Tee Hee Hee

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A mexican, a polish guy, a priest, and a rabbi walk into a bar. The bartender looks up and says, "what is this? Some kind of a joke?"

Jane and I saw Pan's Labyrinth yesterday. It was good but very gory. The entire movie was in spanish with subtitles. It was still a pleasureable experience.

Today in the news:
Straighter teeth won't guarantee happiness. I coulda tole ya dat. I gots friends without no teefies and they happy fine.

Huge python makes a meal of 11 guard dogs When you want a good hot dog, you want a good hot dog.

Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro was euthanized Monday after complications from his gruesome breakdown at last year's Preakness, ending an eight-month ordeal that prompted an outpouring of support across the country. Very sad. I hope they paid their insurance premium.

There are no free rides to outer space Obviously the sixties passed them by.

Jermaine Jackson wants his brother Michael to convert to Islam. No matter where you go, someone will always be pushing their religion on you. Keep the Faith Michael. Just be you, dude... or dudette.

An Irish convict who stole a car to get back to prison after missing a weekend release deadline has been given a six month suspended jail sentence. Atleast he tried. You gotta give him that.

A drunk man who tried to climb over a freight train stopped at a downtown crossing ended up going for a ride when the train took off. Blahahahahahahaha. I just wonder....Do you think he sang any Johnny Cash when this all happened?

Today in History:
1595 - William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed.

1676 - Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.

1834 - US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.

1845 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published in the New York Evening Mirror.

1856 - Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.

1886 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.

1933 - President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.

1944 - The battleship USS Missouri is launched.

1958 - Police capture Charles Starkweather in Wyoming.

1959 - Sleeping Beauty, an animated feature produced by Walt Disney based upon a fairy tale, is released.

1978 - Sweden outlaws aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming the first nation to enact such a ban.

1996 - La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire.

2007 - Mitsy became a homeowner. Rockin'!!!!

Happy Birthday:
1737 - Thomas Paine, American patriot (d. 1809)
1874 - John D. Rockefeller Jr., American entrepreneur (d. 1960)
1880 - W.C. Fields, American actor (d. 1946)
1933 - Ron Townson, American singer (The 5th Dimension) (d. 2001)
1936 - James Jamerson, American bass guitarist for Motown Records (d. 1983)
1945 - Tom Selleck, American actor
1952 - Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-born musician and record producer (The Ramones)
1954 - Oprah Winfrey, American producer, actress, and publisher
1981 - Jonny Lang, American musician

Deaths on this day:
1696 - Ivan V, Russian tsar
1730 - Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715) This just wasn't a good day for Tsars.
1820 - King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
1963 - Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874)
1969 - Allen Dulles, American CIA director (b. 1893)
1977 - Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (b. 1954)
1980 - Jimmy Durante, American actor and comedian (b. 1893)

I'm Glad It's Friday

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My week has been pretty crazy. This week I worked on the film Last Lullaby
starring Tom Sizemore, Sprague Graydon, and Omid Abtahi. It was a different experience. I've been on several films but this one was different. There was more irritation from certain people on this one. Everyone has a bad day though. Next week I'm gonna be filming on the Harold and Kumar sequel. It should be a lot of fun.
My regular job sent me to New Orleans for two days to make a delivery. That was a lot of fun. I'm ready to go back.

Today in History:
Nothing happened today in history according to this blog because the "genius" that writes this crap is too busy and can't manage his time well.

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Beware!!! Spouses caught cheating in Michigan could end up spending the rest of their life in prison.

A woman has been returned to her home in Vietnam's Central Highlands 18 years after she went missing as an eight-year old girl tending cows near the Cambodian border.

A radio station fired three morning disc jockeys and seven other employees Tuesday after a woman died from drinking nearly two gallons of water in a contest.

Three thieves who allegedly stole 14 global positioning system devices didn't get away with their crime for long. The devices led police right to their home. Dumbasses

Today in History:
1840 - Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States.

1883 - The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.

1903 - First transatlantic radio broadcast between United States and England.

1915 - George Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.

1915 - World War I: German zeppelins bomb the cities of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.

1920 - The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.

1935 - Coopers Inc. sold the world's first briefs. What did they wear before that?

1937 - Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.

1953 - 68% of all United States television sets were tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth. Keep in mind, if you were lucky you got three stations. Most only got one station.

1977 - Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snowfall has occurred.

1978 - The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America will continue until 2003.

