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3 unusual facts about hitch


James Fenton

Whilst studying at Oxford, Fenton became a close friend of Christopher Hitchens, and has a dedicated chapter in "Hitch-22".

Towel Day

The emphasis on towels is a reference to Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe by Ken Welsh, which inspired Adams' fictional guidebook and also stresses the importance of towels.

Uvas Creek

Prickly sculpin (Cottus asper) and Hitch (Lavinia exilicauda) are also present, but are relatively scarce.


A Little Romance

The adolescents and Julius hitch a ride with a married couple (Andrew Duncan and Claudette Sutherland) who are also going to Verona and then to Venice.

Arlyn Phoenix

While hitch-hiking she met John Lee Bottom (born April 5, 1947), from Fontana, California.

Barrel hitch

The "barrel hitch" and "barrel sling," named for their use in hoisting cargo aboard ships, are a simple yet effective way to suspend an object.

Changi Boardwalk

Rajan, "A stroll without a hitch at Changi coast", The Straits Times, 16 October 2006

Charlie Huston

Wolverine: The Best There Is - Contagion (with Juan Jose Ryp and Brian Hitch, Marvel Comics), material collected in Wolverine: The Best There Is #1-6, July 2011

Wolverine: The Best There Is - Broken Quarantine (with Juan Jose Ryp and Brian Hitch, Marvel Comics), material collected in Wolverine: The Best There Is #7-12, January 2012

Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra

Over the years, such musical notables as Curt Hitch, Bill Rank, Earl Roberts, Doc Ryker, Paul Oconnor, Mike Walbridge, Bob Neighbor, Frank Powers, Bob Lefever, Johnny Haynes, Jimmy and Carrie Mazzy, Moe Klippert, Clyde Austin, Nocky Parker, Fred Woodaman and Spiegle Willcox have attended the event.

Delano-Hitch Stadium

Three professional teams have called Delano-Hitch home: the Newburgh Hummingbirds in 1946, the Newburgh Nighthawks in 1995-96, and the Newburgh Black Diamonds in 1998.

Douglas Adams's Guide to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams's Guide to The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a BBC Radio production sold as an audio book on two cassette tapes.

Driving in My Car

The members of fellow ska/pop group Fun Boy Three make a brief appearance, trying (and failing) to hitch a ride to their home town of Coventry, which the A45 mentioned in the song passes through.

Ed Leigh

After doing the voice over for the Extreme Sports Channel's 2004, he followed the Rally as a hitch hiker/presenter for 2005 and Gumball 2006: Around the world in 8 days.

Fly system

Knots, such as the clove hitch and half hitch, are used for rope line terminations.

Frosty's Winter Wonderland

The wedding goes on without a hitch, to the song "Winter Wonderland".

George Wang

In December 2009 through January 2010, under the Teddy Zee Productions banner, Wang produced a series of public service announcement (PSA) videos to be featured on the internet with Teddy Zee (Hitch / Pursuit of Happyness), Adrian Zaw, and APEX founder Stephen Liu.

Gripping Sailor's hitch

The Gripping Sailor's Hitch(*) is a secure, jam-proof hitch used to tie one rope to another, or a rope to a pole, boom, spar, etc., when the pull is lengthwise along the object.

Helena Kallianiotes

Kallianiotes was later cast in another Rafelson film Five Easy Pieces, starring Jack Nicholson and Karen Black, in which she played Palm Apodaca, a neurotic, foul-mouthed "butch" lesbian hitch-hiker, traveling with her "fem" companion, played by Toni Basil.

Horse harness

Harnesses may also be used to hitch animals to other loads such as a plow or canal boat.

Horton Mill Covered Bridge

According to a member on the photo website Flickr as well as a report from the The Blount Countian, vandals attempted to remove some of the roof supports on the west side of the bridge by tying a cable or chain around them and attached the other end to either a tow hitch or hook...using a vehicle to try to pull them out, causing significant damage.

Julia Parnell

Parnell has recently expanded into producing drama with two short films Hitch Hike and Friday Tigers, and a third film, Dive, in pre-production, all three funded by the New Zealand Film Commission.

Lisa Daily

In 2005 she appeared as herself on Hitch: The Dating Experts, a feature filmed for the DVD release of the film Hitch, which starred Will Smith.

Magnus hitch

This is tied exactly as #1734 (Rolling hitch), but with the final hitch in the opposite direction.

Prusik

The Prusik hitch is named for its alleged inventor, Austrian mountaineer Karl Prusik.

Shane Howard

Once he completed high school he moved to Melbourne, where he studied at Monash University for a year, before hitch hiking around Australia, busking and playing any folk club that would let him play his own songs.

To Hull and Back

Despite that (and after receiving directions from an oil rig), they make it to Amsterdam, where they meet a Dutch diamond dealer named Hendrik Van Kleefe and conclude the transaction without a hitch, despite the fact that Boycie's money is counterfeit.

Vic Braden

He told Sports Illustrated in a 1976 interview that he once hitch hiked to Detroit to watch Don Budge play Bobby Riggs because he wanted to learn how Budge hit his backhand.


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