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Hedda Hopper was a gossip columnist who came to fame in the early 1940s (when she was in her 50s). But “Hedda Hopper” wasn’t her original name. It was Elda Furry. She’d been… 
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Here are some extra details on the woman behind the name Perian, which came up in last week’s post about What’s My Line? names. 1963: unlisted 1962: 8 baby girls named Perian 1961: 5 ba…
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Apparently the team at Amazon wanted to replicate the computer in Star Trek, which answered when the crew called out "computer," but they needed a word people didn't ordinarily use in everyday life.
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This is interesting because Hedda doesn't sound so different from the set either. It's not as if she changed her name to Dorothy or Rosanne.