1983 - The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Computer, Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.

2006 - The New Horizons probe was launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.

2038 - The UNIX timestamp (a format used for decades to store dates on computers) becomes technically obsolete.


Happy Birthday:
1807 - Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (d. 1870)
1809 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet (d. 1849)
1939 - Phil Everly, American musician
1943 - Janis Joplin, American singer (d. 1970)
1946 - Dolly Parton, American singer and actress
Did you know this about Dolly?
1. Her middle name is Rebecca
2. Reportedly has her breasts insured for $600,000.
3. The world's first cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep, was named after Parton.
4. Was a candidate for the hosting duties on "Family Feud" (1999) before Louie Anderson was hired.
5. The children's television series "Sesame Street" (1969) introduced a character in homage to Dolly Parton. She had purple skin and blonde hair and went by the name of Polly Darton.
6. Ranked #34 on VH1's Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
7. Covered Collective Soul's "Shine." In her version she turns it into a bluegrass song instead of an alternative rock ballard.
8. Created her song Nine to Five, whilst on set of the film of the same name by tapping her nails.
9. She was unable to have children of her own because of an allergic reaction she experienced to birth control pills when she was younger.
10. In 1978 Dolly became on of the few celebrities to have their own pinball machine. Manufactured by Bally Manufacturing Company. The "Dolly" pinball machine played Dolly's #1 single "Here You Come Again" while the pinball machine was active. This one of a kind item is a highly sought after piece of Dolly Parton memorabilia.
11. Lost a Dolly Parton Look-Alike Contest.

1947 - Rod Evans, founding member of Deep Purple
1949 - Robert Palmer, English singer and guitarist (d. 2003)

Deaths on this day:
1998 - Carl Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1932)

Crazy Happenins

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It's Thursday morning and I'm very tired. I stayed up late last night. I watched a movie called Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle. It's a pretty funny show. I, along with my friends William and Brenda, am gonna be an extra in their upcoming film Harold and Kumar Go To Amsterdam. It looks like it'll be a fun shoot.


And in other news:
Wedding guests cancel for Saints game. I never cared to watch baseball.

U.S. warns about Canadian spy coins. Spy coins?

A farmer's home in northern Serbia was destroyed in a blaze caused by three pigs that broke out of their pen, walked into the living room and knocked over the TV. Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin.

Stolen ashes of Florida child returned to parents.

Home renovators looking to bring life to the smallest room in their home now have the chance -- with a toilet that doubles as an aquarium. The Fish 'n Flush is a clear two-piece toilet tank that replaces a standard toilet tank, with a see-through aquarium wrapping itself around a conventional toilet tank.

Two mothers and their 13-year-old daughters were arrested after police say one woman drove her already suspended daughter to school to fight a teenage rival. Can you say dum?

A mail carrier had a blood-alcohol level nearly four times the legal limit when he was arrested for driving his delivery truck into oncoming traffic and crashing into a sign.

As if reading, writing and arithmetic weren't enough, one Japanese high school now also plans to include chopstick skills on its entrance exams.

Georgia bank robbed two days in a row. I'm glad I don't work there. Let's me check my schedule. Get to work at 8. Take a break at 10. Bank robbery at 10:45. Dinner at noon. Last break at 3. Get off at 5.

Today in History:
1569 - First recorded lottery in England.

1794 - Robert Forsythe, a US Marshal was killed in Augusta, Georgia when trying to serve court papers, the first US Marshal to die in action.

1902 - Popular Mechanics magazine was published for the first time.

1908 - Grand Canyon National Monument is created.

1922 - First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.

1935 - Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California.

1949 - First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California.

1963 - The Whisky a Go Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened.

1973 - Beginning of the Watergate burglars trial.

1992 - Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott.

