Thanks For The Memories

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When I think of the holidays, I often think of Bob Hope entertaining the troops. Standing on some aircraft carrier, base camp, or other military venue, he would cheer up the troops and make them feel a little better about being alive. He always signed his autographs with Thanks for the Memories. The world needs another Bob Hope.

Here's a special christmas link for you. Enjoy.
I'm off for a few days for the holidays as many of you are but some aren't. I feel for you who have to work this Christmas. When I was a cop, I always worked Christmas. It wasn't bad though. I'll update when I can. Merry Christmas!!!

Don't bother making jokes. This family has heard them all. No, they don't communicate directly with Santa Claus. They don't celebrate the holidays year-round, and they certainly have some not-so-cheerful days. The smirks and the wisecracks are just part of life when your last name is Christmas, and especially so when two of your family members are named — no joke — Mary. You really should read this one. Strange name tie ins.

Today in History:
1849 - The execution of Fyodor Dostoevsky is canceled at the last second.

1851 - The first freight train is operated in Roorkee in India.

1864 - Savannah, Georgia falls to General William Tecumseh Sherman, concluding his "March to the Sea".

1882 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison. I mention this story one year ago today.

1937 - The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.

1956 - Colo is born, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity.

1958 "Chipmunk Song" reaches #1

1964 - Comedian Lenny Bruce is convicted of obscenity.

1964 - First SR-71 (Blackbird) flight.

1978 Kenny Jones becomes The Who's new drummer

1984 Madonna's "Like a Virgin" single goes #1 for 6 weeks

1987 Mötley Crue's Nikki Sixx overdoses from Heroin

1989 - Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.

2001 - Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.

Happy Birthday:
1898 - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (d. 1974) His last name is Fock?
1912 - Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States
1942 - Dick Parry, English musician (Pink Floyd)
1945 - Diane Sawyer, American journalist
1949 - Maurice Gibb, English musician (The Bee Gees) (d. 2003)
1949 - Robin Gibb, English musician (The Bee Gees)

Deaths on this Day:
No one died on this day?

I See Trees of Green

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Listening to Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World". What a wonderful song. Beautiful. Sometimes depressing but always beautiful.

In The News:
"Donald, sit and spin, my friend." Rosie O'Donnell to Donald Trump.
"I never went bankrupt, but she said I went bankrupt. So probably I'll sue her because it would be fun. I'd like to take some money out of her fat-ass pockets," Donald Trump to Rosie O'Donnell.

School accuses 5-year-old of sexual harassment...According to a school document provided by the boy's father, the 5-year-old pinched a girl's buttocks on Dec. 8 in a hallway at the school south of Hagerstown. That's it? I don't think he even understands what the term sexual harassment means.

NY village sends fake $1,000 water bills. Blahahahaha


Today in History:
1620 - Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

1861 - Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.

1891 18 students play 1st basketball game (Springfield College)

1913 - Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.

1932 Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio)

1933 20th Century Fox signs Shirley Temple, 5, to a studio contract

1936 - First flight of the Junkers JU-88 bomber prototype.

1937 - The film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is premiered at the Carthay Circle Theater in Los Angeles. 1st feature-length color & sound cartoon.

1946 Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" premieres

1951 Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement

1954 Dr Sam Sheppard is convicted of his wife, Marilyn's murder

1961 Beatles record "Sweet Georgia Brown" & "Ready Teddy"

1968 - Project Apollo: Apollo 8, crewed by Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

1968 David Crosby, Stephen Stills & Graham Nash premiere together in California

1969 Diana Ross final TV appearance as a Supreme (Ed Sullivan Show)

1978 Police in Des Plaines IL, arrest John Wayne Gacy Jr for murder

1984 USSR launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Comet

1985 Heart's "Heart" album goes #1

1988 - A bomb explodes on board Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, killing 270.

