

Tin plate version of the locomotive were manufactured by Maerklin in Gauge I, and by Bing, LR, and Jouet de Paris (Jep) in Gauge 0.


Anine Bing

Bing has also written music together with other well known song writers such as Guy Chambers and Anders Bagge

Bada Bing

All interior and exterior shots of the Bada Bing were filmed on location at Satin Dolls, an actual go-go bar on Route 17 in Lodi, New Jersey.

The Bada Bing is loosely based on Wiggles, a strip club owned by New Jersey mobster Vincent Palermo before it was shut down.

Bi Gui

The Wei official Jiang Ji suggested to Cao Rui to reassign Bi Gui to another province on the grounds that Bi was not competent enough to govern Bing Province, an important location in Wei.

Bing Ji Ling

On March 22, 2011, Bing Ji Ling released his solo album Shadow To Shine.

Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings

Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings was a stylistic departure for Crosby, marking the first time he recorded an album with a hard-swinging orchestra along the lines of Frank Sinatra's hit album with Nelson Riddle, Songs for Swingin' Lovers!, released earlier the same year by Capitol.

Bingola Records

The records were produced for the Bing Corporation of New York, the U.S. branch of the German Bing Werke company of Nuremberg, which in 1925 had introduced its own line of phohographs called "Bingophone".

BMW R90S

The R90S came equipped with standard 38 mm Dell'Orto 'pumper' carburetors, differing from the previous 26 mm Bing slide carbs or 32 mm Bing CV carbs of the standard "/6" and "/7" 800 cc, 900 cc and 1000 cc series machines.

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).

Brighton Toy and Model Museum

Its display area includes two large operational model railway layouts (in 0- and 00-gauge), and displays of period pieces from a range of manufacturers including Bing, Bassett-Lowke, Carette, Dinky, Hornby Trains, Märklin, Meccano, Pelham Puppets and Steiff.

Carmella Bing

Carmella Bing (born October 21, 1981, in Salem, Oregon, U.S.A.) is a retired American pornographic actress and adult model.

Catch as catch can

Catch as Cats Can, a 1947 animated cartoon featuring caricatures of Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby

Crayon Pop

On January 25, 2013 Crayon Pop made their official comeback, performing a remixed version of "Bing Bing" with new choreography on KBS Music Bank before making an appearance on MBC Show! Music Core the next day.

Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei

He therefore sent secret messengers to the general Erzhu Rong, who controlled the region around Bing Province (并州, modern central Shanxi), ordering him to advance on Luoyang to force Empress Dowager Hu to remove Zheng and Xu.

Ge Hong

He was appointed to the position of Defender Commandant, and ordered to raise a militia of several hundred to fight Shi Bing, an ally of the rebel, Zhang Chang, who sought to overthrow the Western Jin.

Honey at the Core

It is notable for providing the general public with early recordings of future stars such as Wet Wet Wet, Deacon Blue and Hue and Cry, as well as a monologue by Bing Hitler (aka Craig Ferguson).

Huo Guang

At the suggestion of another senior official Bing Ji (丙吉), Huo made a great-grandson of Emperor Wu (whose grandfather Liu Ju had been Emperor Wu's crown prince by Empress Wei but who subsequently fell out of favor and was killed in a disturbance, with his issue being removed from the imperial household), Liu Bingyi (later Liu Xun 劉詢) emperor.

I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You

Bing Crosby performed the song in the 1933 Mack Sennett film short Please in which he starred as Howard Jones directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom.

Irene Taylor

Otherwise Taylor worked mostly in radio during the 1930s, including regular appearances in Bing Crosby's radio shows, and seems to have had her main base in Chicago.

John L. Spivak

Spivak also investigated the financial activities of Charles E. Coughlin, the Catholic radio priest who founded the National Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Michigan.

Jon Bing

Together with Tor Åge Bringsværd and other students at the University in Oslo, Jon Bing started the Aniara society, a club for science fiction fans.

Malcolm Lockyer

One of the highlights of Lockyer's career was arranging and conducting the Bing Crosby album Holiday in Europe (1961), described as "one of the all-time Crosby classics" by the noted jazz critic Will Friedwald in his liner notes to the CD Bing Crosby: Legends of the 20th Century, which includes seven tracks from the album.

Mary Bond Davis

She was a member of The Young Americans from 1974 to 1976, and appeared with them on The Bing Crosby Christmas Show.