It's Hump Day!!!! hint hint

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'Munsters' star Yvonne De Carlo dies at 84. Awwwww! Interesting trivia about "The Munsters"
1. There was only one Drag-U-La (Grandpa's coffin car,) built for the show. It now hangs from the ceiling in Planet Hollywood in Atlantic City. There have been several replicas built since.
2. The uncredited voice of The Raven was supplied by Mel Blanc. Mel Blanc is the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and almost all, if not all, Looney Tunes characters. On the rare occasions Blanc was unavailable, the Raven's voice was supplied by Bob Hastings.
3. The pilot of the series was in color. The show was shot in black and white because the studio did not want to pay an extra $1,000 for color.
4. Grandpa's Drag-u-la racer was only used in one episode, despite being shown in the end credits of every 2nd season episode.
5. This show and its "rival" series "The Addams Family" (1964) both debuted within a week of one another in September 1964. At the end of that year's TV season, this show ranked #18 in the Nielsens, with a rating of 24.7, while The Addams Family came in at #23, with a 23.9 rating. At the time, Nielsens indicated what percentage of American TV households tuned in to any given program. By the end of the following year, both series were cancelled.
6. This series' title was supposedly derived from combining the words "fun" and "monsters".
7. After the pilot of "The Munsters" was filmed, CBS execs insisted on re-casting the role of Lily Munster. Initially, both Fred Gwynne and Al Lewis balked at the notion of the part going to Yvonne De Carlo. However, later both Gwynne and Lewis agreed De Carlo was a great comedic actress.
8. Yvonne De Carlo who played Lily was born in 1922. Al Lewis who played her dad was born in 1923. So he was a year younger than his daughter and as Fred Gwynne (Herman) was born in 1926 he was only 3 years older than his son-in-law.
9. Yvonne De Carlo took the part of "Lily" on "The Munsters" to help pay husband Bob Morgan's medical bills. Morgan, an actor/stuntman, had suffered near-fatal injuries while filming "How the West Was Won." By her own admission, Ms. De Carlo never imagined, at the time, that "Lily Munster" would become her most famous role.


Man's wallet returned after 62 years.

House Dems move to boost minimum wage "If the minimum wage had been adjusted with the cost of living on an annual basis since 1968, a minimum wage worker would be making $9.05,"

People looking to track ancestors who emigrated from British ports will from Wednesday be able to search online passenger lists of the ships that carried them to new lands. Released by Britain's National Archives, the passenger manifests give an insight into all long-distance trips made by 30 million travelers from the country's ports between 1890 and 1960, including that of the Titanic which sank in 1912.

Researchers have identified a gene variation that seems to influence a person's craving for alcohol, a finding they believe could have important implications for identifying at-risk drinkers as well as for selecting the best treatment for a patient's dependence.

Seeds and plant remains preserved in a well at America's first permanent English settlement suggest the Jamestown colonists were not just gentlemen with few wilderness survival skills, as they are often portrayed, but tried to live off the land by gathering berries and nuts.

The childhood home of Ringo Starr may be saved from the wrecking ball.

Speaking of the Beatles.... "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" lyric sheet is for sale. I got, like, twenty bucks dude.

Speaking of things for sale.... Dracula's castle is for sale for $78M. Oh man!!! Good thing it's income tax refund time.

Rainer Schoenfelder lost a bet Wednesday, and paid for it by skiing nude down the Lauberhorn.


Today in History:
1776 - Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.

1810 - Marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled.

1811 - African-American slaves in Louisiana rebel in two parishes.

1870 - John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.

1901 - The first great Texas gusher, oil discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.

1927 - The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premieres.

1956 Elvis records "Heartbreak Hotel"

1958 Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 on the country and r&b charts, #2 on the pop chart

1969 - After 147 years, the last issue of The Saturday Evening Post is published.

1990 - Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.

1999 - The Sopranos airs its pilot episode on HBO. Many a broken leg follows.

2001 - Wikipedia starts as part of Nupedia. It becomes a separate site five days later.


Happy Birthday:
1738 - Ethan Allen, American Revolution military leader (d. 1789) like...the store???
1843 - Frank James, American outlaw (d. 1915)
1836 - Charles Ingalls, father of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1902)
1865 - Mary Ingalls, elder sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1928)
1927 - Johnnie Ray, American singer (d. 1990)
1930 - Roy Edward Disney, American film executive
1939 - Scott McKenzie, American singer
1943 - Jim Croce, American singer (d. 1973)
1944 - Frank Sinatra, Jr., American singer
1945 - Rod Stewart, English singer
1949 - Linda Lovelace, American actress (d. 2002)
1953 - Pat Benatar, American singer

Deaths on this day:
1917 - William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American frontiersman (b. 1846)
1976 - Howlin' Wolf, American musician (b. 1910)

Happy Birthday Elvis!!!

