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Tuesday, October 03, 2006

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I learned a new term for a child today and thought I'd share it with all of my faithful readers.
They are called Sex Trophies.

Top 10 Songs Requested at Funerals.

10. "Unchained Melody" - Righteous Brothers.
9. "Every Breath You Take - The Police
8. "Tears In Heaven" - Eric Clapton
7. "With Or Without You" - U2
6. "Candle In The Wind" - Elton John (If it's good enough for Princess Diana, it's good enough for me)
5."Pie Jesu" - Requiem
4. "Wind Beneath My Wings" - Bette Midler (excuse me, I threw up a little)
3. "I've Had The Time Of My Life" - Jennifer Warnes and Bill Medley (from Dirty Dancing? That's not really appropriate. I can just see the lights go down and a couple dirty dancing. nasty)
2. "Angels" - Robbie Williams
and the number 1 song requested at funerals is..........

"Goodbye My Lover" - James Blunt

If I die tomorrow, I'd prefer to have Sinatra's My Way played. Only Sinatra can do this song justice.


In The News:
<>North Korea says will conduct nuclear test.

5
girls dead in Amish school shooting. If you're not safe in Amish country, you're not safe anywhere.

A woman in the northern Bulgarian town of Ruse survived a car crash thanks to her silicone breasts which acted as an airbag. See boobies are good. I've been sayin' all along.

New phone will scream if it's stolen. "You'd better put me back where I came from. You know I don't belong to you. Put me back bitch!"

Boxer goes naked to make weight for world title fight.

More than half of Britons polled did not use extra protection against HIV, and 22 per cent thought Aids could be caught by kissing.


Today in History:
1283 - Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes the first person executed by drawing and quartering.

1712 - The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.
Have you seen "Rob Roy" the movie with Liam Neeson? Very good show.

1778 - British Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.

1789 - George Washington proclaims the first Thanksgiving Day.

1795 - General Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence being named to defend the French National Convention against armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the three year old revolutionary government.

1863 - Thanksgiving Day declared as the fourth Thursday in November by President Abraham Lincoln. Why Thursday? Why the fourth thursday?

1873 - Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War

1918 - King Boris III of Bulgaria takes the throne. Take it back you thief!

1942 - First successful launch of A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany: the first man-made object to reach space.

1952 - United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon.

1955 ''Captain Kangaroo'' premiered on CBS and ''The Mickey Mouse Club'' premiered on ABC.

1962 - At Cape Canaveral the Mercury 8 blasts off with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard for a nine-hour flight. I wanna go!

1985 - Space Shuttle Atlantis flys its maiden voyage. (STS-51-J)

1991 - Arkansas governor Bill Clinton declares candidacy for President of the United States. He'll never win.

1995 - O. J. Simpson is found not guilty of murder.

1997 Attorney General Janet Reno said she had found no evidence that President Bill Clinton broke the law with White House coffees and overnight stays for big contributors.

2003 A tiger attacked magician Roy Horn of the duo "Siegfried & Roy" during a performance in Las Vegas, leaving him partially paralyzed.

Happy Birthday:
1900 - Thomas Wolfe, American author (d. 1938)
1938 - Eddie Cochran, American singer (d. 1960)
1941 - Chubby Checker, American musician
1947 - John Perry Barlow, American musician, lyricist for the Grateful Dead.
1949 - Lindsey Buckingham, American musician, Fleetwood Mac
1954 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, American musician (d. 1990)
1959 - Greg Proops, American actor and comedian
1962 - Tommy Lee, American musician (Mötley Crüe)
1969 - Gwen Stefani, American singer (No Doubt)
1976 - Seann William Scott, American actor
1984 - Ashlee Simpson, American singer

Deaths on this day: Kind of morbid, I know.
1283 - David ap Gruffydd, Welsh prince of Gwynedd (executed)
1967 - Woody Guthrie, American musician (b. 1912) He is best known for his song "This Land Is Your Land".
1994 - Dub Taylor, American actor (b. 1907) You know him. Click on his name.
2000 - Benjamin Orr, American bassist and singer (The Cars) (b. 1947)
2004 - Janet Leigh, American actress (b. 1927)

2 Comments:

At 4:34 PM, Blogger Jane Q Doe said...

i'm gonna have to go with the hokey pokey for the funeral song there. either that or the lollipop song from the wizard of oz.

 
At 7:50 AM, Blogger Crazy B said...

Or, how about, I'd be better in a pine box by Doug Stone? That would be fitting.

 

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