Muffie's Minutes of Mindless Trivia

This date in history

1638 - France's King Louis XIV was born.

1810 - Mexico began its revolt against Spanish rule.

1893 - Hundreds of thousands of settlers swarmed into a section of land in Oklahoma known as the "Cherokee Strip".

1940 - FDR signed into law the Selective Training and Service Act, establishing the first peacetime draft for the military in US history.

1966 - The Metropolitan Opera opened its new house at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

1972 - "The Bob Newhart Show" premiered on CBS.

1974 - President Ford announced a conditional amnesty program for Vietnam deserters and draft evaders.

1977 - Maria Callas died in Paris at age 53.

1982 - Lebanese Christian militiamen began the massacre of of hundreds of Palestinian refugees in west Beirut's Sabra and Chatilla camps.

2001 - In a fascinating choice of words, W pledged a "crusade" against terrorism.
 
mbb308 said:


If the posts needed appreciation, this thread would have died weeks ago - check the post history.

Just find a tidbit, and put it here.

I do appreciate the help. Hell, it's not even my thread.

No, it's not your thread, you just hijacked it. And it's friggin obnoxious that you keep running your mouth, major turn off. That's why noone is bothering to post. And this thread can't be put to rest due to your diarhea of the mouth! :rolleyes:
 
Great guns! I'd love to see an 18 inch cock!:p


A bit of trivia huh? Let's see,
Rats can't vomit.:p
 
Naughty n Nice said:


No, it's not your thread, you just hijacked it. And it's friggin obnoxious that you keep running your mouth, major turn off. That's why noone is bothering to post. And this thread can't be put to rest due to your diarhea of the mouth! :rolleyes:

Thanks for sharing - keep coming back.

Edited: You know, on second thought, what's it to you? It isn't your thread either, and we've heard no complaints fron the originator.

That whole post looks pretty hostile from this end, you know.
 
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Naughty n Nice said:
The woman who plays Eddie Murphy's wife in Dr Doolittle is a friend of mine from high school. We graduated together, and now she's kissing Eddie Murphy!!

Boy is she lucky!;) I like him:)
Naughty, I just read your post that said that ;).....
Now, Naughty be nice and kiss me;) :rose: :kiss:
 
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kitty across the keyboard again:cattail:

Sigh of relief nothing major happened:cathappy:

I know you're dying to know this one..... ;)

The comedian Albert Brooks was born Albert Einstein!
 
This date in history

1787 - The Constitution of the United States was completed and signed by a majority of the delegates attending the convention in Philadelphia.

1862 - Union forces thwarted a Confederate invasion of Maryland at Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg.

1920 - The precurser to the National Football League was formed in Canton, Ohio.

1939 - The USSR invaded Poland. Poland was later partitioned between the USSR and Germany.

1947 - James V. Forrestal was sworn in as the first Secretary of Defense as the new national military establishment unified.

1997 - A UN helicopter slammed into a foggy mountain in central Bosnia, killing German diplomat Gerd Wagner and 11 others.

2002 - mbb308 looks around before posting this, wondering who might be lurking, waiting to assail his character and behavior.
 
hotNnasty said:
kitty across the keyboard again:cattail:

Sigh of relief nothing major happened:cathappy:

I know you're dying to know this one..... ;)

The comedian Albert Brooks was born Albert Einstein!

The gangster Dutch Shultz was really named Arthur Flegenheimer.

Put that in your .45 and smoke it.

And, the Colt .45 Government model was Schultz's weapon of choice.
 
Today's B-days

Anne Bancroft is 71.

Supreme Court Associate Justice David Souter is 63.

John Ritter is 54.

Cassandra Peterson (Elvira, Mistress of the Dark) is 51.

Rita Rudner is 46.
 
mbb308 said:


The gangster Dutch Shultz was really named Arthur Flegenheimer.

Put that in your .45 and smoke it.

And, the Colt .45 Government model was Schultz's weapon of choice.
I think I would have changed my last name too:D
Let's see a 45 is a gun, a gun is aka a rod......
Hmmmm mbb I think you got the 45 (batting eyelashes);)
 
hotNnasty said:

I think I would have changed my last name too:D
Let's see a 45 is a gun, a gun is aka a rod......
Hmmmm mbb I think you got the 45 (batting eyelashes);)

I think that those guys called them "gats" - probably short for Gatling gun.

