Muffie's Minutes of Mindless Trivia

[mbb308]

Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet exile Leon Trotsky died in Mexico City from wounds inflicted by an assassin.

It never paid to get on Joe Stalin's bad side.

 

[wildrose70]

Okkk I will play too...
The African baobab tree can grow to a circumference of 100 feet....One tree in Zimbabwe is so wide that it's hollowed-out trunk serves as a bus-stop shelter....

The word *taxi* is spelled the same in English,German,French,Swedish and Portuguese..

Birds rarely sing on the ground..They sing during flight, or while sitting on an object off the ground...

 

[mbb308]

You play very well. How about helping me play more.

When I realized that yesterday was the 10th anniversary of Ruby Ridge, I dug this off the back page of this Forum to whore that fact....it had almost slipped away.

 

[naudiz]

A group of crows is called a murder.

There was a murder in my parking lot this morning!

 

[wildrose70]

You play very well. How about helping me play more.

When I realized that yesterday was the 10th anniversary of Ruby Ridge, I dug this off the back page of this Forum to whore that fact....it had almost slipped away.

Well thanks darlin....it never seems possible when you realize how long it's been....so many things slip by unnoticed...

I remember very well where I was when the bombing took place in Oklahoma city....Pearl Harbor ...of course that's dating me!!!


I told you my interesting bit of trivia last nite...about the *bubble beer* theory now being proven...the more you drink....the better the women look...no wonder so many men end up married and wonder why!!!

 

[mbb308]

On this date in 1959, Hawaii became the 50th state by an executive order signed by Eisenhower.

I had a 49-star flag, but it got lost in some move or other.

 

[wildrose70]

Eagles mate in the air..now how's that for being flexible..

In Tibet..it's considered polite to stick your tongue out at guests

60% of women recieve over 11 emails a day...49% of men do....Mmmmmmmm they havent seen mine!!

 

[mbb308]

Hammerhead sharks swim to the surface, mate, sink while engaged, and come apart when they hit the bottom head first.

And they've been around how many millions of years????

 

[wildrose70]

Hammerhead sharks swim to the surface, mate, sink while engaged, and come apart when they hit the bottom head first.

And they've been around how many millions of years????

Well now neither the eagles or the Hammerhead sharks way of mating sounds like much fun!!!!

 

[mbb308]

Well now neither the eagles or the Hammerhead sharks way of mating sounds like much fun!!!!

Eagles' sounds better to me....if it isn't much good, at least the bored one can enjoy the view, or look for the next meal.

 

[mbb308]

The Nat Turner slave insurrection began on this date in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831.

Turner was later captured and executed.

 

[wildrose70]

Eagles' sounds better to me....if it isn't much good, at least the bored one can enjoy the view, or look for the next meal.

Your right...soaring thru air ...sounds more inviting to me...sort of like the one about women looking at the ceiling planning the grocery list!!!!

 

[mbb308]

The Lincoln-Douglas debates began on this date in 1858, in contest for a Senate seat from Illinois.

Douglas won the election, and Lincoln faded into obscurity, for about 18 months.

 

[mbb308]

Clarence Williams III is 63 today - I think he was "Link" on "Mod Squad". God, that show sucked bigtime!

 

[wildrose70]

And Micheal Jackson is a new daddy today!!! no word on who the mother is...or how it happened!!

 

[mbb308]

And Micheal Jackson is a new daddy today!!! no word on who the mother is...or how it happened!!

And I WAS having a good day. There went my appetite!!!!

 

[wildrose70]

And I WAS having a good day. There went my appetite!!!!

Oh sorry darlin...it's not too bad if you dont have to look at him...now that will take away your appetite!!!!!

 

[mbb308]

In other news, the American Bar Association was founded on this date in 1878 in Saratoga, NY. Wait, what's so good about that????

What's the difference between a vulture and a lawyer?
Removable wingtips.

 

[mbb308]

On this date in history...

1754 - Louis XVI was born at Versailles

1914 - Japan declared war on Germany in WWI

1926 - Rudolph Valentino died in NYC at age 31

1939 - Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact, paving the way for Hitler's invasion of Poland on 1 September

 

[mbb308]

More today's date in history....

1927 - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston, after having been convicted of taking part in a robbery which resulted in the killing of two men in Braintree MA in 1920. Both had ties to anarchists.

Sacco may have played a part - Vanzetti almost surely did not.

In 1977, then Gov Dukakis issued a proclamation saying that they had been convicted wrongly.

 

[mbb308]

Today's birthdays

Barbara Eden is 63. Has anyone seen her lately? She was the hottest thing on television 30 years ago. Hope she's well!!!!

Shelley Long is 53.

Queen Noor of Jordan - the ex-monarch's last wife - is 51.

 

[mbb308]

Today in history

0079 Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, killing perhaps as many as 20,000 people.

0410 Rome was sacked by the Visigoths, the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire.

1814 British troops took control of Washington DC, and torched the Capital and the White House

1949 The NATO treaty took effect

1981 Mark David Chapman was sentenced to 20 years to life for the murder of John Lennon.

1992 Hurricane Andrew tore into Florida on its way to becoming the worst natural disaster in US history.

 

[mbb308]

This date in history

1875 Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swin across the English Channel.

1944 Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation.

1981 Voyager 2 passed 63,000 miles fron Saturn, sending back many images and data.

1985 Smantha Smith, the girl whose letter to then Soviet leader Yuri Andropov resulted in her tour of the USSR, was killed along with her father in a plane crash in Maine.

 

[mbb308]

Some of this date in history

0055 - Julius Ceasar and his Romans invaded Britain

1883 - The island volcano Krakatoa began its famous eruptions. A movie, "Krakatoa, East of Java", was made about this. The volcano, however is due west of Java.

1920 - The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, the Womens Suffrage amendment, was declared to be ratified and in effect.

 

[mbb308]

This date in history

1883 - The island volcano Krakatoa blew up, causing tidal wavesin Sunda Strait, which took up to 36,000 lives in Java and Sumatra.

1892 - The original Met was damaged by fire in NYC.

1928 - The Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris. It outlawed war and was to provide for peaceful resolution of international disputes. WWII started 11 years later - hmmmm.