Sunday, January 18, 2009

I'm hoping to pick up a couple of boards for shelves.

This could be one of their funniest commercials in years...



Happy Winnie the Pooh Day everyone! On January 18th in 1882, A.A. Milne was born.




January 19, 1836 -
Knife aficionado Jim Bowie arrives at the Alamo to assist its Texas defenders.




On January 18, 1871, while Prussian guns blasted all hell out of Paris, William I was proclaimed Emperor of a united Germany in nearby Versailles.



For this reason the Germans have always had a soft spot for France, and have returned often.

January 18, 1892 -
Oliver Hardy, American comedian, actor and the other half the the world's greatest comedy duo, was born.






January 18, 1903 -
President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.



Unfortunately, once again, the ill-chosen "Prince Albert in the can" joke is used - and 'Bertie', the King had already heard the joke ad nauseum (Prince Albert was his father and penis ring wearing enthusiast) and was not amused.


January 18, 1904 -
Cary Grant, noted actor and over the top orgy participant, was born.








January 18, 1990 -
Rusty Hamer, the actor who played Danny Thomas's son on Make Room For Daddy, shoots himself in the head with a .357 Magnum in DeRidder, Louisiana. Rusty was 42 years old.



Uncle Tonoose made him do it.

January 18, 1990 -
Washington DC mayor Marion Barry is arrested on cocaine possession charges at the Vista International Hotel, as he tokes on a glass crack pipe while being videotaped with his mistress Rasheeda. Kids remember, say no to drugs, especially while being videotaped.



January 18, 1991 -
The United States admits that the CIA paid Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega over $300,000 during his career as undercover narc.



Those payments were approved mostly by George H. W. Bush.


And so it goes.

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