Medical Education for South African Blacks

Major contributors included Peter Bing, Peter Kovler, George Soros, David Tabatznik Bristol-Myers Squibb, Coca-Cola Co., Ford Motor Company, Henry Schein Inc., Hewlett Packard, Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Permanente, Kellogg Foundation, Levi Strauss & Co., Pfizer, the Starr Foundation, and USAID, among many others.

Operation Bikini

While Operation Bikini was nominally a World War II war movie, it shared a number of cast members — Avalon, Jody McCrea, and Eva Six — with American International's Beach Party (soon to become a franchise), and thrown into the mix were character actor Jim Backus, former screen heartthrob Tab Hunter, and Gary Crosby (son of Bing).

Para Fuera

The film was conceptualized when Dr. Richard Bing learned of Microsoft's new search engine Bing, and wrote a letter to Microsoft about his life and upcoming 100th birthday.

Play a Simple Melody

A duet by Bing and Gary Crosby (listed on the label as "Gary Crosby and Friend") was a hit recording in 1950.

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is a virus that causes a disease of pigs, called porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS), also known as blue-ear pig disease (in Chinese, zhū láněr bìng 豬藍耳病).

PowerBook Duo

In the early seasons of the popular TV sitcom Friends, Chandler Bing is clearly seen to be using a Macintosh PowerBook Duo.

Rhythm on the Range

"I'm an Old Cowhand from the Rio Grande" (Johnny Mercer) performed by Bing Crosby, Leonid Kinskey, Martha Raye, Bob Burns, and Louis Prima, accompanied by The Sons of the Pioneers

Second Time Around

"The Second Time Around", song written by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen introduced in the 1960 film High Time, sung by Bing Crosby and many others

Siegfried Bing

By this time Bing was the primary European dealer for the Rookwood Pottery Co. of Cincinnati and the Grueby Faience Company of Boston, as well as the wares of Tiffany.

Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around

This was a concept album of sorts as Bing covered some of his musical rivals' big hits, such as Al Jolson's "April Showers" and Nat King Cole's "Mona Lisa".

Steve Bing

On August 5, 2009, a 737 private aircraft owned by Stephen Bing and based out of hangar 25 at the Burbank airport in Southern California, was utilized in the return of American reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee who had spent 5 months of a 12-year sentence in North Korea.

Surf Canyon

In the case of the extension, those searches can be on Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and Craigslist.

Tadeusz Fuss-Kaden

Notable buyers of his paintings included playwright Samuel Beckett, pianist Artur Rubinstein, art historian Will Grohmann and entrepreneurs Burton Tremaine and John Delorean as well as collections in New York United States Galerie BING and Weintraub and Richard Sussman and La Rochefoucauld Duc D´Estrées.

The Bing Boys Are Here

B.W. Findon wrote in The Play Pictorial, no.169, vol.XXVIII, "The Bing Boys are Here edition", London, 1916, p.

The Last Halloween

Four aliens - Gleep (Paul Williams), Romtu (Don Messick), Scoota (Frank Welker), and Bing (Frank Welker) have been sent to Earth from the planet Mars in order to find a rare material known as "coobi" (which is later revealed to be candy).

The Road to Hollywood

Dick Stewart as Jerry, Bing's Chum from Billboard Girl (archive footage)

Violet Loraine

She was given the leading female part, Emma, opposite George Robey playing Lucius Bing.

Wang Baoqiang

In 2007 when he was filming the movie The Assembly, people who lived near their playstaff saw him and screamed surprisingly: "He is A Bing in An Suan! But he isn't a blind person?"

Xu Bing

Using his background in print-making, in May and June 1990 Xu Bing and a team of art students and help from local residents began a monumental project: creating a rubbing from a section of the Great Wall at Jinshanling.


see also

Charles Coughlin

Sax Rohmer's 1936 novel President Fu Manchu features a character based on Coughlin, a Catholic priest and radio host who is the only person who knows that a criminal mastermind is manipulating a U.S. presidential race.

Peter Muldoon

Muldoon was born in Columbia, California to Irish immigrants John and Catherine (Coughlin) Muldoon.

Robert Ensko

Robert was the son of William Arthur Ensko I (c1830-1858) and Charlotte Coughlin (c1830-?) who emigrated from Ennis, County Clare, Ireland.

Tom Coughlin

John Mara, the Giants owner stated that Coughlin's time for the Giants could be limited.

Prior to the start of Giants mini-camp in May 2008, Coughlin and the Giants were invited by President Bush to the White House to honor their victory in Super Bowl XLII.