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Strutting between the tables, her head nearly touching the ceiling, Genesis sashayed through the dining room and plucked dollar bills from diners’ hands while she introduced performances by three other queens: Victoria Holiday did a Beyoncé number in a long pink wig; BaeJing lip-synched to the White Lotus theme song with a lot of rapid tongue movements; and Ruby Fox did a Cyndi Lauper song in opera-length gloves.

Once Lesh discovered a single credited to another band called the Warlocks, he had the group and selected associates convene at his apartment to decide upon a new name — a process that came to a standstill until Garcia plucked “the Grateful Dead” from a dictionary.

Crump’s style possessed a larger-than-life whimsy and circus-like loudness, and it caught the eye of Walt Disney, who plucked Crump from animation and one day assigned him what would become arguably the most recognizable clock in Southern California.

He remained a chaplain until 2002, when he was charged with 29 counts of molesting girls; fearing he would try to flee prosecution, authorities plucked him off a cruise ship bound for Russia.

They plucked the produce out of family gardens.