1989 Vice-President Quayle sends out 30,000 Xmas cards with word beacon spelled beakon. hahahahahahaha


Happy Birthday:
1879 Joseph Stalin [Dzoegashvili] Russian dictator; murdered 11,000,000

1935 - Phil Donahue, American talk show host

1937 - Jane Fonda, American actress and activist

1940 - Frank Zappa, American singer, guitarist and composer (d. 1993)

1946 - Carl Wilson, American singer and guitarist (The Beach Boys) (d. 1998)

1948 - Samuel L. Jackson, American actor

1956 - Lee Roy Parnell, American country singer

1957 Ray Romano Queens NY, actor (Ray Barone-Everybody Loves Raymond)

1965 - Andy Dick, American actor and comedian

1966 - Kiefer Sutherland, British-born Canadian actor


Deaths on this day:
1940 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (b. 1896)
1945 - George S. Patton, U.S. general (b. 1885) dies in car accident in Heidelberg at 60
1992 - Albert King, American musician (b. 1924)

A New Outlook

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Looking back on this year, it's been a rough one. It's had great moments and horrible moments. To those of you that are close to me, you know who you are, I feel your pain and wish you the best. To those who I owe and apology or apologies, I'm truely, honestly sorry. To those of you who owe me an apology, get on your knees and beg for forgiveness. hahaha. Maybe next year will be better.


Today in History:
1192 Richard the Lionhearted captured in Vienna

1699 Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed-Sept 1 to Jan 1

1803 - Louisiana Purchase completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.

1860 - South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the United States.

1879 Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park

1880 New York's Broadway lit by electricity, becomes known as "Great White Way"
1892 Pneumatic automobile tire patented, Syracuse NY

1893 1st state anti-lynching statute approved, in Georgia

1920 Bob Hope becomes an American citizen

1924 Adolf Hitler freed from jail early

1945 Rationing of auto tires ends in US

1951 - Nuclear power first harvested when EBR-1 powers four light bulbs. Uh Oh!!!

1952 - United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87.

1957 Elvis Presley given draft notice to join US Army for National Service

1962 The Osmond brothers debut on the Andy Williams Show

1967 "The Graduate", starring Dustin Hoffman & Anne Bancroft, premieres

1967 Ian Anderson & Glenn Cornick form rock group Jethro Tull

1969 Peter, Paul & Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" reaches #1

1973 - The Spanish Prime Minister, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, is assassinated by a car bomb attack in Madrid. Bitches

1975 Joe Walsh recruited to join Eagles

1990 Pentagon warns Saddam Hussein that US air power is ready to attack on 1/15
1995 - An American Airlines Flight 965 Boeing 757 crashes into a mountain 50 km north of Cali, Colombia killing 160.

1999 - Vermont's Supreme Court rules that homosexual couples are entitled to the same benefits and protections as married heterosexual couples.


Happy Birthday:
1868 - Harvey Firestone, American automobile pioneer (d. 1938)

1944 - Bobby Colomby, American musician (Blood, Sweat & Tears)

1945 - Peter George Criscoula, American drummer and singer (KISS)

1957 - Mike Watt, American bassist

1966 - Chris Robinson, American singer (Black Crowes)


Deaths on this day:
1973 - Bobby Darin, American singer (b. 1936) dies of heart failure at 37
1997 Vincent Ciccone inventor (Blow-Pops candy) 81
1997 Dawn Steel film maker (When Harry Met Sally), dies at 51
1999 - Hank Snow, Canadian singer (b. 1914)

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That's Odd:
A village in the Italian Alps is finally basking in winter sunlight thanks to a giant mirror installed on a mountain top to reflect the sun's rays into the main square.

Woman tells cop she bought 'bad crack'

Thieves break into police station. Now there's a good idea.


Today in History:
1606 - The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery depart England carrying settlers who, at Jamestown, Virginia, would found the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.

1777 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

1843 - A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, is first published in England.

1912 - William H. Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by President Taft after 3-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison .

1941 - Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army. Doh

1974 - The Altair 8800 microcomputer kit goes on sale.

1988 - Lawn darts are banned from sale in the United States by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

1997 - Silkair Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.

1997 - The film Titanic is released.

2001 - The fire at the World Trade Center, as a result of the September 11, 2001 attacks, is finally extinguished after three months.

Happy Birthday:
1972 - Alyssa Milano, American actress


Deaths on this day:
1993 - Michael Clarke, American drummer (The Byrds) (b. 1946)

Happy Birthday

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Happy Birthday!!!!

