Dark Land • Desert Land • Giant Land • Ice Land • Mertropolis • Mushroom Kingdom • Mushroom Sea • Pipe Land • Sky Land • Underground Maze of Pipes • Water Land Ken Kolb says that he spent most of his life as a traveling salesman, and the years he noticed how air blowers in public restrooms were replacing old paper towel dispensers. While the new technology does have it advantages, it also prevents people from using the paper they would wipe their hands with after washing them to open the bathroom door on their way out. This he claims increases the risk or re-contamination, so he took it upon himself to come up with a solution. That’s basically the short story behind the Kooty Key, a small hook-like plastic device that allows germaphobes to interact with potentially-germ-infested surfaces without the risk of contaminating their hands. And don’t get Femi started on Fela’s former drummer, whom he accuses of lying about composing Fela’s drum parts. “Tony Allen never said he wrote Fela’s drum patterns when Fela was alive,” says Femi. “Never uttered those words. Why are you fabricating the truth when the man is not alive to defend himself?” Allen died last year and is not around to defend himself either, but Femi remains resolute. “Fela dies and they start that rumour,” he continues. “That’s… that’s…evil! Yes, Tony Allen did a great job, but he’s paid to do that, as I did when I joined him. If Fela gave me a part, it was my duty to play it as best as possible or get the hell out of the band.” And the earliest Elephind match for catawamptiously is from " McArone's War Correspondence" (dated December 21, 1864), in the Sacramento [California] Daily Union (February 15, 1865): Made says not much has changed since Fela’s era. He has a song to this effect, Different Streets, which uses excerpts of speeches from his father about corruption. It is “entrenched in every single social class, from the plumber to the president”, says Made, who has the softly spoken air of a guru. “In many ways, Nigeria today is worse than it was in the 70s and 80s. We are more misinformed. And we are even more confident in being wrong. That is worse… Everyone, in some way, is lying and extorting out from somebody else. There are very few people living totally honestly in Nigeria right now.”

Although some things have moved on. One of Made’s songs is called Young Lady, about the plight of women who are sexually harassed by lecturers in Nigerian universities. It ends in a message of self-love, which isn’t the sort of thing you’d imagine Fela, a vocal anti-feminist, writing. “Maybe not,” he laughs. Fela’s regressive attitude towards women is part of his complex legacy, though the Kutis say that such troubling aspects of his life don’t overshadow his place in the pantheon of musical renegades. “He did significantly more good than he did anything controversial,” says Made. “His music alone was superb, he was a genius,” adds Femi. When Kootie Pie threatens to turn Rob and Fab into accountants, the wand is teal, but while they are laughing, it turns pink. After transforming them, it turns teal again. The crooked sense may at least partly derive from the same source as the "cater" in cater-corner, which some would derive from Middle French catre ‎(“four”)- in reference to four corners/square- from Old French quatre ‎(“four”), from Latin quattuor. This is disputed by others, who suggest a possible Old Norse or other Scandinavian origin. See cater-corner and cater-corner for more. Harold Wentworth, American Dialect Dictionary (1944) notes that in certain regions of the United States, catawampus could be (1) an exclamation (along the lines of "thunderation!" or "hoky smokes!"), (2) "an imaginary fierce animal," or (3) "cattycorner." The same dictionary states that in west Texas in 1915 "catawampus cat" was a dialectal term for "a virago." The stadium where the concert takes place looks like Shea Stadium in New York City, which was the home of Major League Baseball's New York Mets from 1964-2008.

When Toad is first seen helping fit into a tuxedo, he is wearing his normal outfit instead of his tuxedo. In both the beginning of the concert and the ending, a sign outside mistakenly says "Preseting Milli Vanilli" instead of "Presenting Milli Vanilli".

Fold the paper in half from top to bottom. Unfold it, then fold it in half again — this time from left to right.But the meaning of catawampus here isn't entirely clear—it may mean "dangerously or insolently," rather than "obliquely." Nevertheless J.E. Lighter, Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang (1993) firmly establishes that both the "ferocious" meaning and the "diagonal" meaning were in existence by 1851:

Most early uses of the expression emphasize a sense of wildness and ferocity, and this in turn helps explain why early dictionaries connected the word with catamounts—large North American wildcats. That early association lives on in the name Wampus Cats, which high schools in Conway, Arkansas; Leesville, Louisiana; Itasca, Texas; Atoka, Oklahoma; and Clark Fork, Idaho all claim for their sports teams. Four of these five high schools are located in the south-central United States.

Most fortune tellers work the same way; you pull the string tight so that a line is formed and then let it go to “catch” a fortune. That said, cootie catchers are a kind of paper fortune teller that kids of all ages — even older kids — can have hours of fun with. It’s one of the popular origami fortune tellers, which are also sometimes called chatterbox, whirlybird, or salt cellar. With just a square piece of paper, kids can have so much fun with this craft activity — especially when they start “predicting” things with their paper fortune teller.

When Milli Vanilli are brought to Kastle Koopa, Cheatsy says, "Welcome to Kastle Koopa!" However, he is not seen in the next shot; in fact, he does not appear in the episode at all after the kidnapping in New York.Fold each corner of the paper towards the inside of the center. Flip the paper, then repeat. On the folded sides, you should have inside flaps and outside flaps. A cootie catcher template can guide you when it comes to where to fold and the right number of times. There are lots of free cootie catcher templates you can find on the internet depending on how you want to design it or the kind of cootie catcher game you want to play. Here are a few examples: Lighter also notes instances of catarumpus as a noun from 1848, of the adverb catawampously from 1834 (cited in the Dictionary of American Regional English: "The gineral was catawampously inclin'd tu the United States' service"), and of the verb catawampus from 1839 (cited Mitford Mathews, Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles [1951]: "a catawampussed fix"). The longer version of the March 8, 1839, quotation cited from Mathews is from the New Orleans Picayune and uses catawampussed as an adjective meaning "Confounded, 'bodaciously used up'": Here are step-by-step instructions you can follow if you want your kids to make their very own cootie catcher. What You Need