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Wednesday, October 27, 2004

Total Lunar Eclipse Tonight.

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I'm hungry. Can you guess what I want to eat? It is 5 letters, starts with P, and the 3rd and 4th letters are the same. If you know what it is, post a comment.


Last Chance Until 2007: Total Lunar Eclipse Tonight! The eclipse begins at shortly after 8 p.m. ET (5 PT), but the first hour or so won't be noticeable as the Moon becomes lightly shaded by Earth's outer shadow, called the penumbra. Things get real interesting at 9:14 p.m. ET (6:14 PT, when the Moon begins sliding into Earth's full shadow, or umbra.

Melbourne City Council renamed Corporation Lane in the city center ACDC Lane, at a ceremony attended by 500 fans. A bagpiper played the 1975 track "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)" at the festivities, while local bands played other AC/DC material for five hours in a nearby bar.

In a breathtaking discovery, scientists working on a remote Indonesian island say they have uncovered the bones of a human dwarf species marooned for eons while modern man rapidly colonized the rest of the planet.



School Keeps Halloween Ban Despite Outcry. They say they don't want to disrupt classroom studies. Well, that's it. We have to cancel the Christmas party, the Christmas Play, the 2 week Christmas holiday, Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Thanksgiving holiday,... It's one day where kids can actually enjoy themselves. On all the other holidays, the kids aren't even in school. How much are they learning then? IDIOTS!!!!!

Police said they had two substantial clues in two theft cases — a suspect's name and telephone number. He should run for the School Board.

Afraid a talkative parrot might prove to be a stool pigeon, three thieves returned to the scene of the crime to silence the bird — only to be caught by police. Another School Board candidate. This will be a tough race.



An Australian court ruled Wednesday that a convicted heroin dealer can claim a 220,000 Australian dollar (US$165 million; euro 129 million) tax deduction for money that was stolen during a drug deal. Aaaahhhhh Australia. Where the men are men and the sheep are nervous.

Day from Hell May Have Killed Off Dinosaurs. Challenging conventional theory, new scientific research suggests the dinosaurs may have been scorched into extinction by an asteroid collision 65 million years ago that unleashed 10 billion times more power than the Hiroshima nuclear bomb.

More than 100 jailed Kenyan street children smeared themselves and their Nairobi cells with feces in a protest Wednesday, leading police to call in firefighters to hose them down. What a shitty story.

Long-Lost Final Film by Ed Wood Rediscovered. I gotta see this one.

Today in History:

1775 - United States Navy established.

1795 - The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which established the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.

1810 - United States annexes West Florida.

1873 Joseph Glidden applies for a patent on his barbed wire design.

1904 - First New York City subway line opens; system becomes biggest in United States of America, and one of biggest in world. Subway, now there's an idea for lunch. MMMMM!

1946 - First commercially-sponsored television program airs (Geographically Speaking, sponsored by Bristol-Myers ). From then on, television is infected with commercials.

1954 Monroe and DiMaggio divorce. It lasted a whopping 9 months.

1954 Disneyland debuts. Fun for the whole family.

1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis ends. You can all breath now.



1984 An Ozzy Osbourne fan commits suicide. The same day, Kelly Osbourne is bourne I mean born to Ozzy and Sharon(see below). Strange. (Thanks Penny for pointing that out. If everyone would leave comments like Penny, they'd get mentioned too). Nineteen-year-old John McCollum is found shot to death on his bed in Indio, California. Although it was quickly determined that the fatal wound was self-inflicted, McCollum's parents believed that singer Ozzy Osbourne was actually responsible because their son had been listening to Osbourne's album, Speak to the Devil, which contains the song, "Suicide Solution," when he killed himself. And that's why their parents are now known as idiots. Their son was probably unhappy with his parents. Ever thought of that?

1999 - Armenian Prime Minister Vazgan Sarkisian and 6 other members killed in attack on Armenian parliament.

Born on this day:
1728 - James Cook, British naval captain and explorer. (d. 1779)

1811 - Isaac Singer, inventor of the sewing machine (d. 1875)

1858 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (d. 1919)

1914 - Dylan Thomas, British poet and writer (d. 1953)

1933 - Floyd Cramer , musician

1939 - John Cleese, British actor, comedian

1940 - John Gotti, American mobster (d. 2002)

1942 - Lee Greenwood, musician

1953 - Robert Picardo, actor (Star Trek: Voyager)

1967 - Scott Weiland, musician ("Stone Temple Pilots")

1984 - Kelly Osbourne, American television personality, daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. See story above about Ozzy fan committing suicide.

Deaths on this day:

939 - King Athelstan I of England

2003 - Rod Roddy, television announcer

Songs that were recorded on this day:

1960 "Spanish Harlem" (w.m. Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller)
- Ben E. King

1960 "Stand By Me" (King, Leiber, Stoller)
- Ben E. King with O/Stan Applebaum

4 Comments:

At 9:37 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Isn't it weird that Kelly Osbourne was born on the same day the guy committed suicide "because of Suicide Solution"??
Penny

 
At 9:52 AM, Blogger Crazy B said...

I didn't think of that. That's not just weird, it's downright uncanny. You rock Penny. Keep the comments coming.

 
At 3:23 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

better be pizza ;) jack skellington rocks and did u know that greg proops was in that movie too?? do u care?? well, u should... :P
j.q.d.

 
At 10:05 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Putty? That's gross.
Penmeister

 

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