R.I.P. This date: 1978 Edgar Bergen


















On this date: 1951 - "The Red Skelton Show" debuted on NBC-TV.

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Born this date: 1943 Lech Walesa

OOO-Rah!









R.I.P. This date: 1970 Edward Everett Horton

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Born this date: 1909 Al Capp


















R.I.P. this date: 1964 Harpo Marx

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Born this date: 1722 Samuel Adams, rabble rouser

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"Never wear anything that panics the cat."
P. J. O'Rourke

Born this date: 1898 George Gershwin
OOO-Rah!

R.I.P. This date: 1820 Daniel Boone

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Hug a Vegetarian Day
(it's called "tenderizing")

("Vegetarian" is an indian word
for "lousy hunter")

Born this date: 1906 Dimitri Shostakovich









R.I.P. This Date: 1960 Emily Post


"and, you're mrs. Post?" "yes"

"mrs... Emily Post?" "yes"

"Well, mrs. Post, you're eating my salad".

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Born this date: 1936 Jim Henson










R.I.P. Theodor Geisel AKA "Dr. Seuss"












1961 - "The Bullwinkle Show" premiered in prime time on NBC-TV

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Born this date: 1930 Ray Charles
oh, yeah.

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Born this date: 1290 Bilbo Baggins
(Shire Reconning)













Died this date: 1520 Selim I "The Grim"





Are you taking notes?

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Born this date: 1866 H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells

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R.I.P This Date: 1957 Jean Sibelius

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Celebrate! It's...

Int'l "Talk Like A Pirate Day"!
"Up the friggin' riggin' ye scurvy dog!"

(Whoa! is that a Seal Team on that there destroyer?)

Born this date:

1926 Edwin "Duke" Snider

OOO-Rah!


On this date: 1982 - Scott Fahlman became the first person to use :-) in an online message.

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Let's CELEBRATE
The Cutting of the Cheese

Portrait of Jimmy Carter

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R.I.P. this date

Henry Gibson

1936 - 2009

He will be missed.

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Today we celebrate:
"We Are All Bozos On the Bus"

On this date:
1859 in San Francisco, Joshua Norton
proclaimed himself "Emperor Norton I,
Emperor of the United States and Protector
of Mexico." (ooo-rah!)

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Born this date: 1925 B(lues) B(oy) King

OOO-Rah!












Assumed Room Temp this date:
1498 Tomas de Torquemada inquisitor who burned 10,000 people







Tom Lerher: The Joy of sharing:

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Born this date: 1929 Murray Gell-Mann, physicist who predicted quarks.

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Born this date: 1908 Clayton Moore Chicago Ill












R.I.P. William McKinley (assassinated)

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Quote of the day:

"I rant, therefore I am."

~~ Dennis Miller

Born this date: "Black Jack" Pershing (OOO-Rah!)

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Born this date: 1818 Richard Jordan Gatling US, inventor (hand-cranked machine gun)

Quote of the day:

"It's important to note that
while all idiots are not 'truthers';
all 'truthers' are idiots."

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Today is Patriot Day.
(hey! you pick your patriot, and I'll pick mine)

1297 - Scotsman William Wallace defeated the English forces of Sir Hugh de Cressingham at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.

OOO-Rah

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Quote of the Day:

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." P. J. O'Rourke

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Yuppers

Assumed Room Temp this date: 1976 Mao Tse-Tung







On this date: 1965 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched the eighth perfect game in major league baseball history.

OOO-Rah!

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Wonderful Weirdos' Day

Born this date: 1841 Antonin Dvorak OOO-Rah!






Quote of the Day:

"Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms. Should be a convience store, not a federal agency."
~~ Andy Levy, ombudsman at "Red Eye" OOO-Rah!

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A man was laid off and did odd jobs to make ends meet. One day, he knocked on a woman's door and asked for work. She gave him a five-gallon bucket of paint and a brush. "Go around back of the house and paint the porch," she said. An hour later, he returned. The woman was amazed that he finished so quickly. She asked if he had done a good job. "Yep. But, lady, that's not a Porsche back there. That's a Mercedes."

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Born this date: 1847 Jesse James

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"Killers From Space"

Peter Graves vs. the dudes with Ping-pong ball eyes!

IMDb Review

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