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A rope jumps into a bar. He sits down and orders a drink. The bartender says "We don't serve ropes here. Get outta here!!!" The rope angrily gets up and walks out. In his fit of rage he begins to twist himself up and gets his hair all messed up. He jumps back into the bar, sits down, and orders a drink. The bartender says "I told you we don't serve ropes in here. Are you a rope?" The rope looks at the bartender and says "I'm a frayed knot"

Today in History:
1297 - Monaco gains its independence.

1734 - Premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

1790 - George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address address in New York City.

1811 - Unsuccessful slave revolt led by Charles Deslandes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.

1815 - War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans - Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.

1867 - African American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia.

1877 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry (Montana).

1889 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine.

1900 - United States President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.

1908 - A train collision occurs in the Park Avenue Tunnel in New York City killing 17 people, injuring 38 and leading to increased demand for electric trains.

1935 - Arthur C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer.

1935 - Elvis Presley, the 'King Of Rock'n'Roll, was born.

1962 - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time (National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.).

1973 - Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.

1977 - Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.

1996 - An Antonov 32 cargo turboprop powered plane crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 people.

Happy Birthday:
1935 - Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)
Did you know this about Elvis? (according to imdb.com)
1. His autopsy detected ten different drugs in his bloodstream.
2. Is a direct descendant of Abraham Lincoln's great-great grandfather, Isaiah Harrison.
3. Has sold over 1,300,000,000 albums worldwide; more than any other musical artist/group in the world, including The Beatles.
4. In April of 1955 Elvis auditioned for a spot on Arthur Godfrey's "Talent Scouts" (1948) and was turned down.
5. The book he was reading at the time of his death was "The Scientific Search for the Face of Jesus" by Frank O. Adams, (Psychical Aid Foundation, USA, 1972).
6. From the time they met up until his death, Elvis always sent a roomful of flowers to Ann-Margret whenever she opened up a show in Las Vegas.
7. After seeing him in concert, Liberace suggested adding flashy costumes into his act. Elvis took his advice, and became famous for his gold lame jackets and jeweled white jumpsuits. He later reserved a seat for Liberace at many of his concerts.
8. Died with about $5 million in his bank account.
9. Elvis did not like confrontation. He wanted to fire his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, many times. He would tell his friends "Tell Parker he's fired." His friends would go tell him, then Parker would say "Tell Elvis to tell me personally". Elvis never would.
10. The lightest Elvis ever weighed, as an adult, was 170 lbs in 1960 following his discharge from the U.S. Army. The heaviest was at the time of his death, which was 260 lbs.
11. Made the first ever musical video of all time: Jailhouse Rock (1957).
12. His 1960 single "It's Now Or Never" is one of the best selling singles of all times (if not 'the' best selling single) with sales which are estimated between 25 and 30 million copies.
13. The Beatles were admirers of his work and, although John Lennon said they enjoyed his company very much, Elvis himself, ironically, thought that they were a bad influence on America's youth.
14. He was allegedly offered roles in The Rainmaker (1956), The Defiant Ones (1958), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), West Side Story (1961), Sweet Bird of Youth (1962), The Fastest Guitar Alive (1967), Midnight Cowboy (1969), True Grit (1969), Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), A Star Is Born (1976) and Grease (1978).
15. Angered Ed Sullivan by singing the gospel song, Peace In The Valley on his show, after Sullivan asked him not to.
16. More people watched Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii (1973) (TV) (live Via Satellite TV special) than watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon.
17. He only performed two concerts outside of the United States, both in Canada.
18. Recorded 33 takes of Hound Dog.
19. Passed out from exhaustion after recording If I Can Dream.
20. The last film he saw at the cinema was The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).
21. Tried to get a print of Star Wars (1977) to show his daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, the day before he died.
22. In 1975 he purchased a poor black East Memphis woman an electric wheel chair and picked her up and personally sat her in it. The woman's teenage daughter told Elvis she liked his car. He gave it to her and even gave her boyfriend a job.
23. Once an Opera singer attended one of his 1950s concerts and met him backstage. The singer told Elvis that he sang like a hillbilly and needed singing lessons. Elvis replied by saying - "Thanks for the advice, but how many of the thousands of people out there tonight came to hear you sing?"
24. At the time of his death in 1977, he was the second biggest selling recording artist of all time, after Bing Crosby.
25. He had two full face-lifts and rhinoplasty during the mid-1970s. On one of these visits to hospital he was accompanied by Linda Thompson.
26. In the month following his final concert at Indianapolis on 26 June 1977, he was reported to have gained a further 50 lbs in weight.
27. "Heartbreak Hotel" is based on a suicide note left in a Florida Hotel Suite that was reworked into a song.
28. Elvis topped the Forbes list of deceased highest earners for the fourth consecutive year, with earnings of $45 million in the year 2004.
29. In 1977 alone, his personal physician Dr George Constantine Nichopoulos (usually referred to as "Dr Nick") had prescribed 10,000 hits of amphetamines, barbiturates, narcotics, tranquilizers, sleeping pills, laxatives, and hormones for Presley.
30. He never wrote a song during his music career.
31.. In 1973 he was biggest tax payer in USA.

