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July 8, 1950 –The Looney Tunes short, 8 Ball Bunny, dircted by Chuck Jones and starring Bugs Bunny, was released on this date. 8 Ball Bunny has a double connection to Humphrey Bogart: 1) Bogart’s character from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre shows up three times in caricature, begging money from Bugs. 2) BugsContinue reading “8 Ball Bunny premiered”

July 7, 1989 –The second single from their album The Raw & the Cooked, Good Thing by the Fine Young Cannibals, topping the Billboard Hot 100 chart on this date. Fine Young Cannibals rose from the ashes of the UK band The Beat. Sometimes called “The English Beat” to distinguish them from the US PaulContinue reading “The one good thing in my life …”

July 8th was a Sunday in 1881, so when a hot young man entered Edward Berner’s drugstore in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, and ordered an ice-cream soda, his request was denied. Ice-cream sodas could not be served on the Sabbath owing to the ancient Mosaic injunction against them. The hot young man pleaded his case soContinue reading “Thank you Mr. Berner”

July 7, 1928 –Wonder no more where the expression came from – Sliced bread was sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri, on this date. It is described as “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped“. Unfortunately Betty White is no longer with withContinue reading “Without bread all is misery”

July 7, 1984 –The single Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood became Britain’s all-time best-selling single (at the time) on this date. In America, any sexual innuendo contained in this song got little attention, but it caused plenty of controversy in the UK. The song entered the UK singles chart at #77 on November 12,Continue reading “Frankie says ‘Relax’”

July 7. 1956 – The Looney Tunes short, Stupor Duck, directed by Bob McKimson and starring Daffy Duck, was released on this date. The “tall building” that Stupor Duck leaps in “a single bound” is labeled “McKimson and Assoc.,” in reference to the short’s director.

July 7, 1944 – Universal Pictures releases the sequel to The Mummy’s Tomb, The Mummy’s Ghost, directed by Reginald Le Borg and starring Lon Chaney, Jr. and John Carradine, in U.S. theaters on this date. Lon Chaney Jr. often said that being made up as the Mummy character was his least favourite make-up. There isContinue reading “The Mummy’s Ghost haunted theatres”

July 7, 1939 – Jean Renior’s prescient masterpiece, Rules of the Game (La Règle Du Jeu,) starring Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, and Paulette Dubost, premiered in Paris, France on this date (because of World War II, the film did not officially open in the US until 1950.) The fact the movie was almost lost duringContinue reading “La Règle Du Jeu premiered”

It’s Father-Daughter take a walk together day, (Once again, two teams of high priced (non-ACME) lawyers have confirmed that – a.) I can refer to this as a ‘digital image‘,b.) the UN called in my mother to monitor the taking of this digital image, andc.) I may or may not be related to two ofContinue reading “Laughing because there’s nothing to do about it”

Today is also Chocolate Day (If you’re a chocoholic, then you have two more chocolate days to celebrate! World Chocolate Day is on September 4 and National Chocolate Day is on October 28.) The date commemorates the introduction of Hershey’s Kisses on this date in 1907 and the introduction of chocolate in Europe in 1550.Continue reading “Break out the hats and hooters”