David Woods' Oldsmobile obviously needed some work, lest of which was a fourth tire. But that didn't stop the 30-year-old Meadow Bridge man from driving the older model car on three tires and a rim to the local auto parts store Wednesday night.

Man fined for falling asleep on railway track Doh!!!

A man who parked illegally in a space reserved for handicapped drivers was sentenced to stand outside the store with a sign telling everyone about his crime. How are ya? Sorry about that. Yeah.

Two men were arrested on battery charges Thursday after a road rage incident led one to attack the other with deer antlers and then a handgun. Stupid rednecks.

Nev. politician: Let teachers carry guns. Oh yeah. That's a good idea..... until Ms. Temple forgets to lock her drawer. What a dumbass.

Wisconsin hunter bags deer with 7 legs. I swear that I didn't make this up.

Escapee charged with stealing handcuffs. Theft of handcuffs? That guy probably just heard Garth Brooks singing "We Shall Be Free" and let himself out.

Today in history:

1791 - The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia legislature.

1836 Patent Office burns in Washington DC

1854 1st street-cleaning machine in US 1st used in Philadelphia

1877 Thomas Edison patents phonograph. Thanks Tom. We Love Ya!!!

1925 1st road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic

1927 Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads

1938 Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC

1939 - Gone with the Wind premieres in Atlanta, Georgia.

1944 Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel

1944 US Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star

1959 Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me"

1960 - Richard Paul Pavlick is arrested for attempting to blow up and assassinate the 35th U.S. President, John F. Kennedy only four days earlier. You should click and read about Richard.

1965 - The film The Sound of Music is released.

1967 Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again"

1992 - American rapper, Dr. Dre, releases his highly influential debut album, The Chronic. The Chronic is often labelled as the first ever G-Funk album.

1993 C-130 flies into a Philippines hill & explodes, 16 killed

1994 - The web browser Netscape Navigator 1.0 is released.


Happy Birthday:
37 - Nero, Roman Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (d. 68)
1910 - John H. Hammond, American musician (d. 1987)
1922 - Alan Freed, American disc jockey (d. 1965) accepted payola/introduced term "rock-n-roll"
1933 - Tim Conway, American actor and comedian
1942 - Dave Clark, British musician (The Dave Clark Five) He was the drummer.
1949 - Don Johnson, American actor
1955 - Paul Simonon, British musician (The Clash)


Deaths on this day:
1944? - Glenn Miller, American musician (b. 1904)
1966 - Walt Disney, American animator (b. 1901)

Can You Believe That?

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Guess what was just releases? The movie trailer for Homeland Security that I was in. Cick Here to see it.

Merry Christmas Ya'll. (click on it! Don't be scared!)

I've been trying for years to find where the Dison family came from. I've traced it back to one of my great(or great great...etc.) grandfathers entering the U.S. from England. The largest concentration of Disons is in Wales. I would also like to find out the Dison Dyson connection. If you have any info., please email me at bradsarcade@yahoo.com

Man calls 911 to report stolen drugs.

Playstation Shooting:
Officials rescinded a murder charge Tuesday against a sheriff's deputy accused of shooting an unarmed teenager who authorities believed had stolen video game consoles, after a grand jury foreman said he had checked the wrong box.

Lindsey Lohan is in AA?

and....... Detectives hunting a serial killer in Great Britain were expected to identify the two latest victims on Wednesday, as police warned prostitutes to stay off the streets for their own safety.

What's your favorite board game? Mine is Monopoly. Do you know the History of Monopoly? Well you should.


What happened today in history? I know you didn't ask, probably don't care, and probably won't read, but I put it here for my own enjoyment.
1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.

1636 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard.

1941 - World War II: Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States.

1973 - Rael, leader of the Raelian Movement claims to meet an ET he says is named Yahweh, during an alleged UFO encounter in Puy de Lassolas, France.

1977 - A United States government aircraft DC-3 crashes near Evansville Regional Airport, killing 29, including the University of Evansville basketball team.

1978 - The first Susan B. Anthony dollar enters circulation.

2000 - The "Texas 7" escape from the John Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas and go on a robbery spree, during which police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot and killed.