1938 - Bob Eubanks, American game show host
1942 - Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author
1946 - Robby Krieger, American musician (The Doors)
1947 - David Bowie, English musician

Deaths on this day:
1935 - Jesse Presley, stillborn, born and died the same day
2002 - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1932)

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Hey crackas!!! Check this out!!! This is completely real. Because of my lucky movie parts I've gotten, I now have an IMDB movie page. It only took them three weeks to verify my information.

Today in History:
1463 - Poet François Villon is banned from Paris.

1527 - Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zürich, was executed by drowning. Doh.

1757 - Louis XV of France survives the assassination attempt by Robert–François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France with the traditional and gruesome form of death penalty used for regicides.

1759 - George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.

1781 - American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.

1895 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.

1896 - An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.

1914 - Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.

1919 - Free Committee for a German Workers Peace founded, which would become the Nazi party.

1933 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.

1940 - FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time.

1948 - Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl).

1972 - President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.

1996 - Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.

Happy Birthday:
1904 - Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (d. 1997)
1923 - Sam Phillips, American music producer (d. 2003)
1931 - Robert Duvall, American actor
Did you this about Robert Duvall? According to IMDB.com
1. Was roommates and good friends with Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman while all were struggling stage actors in New York before any of them struck it big. Among the three, Hoffman and Duvall were known for their ways with the women, and Duvall and Hackman were known for their short fuses, which led to numerous bar fights. The three often bonded over elaborate practical jokes.
2. He is an avid Tango dancer.

1946 - Diane Keaton, American actress
Did you know this about Diane Keaton?
1. Has never married.
2. Starred in a film called Annie Hall (1977). Her real name is Diane Hall and her nickname is Annie.
1950 - Chris Stein, American guitarist (Blondie)
1969 - Marilyn Manson, American singer

Deaths on this day:
1933 - John Calvin Coolidge, Jr., 30th President of the United States (b. 1872)
1943 - George Washington Carver, American educator (b. 1860)
1976 - Mal Evans, Beatles' "roadie" (b. 1935)
1998 - Sonny Bono, American entertainer (b. 1935)
2005 - Danny Sugerman, American music manager (The Doors) (b. 1954)

Here We Go!!!

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Police and family members said a 10-year-old boy who died by hanging himself from a bunk bed was apparently mimicking the execution of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. "Life is too sensitive for tv. I think tv should be banned" I can just hear it now. It started with a nasty Jackson boob.

A 15-year-old girl from eastern India hanged herself in response to the execution of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Dumbasses. All of them.

The billionaire founder of amazon.com has released the first images of the launch of a private spacecraft that could bring space travel to the masses. Rock on!!!!

Little Known Facts:
About Sean Connery(according to IMDB.com):
1. Wears a toupee in all the James Bond movies. He started losing his hair at the age of 21. Privately and in most other movies, he wears none.
2. Said in an interview that during the filming of Never Say Never Again (1983), he was taking martial arts lessons and in the process angered the instructor who in turn broke his wrist. Connery stayed with the wrist broken for a number of years thinking it was only a minor pain... the instructor was Steven Seagal.
3. After his service with the Merchant Navy, he worked as a nude model for Edinburgh art students.
4. Turned down the role of Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings series (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)) because he didn't want to film down in New Zealand for 18 months, and could not understand the novels.
5. Was the original choice to play Sybock in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989). The words in the film "Sha Ka Ree" are a play on of his name.
6. Was once stopped for speeding by an officer named Sergeant James Bond.
7. Turned down the role of John Hammond in Jurassic Park (1993). Coincidentally, his Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) co-star, Harrison Ford, was offered the role of Dr. Alan Grant. Not to mention, it would've reunited both of them with director Steven Spielberg.
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Today in History:
0041- Caligula murdered. Doh!!!

