Glad You Asked: What is the address of that old house in the movie “Fight Club?”

BY JOURNAL TIMES STAFF

Saturday, March 8, 2008 12:06 AM CST

The first rule of the address of that old house in the movie “Fight Club” is ... oh, forget it. Anyone who has seen the movie knows where I’m going and it just isn’t funny.

The address of Tyler Durden’s house in the 1999 movie starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter — whose character, Marla, really enjoyed grade school — is 1537 Paper St., Wilmington, DE 19886.

A few years ago, some Avery mailing labels sold through the Staples chain surfaced with a sample address for Tyler Durden, 420 Paper St., Wilmington, DE 19886.

What a funny allusion to be made in corporate America. You get that if you’ve ever seen the film.

It surprised us to learn that “Fight Club” did not do well in theaters when first released, making only about $37 million. It gained notoriety and cult status after a phenomenal debut on DVD, though, and the film turned a profit because of its successful second life.

Did Pabst ever win a “Blue Ribbon?” What did they ever do to deserve a “Blue Ribbon?”

The beer we all know and love was originally named Select, but people kept asking for the “Blue Ribbon” beer when Pabst started tying blue-silk ribbons to the bottles in 1882. Blue Ribbon became part of the name in 1895.

Pabst also put beer in cans for the first time in 1934 and called it Export when sold by can. The can included a picture of a can opener on the side with instructions on how to open the can, obviously, with a can opener.

Pabst painted cans olive drab during World War II, when all canned beer went to the military. Pabst wasn’t sold to civilians in cans during the war because of tin rationing.

Learn more about Pabst and its other brews — wonderful beers like Old Milwaukee, Old Style, Lone Star, Rainier, Colt .45, Special Export, Schlitz, Schlitz Malt Liquor, Schmidt, National Bohemian, Stag and Stroh’s — at

http://www.pabst.com

Is Barack Obama a Muslim, and did he take his oath of office for the Illinois senate on the Quran?

This question will soon be a frequent fixture in GYA. It first ran a little more than a month ago and keeps coming in.

Obama is not Muslim and did not accept his oath of office for the Illinois senate on the Quran.

The urban legend Web site http://www.snopes.com features an extensive page on this very topic. Check it out at http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp

A page at Sen. Obama’s Web site also addresses this issue: http://obama.senate.gov/press/070123-debunked_insigh/index.php

The page debunks recent news reports on Sen. Obama. He is Christian and has been involved in the United Church of Christ since the mid-1980s.

U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., is Muslim and did take his oath of office on the Quran in 2007 when elected to the House of Representatives from Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District.

The confusion might come from Obama’s upbringing.

Barack Hussein Obama, Sen. Obama’s father, was raised a Muslim. He was no longer a practicing Muslim when he met Ann Dunham, Sen. Obama’s mother. The two met at the University of Hawaii while attending medical school.

Dunham and the elder Obama divorced when Sen. Obama was 2 years old. Sen. Obama had very little contact after that with his father.

Dunham married again when Obama was 6. She married Indonesian oil manager Lolo Soetoro, and she and her son moved to Jakarta, Indonesia. While in Indonesia, Obama attended both Catholic and Muslim schools, but was raised by his parents in a secular household.

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