Now, what makes you think that, Dear?
 
*giggles*
eyeing mbb up and down............

well mbb, .... 45 or gatlin' you certainly have the ROD:D ;)




The comic strip PEANUTS was originally called LiL' FOLKS:D
 
hotNnasty said:
*giggles*
eyeing mbb up and down............

well mbb, .... 45 or gatlin' you certainly have the ROD:D ;)


The comic strip PEANUTS was originally called LiL' FOLKS:D

Well, I handle mine a little better that Jesse James. He shot the end off his index finger on his left hand while "cleaning his gun" in camp one night. He ia supposed to have said, "Well, ain't that the dingus dangest thing." He was known as Dingus by his cronies until his death.
 
This date in history

1759 - The French formally surrendered Quebec to the British.

1793 - George Washington formally laid the cornerstone of the US Capitol.

1850 - Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which allowed slave owners to reclain runaways. This was one more stick in the fire for starting the Civil War 11 years later.

1851 - The first edition of the New York Times was published.

1947 - The National Security Act went into effect. This centralized control of the US armed forces under one establishment.

1961 - UN Secretary-General Dag Hammerskjold was killed in a plane crash in northern Rhodesia.

1970 - Jimi Hendrix drowned in his own vomit in London.

1975 - Patti Hearst was captured by the FBI in San Francisco.
 
Todays B-days

Robert Blake is 69 - what an age to be staring at dying in prison for killing his wife.

Frankie Avalon is 62.

James Gandolfini is 41.

Jada Pinkett Smith is 31.
 
Hiya mbb I had RW stuff to do today. *Shivers* scarey out there! *giggling*


If all the oceans evaporated, Hawaii would be the tallest mountain in the world:rose:
 
hotNnasty said:
Hiya mbb I had RW stuff to do today. *Shivers* scarey out there! *giggling*


If all the oceans evaporated, Hawaii would be the tallest mountain in the world:rose:

Hi, Dear. Sorry - I know how that goes. Me, too, sometimes....

If all the oceans evaporated, we wouldn't be around to see it.
 
This date in history.

1777 - The Colonial army defeated the British at the first Battle of Saratoga. Washington was only 3-9-1 as a military commander in major engagements, but he still managed to keep the army together, and win the war. Very impressive.

1881 - President James Garfield, #20, died of a gunshot wound inflicted by Charles Julius Guiteau. Garfield was shot 1 July. Guiteau was tried and convicted in Washington DC and hanged 30 June 1882.

1934 - Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested in NYC and charged with the Lindburgh kidnapping-murder.

1955 - President Juan peron was ousted after a revolt by the military.

1957 - The US conducted its first underground nuclear test in the Nevada desert.

1959 - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev reacted quite badly when told that he would not be allowed to visit Disneyland for security reasons.

1960 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in NYC to visit the UN, angrily checked out of the Shelburne Hotel after a dispute with management. If he had only had a better curve ball . . . .

1985 - Mexico City was struck by the first of two major earthquakes which claimed some 6,000 people.
 
Today's B-days

Billy Ward is 81.

Adam West is 72.

Jeremy Irons is 54.

Twiggy Lawson is 53.

Joan Lunden is 52.

Nile Rodgers is 50.
 
mbb308 said:


Hi, Dear. Sorry - I know how that goes. Me, too, sometimes....

If all the oceans evaporated, we wouldn't be around to see it.

LOLLL Good Point!:p

The kangaroo rat is not a rat. It is a gopher;)
 
hotNnasty said:


LOLLL Good Point!:p

The kangaroo rat is not a rat. It is a gopher;)

Glad that our gophers don't grow that big.

Al Capone's first name was Alphonse.
 
hotNnasty said:
*Giggles*


The silkworm is not a worm. It's a caterpillar:D

Seems to me I learned that once - but I cannot remember.

Capone died of third-stage syphilis. Charles Guiteau, who shot President James Garfield to death was also syphlitic
 
mbb308 said:


Seems to me I learned that once - but I cannot remember.

Capone died of third-stage syphilis. Charles Guiteau, who shot President James Garfield to death was also syphlitic
Sure glad I didn't have sex with them:p

A prairie dog is not a dog. It is a rodent;)
 
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