1493 - Christopher Columbus leaves the New World, ending his first journey. Noooo Come Back!!!

1642 - English Civil War: King Charles I of England attacks Parliament.

1698 - Most of the Palace of Whitehall in London, the main residence of the English monarchs, is destroyed by fire.

1725 Benjamin Franklin arrives in London. I wanna go.

1780 Snowstorm hit Washington's army at Morristown New Jersey.

1847 - Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government. Millions die.

1854 - The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang. What are the odds in Mr. McDonald discovering the McDonal Islands. If I were a betting man.....

1863 4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY. Many a limbs break.

1885 - The first successful appendectomy is performed by Dr. William W. Grant on Mary Gartside.

1887 Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (San Francisco-San Francisco); 21,700km. I bet that dude was tired.

1923 1st broadcast of "Barn Dance Show" (WBAP - Fort Worth TX). Can I get a Yee Haw? Anybody, Yee Haw!!!!

1935 Bob Hope 1st heard on network radio as part of "The Intimate Revue" . Thanks for the memories.

1936 - Mickey's Polo Team, a short animated film featuring Charlie Chaplin, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, and Harpo Marx in a polo match against various Disney characters, is first released.

1936 - Billboard magazine publishes its first pop music charts.

1941 - The animated short Elmer's Pet Rabbit is released: it marks the second appearance of Bugs Bunny and the first to have his name on a title card.

1954 Elvis Presley records a 10 minute demo in Nashville.

1958 - Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit (launched on October 4, 1957).

1959 - Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.

1962 - New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board.

1967 - Donald Campbell dies while attempting to break his own water speed record in his jet-powered boat, Bluebird K7

1968 Leo Fender sells Fender Guitars for $13 million. That's kind of pricey for a guitar, don't you think?

1970 - The Beatles record as a band for the last time. An end of an era.

1970 Walter Cronkite ends hosting weekly documentary.

1974 - United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.

1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper".

1984 "Night Court" starring Harry Anderson premieres on NBC TV

1986 - Phil Lynott, the former lead singer of the rock band Thin Lizzy, has died from heart failure and pneumonia after an 11-day fight for his life.

1990 Charles Stuart, who had claimed a gunman had killed his pregnant wife and wounded him, leaped to his death from a Boston Harbor bridge after he became a suspect. Guilty!!! click on his name. You'll see.

1987 - An Amtrak train en route to Boston from Washington, DC, collides with Conrail engines, killing 16 people (Chase, Maryland rail wreck).

1989 - Second Gulf of Sidra incident: a pair of Libyan MiG-23 "Floggers" are shot down by a pair of US Navy F-14 Tomcats during an air-to-air confrontation.

1990 - A crowded passenger train collides with a standing freight train in Pakistan's Sindh province, killing 300 people.

1999 - Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota.

If you're still awake, answer these three important questions and win a prize.
1. What's the capitol of Zimbabwe?
2. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a toosie pop?
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3. What's your favorite color.
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2004 - Spirit, a NASA Mars Rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.

Happy Birthday:
1643 - Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and natural philosopher (d. 1727)
1785 - Jakob Grimm, German philologist and folklorist (d. 1863)
1809 - Louis Braille, French inventor of Braille (d. 1852)
1900 - James Bond, American ornithologist (d. 1989) He was really a secret agent.
1930 - Sorrell Booke, American actor (d. 1994) Your remember Boss Hogg from the Dukes of Hazzard.. Did you know that Sorrell Booke was only slightly overweight and had to wear a fat suit to play Boss Hogg on Dukes of Hazzard, making him five feet around? It's true according to IMDB.com.
1957 - Patty Loveless, American singer
1960 - Michael Stipe, American singer (R.E.M.)
1962 - Peter Steele, American musician (Type O Negative)
1963 - Till Lindemann, German singer (Rammstein)
1965 - Beth Gibbons, English singer (Portishead)
1966 Deana Carter country singer (Strawberry Wine)

Deaths on this day:
1877 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (b. 1794)
1965 T S Eliot poet (Washed Country), dies in London at 76

Happy New Year and all that Jazz!!!!