2000 - American Vice President Al Gore delivers his concession speech ending his hopes of becoming the 43rd President of the United States. He invinted the internet, didn't you know... dumbass

2003 - Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit (see Operation Red Dawn). Did you know he had a portable radio with him? As it turns out, he's an Alice in Chains fan. He was listening to "Down In A Hole". Okay, okay, I'll stop.

Happy Birthday:
1818 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (d. 1882)

1854 - Thomas Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (d. 1934)

1925 - Dick Van Dyke, American actor and comedian

1948 - Ted Nugent, American guitarist. 'WANGO TANGO'

1948 - Jeff Baxter, American guitarist (Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers)

1954 - John Anderson, American country musician

1957 - Morris Day, American singer (The Time) Pimpin Old School

1967 - Jamie Foxx, American actor

1981 - Amy Lee, American singer/songwriter (Evanescence) Meow!!!

Thank You

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To all of my faithful readers, I just wanted to say Thank You. Please click on Thank You.

Isn't It Interesting

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Isn't it interesting how we celebrate Christmas???

I finally decided to put up Christmas lights last night. It didn't go so well.


Ahhhh. All done. I don't know. It's just a little bland. Needs something else. MORE LIGHTS!!!


Vintage Beatles Christmas Ornaments. Ebay price: $1,000 plus shipping.


I always wondered what Santa's junk looked like.


Even our clothing changes.


The airlines get into the spirit too!!!


Some celebrate with drink.




It just isn't Christmas without Frank and Bing.


Now what????


Christmas movies the you must see this season:



An American Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing Monday morning after a passenger lit a match to disguise the scent of flatulence.

Brooklyn sidewalk caves in, swallows woman.

I JUST HEARD LIPS OF AN ANGEL, NOT BY HINDER BUT BY JACK INGRAM. WHAT THE HELL ARE RECORD COMPANIES THINKING? DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN SOME JACKASS DECIDED IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO COPY AEROSMITHS "DON'T WANT TO MISS A THING"? BLAH BLAH BLAH. I HATE THAT. REMOVE JACK INGRAMS VERSION FROM THE WORLD AND DO US ALL A FAVOR.




Today in History:
1768 - The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.

1790 - The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1849 - American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.

1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery.

1877 - The Washington Post newspaper is first published.

1884 - The Washington Monument in Washington D.C. is completed.

1897 - London becomes the world's first city to host motorised taxicabs.

1907 - A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia kills 362 workers.

1917 - Halifax Explosion: In Canada, a munitions explosion kills more than 1900 people and destroys part of the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

1933 - U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that the James Joyce novel Ulysses is not obscene.

1947 - The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.

1957 - Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into orbit around the Earth.

1969 - Meredith Hunter is killed by Hell's Angels during The Rolling Stones's concert at the Altamont Speedway in California.

1973 - The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387 to 35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92 to 3).

1997 - A Russian Antonov An-124 transport cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67.


Happy Birthday:
1908 - Baby Face Nelson, American bank robber (d. 1934)
1955 - Steven Wright, American comedian
1956 - Peter Buck, American guitarist (R.E.M.)
1956 - Randy Rhoads, American guitarist (d. 1982)
1962 - Janine Turner, American actress

Deaths on this day:
1889 - Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808)
1949 - Leadbelly, American musician (b. 1885)
1988 - Roy Orbison, American singer, guitarist, and songwriter (b. 1936)
1992 - Mary Smith or Mimi, Maternal Aunt and Guardian of John Lennon (b. 1914)

Merry Christmas

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In trying to get into the spirit of Christmas, I came across this skit from Mr. Bean. No one can get you in the spirit like Mr. Bean. Click Here.

Why a Christmas Tree? Mistletoe ? Click here to find out.


My next vacation will be in Europe. Pictured above is Picadilly Arcade in London. Amazing.


frohe Weihnachten aus Deutschland!!!


Joyeux Noël de France


Yoy Noy Soy Christmas Joy!!!


Buon Natale dall'Italia



Chun ti Chow Japan


It seems that everything reminds me of Christmas.


Ho! Ho! Ho!