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Ranting at Random
Old People. Stop messing with them. Target is introducing a redesigned pill bottle that’s square, with a bigger label. And the top is now the bottom. And by the time gramps figures out how to open it he'll be in the morgue. Congratulations Target, you just solved the Social Security crisis.
Women and their eyebrows. What’s the deal here? Why are you so obsessed with making them skinny, pointy, curved, slanted or whatever. Men don’t care. Do you have two eybrows? Great -- let's go to dinner!
Baseball cards. You know, as I kid I collected them. Heck, I think every kid collects baseball cards. The cards represent your heros, your idols, people you wanted to be like when you grew up. My problem isn’t with kids… it’s adults. Listen if you’re a grown man you’re not collecting cards, you’re collecting pictures of men. That’s a little bit weird.
Interstate Inspiration
Four guys are driving across country together - one from Idaho, one from Nebraska, one from Florida, and one from New York.
A short ways down the road, the man from Idaho starts to pull potatoes from his bag and throws them out the window.
The man from Iowa turns to him and asks, “What the heck are you doing?” The man from Idaho says, “We have so many of these darned things in Idaho they’re laying around on the ground. I’m sick of looking at them!”
A few miles down the road, the man from Nebraska begins pulling husks of corn from his bag and throwing them out the window.
The man from Florida asks “What are you doing that for?” The Nebraskan replies, “We have so many of these darned things in Nebraska I’m sick of looking at them!”
Inspired by the others, the man from Florida opens the car door and pushes the New Yorker out.
Deputy Vacation
A few overworked deputy sheriffs deserved a vaction, together they decided to go on a mountain retreat. Since police officers are so underpaid, they decided to sleap two per room so they could afford the trip.
Now, nobody wanted to sleep in the same room with Daryl - he’s got a well known reputation for snoring and since it wasn’t fair to make one of them stay with him the whole time - so they voted to take turns.
The first deputy to bunk with Daryl and comes to breakfast the next morning with his hair a mess and his eyes all bloodshot, looking like he didnt get any sleep. They said, “Man, what happened to you?” He said, “Daryl snored so loudly, I just sat up and watched him all night, couldn’t get any sleep.”
The following night it was a different deputy’s turn. In the morning, same thing - hair all messed up, eyes blood-shot, etc. They said, “Man, what happened to you? You look awful!” He said, “Man, that Daryl! Shakes the roof he’s so loud. I watched him all night.”
The third night was Frank’s turn. Now Frank was a big burly ex-football player; a man’s man. Said he wasn’t gonna put up with any snoring. “We’ll see!” said the other debuties. The next morning he came to breakfast bright eyed and bushy tailed. “Good morning, wonderful day outside isn’t it?” he said.
They couldn’t believe it! They said, “Man, what happened?” He said, “Well, we got ready for bed. I went over and tucked Daryl into bed, then kissed him good night. He sat up all night just watching me. Didn’t snore a bit.”
This Day in History
1556 - Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shansi Province, China
1845 - The U.S. Congress decided all national elections would be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in U.S. to receive medical degree.
1865 - General Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies
1870 - 173 Blackfoot Indians (140 women & children) killed in Montana by US Army
1916 - Temp falls from 44ºF (7ºC) to -56ºF (49ºC) night of 23-24, Browning MT
1920 - Netherlands refuse to surrender ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
1930 - George Washington Birthplace National Monument VA established
1932 - El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers
1941 - Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
1942 - Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain
1942 - Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army
1943 - British 8th forces capture Tripoli in Libya from the Nazis.
1943 - World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua. This turning point in the Pacific War
1953 - NFL Dallas Texans become Baltimore Colts (now Indianapolis Colts)
1953 - NFL's National & American conferences become Eastern & Western conferences
1960 - The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to the deepest point in the Pacific Ocean, 35,798 feet(6.8 miles)
1962 - Bob Feller & Jackie Robinson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1968 - North Korea seized the U.S. Navy ship Pueblo, charging it had intruded into the nation's territorial waters on a spying mission. The crew was released 11 months later.
