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unusual facts about jock


Jock's Lodge

Meadowbank Stadium, immediately to the west was the location for the 1970 and 1986 Commonwealth Games.


AJS V4

In June 1946, the AJS V4 finally won, at Chimay in Belgium, ridden by the same Jock M West who had defeated the AJS on a BMW in the TT before the War, and was now AJS Sales Manager.

Antony Murray

He was the eldest son of Captain John Jock Challenger Murray and his wife, Cecilia (née Jerningham), and also grandson of Sir John Murray, the oceanographer.

Archie Dagg

In another tape, he talked in detail about pipemaking, and in a third he recalled Tom Clough, Richard Mowat, G.G. Armstrong and 'Kielder Jock' Davison.

Baby, It's Fact

After listening to the teacher's (Mark Derwin) rant of no-one going up against jock Blake in the nominations for president, Forrest shyly waves at the girl he likes, Wendy, while she's looking in his direction.

Barbara Ciara

Ciara previously served as vice president of broadcast for NABJ – becoming the public face and voice of black journalists nationwide protesting the actions of shock jock Don Imus during the association’s call for his removal from MSNBC and CBS Radio in 2007.

Betty Leslie-Melville

Along with her husband Jock Leslie-Melville and their adopted giraffe Daisy, she was the subject of the film The Last Giraffe (1979) with Susan Anspach playing Betty.

Bobby Ewing

The youngest son of Jock and Miss Ellie Ewing, he was portrayed by actor Patrick Duffy between 1978 and 1991 and returned in 2012, although both the actor and the character left the show briefly during 1985–1986.

Brent Gretzky

During Gretzky's 13-game stint with Tampa Bay, he played once against Wayne: "We must have faced off 15 times and I won one. I remember chasing him behind the net. I knew what he was going to do and I still found myself looking for my jock. The hardest part was after the game, going and watching ESPN. It was older Gretzky shows young Gretzky how to play hockey."

Challenge to Lassie

Set in Scotland in 1860, the film tells the story of a rough collie named Lassie whose master, Jock Gray, is killed by robbers in Edinburgh.

Charged GBH

Charged GBH, commonly known as GBH, are an English street punk band, formed in 1978 by vocalist Colin Abrahall, guitarist Colin "Jock" Blyth, bassist Sean McCarthy and Drummer Andy "Wilf" Williams.

Danny Neaverth

During his time in Buffalo, he co-recorded a comedy record, "Rats in my Room" along with fellow WKBW jock Joey Reynolds, that was a regional hit, in 1963.

Death Valley Days

Jim Davis, later Jock Ewing on Dallas, portrayed a U.S. representative from Nevada in the episode "Little Washington", set in 1878 in Carson City.

Ewing family

During his recovery, Donna Krebbs stepped into his place, much to the annoyance of J.R. Jamie Ewing, Jock's niece, turned up at Southfork Ranch from Alaska, where she had been working in the oil business.

Gerald Welch

His first job as disc jockey was as overnight jock at KSPL (then located in Diboll, Texas) in 1979.

Giraffe Centre

The Giraffe Centre was started by Jock Leslie-Melville, the Kenyan grandson of a Scottish Earl, when he and his wife Betty captured a baby giraffe to start a programme of breeding giraffe in captivity at their home in Langata - home of the present centre.

Greentree

Radio and TV talk show pioneers John Reagan "Tex" McCrary, and his wife, model and movie star Jinx Falkenburg, with their sons Kevin "Jock" McCrary and John Reagan "Paddy" McCrary, lived on and off the Jock Whitney estate from 1947 to 1977.

Hellraiser

Canadian band Skinny Puppy also sampled "Jesus Wept" in the track "Fascist Jock Itch", as did Belgian Industrial act Suicide Commando for their track "Jesus Wept" on their Mindstrip album.

I Am Future

The band, originally named Rock Productions Ministries, was formed by Jonathan "Jock" James in Bradford in 2002.

Impact Records

Acts on the label are and/or have included: Jock Mitchell, Sass Jordan, The Fixx, Rythm Syndicate, and Joey Lawrence.

Joan Clarke

Shortly after, the couple left GCHQ due to Jock's ill health, and moved to Crail, Fife.

In 1986, following Jock's death, Joan moved to Headington, near Oxford, where she continued her research into coinage.

Jock Campbell, Baron Campbell of Eskan

Jock was an old friend and golfing partner of Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond spy novels, who had recently been diagnosed as terminally ill with less than a year to live.

Jock D. Mackinlay

Jock Mackinlay was born in Nuremberg, Germany and received his BA in Mathematics and Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 1975 and his PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 1986, where he pioneered the automatic design of graphical presentations of relational information.

Jock Ewing

Jock served in World War II, where he and an old army buddy, Tom Mallory, were shot down in a mission in Holland.

Jock Stewart

Robert Leslie Stewart (1918–1989), also known as Jock Stewart, Scottish hangman

Jock Wallace, Jr.

Gary Lineker, the broadcaster and former England captain, recalls the terror he felt when Jock Wallace, then manager of Leicester City, "pinned me against the dressing room wall at half-time and called me a lazy English this and that. We were 2–0 up and I'd scored both goals. I didn't score in the second half – I was still shaking!"

John of Hazelgreen

The Jock O'Hazeldean variant was published by Sir Walter Scott.

Nikki Blakk

While she was recording at the KSJO studio, Zakk Tyler, the afternoon drive jock gave her CD to the program manager, who was impressed and hired her for weekends.

Old Jock

Jock's main rival in the show ring was a dog named Tartar, who was said to be more fond of ratting than his competitor.

Paul Randall

Randall was then offered a trial by Bristol City after he was spotted by Bristol City player Peter Spiring's dad who told their scout Jock Rae about Randall.

Queen's Golden Gaels

The varsity teams play at the Kingston Memorial Centre following the demolition of the Jock Harty Arena, while the new arena (part of the Queen's Centre project) is being constructed.

Stacey Farber

The role eventually went to Michael Cera, while Clark landed a smaller role as jock Steve Rendazo.

The Director

The novel is about an ambitious young film director, named Jock Finley, who uses two prominent film stars Carr and Daisy Donnel (ostensibly based on John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe) to rebuild his already damaged career.

The Groovy Show

Hosted by KHJ "Boss Jock" Robert W. Morgan, and later, Michael Blodgett and teen model Kam Nelson, it followed the standard format used by other programs such as American Bandstand.

The Jocks and the Geordies

The Jocks (Scottish boys), who wore various tartan jumpers and wide tam o'shanter caps, were: Big Jock (the leader), Wee Eck, Hector, Angus and Sandy; while the Geordies (North East England boys) were all identically dressed in dark school uniforms.

THSS

The Howard Stern Show, an American comedy talk radio show hosted by shock jock Howard Stern

When Moonshine and Dynamite Collide

Being a close personal friend of radio host and shock jock Johnny Dare, Dupree allowed 98.9 The Rock to debut the re-worked version of the song, which feature both newly recorded vocals by Dupree and McDaniels.

WWWS

It has a local jock, "The Doctor" James Cornelius, in the afternoons, and features Walt Love's syndicated programs on weekends.

WYLD-FM

After Program Director and morning jock Michael Greene (formerly of WTIX-AM) read the sign-off announcement, the station called it a day with "Her Majesty," the very last track from Abbey Road.


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