Something Happens are an Irish pop-rock band whose heyday was the late 1980s and early 1990s. The band’s lineup consists of Tom Dunne (Vocals), Ray Harman (Guitar), Alan Byrne (Bass) and Eamonn Ryan (Drums).
An earlier incarnation of the band was called ‘The Dazzmen’ and was fronted by singer Martin Lynch who left the band and became the frontman for another early 1980s Dublin band The Cracker Factory. After Lynch’s departure the band recruited vocalist Tom Dunne and became Something Happens. They shot to prominence with the single Burn Clear which was featured on the soundtrack of the 1988 Irish film The Courier.
The Dublin-based band’s first release was the self-released Two Chances EP. After signing to Virgin Records they released a live EP, I Know Ray Harman, in 1988 which was recorded live at McGonagles. Their live show was energetic while the bands dress varied from Tom Dunne’s trademark paisley shirts to Alan Byrne’s neckties. Later that year, their debut album Been There, Seen That, Done That was released on Virgin Records. In August 1989 the band supported Simple Minds. One of the singles from their first album, Forget Georgia, was later covered by Canadian singer Emm Gryner on her 2005 album Songs of Love and Death.
Their second album, 1990’s Stuck Together With God’s Glue was recorded in Los Angeles, and contains their best known songs, Parachute and Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello (Petrol). The album received critical acclaim, with Petrol included in the year-end top fifty singles list of rock magazine N.M.E. The band also received publicity in the music press and on television. Although a popular band in Ireland, international success eluded them and they were dropped by Virgin. This led to T-shirts bearing the legend “Something Happens are no longer Virgins.” The year 1992 saw the release of Bedlam-A-Go-Go on Charisma Records. The record label folded, and their final album, 1994’s Planet Fabulous, was released on the Wild Bikini label. The following year, a greatest hits album The beatings will continue until morale improves was released. In 2004, this album was re-released with the title of The Best of Something Happens.
Wife, Mother, Murderer (watch the full movie above) is a 1991 American made-for-television drama film directed by Mel Damski and starring Judith Light, David Ogden Stiers, Kellie Overbey, David Dukes, and Whip Hubley. The screenplay concerns Alabama murderer Marie Hilley.
Audrey Marie Frazier was born on June 4, 1933 in the Blue Mountain area of Anniston, Alabama to Lucille (née Meads) and Huey Frazier. She married Frank Hilley on May 8, 1951; they had two children, Mike and Carol. Despite Frank’s well-paying job and Marie’s secretarial employment, the couple had little money set aside in savings due to Frazier’s excessive spending habits, leading to friction in the marriage. Unknown to Frank, his wife frequently engaged in sex with her bosses in exchange for money or superior performance evaluations. Frank began suffering from a mysterious illness, as did his son Mike, but Mike’s symptoms – which his doctors attributed to stomach flu – abruptly stopped when he moved away to attend a seminary.
In 1975, after returning home early due to his illness, Frank found Marie in bed with her boss. Frank turned to Mike, then an ordained minister living in Atlanta, for advice. In May 1975, a short time after a visit from Mike, Frank visited his doctor complaining of nausea and tenderness in his abdomen, being diagnosed with a viral stomach ache. The condition persisted and he was admitted to a hospital, where tests indicated a malfunction of the liver and doctors diagnosed infectious hepatitis. He died early in the morning of May 25.
Frank’s autopsy, performed with his wife’s permission, revealed swelling of the kidneys and lungs, bilateral pneumonia, and inflammation of the stomach. Because the symptoms closely resembled those of hepatitis, that was listed as Frank’s cause of death and no further tests were conducted. Frank had maintained a moderate life insurance policy, secretly taken out by Marie at the time of his initial illness, that she redeemed for $31,140.
Three years later, Marie took out a $25,000 life insurance policy on her daughter Carol; a $25,000 accidental death rider took effect in August 1978. Within a few months, Carol began experiencing trouble with nausea and was admitted to the emergency room several times. A year after filing the insurance policy on her daughter, Marie gave Carol an injection that she claimed would alleviate the nausea. However, the symptoms only worsened, with Carol’s enduring numbness in her extremities. After medical tests found no disease, Carol’s physician, fearing the symptoms were psychosomatic, had her undergo psychiatric testing at Birmingham, Alabama’s Carraway Methodist Hospital. There, Carol secretly received two more injections from her mother, who warned her not to tell others about the shots.
