Word: teapots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when Ichabod sees him, a human prankster toying with the gullible schoolteacher. Here, though, the creature must be realer than a nightmare--a galloping plague to purge Sleepy Hollow. He is embodied, occasionally, by Christopher Walken, who could terrify small children just by singing I'm a Little Teapot. In full Horseman drag, with his spiky teeth and Stygian melancholy, Walken is an R rating waiting to happen...
...particularly memorable project, he recalls, was a plan to create a foam rubber teapot, which necessitated something from which to make the mold. The answer: Kiely loaned him the House's silver teapot without flinching--"probably an heirloom," Fitch says. He never told Kiely about how the Plaster of Paris and other chemicals almost didn't come off the silver...
Biggest blunders: Teapot Dome oil-leasing scandal; other instances of Administration graft...
...Choking Recognition in 1834 and is used in every country in the world except Liechtenstein. Since they are not bound by the treaty, to sign "I am choking," Liechtenstinians hum the theme song from "The Greatest American Hero" while frantically performing the motions for "I'm a Little Teapot." More than 300,000 Liechtenstinian tourists choke to death in foreign countries every year...
...comes equipped with a mesh to put your tea leaves in--and a three-minute hourglass timer to make sure you steep the tea for just the right amount of time. If you desire a souvenir of your visit, you can choose to buy anything from a teapot drip catcher to mint-tea jelly...