friday funnies...
There were these twin sisters just turning one hundred years old in St. Luke's Nursing Home and the editor of the Cambridge rag, "The Cambridge Distorter," told a photographer to get over there and take the pictures of these 100 year old twin bitteys. One of the twins was hard of hearing and the other could hear quite well. The photographer asked them to sit on the sofa and the deaf one said to her twin, "WHAT DID HE SAY?" He said, "WE GOTTA SIT OVER THERE ON THE SOFA!", said the other. "Now get a little closer together," said the cameraman. Again, "WHAT DID HE SAY?" "HE SAYS SQUEEZE TOGETHER A LITTLE" - So they wiggled up close to each other. "Just hold on for a bit longer, I've got to focus a little", said the photographer. YET AGAIN - "WHAT DID HE SAY?" "HE SAYS HE'S GONNA FOCUS!" With a big grin the deaf twin shouted out, "OH MY GOD, BOTH OF US?"
A motorist, after being bogged down in a muddy road, paid a passing farmer five dollars to pull him out with his tractor. After he was back on dry ground, he said to the farmer, "At those prices, I should think you would be pulling people out of the mud day and night." "Can't," replied the farmer. "At night I haul water for the hole."
Two older women who were rivals in a social circle met at a party. "My dear," said the first woman "Are those real pearls?" "They are,"replied the second woman. "Of course the only way I could tell would be for me to bite them," smiled the first woman. The second responded "Yes, but for that you would need real teeth."
b day 6/15...
1937 Waylon Jennings, American country western singer
1954 Jim Belushi, American comic actor
day in history...
1215 King John met the barons of England at Runnymede, on the banks of the Thames, and signed with them the Magna Carta, one of the basic documents of democracy in the English-speaking world.
1752 Benjamin Franklin flew a kite in a thunderstorm to prove his theory that electricity and lightning are related phenomena.
1896 A tsunami struck a Shinto festival on a beach at Sanriku, Japan, killing 27,000, with 9,000 injured and 13,000 houses destroyed.
1954 The inventor of the Atom Bomb, Robert Oppenheimer, was declared a security risk by Senator Joseph McCarthy's committee because of his opposition to nuclear weapons.
1986 Pravda announced that high-level Chernobyl staff had been fired for stupidity.
happy birthday 6/16...
1890 Stan Laurel, English-born American film comedian, who partnered Oliver Hardy in comedy movies.
events...
1487 The Battle of Stoke, the last battle between the rival houses of York and Lancashire, and the last great battle on English soil.
1873 American suffragist Susan B Anthony was arrested for voting.
1959 George Reeves, American actor, Superman, shot himself dead
1967 The Monterey International Pop Festival began in Monterey, California. In three days 50,000 witnessed the first major appearances of Jimi Hendrix, The Who and Janis Joplin. Also appearing were The Byrds, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Buffalo Springfield, Otis Redding, Mamas and Papas, and Ravi Shankar.
1974 Homer Simpson and Marge Bouvier wed.
yur birthday 6/17...
Dean Martin, born Dino Crocetti, American actor, singer
1943 Barry Manilow, American singer/songwriter
6/17 history...
William Prescott, American soldier in the War of Independence, at the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775...Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
1823 Charles Macintosh patented a waterproof material. Later his name was given to the raincoat made from this rubberised fabric.
And the banker never wears a mac, in the pouring rain, very strange...
1928 Amelia Earhart embarked on the first trans-Atlantic flight by a woman.
1972 Five men in the pay of CREEP (Committee for the Re-election of the President) were caught in the Watergate building, Washington, DC, where leading Democrats were meeting, leading to the scandal that led to the downfall of President Nixon.
1994 After leading police on a famous car chase, OJ Simpson was arrested and charged with the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend Ronald Goldman. Simpson was later acquitted in a criminal trial, but held liable in a civil trial.
6/18 births...
1942 Sir Paul McCartney, former Beatle
happenings...
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated in a bloody battle at Waterloo.
1977 Johnny Rotten (John Lydon), lead singer of the punk band the Sex Pistols, was attacked with razors in a North London pub
1979 US President Jimmy Carter and USSR President Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) treaty.
born today 6/19...
1897 Moe Howard, one of the Three Stooges
1947 (Ahmed) Salman Rushdie, Indian-born British novelist (The Satanic Verses)
1954 Kathleen Turner, American actress... as the voice of Jessica Rabbit in film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, 1988...I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.
this day in...
1912 Alleged eight-hour work-day was adopted for US government workers.
1953 Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel, who passed atom bomb secrets to the Soviet Union, went to the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison
birthday suits 6/20...
1909 Errol Flynn, Australian-born American actor
1924 Chet Atkins, US guitarist
1942 Brian Wilson, singer with the Beach Boys
1944 Anne Murray, Canadian singer
1967 Nicole Kidman, American-born Australian actress
on 6/20...
1633 Galileo Galilei was forced by the Inquisition to "abjure, curse, and detest" his Copernican heliocentric views.
1867 US president Andrew Jackson proclaimed a treaty for the purchase of Alaska from Russia
1966 The Rolling Stones preparing for a tour in the US, sued 14 New York City hotels that wouldn't let them on the premises.
1979 American TV reporter Bill Stewart was shot and killed while reporting in Nicaragua. He had been walking with a white flag and a press pass.
birthday 6/21...
1944 Ray Davies, singer/songwriter with the Kinks
1953 Benazir Bhutto, first female Prime Minister of Pakistan
1982 Prince William, first child of Prince Charles and Princess Diana
june 21 summer solstice...
What are the solstices?
The solstices are the longest and shortest days of the year. The northern hemisphere Summer Solstice (approximately June 22) occurs when the sun is farthest north. The northern hemisphere Winter Solstice (approximately December 22) occurs when the sun is farthest south. In the southern hemisphere, winter and summer solstices are exchanged. The Declinations of the Sun on the Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice are known as the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, respectively.
in the past...
1982 John Hinckley Jr was found not guilty, by reason of insanity, of the March 1981 shooting of President Reagan and three other people.
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Tom Sawyer was the first novel ever written on a typewriter.
The largest pearl in the world was found in the Philippines, which is located in Palawan. It is a size of a tennis ball. WOW
75% of Americans under 35 say they sometimes have pizza for breakfast. (i have )
and finally...
JUNE 1998: A 19 year old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000.00 and medical expenses when his neighbor ran his hand over with a Honda Accord. Mr. Truman apparently didn't notice someone was at the wheel of the car whose hubcap he was trying to steal.
good fortune ;-) ...
pops
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