A month after Carol was admitted to the hospital, her physician said she was suffering from malnutrition and vitamin deficiencies, adding that he suspected heavy metal poisoning was to blame for the symptoms. Panicking, Marie had Carol discharged from the hospital that afternoon. The following day, Carol was admitted to the University of Alabama Hospital. Coincidentally, Marie was arrested for passing bad checks; they were written to the insurance company that insured Carol’s life, causing that policy to lapse. University physicians concentrated their investigation on the possibility of heavy metal poisoning, noting that Carol’s hands and feet were numb, she had nerve palsy causing foot drop, and she had lost most of her deep tendon reflexes.
Physicians noticed Aldrich-Mees’ lines on Carol’s nails. Forensic tests on samples of her hair were conducted by the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences on October 3, 1979, revealing arsenic levels ranging from over 100 times the normal level close to the scalp to zero times the normal level at the end of the hair shaft. This indicated that Carol had been given increasingly larger doses of arsenic over a period of four to eight months. That same day, Frank Hilley’s body was exhumed, and upon examination, showed between 10 times and 100 times the normal level of arsenic. It was concluded that both Frank and Carol had suffered from chronic arsenic poisoning, with Frank’s poisoning being fatal.
Marie was incarcerated on her bad check charges when she was arrested on October 9 for the attempted murder of her daughter. The police in Anniston, Alabama found a vial in her purse, tests of which revealed the presence of arsenic. Two weeks later, Frank Hilley’s sister found a jar of rat poison which contained 1.4–1.5% arsenic. On November 9, Marie was released on bail, after which she registered at a local motel under an assumed name and disappeared. While a note was left behind indicating that she “might have been kidnapped,” Marie was listed as a fugitive.
On November 19, a burglary occurred at the home of Marie’s aunt. The occupant’s car had been stolen as well as some clothes and an overnight bag. Investigators found a note in the house reading “Do not call police. We will burn you out if you do. We found what we wanted and will not bother you again.”
On January 11, 1980, she was indicted in absentia for her husband’s murder. Subsequently, investigators found that both her mother and her mother-in-law, Carrie Hilley, had significant, but not fatal, traces of arsenic in their systems when they died. The remains of Sonya Marcelle Gibson, an eleven-year-old friend of Carol Hilley’s who had died of indeterminate causes in 1974, were also exhumed and examined, but were found to contain only a “normal” amount of arsenic. Gibson was one of the many neighborhood children who had fallen ill after drinking beverages that they had been given during visits to the Hilley household. Two police officers who had been dispatched to look into a disturbance that Marie had called 911 about also reported coming down with nausea and stomach cramps after drinking coffee that Marie had offered them.
Although police and the FBI launched a massive manhunt, Marie Hilley remained a fugitive for a little more than three years.
Marie first travelled to Florida, where she met a man named John Greenleaf Homan III. She was using the name Robbi Hannon. They lived together for more than a year before she married Homan on May 29, 1981, and took his last name. The couple moved to New Hampshire. She frequently talked about her imaginary twin sister “Teri,” who supposedly lived in Texas.
Late in the summer of 1982, she left New Hampshire, telling her husband that she needed to attend to family business and to see some doctors about an illness. During this time she traveled to Texas and Florida, using the alias Teri Martin.
During the trip, using the alias Teri Martin, she called John Homan and informed him that Robbi Homan had died in Texas but there was no need for him to come to Texas because the body had been donated to medical science. After getting to know “Teri” over the phone, Homan expressed interest in meeting her. She agreed, saying he needed to put “Robbi’s” death behind them.
On November 1982, after changing her hair color and losing weight, Marie returned to New Hampshire and met John Homan, posing as Teri Martin, his “deceased” wife’s sister.
An obituary for Robbi Homan appeared in a New Hampshire newspaper, but aroused suspicion when police were unable to verify any of the information it contained. John Homan’s coworkers also had suspicions about his new “sister-in-law” and were concerned defalcation may have been at play. A New Hampshire state police detective surmised that the woman living as Teri Martin was Robbi Homan and had staged her death. The concerned coworkers and Homan’s boss discovered that Medical Research Institute of Texas, where “Robbi’s” body was handed over for study, was nonexistent, as was the church that eulogized her death. While Homan’s workplace was audited and no embezzlement found, authorities still believed that “Teri Martin” was possibly a fugitive bank robber named Carol Manning (later disproven) or wanted on other outstanding charges. In the meantime, “Teri” had taken a secretarial job in nearby Brattleboro, Vermont and was arrested. While being interrogated by Vermont state troopers, she confessed that she was wanted in Alabama on bad check charges and her true name was Audrey Marie Hilley. Contact with Alabama state police confirmed this, and she was also wanted for far more serious charges. She promptly was extradited to Alabama to stand trial.
