Muffie's Minutes of Mindless Trivia

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Today's B-days, while it's still today

Peter Ueberroth is 65 - and was retired early, thankfully.

Terry Bradshaw is 54 - and still works fairly well.

Jimmy Conners is 50 - should have stayed retired.

Keanu Reeves is 38 - would you please retire!!!

 

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This date in history

1189 - Richard I (the Lion-hearted) was crowned king of England in Westminster.

1658 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, kicked it.

1783 - The Treaty of Paris officially ended the US war of independence against Great Britain.

1939 - France and Great Britain declared war on Germany after the invasion of Poland. Of course, they didn't buy the Germans' story that the Poles had started it.

 

[Bidin~Time]

Re: Today's B-days, while it's still today

Keanu Reeves is 38 - would you please retire!!!

*giggles*

I'll send him a memo if you think it would help.

 

[mbb308]

Re: Re: Today's B-days, while it's still today

*giggles*

I'll send him a memo if you think it would help.

Thank you so very much for your kind offer to help. I would, but I don't think it would matter. However, if you feel that you might have some pull, please go for it!!!!

History and commentary - it is what it is, and ain't what it ain't.

Please feel free to post whatever trivial matter you would like to. Thanks for visiting, and please come back - soon.

 

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1943 - The British Eighth Army, led by the incomparable Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, invaded Italy, the same day the Italian Revolutionary government signed a secret armistice with the Allies.

1967 - Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president under the new South Vietnamese constitution. 1) Nguyen - his surname, is as common as Smith and Jones together here. 2) North Vietnam never agreed to this. 3) A more honest and upright polititian never existed, nor will again.

1967 - Motorists in Sweden stopped driving on the wrong side of the road and started driving on the right side.

1976 - The unmanned Viking II spacecraft landed on Mars and sent back the first color close-up photographs of the planet's surface.

1978 - God Himself selected John Paul II as Pope, making him #264 in 2000 years of Popedom.

 

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This date in history

1781 - Los Angeles was founded by Spanish settlers. After getting drunk to celebrate their bust day's accomplishments, they founded Hollywood the next day.

1888 - George Eastman received a patent for his roll-film camera and registered his "Kodak" trademark.

1917 - The American Expeditionary Force suffered its first fatalities in WWI. France has known some periods of lovliness in its history.

1948 - Queen Wilhelmina abdicated the Dutch throne for health reasons.

1951 - President Harry Truman addressed the nation from the Japanese peace treaty conference in San Francisco in the first live, coast-to-coast television broadcast.

 

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More this date in history

1957 - Ford unveiled the Edsel. Enough said.

1957 - Then Governor of Arkansas Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to prevent nine black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock.

1967 - Then Michigan Governor George Romney , in a TV interview, accused US officials of brainwashing him during a 1965 trip to Vietnam. He went on to run for the Rupublican presidential nomination in 1868, only to have this statement come back and bite him on the poe-poe.

1997 - Three Buddist nuns testified before the US Senate that their temple, near Los Angeles, had reimbursed donors illegally after a fundraiser attended by then Vice President Al Gore, Jr. The temple later destroyed the evidence. Uncle Al said later that there was "no controlling legal authority" for such behavior. Isn't that special!

 

[Mountain Man]

Sept 4 - This day in history

1609 - Navigator Henry Hudson discovers island of Manhattan (or 0911)

1882 - 1st district lit by electricty (NY's Pearl Street Station)

1885 - 1st cafeteria opens (NYC)

1911 - Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft)

1939 - The Polish ghetto of Mir is exterminated

1950 - 1st helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines

1951 - 1st transcontinental TV broadcast, by Pres Truman

1954 - 1st passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed

1965 - Beatles' "Help!," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks

1972 - US swimmer Mark Spitz becomes 1st athlete to win 7 olympic gold medals

1983 - Greg LeMond becomes only American to win cycling's Road Championship

 

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This date in history

1774 - The first Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia.

1836 - Sam Houston was elected president of the Republic of Texas.

1882 - The nation's first Labor Day parade was held in NYC.

1939 - The US proclaimed its neutral stance regarding WWII.

1957 - "On The Road" by Jack Kerouac, was first published.

 

[driver775]

SR 71

The SR 71 was and is to this day the highest fly manned jet. It can fly in excess of 105,000 feet and does this with a special fuel that is supplied by a tanker called a KC 135-Q and that is the tankers sole function. Originally the aircraft was looked at as a fighter/pursute/bomber, but it had the capability of shooting itself down. Weapons systems were very primitive back then. It takes off using a turbine assisted by afterburners, but switches over to a type of ram-jet propulsion to achieve mach 3.5 +. After more than 40 + years she is still one bad ass jet. She is made of titanium, built one at a time and actually can only take parial fueling on the ground. It will leak otherwise because of tolerences to allow for expansion of skin under severe heat. Most of the bodt, or fusilage is it's fuel tank. Design started in late 1959, but it was known as another prototype at the time. It has been called out of mothballs to go back to work. New and improved. Speaking of mothballs, you know why they are so small? Not many moths can dance.

