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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”

The first Christmas card was created in England on December 9, 1843. Like most of us, Henry Cole, an Englishman, was too busy to write personal greetings for all of his Christmas greetings in 1843. Cole hired artist John Calcott Horsley to design a ready-to-be-sent card. The hand-colored card Horsley designed was lithographed on stiff,Continue reading “Send those holiday cards out folks”

Today’s episode of Monsterpiece Theatre is an adaptation of the action packed policier – Lethal Weapon 3. Holy Guacamole indeed! Demand Euphoria!

It’s apparently National Brownie day today, as opposed to ‘Send Kevin the loose bills in your pocket day.’ According to several sources, Brownies seem to have made their first appearance at the Parker House Hotel in Chicago in 1893 celebrating the Columbian Exposition World’s Fair in Chicago, (you may find their original recipe for theContinue reading “Life is short, eat brownies first”

I believe some of you are really going to need an old lady in church, saying the rosaries on a Tuesday afternoon in the back row of your church to explain this one to you: December 8, 1854 –Pius IX promulgates the doctrine of Immaculate Conception (Ineffabilis Deus) – the Virgin Mary is free fromContinue reading “I don’t believe I can explain this all to you”

December 8, 1966 – The Star Trek episode The Conscience of the King first airs on this date. In it, Captain Kirk crosses paths with an actor suspected of having been a planetary governor who ordered a mass-murder twenty years earlier. In this episode, we learn that Kirk was on Tarsus IV, and was oneContinue reading “Star Trek”

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you. There is a better way to remember John Lennon on this sad anniversary Beatles Christmas Mash-up Here’s a recently uncovered private record Paul McCartney made for three friends – Demand Euphoria!

A very good friend of mine passed this recipe along to me many years ago. They are easy to make and a great dessert to bring over to someone house. They will be very impressed and be more inclined to invite you over again. Unfortunately, you will then be expected to make these brownies –Continue reading “Brownies (the best you’ve probably ever had)”