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January 14, 1973 –Touch but the hem of his raiment and be saved! Elvis Presley made TV history with a live concert, Aloha from Hawaii, televised via satellite on this date. It has been estimated that over one billion people saw the concert. Aloha From Hawaii made history as the first televised event to beContinue reading “Aloha from Hawaii premiered”

January 14, 1967 –Sonny and Cher, one of the big musical duos of the mid ‘60s released one of their biggest hits, The Beat Goes On, on this date. In 1968, Chrysler Corporation paid a large sum of money to use parts of the song in an ad campaign for the Plymouth line.

According to the American Dialect Society – the suffix “-ussy” was chosen as Word of the Year (2022)  in its annual vote. It was the 33rd anniversary of the society’s original Word of the Year vote in December 1990. The term, “The selection of the suffix -ussy highlights how creativity in new word formation hasContinue reading “Another Word of the Year (I guess)”

The Asian Lunar New Years is 9 days away. Valentine’s Day is 33 days away. Mardi Gras is 41 days away. And today is Old New Years Eve (Old Style Calendar.) Feel free to forget it’s ‘Dry January‘

To start 2023 off right, it’s Friday the 13th. In most large cities in the United States, many building don’t have 13th floors. In Japan, they don’t have 4th floors, because the word for four sounds similar to the word for DEATH! Some say that the modern basis for Friday the 13th phobia dates backContinue reading “Try to avoid all unlucky things”

January 13, 1989 – British comedy sketch show series A Bit of Fry and Laurie starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie debuts on BBC1 on this date. Stephen Fry was never able to convincingly fake hitting someone, so often he genuinely hit Hugh Laurie while filming the sketches.

January 13, 1966 –Samantha gave birth to a baby girl, Tabitha on the ABC-TV program Bewitched (entitled, And Then There Were Three,) on this date. This is the first appearance of Cousin Serena, who would be a recurring character for the remainder of the series.

January 12, 1992 –“… My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you’d like to hear it I can sing it for you.” The HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Computer) 9000 computer became operational in the HAL plant in Urbana, Illinois, on this date in the film, 2001, A SpaceContinue reading “Perhaps a different first song would have led to a different result”

January 12, 1965 –At 10:58am PST, on this date, US government scientists conduct what they term a “controlled excursion,” launching a nuclear rocket in Jackass Flats, Nevada and burning off a portion of its radioactive core. The resultant radioactive close drifted over Los Angeles before It produced a radioactive cloud over Los Angeles. Documents releasedContinue reading “File this under: Your taxes dollars at work –”

January 12, 1997 – Fox-TV premiered the pilot episode of King of the Hill on this date. Stephen Root was uncredited during the first few seasons. This was because he was also on NewsRadio, and his contract prevented him from being credited on another network’s show. After the show was cancelled in 1999, he wasContinue reading “King of the Hill premiered”