1971 - -80ºF (-62ºC), Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska (US record)
1973 - President Nixon announced U.S. troops would cease fighting in Vietnam on Jan. 27
1974 - Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" opened the credits of the movie, "The Exorcist".
1975 - "Barney Miller" made his debut on ABC-TV.
1977 - The TV mini-series "Roots," began airing on ABC.
1978 - weden became the first country to ban aerosol sprays because of damage to the ozone
1983 - "The A-Team" debuted on TV.
1986 - 1st induction of Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis & Elvis Presley)
1988 - Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, complete 1st nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands
1991 - "Seinfeld" debuts on NBC-TV
1997 - Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State.
2002 - "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the U.S. under FBI custody.
2002 - U.S. Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped and subsequently beheaded in Pakistan
2006 - Ford Motor Co., reflecting the downsizing of the U.S. auto industry, said it would close 14 factories and eliminate 30,000 jobs over the next six years.
Famous Birthday’s
1737 - John Hancock, American Revolutionist/First to sign the Declaration (d. 1793)
1898 - Randolph Scott actor (Last of the Mohicans, Western Union)
1899 - Humphrey Bogart actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny, African Queen)
1914 - Napoleon L Bonaparte French pretender to the throne
1923 - Florence Halop Queens, actress (Florence-Night Court, St Elsewhere)
1975 - Tito Ortiz, American UFC Fighter(Former Light Heavyweight Champion)
Famous Deaths
2003 - Nell Carter, singer and actress (Ryan’s Hope, Gimme a Break) (Born 1948)
2004 - Bob Keeshan, actor, Captain Kangaroo(Born 1927)
2005 - Johnny Carson, Host of TV’s “Tonight Show” died of emphysema at age 79
Joke of the Day
Space Monkeys
NASA decided to send a shuttle into space with two monkeys and an astronaut. They trained them for months. Then when they thought they were ready, they placed all three in the shuttle and got ready to send them up into space.
As the moment came closer NASA's mission control center announced, "This is mission control to Monkey One. Initiate!"
At that the first monkey started typing like mad and suddenly the shuttle's engines ignited and the shuttle took off.
Two hours later NASA's mission control center announced, "This is mission control to Monkey Two. Initiate!"
At that the second monkey started typing like mad and suddenly the shuttle separated from the empty fuel tanks.
Another two hours later mission control announced, "This is mission control to the astronaut..."
At this the astronaut responded "I know, I know. Feed the monkeys and don't touch anything."
World Records
Most Lightning Strikes Survived
The only man in the world to be struck by lightning seven times was ex-Park Ranger Roy C. Sullivan, otherwise known as the human lightning conductor. A single lightning strike is made up of several 100 million volts,(shocking).
Furthest Eyeball Proper
Kim Goodman can pop her eyeballs out to a distance of .43 inches beyond her eye sockets. Kim’s eyes would protrude out of her head every time she yawns, and she has now taught herself to pop her eyes out on cue.
This Day in History
1879 - Battle of Rorke's Drift - 139 British soldiers successfully defended their garrison against an intense assault by four to five thousand Zulu warriors.
1901 - Queen Victoria of England died after reigning for nearly 64 years.
1905 - Workers were fired on in Russia, resulting in "Bloody Sunday." 500 were killed.
1917 - U.S. President Wilson pleaded for an end to war in Europe, calling for "peace without victory." America entered the war the following April.
1939 - Uranium atom 1st split, Columbia University
1941 - World War II: The United Kingdom captures Tobruk from Nazi forces.
1942 - Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain
1944 - World War II: Allies begin Operation Shingle (an assault on Anzio, Italy).
1945 - Burma highway reopens
1946 - US President sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
1951 - Fidel Castro was ejected from a Winter League baseball game after hitting a batter. He later gave up baseball for politics.
1952 - The first commercial jet plane, the BOAC's Comet, is put into service.