Ugg Boot

2007 has snuck up on me. Check out Tara Reid counting down to 2007. Can she count? anyway, where did that come from? But seriously, check out the real new years countdown video here. I never thought I would be this age. For some strange reason I saw 25 as the year that I couldn't pass. There are no reasons at all for me thinking that, I just thought that anything over 25 was way too old. I enjoy most of my life a lot more than I ever have. I've been back to work for about a day and a half and can't count the times I've had to scratch out 2006 and replace it with 2007. Who's with me on this one? Crazy!!!! Speaking of crazy, I thought I had a crazy life. Check out what else is happening in the world that's crazier than anything I could come up with:

Before we get to that, check out this Louis Prima vid:

A British teen(14 years old) on Wednesday became the youngest person to sail solo across the Atlantic Ocean, reaching the Caribbean island of Antigua after a six-week voyage.

A man hunting for American Indian artifacts with his sons along a gravel bar on the Missouri River has uncovered an ancient fishhook that is making collectors envious. It's made from bone and is the size of the finders hand. Crazy.

A man who proposed to his girlfriend at a New Year's party allegedly knocked her out with a steering wheel lock just hours after she said yes. Honey, whatever you do on your wedding day, remember your bullet proof vest and don't let him carry you across the threshold.

Okay. Now take a break from work and watch this video. It's very relaxing.

Imagine you're pilfering through the dumpster and get sleepy. What do you do? You take a nap in the trash can. Up pulls the trash truck and empties the contents of the container, including you, into the compactor. What do you do? You call 911 with your cell phone.

Six persons were injured when a rampaging bull buffalo gored guests at a wedding ceremony and passersby. Doh!!!

U.F.O.'s??? Federal officials say it was probably just some weird weather phenomenon, but a group of United Airlines employees swear they saw a mysterious, saucer-shaped craft hovering over O'Hare Airport last fall.

A Japanese woman charged with inflicting injury on her neighbor by blasting rock music at her house for 2½ years was given a 20-month prison term. I'm not making this stuff up.

Attempts to wean Britons away from binge drinking toward a more continental European "cafe style" culture may never work because too many like getting drunk, a cabinet minister said Sunday. They should come to Louisiana with that idea.

Spilled animal parts and a Tomahawk missile that tumbled out of a truck caused some of the worst traffic nightmares of 2006.

The guardians of Britain's historic Tower of London are enlisting girl power for the first time in their 522-year history.

Indiana Jones to begin filming in 2007. Woo Hoo!!!!!


Today in history:
1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon.

1496 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine. Doh!!!

1777 - American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.

1847 California town of Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco

1852 1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii

1861 - American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States. Damn Yankees!!!!

1888 - The 91 cm refracting telescope at Lick Observatory is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.

1888 - Marvin C. Stone patents the drinking straw.

1899 - The first known use of the word automobile, in an editorial in The New York Times.

1912 Southern Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition, free

1920 - Curse of the Bambino: The Boston Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for a sum of $125,000 and a loan of more than $300,000.

1924 - English explorer Howard Carter discovers the sarcophagus of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt.

1925 - Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.

1938 - The March of Dimes is established by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Now how the hell do you get dimes to march?

1943 1st missing persons telecast (New York City NY)

1951 - Dragnet is first broadcast on NBC-TV.

1957 - Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.

1966 - The first Acid Test at the Fillmore, San Francisco, California. Check out this vid of American troops on acid.

1966 - The Psychedelic Shop, the world's first Head shop, opened on Haight Street near Ashbury in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco.

1969 John Lennon's "2 Virgins" album declared pornographic in New Jersey

1977 - Apple Computer was incorporated.

1987 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Finally she gets her R E S P E C T.

1994 - An Aeroflot Tupolev TU-154 crashes and explodes after takeoff from Irkutsk, Russia, killing 125 people including one on the ground. "Hey honey, look at that. Uh oh!!!"

1998 Grandpa Jones suffers a stroke. Check out Grandpa Jones on Hee Haw.

1999 - The Mars Polar Lander launches.

2000 - The last "Peanuts" comic strip is created by Charles Schulz.

2004 - Flight 604, a Boeing 737 owned by Flash Airlines, an Egyptian airliner, plunges into the Red Sea, killing all 148 people aboard.

2007 - Henry Foss High School shooting, ending with one dead. What? That's today.


Happy Birthday:
1624 William Tucker 1st Black child born in America
1892 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (d. 1973)
1945 - Stephen Stills, American musician
1946 - John Paul Jones, British musician (Led Zeppelin)
1956 - Mel Gibson, American actor


Deaths on this day:
1967 - Jack Ruby, American killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1911) Check out this vid of Jack Ruby speaking about the JFK assassination.