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I once had a friend that was so dense that he though assphault was a hip disease.

Around 7:30 p.m. Monday, KING 5 News' phones started to ring as viewers reported seeing a ball of flames shooting across the skies of Western Washington. They're finally here.

Opec concerned over falling oil prices??? Who gives a damn about their concern for lower profit margin? Greedy bastards.

A Vietnamese man who once appeared on national television to demonstrate his ability to resist electric shocks has been electrocuted while repairing a generator. Idiot. That's kinda what electricity does.

A Florida diver shot a large grouper with a spear gun then apparently drowned when the fish sped into a hole, entangling the man in the line attached to the spear. Now that's justice.

A police chase came to an abrupt end when the suspect's car struck a deer. The world is full of stupid people.

A driver has been charged with leaving the scene of an accident with injuries after her car hit a bicyclist who was in the road waiting on an ambulance to treat him for injuries after being hit by another car. Oh my gosh.

Thanks, but no thanks. Donald P. Cook, who won HGTV's 5,700-square-foot Dream Home in April, says he's selling the house. The annual $19,396 tax bill plus maintenance costs are too much for the state auditor from Alum Creek, W.Va.


Today in History:
1609 - Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson River on his birthday. I eat cake on my birthday. I bet he was thinking..... I, Henry Hudson, discover this river. There it is.
1758 Charles Messier observes the Crab Nebula & begins catalog
1776 Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) for spy mission. I spy something....Blue.
1846 - Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning. Hmmm.
1888 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Greek Interpreter". It's amazing that Sherlock Holmes, although being a fictional character, is looked upon in history.
1890 - Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded. When did they create the first Salisbury steak? that's what I wanna know. I know what I'm having for supper tonight.
1922 The House of Bishops of the U.S. Protestant Episcopal Church voted 36-27 to delete the word "obey" from the vows of their denomination's official marriage service.
1928 Katharine Hepburn's NY stage debut in "Night Hostess"
1933 - Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction. The world will never be the same.
1940 - Cave paintings discovered in Lascaux, France.
1940 - The Hercules Munitions Plant in Kenvil, New Jersey explodes, killing 55 people.
1943 - Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest by German commando Otto Skorzeny.
1953 - Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1953 - John F. Kennedy marries Jackie Bouvier.
1956 Black students enter & are barred from Clay Ky elementary school. and??? ohhh that was so wrong of me. I do not believe in segregation and am not a racist.
1957 - NORAD begins operations.
1959 - Bonanza premiers. First regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color.
1959 - The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
1962 - President John F. Kennedy declares the USA will get a man on the moon, and safely bring him back, by the end of the decade. And we do it with 5 months to spare.
1966 "The Monkees," premier on NBC. They're the monkees and people say they monkey around.
1970 - Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman. Terrorists are cowards. Stand up and fight like a man. Wus!
1977 - South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko is killed in police custody.
1978 Situation comedy "Taxi" premiers on ABC television
1983 - A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, was robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros .
1984 Country singer Barbara Mandrell is badly injured in a car accident.....beginning her prune commercial era. I'm just playing Barbara. I'll be home at 6 and no I didn't forget your dry cleaning. Anything else dear?
1986 US professor Joseph Cicippio is kidnapped & held hostage in Beirut
1994 - Frank Eugene Corder crashes a Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself. Some people will do anything to get their name in the paper. Sheesh.
2005 - A blackout in Los Angeles affects millions of Californians.
2005 - Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong. I bet the Mickey Mouse club song sounds completely different over there.

Happy Birthday:
1575 - Henry Hudson, English explorer. He discovered a river. Which was it? Mississippi river?
1812 - Richard Hoe, American inventor and industrialist (d. 1886) I bet he invented the yard broom.
1818 - Richard Gatling, American weapons inventor (d. 1903) I bet he invented the hand grenade.
1931 - George Jones, American country singer. George Jones will never die, he'll just play possum.
1944 - Barry White, American singer (d. 2003) Wasn't Barry White black? That's just one instance where black really is white and white really is black. That is some deep stuff there.
1952 - Neil Peart, Canadian drummer and author (Rush). Amazing drummer. Needs to hire someone who can sing. Sorry Mr. Lee.
1952 - Gerry Beckley, American musician (America)
1968 - Ler LaLonde, American Guitarist (Primus)

Deaths on this day:
1185 - Andronicus I Comnenus (tortured by the City mob)
When Andronikos arrived he found that his authority was overthrown: Isaac had been proclaimed emperor. The deposed Emperor attempted to escape in a boat with his wife Agnes and his mistress, but was captured. Isaac handed him over to the City mob and for three days he was exposed to their fury and resentment. His right hand was cut off, his teeth and hair were pulled out, one of his eyes was gouged out, and, among many other sufferings, boiling water was thrown in his face. At last, led to the Hippodrome of Constantinople, he was hung up by the feet between two pillars, and two Latin soldiers competed as to whose sword would penetrate his body more deeply. He died on September 12, 1185. At the news of the emperor's death, his son and co-emperor John was murdered by his own troops in Thrace.
1213 - King Peter II of Aragon (killed in battle) (b. 1174)
1369 - Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt (plague) (b. 1345)
1992 - Anthony Perkins, American actor (b. 1932)
2003 - Johnny Cash, American singer and guitarist (b. 1932)