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December 12, 1915 –It’s the birthday of Francis Albert today. I have been advised by legal council to stop making jokes about Mr. Sinatra’s alleged organized crime connection, especially if I would like to make it home tonight (Please note – I did not use the word, Mafia.) And once again, We here at ACMEContinue reading “Francis Albert Sinatra”

December 12, 1968 –If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner. After a long and well enjoyed life, Tallulah Bankhead died in St. Luke’s Hospital in New York City of double pneumonia, complicated by emphysema and malnutrition, on this date. Her last coherent words reportedly were “Codeine… bourbon.”Continue reading “Tallulah Bankhead”

Demand Euphoria!

Unless you are tight with the Thursday afternoon, rosary praying old ladies – you may not know this;) today is the third Sunday of Advent. It is known as Gaudete Sunday. One of the candles in the Advent wreath is rose colored for Gaudete Sunday. Gaudete is Latin for Rejoice, as in Gaudete in DominoContinue reading “The more you know”

(You don’t want to know what she had to do to earn this coat.) Demand Euphoria!

Christmas decorating sends nearly 15,000 people to the ER. In fact, the Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that 14,700 people visit hospital emergency rooms each November and December from holiday-related decorating accidents. So please, be careful when you’re putting up the holly and the ivy. So now you know.

According to Dairy Industries International, the global cheese sales surpassed $201.99 billion in 2020, and have followed a steady upward revenue pattern year over year. As it turns out, the cheese business is big enough that black market sales of it are also quite lucrative. This may explain why a reported 4% of all cheeseContinue reading “Cheese is big business (even on the illegal market.)”

December 10, 1954 –To determine whether or not a pilot can safely eject from an aircraft traveling at supersonic speeds, Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Stapp, a flight surgeon, rides in a rocket sled that accelerates to 632mph in just five seconds then stops in just 1.25 seconds at Holloman Air Force Base, in New Mexico,Continue reading “That has got to hurt”

December 10, 1974 – Another Rankin/Bass animated holiday special The Year Without A Santa Claus premiered on ABC-TV on this date. The names of the reindeer are consistent with the Clement Moore poem and other sources. Vixen is the baby reindeer who takes Jingle & Jangle to Southtown (and gets sick). Dasher is the oneContinue reading “The Year Without A Santa Claus”

Useless Christmas Trivia: The lighting of candles and decorating with candles has always been popular, but also one of biggest sources of danger during the Christmas holidays. In 1895 a New England Telephone employee, Ralph Morris, while looking at the newly installed string of lights made for the telephone switchboard decided to take some homeContinue reading “Another court-ordered ACME PSA”