Archive for December, 2006

Fills You With Confidence

Monday, December 4th, 2006

It must fill the crew with confidence when they have to fix their airplane with a teapot. Yikes!

Me am sorry

Monday, December 4th, 2006

Me am sorry I shtupid Gwyneth!
“I love the English lifestyle, it’s not as capitalistic as America. People don’t talk about work and money, they talk about interesting things at dinner,” she told “NS,” the weekend magazine supplement of daily Portuguese newspaper Diario de Noticias on Saturday.
“I like living here because I don’t fit into [...]

Today In History: The Mary Celeste Found

Monday, December 4th, 2006

December 4th: Today in 1872 the Mary Celeste, a sailing cargo ship, was found abandoned near the Azore Islands. The ship showed signs of being quickly abandoned but no survivors ever turned up and its ultimate fate became an early playground for mystery writers, conspiracy theorists and today’s new age goofballs. The most common non-wild [...]

Today In History: Who Concert Tragedy

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

December 3rd: Today in 1979 at a Who concert in Cincinnati eleven people were killed in a crowd surge as they rushed for seats. Most of the fans and the band themselves were unaware of the tragedy and the concert went on as planned, but it led to restrictions on Festival Seating for years afterwards. [...]

Today In History: The Battle of Austerlitz

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

December 2nd: Today in 1805 Napoleon won one his most brilliant victories at the Battle of Austerlitz. Today Napoleon has gone from his reputation as a genius to being used as a comedy icon for craziness but the Battle of Austerlitz is an example of why the military leaders for a hundred years after his [...]

Today In History: The Frisco Shoot Out

Friday, December 1st, 2006

December 1rst: Today in 1884 Sheriff Elfego Baca was besieged in a house by eighty cowboys trying to break a prisoner free, by the time the siege was lifted over four thousand bullets had been shot through the house but Elfego and his prisoner where unharmed. During the siege Elfego killed four of the attackers, [...]