Running Gag / Real Life

• Major League Baseball's Washington Nationals hold a race every home game featuring five mascots (originally four) in Presidential costumes. Teddy Roosevelt had never won a race in the first six-plus seasons of the races, and the PR people find weird ways of screwing him out of certain victories every now and again.
  • Finally subverted just one day after the Nationals clinched their first National League East title on October 3, 2012 as Teddy got his first win after 6 seasons and over 500 races. After getting official support from both major political parties.
• There is a tongue-in-cheek "secret society" of journalists called The Order of the Occult Hand who slipped the phrase "It was as if an occult hand had..." into their writing as an In-Joke. After the joke was revealed, they picked (in 2006) a new secret phrase.
• Whenever Penn & Teller does the Pick a Card-routine, ít is always the Three of Clubs.
• Anime voice actor Kikuko Inoue often likes to say (in interviews, public appearances, and in some of her roles) that she's "17 years old".^note She was born in 1964
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