World War III almost started (and ended?) on September 26, 1983.
Shortly after the Russian downing of Korean Airlines Flight 007 the whole world was on high alert. On September 26, 1983 a Russian monitoring site received multiple warnings of missiles fired from the west coast of the US. The...
Imagine being the guy that had the monopoly on supplying those. Hopefully they got their money out before rock bottom and invested in something safer. Like Photomat or Blockbuster stores.
Fun Fact: Notre Dame University waited to pave the walkways between new buildings on its campus. They built and opened the buildings, then went back much later and paved over the paths that the students walked. BRILLIANT!
Reminds me of one of Richard Pryor’s Mudbone skits…Mudbone and Jesse are out for a walk. As they are walking across a bridge…
Mudbone: Seeing all that water makes me have to piss.
Jesse: Me too.
so they whip ‘em out and get at it.
Mudbone: G**damn! The water’s cold!
Jesse: Yeah, and it’s...
I’ve done this more times than I care to admit to. Try putting in or taking out contact lenses after cutting peppers or eating Tabasco-drenched potato chips. Agony is too weak a word to describe this.
Denny McLain was a pitcher with the Detroit Tigers. During and especially after his career in Detroit he had some…ummm…issues. He was convicted of racketeering, extortion, bribery, drug trafficking, mail fraud, money laundering and various conspiracies. He was sentenced to 23 years in prison. I...
Today a lot of sports teams play their games in arenas and coliseums. The words “Arena” and “Colisseum” both have roots reaching back to the Colisseum in Rome. The word arena translates to sand. The use of the word as a place for sports and entertainment arose from sand being the floor surface...