She was quickly convicted and sentenced to life in prison for her husband’s murder and 20 years for attempting to kill her daughter.
Audrey Marie Hilley Homan began serving her sentence in 1983 at Tutweiler Women’s Institute, a medium-security prison. Her clerical career had gotten her often assigned to doing paperwork, and she was considered a quiet, model prisoner. This good behavior earned her several one-day passes from the prison, from all of which she returned on schedule.
In February 1987, she was given a three-day pass to visit her husband John Homan, who had moved to Anniston to be near his wife. They spent a day at an Anniston motel, and when Homan left for a few hours, she disappeared, leaving behind a note for Homan asking his forgiveness. Homan promptly alerted police. Her escape prompted an inquiry into Alabama’s furlough policy.
This time, she was not missing for long. Four days after she vanished from the motel, she apparently had been crawling around in the woods, her body was drenched by four days of frequent rain, and it exposed to temperatures that dropped to around freezing. She stumbled on the back porch of a house owned by an Anniston woman, who had known her from elementary school. It was likely she had sought help from this school friend, but the woman failed to recognize her after not seeing her in years, and after seeing Hilley’s haggard state, the woman alerted police believing it to be a transient woman in need of immediate help. Anniston police then summoned paramedics.
The EMTs who examined Marie Hilley determined she had hypothermia and took her to a nearby hospital for treatment. While she was being transported to the hospital, she suffered a heart attack and died.
Life is the debut studio album by English drum and bass duo Sigma. It was released on December 4, 2015, through 3 Beat Records.
Rudeboy featuring Doctor was released as the album’s first single on December 15, 2013. It peaked at #56 on the UK Singles Chart. The song only appears on the deluxe edition of the album. Nobody to Love was released as the album’s second single on April 6, 2014. It was originally a bootleg remix of Bound 2 by Kanye West. The song was Sigma’s first UK #1 and sold over 121,000 copies in the first week. It has also topped the charts in Scotland, Poland and New Zealand. In the latter country, after falling out of the chart after three weeks, it returned to the chart the following week and went straight to #1. The song has also reached the top 3 in Belgium and Ireland, and #11 in Australia.
Changing featuring Paloma Faith was released as the album’s third single on September 14, 2014. The song became the duo’s second UK #1 single. Higher featuring Labrinth was released as the fourth single on March 22, 2015 and peaked at #12 in the UK. Glitterball featuring Ella Henderson was released on July 24, 2015 as the fifth single. It reached #4 in the UK. Redemption was released on October 2, 2015 as the sixth single. The song is a collaboration between Sigma and Diztortion and features vocals by Jacob Banks. Coming Home was released as the seventh single on November 6, 2015. It is a collaborative single with Rita Ora. Stay was released as the eighth single on March 18, 2016.
Whether you are a DJ at a party or you just want to listen to some music in your pajamas, you can always use a good playlist in each situation. In All Stars Playlist it is all about music and making the perfect playlist. Songs in a playlist of course have to match. You cannot just add any song to a playlist.
The word absquatulate came out of an odd fad in America in the 1830s for making playful words that sounded vaguely Latin. Bloviate (“speak pompously”) and discombobulate (“make confused”) are two other pseudo-Latin coinages from that era. Absquatulate takes the word squat and adds the prefix ab- “off, away” and the verb ending -ulate to suggest getting up and leaving quickly. It’s hardly ever used nowadays, mostly showing up as an example of an absurd word.
The Clouds is a 1959 instrumental by The Spacemen, an instrumental studio group. The single released on the Alton label, was the only chart hit by The Spacemen. The Clouds hit #1 on the R&B chart for three non consecutive weeks, and also peaked at number #41 on the Hot 100.
David Eli Ruffin (born Davis Eli Ruffin; January 18, 1941 – June 1, 1991) was an American soul singer and musician most famous for his work as one of the lead singers of the Temptations (1964–68) during the group’s “Classic Five” period as it was later known. He was the lead voice on such famous songs as My Girl and Ain’t Too Proud to Beg.