1957 - Mad Bomber (George P Metesky) accused of 30 explosions, arrested in N.Y.
1964 - World's largest cheese (34,663lb’s) manufactured, Wisconsin
1968 - The sketch comedy "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premieres on NBC
1968 - NBA announces it will expand to Milwaukee & Phoenix
1969 - Billy Preston becomes the 5th Beatle
1970 - 1st commercial Boeing 747 flight (Pan Am), New York to London in 6½ hours
1973 - US, North & South Vietnam & Vietcong sign boundary accord
1976 - Bank robbery in Beirut nets $20-$50 million (record)
1982 - 75% of North America is covered by snow
1984 - Apple introduced the Macintosh. It was the first computer to use a mouse.
1985 - Cold wave damages 90% of Florida's citrus crop
1987 - Phil Donahue was first talk show host to tape a show inside the Soviet Union.
1992 - Princess Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head on airline ride
1998 - Theodore Kaczynski plead guilty to federal charges for his role as the Unabomber. He agreed to life in prison without parole.
2000 - Elian Gonzalez's grandmothers met privately with U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno as they appealed for help in removing the boy from his Florida relatives and reuniting him with his father in Cuba.
2002 - Kmart Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy making it the largest retailer in history to seek legal protection from its creditors.
2005 - The Indian navy in New Delhi reported finding a tsunami victim 25 days after he had been sucked into the sea and tossed onto a small island where he survived on coconuts until rescued.
Famous Birthday’s
1932 - Piper Laurie [Rosetta Jacobs], Detroit MI, actress (Twin Peaks)
1934 - Bill Bixby San Francisco CA, actor (Incredible Hulk, My Favorite Martian)D. 1993
1952 - Teddy Gentry Fort Payne AL, country music star (Alabama-Mountain Music)
1959 - Linda Blair St Louis MO, actress (Exorcist, Scream, The Blair Bitch Project)
Famous Death’s
1950 - Alan Hale, Sr., actor(Robin Hood, It Happened One Night, This is the Army)born 1892
1969 - Judy Garland singer/actress (Wizard of Oz), dies at 48 of an overdose
1973 - Lyndon B Johnson President (1963-69), dies at his Texas ranch at 64
1987 - R Budd Dwyer Pennsylvania State Treasurer, facing prison for conspiracy & perjury, shot himself to death at a televised news conference
1994 - Telly Savalas actor (Kojak, The Dirty Dozen), dies of prostate cancer at 70
1995 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy mother of President John F Kennedy, dies at 104
Joke of the Day
Sorry, Wrong Number
One morning the phone rang at 3:00 a.m. in Jeff's house. He picked up the phone and a woman asked, "Is this 555-1111?" "No, this is 555-1112." Jeff replied.
"Oh, I'm so sorry for disturbing you." The woman said.
"That's alright," Jeff said. "I had to get up to answer the phone anyway."
George Halas
Years ago famed Chicago Bears coach George Halas was screaming at a referee from outside the designated coaching area when the ref slapped George with a 5 yard penalty.
Halas threw down his hat and yelled at the referee, "You imbecile, it's a fifteen yard penalty, not a five yarder for coaching outside the box!"
To which the referee supposedly replied, "I know, but the way you coach George, it'll only be five".
World Records
Worlds Tallest man
The record for the tallest man ever was held by Robert Wadlow, who stood at 8 foot 11.1 inches at age 22 and he weighed 439lbs. His shoe size was a 37AA and his hands measured 12.75 inches from the wrist to the tip of his middle finger. At age 5 he was 5'4", at age 8 he weighed 169 pounds and was 6 feet tall, at age 16 he was 7 foot 10 .24 inches tall and weighed 374lbs.
First hand transplant
During a 14 hour operation in lyon France, in 1998, an international team of eight surgeons attached the hand of a dead man to the wrist of us 48-year-old Clint Hamlin of Australia.
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on Inserting pictures and links
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