In honor of my friend, Scott's, 40th birthday I decided to send him a list of events on this day in history. Actually, it was really fun & I'll probably continue to do this...
Most of it's true, some of it's crap, but I think a lot of it's funny.
On This Day In:
* 1991: Dolphin Dan Marino surpasses Joe Montana as the highest paid NFL
player with a 5-year extension for $25 million.
* 2005: Dolphin Dan Marino finds out you can buy a LOT of twinkies with $25 million. Joins Nutri-system.
* 1990: Steinbrenner steps down as New York Yankees owner.
* 1990: Yankee Kevin Mass becomes fastest to reach 15 home runs (132 at bats).
* 2007: Steinbrenner owns Yankees again. Kevin Mass...uh, who?
* 1982: US Marines land in Beirut, Lebanon.
* 1982: Gives new meaning to the phrase, "DON'T make me come over there!"
* 1980: Mt. Everest climbed by Italian Reinhold Messner, alone.
* 1981: Reinhold Messner tried for violating the Italian surname law & Casanova Act of 1864.
* 1975: Viking 1 launched to orbit around Mars.
* 1976: Viking 1 thrown off course by impacting Alice Kramden in lunar orbit.
* 1978: Tatyana Providokhina runs female record 1K (2:30.6).
* 2007: Coincidentally, this is also how long it takes to write her name...
* 1942: Dim-out regulations implemented in San Francisco.
* 2007: Regulations still not lifted. Dimmest kooks in the country still live there.
* 1957: "Simply Heavenly" opens at Playhouse Theater New York City for 62 performances.
* 2007: And Scott made me think he was being original when he described being married to Vicki for 18 years. Copycat!
* 1994: Archbishop Quarracino wants all homosexuals to leave Argentina. Thus begins San Francisco's original "sanctuary policy".
* 1978: Mark Vinchesi of Amherst,MA keeps a frisbee aloft 15.2 seconds.
* 1978: Mr. Vinchesi comes outside & yells at young Mark to "quit screwing with that *%^# leaf-blower"!
* 1922: 1st world championship athletics for women, held in Paris.
* 2007: Still not over. Women mysteriously drawn to all the fashion shops. Husbands call off search. Cancel credit cards.
* 2007: Happy 40th, Scott!
1 comments:
Hey Hap, Where are you my dear man?
Don't tell me you are camping with Roses?
Oh yeah, there's a big kegger at her blog tonight... lets get drunk and go through her closets!
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