Known for his unique raspy and anguished tenor vocals, Ruffin was ranked as one of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine in 2008. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 for his work with the Temptations. Fellow Motown recording artist Marvin Gaye once said admiringly of Ruffin that, “I heard [in his voice] a strength my own voice lacked.”
Ruffin’s father was strict and at times violently abusive. Ruffin’s mother died from complications of childbirth ten months after his birth in 1941; and his father later married Earline, a schoolteacher, in 1942. As a young child, Ruffin, along with his other siblings (older brothers Quincy and Jimmy, and sister Reada Mae) traveled with their father and their stepmother as a family gospel group, opening shows for Mahalia Jackson and The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, among others. Ruffin sang in the choir at Mount Salem Methodist Church, talent shows and wherever else he could. In 1955, at the age of 14, he left home under the guardianship of a minister, Eddie Bush, and went to Memphis, Tennessee, with the purpose of pursuing the ministry.
At 15, Ruffin went to Hot Springs, Arkansas, with the jazz musician Phineas Newborn, Sr. There, they played at the Fifty Grand Ballroom and Casino. Billed as Little David Bush, Ruffin continued to sing at talent shows, worked with horses at a jockey club and eventually became a member of The Dixie Nightingales. He also sang with The Soul Stirrers briefly after the departure of Johnnie Taylor. It was in Ruffin’s travels as a teenager that he met such later popular musicians as Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Frankie Lymon, Bobby Womack, The Staple Singers, Swan Silvertones and The Dixie Hummingbirds.
After some of his singing idols such as Sam Cooke and Jackie Wilson had left gospel music and gone secular, Ruffin also turned in that direction. Eddie Bush and his wife, Dorothy Helen, took the then-16-year-old Ruffin to Detroit, Michigan, where his brother Jimmy was pursuing a career in music while simultaneously working at the Ford Motor Company.
After moving to Detroit with the Bushes, Ruffin recorded his first released record with the songs You and I (1958) b/w Believe Me (1958). These songs were recorded at Vega Records and released under the name “Little David Bush,” using the last name of his guardian. Ruffin would later recall how he initially recorded “a different kind of music,” strongly influenced by the smoother pop and R&B of the time, when he first recorded in Detroit for Vega.
In 1957, Ruffin met Berry Gordy Jr., then a songwriter with ambitions of running his own label. Ruffin lived with Gordy’s father, a contractor, and helped “Pops” Gordy do construction work on the building that would become Hitsville USA, the headquarters for Gordy’s Tamla Records (later Motown Records) label. Ruffin’s brother Jimmy would eventually be signed to Tamla’s Miracle Records label as an artist.
Ruffin also worked alongside another ambitious singer, Marvin Gaye, as an apprentice at Anna Records, a Chess-distributed label run by Gordy’s sister Gwen Gordy Fuqua and his songwriting partner Billy Davis.
Ruffin eventually met an up-and-coming local group by the name of the Temptations. His older brother Jimmy went on a Motortown Revue tour with the Temptations, and he told David that they needed someone to sing tenor in their group. He shared his interest in joining the group with Otis Williams, who also lived in Detroit.
In January 1964, Ruffin became a member of the Temptations after founding member Elbridge “Al” Bryant was fired from the group. Ruffin’s first recording session with the group was January 9, 1964. Ruffin and his brother both auditioned to be join the group, but they ultimately chose David after he performed with the them on stage during the label’s New Year’s Eve party in 1963.
After joining the Temptations, the bespectacled Ruffin initially sang backgrounds while the role of lead singer mostly alternated between Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams. He did sing a few lead parts, both on stage and in the studio, during his first year with the group, but his leads on these studio tracks would not be released for over a year, as they were not considered good enough to showcase his vocals. However, Smokey Robinson, who produced and co-wrote most of the Temptations’ material at this point, saw Ruffin during this period as a “sleeping giant” in the group with a unique voice that was “mellow” yet “gruff.” Robinson thought that if he could write just the ‘perfect song’ for Ruffin’s voice, then he could have a smash hit. The song was to be something that Ruffin could “belt out” yet something that was also “melodic and sweet.” When Robinson achieved his goal, the song, My Girl, was recorded in November 1964 and released a month later. It became the group’s first #1 single in 1965. My Girl subsequently became the Temptations’ signature song, and elevated Ruffin to the role of lead singer and frontman.