 

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Rosh Hashana begins at sunset

1837 - The Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio went co-ed. Forward thinking of them.

1901 - President Willaim McKinley was mortally wounded by "anarchist" Leon Czolgosz (doesn't that name jus roll off the tongue so sweetly) at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. He died eight days later, and Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him. At the time, Roosevelt was the youngest man ever to become president.

1909 - Robert Peary sent word that he had reached the North Pole five months earlier. And what did his compass do while he was there?

1941 - Jews over the age of 6 were required to wear the yellow Star of David in Nazi-occupied areas.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Elizabeth Barret Browning was treated as an invalid by her father to the point where everyone thought she was. Robert Browning fell in love with her through her poetry, set up a correspondence with her, and when her father refused to allow the courtship, eloped with her.

Poems from the Portugese refers to what Robert called her. She was dark complected and Roberts called her his little Portugese.

 

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This date in history

1776 - The second Continental Congress made the term "United States" official, replacing the old "United Colonies".

1850 - California became the 31st state.

1926 - NBC was founded by RCA.

1948 - The People's Democratic Republic of Korea - the north - was formed.

1956 - Elvis Presley made the first of three appearances on the Ed Sullivan show.

 

[hotNnasty]

A flea expert is called a Pullicologist

 

[hotNnasty]

Andrew Johnson is the only president to later become a senator.

 

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More this date in history

1957 - President Eisenhower signed into law the first Civil Rights bill since reconstruction.

1971 - The Attica prison uprising started as prisoners seized control of the miximum security institution. Forty-three people were killed during the siege.

1991 - Mike Tyson was indicted in Indianapolis and charged with having raped beauty pageant contestant Desiree Washington. He was convicted.

1997 - Sinn Fein formally renounced violence and took its place in talks regarding the future of Northern Ireland.

 

[hotNnasty]

The male mosquito doesn't bite. Only the female does.

 

[Naughty n Nice]

A flea expert is called a Pullicologist

How the hell did you know that??

 

[hotNnasty]

How the hell did you know that??

I USE TO BE ONE

**NOT**
LOLL
"Know your Trivia" Book

Here's one for ya:
The only word that ends in ...... eny is Deny


*Giggles out the door*

 

[Naughty n Nice]

I USE TO BE ONE

**NOT**
LOLL
"Know your Trivia" Book

Here's one for ya:
The only word that ends in ...... eny is Deny


*Giggles out the door*

You learn something new every day. When I woke up this morning I just thought you had a cute ass. Now I've learned that you have a cute, smart ass!!!

 

[hotNnasty]

You learn something new every day. When I woke up this morning I just thought you had a cute ass. Now I've learned that you have a cute, smart ass!!!

* this time I made sure I swallowed the pepsi before I read your post! LOLLL
(pointing to clean monitor) *

Naughty, see there...... you just learned a new bit of trivia

*smart ass grin*

 

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This date in history

1608 - John Smith was elected president of the Jamestown colony council in Virginia.

1813 - An American naval force, commanded by Oliver H. Perry, defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812 - which obviously lasted a little longer than just 1812. Wars seem to do that.

1846 - Elias Howe received a patent for his sewing machine.

1919 - New York welcomed home General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing and 25,000 soldiers who had served in France during WWI. Pershing received his nickname from having commanded Buffalo soldiers on the western frontier years before - and it wasn't really "Black Jack", either.

1945 - Vidkun Quisling was sentenced to death in Norway for his prominent role in selling out his country to the Nazis.

1963 - Twenty black students entered formerly segregated Alabama public schools following a standoff between Federal authorities and Governor George Wallace.

1972 - The US basketball team lost the gold medal game to the Soviets on a call where the final three seconds of the game were replayed, allowing the USSR team to win, 51-50. The result was protested by the US, to no avail.

1977 - Convicted murderer Hamida Djandoubi became the last person executed by the guillotine in France.

 

[alwaysawake]

Points To Ponder

I thought I'd post these...not really trivia, but think they qualify--AA

Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out"?

Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horriblecrisp which no decent human being would eat?

Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?

If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about him?

Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane?

If the professor on Gilligan's Island can make a radio out of a coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat?

Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don't point to their crotch when they ask where the bathroom is?

Why does your OB-GYN leave the room when you get undressed if they are going to look up there anyway?

Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They're both dogs!

What do you call male ballerinas?

Why ARE Trix only for kids?

If Wile E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that Acme crap, why didn't he just buy dinner?

Why is a person that handles your money called a 'Broker'?

If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?

If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?

If a man is talking in the forest, and no woman is there to hear him, is he still wrong? (I have it on good authority that the answer is yes.)

Why is it that when someone tells you that there are over a billion stars in the universe, you believe them, but if they tell you there is wet paint somewhere, you have to touch it to make sure?

If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

Is Disney World the only people trap operated by a mouse?

Why do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?

Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?

Why do they call it an asteroid when it's outside the hemisphere, but call it a hemorrhoid when it's in your ass?

Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him on a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?

 

[hotNnasty]

AlwaysAwake!

Those are great! Hope you don't mind I copied them

 

[hotNnasty]

Here's one I just know everyone needs to know

A flamingo can only eat when it's head is upside down