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October 22, 1971 –Peter Bogdanovich’s break out film, The Last Picture Show opened on this date. Peter Bogdanovich had originally offered the role of “Sam the Lion” to James Stewart, who liked the part but had already committed to a TV series and couldn’t get out of it. The role was then offered to BenContinue reading “The Last Picture Show”

It is the day that campaigns for the removal of the caps lock button from standard QWERTY keyboards (or for the moving of the button), due to people continually accidentally pressing the button when they mean to use other keys. There’s also a tendency for people to ‘shout’ (either intentionally or accidentally) by using capitalContinue reading “Today is INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK Day.”

(Usually) on statues, a horse’s legs tell you how the statue figure died. According to the urban legend, if the statue shows the horse posed with both front hooves up in the air, the rider died in battle. If the horse is posed with one front leg up, it means the rider was wounded inContinue reading “This one isn’t real but we believe the real one is real.”

October 21, 1805 ->The Battle of Trafalgar was a historic sea battle fought on this date, between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy – the battle, it self, was the most decisive British victory of the Napoleonic Wars and was a pivotal naval battle of theContinue reading “Kind of puts you off of rum”

October 21, 1879 –Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Alva Edison demonstrated the incandescent electric lamp on this date (or some other date, as previously mentioned.) That invention was the fruit of study, hard work (of people other that Edison,) and years of persistent experimentation (of people other than Edison,) rendering it entirely inappropriateContinue reading “Blow you up real good”

October 21, 1954 –The episode of Climax!, an anthology series – broadcast live, on this evening was the first time James Bond (Barry Nelson) appeared on-screen in Casino Royale, and more than half a century later Bond is still making movies. The program was thought to be lost for decades until it resurfaced in 1981Continue reading “Casino Royale”

I used to urge readers to begin purchasing those candies filled with poison. I’m unclear if trick or treating is back on in many locales. (If you find yourself in a pinch though, a few pennies will do in a pinch. Loose change is at a premium nowadays.)

Jellyfish are mostly water. From the outside, jellyfish look like squishy, insubstantial blobs, and this is reflected in their structural makeup. Jellyfish are 95 percent water with the rest of them accounting for minerals and proteins. Between their two dermis layers is a gelatinous, water-based substance called mesoglea that contains muscle cells, nerve cells, andContinue reading “That 5% of the other stuff is pretty tough”

Fortune cookies are an American interpretation of a Japanese treat. They were created by Makoto Hagiwara of San Francisco in the 1890s and sold at the Golden Gate Park’s Japanese Tea Garden. Unequivocally not Chinese, the fortune cookie may in fact not even be Chinese American.

October 20, 1818 – Canada and the United States in the “Convention of 1818“, established the 49th Parallel as their mutual boundary (known as the International Border) for most of its length from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky mountains. The International Boundary is commonly referred to as the world’s longest undefended border,Continue reading “Sucks to get a full body cavity search every day before school.”