The follow-ups to My Girl were also extremely successful singles, and included the Ruffin-led hits It’s Growing (1965), Since I Lost My Baby (1965), My Baby (1965), Ain’t Too Proud to Beg (1966), Beauty Is Only Skin Deep (1966), (I Know) I’m Losing You (1966), All I Need (1967), (Loneliness Made Me Realize) It’s You That I Need (1967), I Wish It Would Rain (1967), and I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You) (1968). Ruffin also shared lead vocals on the 1967 hit single You’re My Everything with Eddie Kendricks. The tall, 6’3″, Ruffin’s passionate and dramatic performances endeared him to the Temptations’ audiences and fans. According to Otis Williams, Ruffin (playfully nicknamed “Ruff” by the group) was a natural comedian and a hard-working singer when he first joined the group.
Ruffin’s most notable non-vocal contribution to the Temptations was the masterminding of their trademark four-headed microphone stand. This enabled the other members to sing and do their dances without having to crowd around one microphone while the lead singer would sing into a separate microphone.
By 1967, however, difficulties with Ruffin became an issue for the group. He became addicted to cocaine and began missing rehearsals and performances. Refusing to travel with the other Temptations, Ruffin and his then girlfriend, Tammi Terrell, traveled in a custom limo (with the image of his trademark black rimmed glasses painted on the door). After the Supremes had their name changed to Diana Ross & the Supremes in early 1967, Ruffin felt that he should become the focal point of the Temptations, just as Diana Ross was for her group, and began demanding that the group name be changed to David Ruffin & the Temptations. This led to a number of disagreements between Ruffin and the group’s de facto leader, Otis Williams.
In addition to the group’s problems with Ruffin’s ego, he began inquiring into the Temptations’ financial records, demanding an accounting of the group’s money. This caused friction between Ruffin and Gordy.
In June 1968, the Temptations agreed that Ruffin had finally crossed the line when he missed a June 22 Cleveland, Ohio, date with the Temptations in order to attend a performance by his new girlfriend, Barbara Gail Martin (Dean Martin’s daughter). Ruffin was fired on June 27, and replaced with Dennis Edwards, a former member of the Contours, who had been a friend of Ruffin and the group as a whole beforehand. Though Ruffin himself personally encouraged Edwards to take his place, Ruffin began turning up unannounced at Temptations concerts during Edwards’ first few dates with the group. When the group started to perform a Ruffin-era song such as My Girl or Ain’t Too Proud to Beg, Ruffin would suddenly walk on to the stage, take the microphone from Edwards’ hands, and steal the show, embarrassing the group but entertaining the fans. According to Edwards, the adulation and Ruffin’s pleas convinced the other four Temptations to give Ruffin a second chance, but when he arrived late to what was to be his return show with the group in Gaithersburg, Maryland, the Temptations decided to keep Edwards and drop considerations of rehiring Ruffin.
In October 1968, Ruffin filed suit against Motown Records, seeking a release from the label and an accounting of his money. Motown counter-sued to keep the singer from leaving the label and eventually the case was settled. The settlement required Ruffin to remain with Motown to finish out his initial contract (Ruffin joined Motown as a solo artist and always had a separate contract from the other Temptations, which some felt caused a lot of the in-fighting within the group).
Ruffin’s first solo single was a song originally intended for the Temptations, My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me). The single (from the album also entitled My Whole World Ended) was released in 1969, and reached the US Pop and R&B Top Ten. This was followed by the 1969 album Feelin’ Good. A third album, titled David, was recorded in 1970–71, but was shelved by Motown and did not see commercial release until 2004.
In 1970, Ruffin recorded an album with his brother Jimmy, I Am My Brother’s Keeper, for which they had minor hits with When My Love Hand (Comes Tumbling Down) and Your Love Was Worth Waiting For. His next official release for Motown did not arrive until 1973 when David Ruffin was released. While his solo career initially showed promise, Ruffin went into decline, reportedly in part because of his cocaine addiction and the lack of support from Motown.
His final top ten hit was Walk Away from Love in 1975, produced by Van McCoy, which reached #9 on the Pop Charts. It was also Ruffin’s only entry into the UK Charts (as a solo artist), and was a hit there as well, making it into the Top Ten (peaking at #10) in early 1976. The single sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in February 1976.
Ruffin was married twice. His first marriage was to Sandra Barnes in 1961, with whom he had three daughters, Cheryl, Nedra and Kimberly. He had a son with his long-term girlfriend, Genna Sapia, whom he met in 1964. She named their son David E. Sapia, but Ruffin later changed his name to David Eli Ruffin, Jr. The three lived together for years. In 1976, Ruffin married Joy Hamilton. After his death, Sapia would add “Ruffin” to her last name in tribute to their relationship, and for continuity with her son. In 2003, Sapia-Ruffin published A Memoir: David Ruffin–My Temptation, which details Ruffin’s infidelity and abusive behavior.
