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unusual facts about spitting


Fabia Eudokia

A maidservant spat out of an upstairs window while the funeral procession was just below it.


2008 UEFA Champions League Final

At the end of the first half Manchester Utd manager Sir Alex Ferguson confronted match referee Ľuboš Micheľ, "jabbing out an angry finger and spitting out a few choice words".

Adolfo Bautista

The away game was tied 0–0, and during a small turmoil after the game showed on tape where Boca coach Jorge José Benítez is caught on tape spitting in Bautista's face.

Asmodeus

In the Dictionnaire Infernal by Collin de Plancy, Asmodeus is depicted with the breast of a man, a cock leg, serpent tail, three heads (one of a man spitting fire, one of a sheep, and one of a bull), riding a lion with dragon wings and neck, all of these animals being associated with either lascivity, lust or revenge.

Dorje Shugden controversy

On July 17, 2008, a large mob of Dalai Lama supporters, who had been attending one of the Dalai Lama's teachings at the Radio City Music Hall in New York, clashed with Shugden protestors after the event, spitting, screaming, and throwing money at them, indicating that they believed that the Shugden protestors were paid by the Chinese government.

Earl Duvall

According to Jack Kinney, a director who worked at Disney for many decades, Duvall was a "charming story man" who dressed well and was "the spitting image of the Prince of Wales", but often "lived beyond his means".

Equatorial spitting cobra

The venom of the Equatorial spitting cobra exhibited the common characteristic enzymatic activities of Asiatic spitting cobra venoms: low protease, phosphodiesterase, alkaline phosphomonoesterase and L-amino-acid oxidase activities, moderately high acetylcholinesterase and hyaluronidase activities and high Henry Naylor

In 2008, he created, directed and executive produced Headcases, a satirical ITV show very similar to Spitting Image, but made with CGI rather than puppets.

Landvættir

Swimming westwards around the northern coast, the wizard saw that all the hillsides and hollows were full of landvættir, "some large and some small." He swam up Vopnafjörður, intending to go ashore, but a great dragon came flying down the valley toward him, followed by many snakes, insects, and lizards, all spitting poison at him.

Roger Law

After Spitting Image finished in 1996, Law became the Artist in residence at the National Art School in Sydney, Australia.

Spitting Off Tall Buildings

Spitting Off Tall Buildings was a Berlin Punk rock band headlined by the former VJ and actress Jana Pallaske (vocals), who assumed the stage name Bonnie Riot.

Spitting Venom

Spitting Venom is the debut, self-released EP from English heavy metal band Savage Messiah.

The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding

Right at that time, Joey walks out of his room wearing Ray-Ban sunglasses, because his co-star keeps spitting on him when he says his lines.

Watamu

A newly discovered species of the largest spitting cobra in the world (Naja ashei) was recently (2007) discovered in Watamu.


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