This is a listing of Playboy playmates by the place of birth given in the playmate's profile. The playmates are listed in alphabetical order.
Billy Burke (born 1953) is a traveling Pentecostal faith healer and satellite TV personality.
Mr. Burke's main base of operations is in Florida, but he also conducts services throughout the country and regularly visits western Pennsylvania, particularly the First Presbyterian Church of Downtown Pittsburgh 1 where he claims to have been healed of brain cancer by famed faith healer Kathryn Kuhlman when he was 9 years old.
Bhekar Ro
A distant planet with unpredictable weather in the novel “StarCraft: Shadow of the Xel'Naga”. Some of the Terran People of the Confederacy (before the Confederacy had fallen apart) fled and settled in this planet hoping that it is their “promise land”, out of reach of the confederacy, because they were tired of the tight fences of the Confederacy.
This is the planet where Lars Bren, one of the colonists of Bhekar Ro have found the seed of the creation of the Xel’Naga, which was awakened when it had consumed the Protoss Judicator Amdor.
Free Haven
The central town in the planet Bhekar Ro, it was built by the first settlers who came to Bhekar Ro when they seek for independence and freedon from the Confederacy.
Weather
The weather in Bhekar Ro was described as unpredictable and no identifiable storm season. The storms in Bhekar Ro was described with thunders with sonic boom intensity and laser lightning that sears down from the clouds like luminous spears. There are also incidences of hailstorms in the planet.
It was said that those heavy storms had uncovered the Xel’Naga artifact the brought the Zerg and the Protoss into the planet.
Reference:
Mesta, Gabriel. StarCraft: Shadow of the Xel’Naga. POCKET BOOKS 2001
Old Timeyness is the invocation of images and memes of the late 1800s and 1900s, generally not more than a generation before or after the turn of the century. The term that describes such images, "Old Timey", may also be used in a more general sense, in which case it is synonymous with "old fashioned".
Old timeyness is often campy and put forth as a sort of "ultra-corniness". At other times, it is used to invoke an era of integrity and quality that stands in opposition to inferior "new fangled" ways of doing things.
Examples
Examples of references made to things which are old timey include the following:
Television
- The Simpsons has made many references to things that are old timey, such as patent medicine, barbershop quartet and antique bicycles. Box socials have been mentioned more than once. Grandpa Simpson often includes old timey concepts in his rants. Mr. Burns often makes old timey references as well.
- Conan O'Brien sometimes references old timeyness on his show, saying that he feels like he should be twirling his handlebar mustache, holding an over-sized mug of root beer, etc. He has also joked about wearing an old timey horizontally-striped bathing suit that covers everything above his shins and forearms.
Theater
- The Music Man (a play produced in the 1950s but taking place in 1912), is filled with old timeyness including the main plot involving a marching band. For example, the song Ya Got Trouble contains such old timey references as medicinal wine, Dan Patch, knickerbockers, "tailor-mades" (i.e. factory-produced cigarettes), Sen-Sen, ragtime, Captain Billy's Whiz Bang (a magazine that actually began publication 1919) and the Spanish-American War slogan "Remember the Maine."
Music
- The Beatles used old timey imagery during at least two periods in their career. They wore Edwardian jackets during their early period, such as when they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964. Three years later, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band presented a flood of old timeyness ranging from vintage marching band uniforms to music hall-style song introductions.
- Paul McCartney has often returned to old timeyness in his post-Beatles career. One example is the music video for Say Say Say in which he and Michael Jackson pose as snake oil salesmen.
Restaurants
- Wendy's used old timeyness in its early brand marketing. Their logo still features turn of the century-style graphics and the phrase "Old Fashioned Hamburgers". The tables in most Wendy's restaurants are decorated with a pattern replicating advertisements from late 19th century newspapers.
- A&W Root Beer used a similar ad branding strategy in the 1970s, including the phrase "A&W old time root beer, yes sir!" Advertisements featured a man with a straw porkpie hat, handlebar mustache, and suspenders holding an over-sized mug. More recently, A&W has begun marketing cream soda in old timey bottles.
- Ground Round also used old timeyness in the 1970's, decorating its restaurants accordingly and providing free bowls of dry roasted peanuts for customers. Some locations had booths where patrons could view silent movies.