In 1966, Ruffin began dating Tammi Terrell after she joined the Motortown Revue; opening for the Temptations. They had a tumultuous relationship. Ruffin surprised her with a marriage proposal, but after she announced their engagement onstage she learned he was already married. Ruffin became increasingly violent towards Terrell as his drug abuse worsened. Terrell ended their relationship after Ruffin hit her in the head with his motorcycle helmet in 1967. Though she had migraines since childhood, Terrell told Ebony magazine in 1969 that she believed her emotional state during this relationship was a contributing factor to her headaches. Terrell died from a brain tumor in 1970.
At the time of his death, Ruffin had been living in Philadelphia since 1989 with his girlfriend Diane Showers, who met him as a 14-year-old fan.
Ruffin first sought treatment for his drug addiction in 1967.
In 1978, Ruffin was arrested at a birthday party in Memphis. He was charged with disorderly conduct “for refusing several requests” to leave the area after he allegedly made threats against some policemen and their families while being transported to jail. Ruffin denied making threats and was released on his own recognizance.
In 1982, Ruffin was charged $5,000 and sentenced to six months in a low-security prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, for failing to pay taxes amounting to more than $310,000 over three years (1975–77). He served four months and was released early for good behavior.
On May 19, 1986, he pleaded no contest to a charge of receiving and concealing stolen property worth less than $100 (a Colt .32-caliber handgun) and was fined $50 plus $100 in court costs. Charges of assault and battery and receiving stolen property worth more than $100 were dropped.
In July 1987, Ruffin spent a night in jail after he was arrested after a raid at a Detroit house. He was charged with cocaine possession with intent to distribute less than 20 grams of cocaine. He was released after posting a $1,500 bond. Ruffin was found not guilty of possession, but was found guilty of using the drug. He was sentenced to two years’ probation and 50 days of community service. In 1989, he was ordered to enter a drug rehabilitation center after violating his probation three times. He completed a 28-day drug treatment program at the Areba Casriel Institute in New York.
After completing a successful month-long tour of England with Kendricks and Edwards, David Ruffin died on June 1, 1991, from an accidental overdose of crack cocaine. Ruffin had reportedly collapsed at a West Philadelphia crack house, where he had gone with his friend Donald Brown, according to authorities. Brown then drove Ruffin to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was declared dead at 3:55 a.m. that morning from “an adverse reaction to drugs (cocaine)” after emergency room personnel spent almost an hour attempting to revive him. The Associated Press reported that Ruffin and a man named William Nowell split ten vials of crack cocaine inside of Nowell’s West Philadelphia home hours before he died. Although the cause of death was ruled an accident, Ruffin’s family and friends suspected foul play, claiming that a money belt containing $40,000 was missing from his body. However, his girlfriend at the time, Diane Showers, was not surprised when she was informed of his death. “When David had a lot of money, he would be able to do things that he wanted to do,” she said.
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Fried spider is a regional delicacy in Cambodia, especially in the town of Skuon in the Kampong Cham province, about 90 km north of Phnom Pen. The spiders are a species of tarantula called “a-ping” in Khmer and are about the size of a human palm. They are bred in holes in the ground outside Skuon or captured in the forests. The type of spider typically used is Thai zebra tarantula (Haplopelma albostriatum) also known as “edible spider.” This type of tarantula has a more potent venom than many other tarantulas and has no urticating hair (irritating hair) so it can only defend itself with biting or running away.
The abdomen and head are crispy on the outside and gooey in the middle with delicate white meat. The abdomen also has a brown paste of organs and excrement and sometimes eggs. The legs contain very little meat but are pleasantly crunchy.
Tarantulas became part of the Cambodian diet by necessity during the rule of the Khmer Rouge when food was scarce. People were eating anything possible to eat, and the things that were actually tasty, like tarantulas, stayed a part of the Cambodian diet.
Palace was a French sketch comedy show about the daily of life of a luxury hotel, seen through the eyes of its staff and guests. Palace starred François Morel, Valérie Lemercier, François Rollin, Jacqueline Maillan, Claude Piéplu and Jean Yanne. It ran from 1988 to 1989.