Yes he was!:-)

I wouldn't like any of that. :-)
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Here's a quasi-historical representation of this conversation.
Thomas, Darren, you'll like it. :-)
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Or is that a historical quasi-representation?
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Whichever, Scott, it's dead-on. Wrong audience, bad timing. Still, I'd like to think Mozart woulda got it.
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That was amazing! Wow! :-)
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In 1799 a soldier with Napoleon's Egyptian campaign found a black basalt stone near Rosetta which was inscribed with a text in ancient hieroglyphics, demotic, and ancient Greek. Though it ultimately led to the ability to translate the lost pictographic language dead for the previous 2000 years, it is still Greek to me. And in 1898, following his conviction for libel against the French army, novelist Emile Zola fled France. His crime was the publication of a letter, entitled J'Accuse, which exposed a cover-up by the military in the alleged espionage case against Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jew. The nation became polarized on the affair, usually on racial grounds. Thankfully, a century of progress has moved us past such prejudice.
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Agreed! Wow! :-)
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I'm glad somebody else understands how totally remarkable that was. :-)
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Indeed, Thomas, I thought Yankees never went a full day without jerking off.



:-) :-)
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Eh, the David Cone masturbation accusation actually occurred, or didn't, in the Mets bullpen. But whatever. I'm not gonna baitch as long as they are in 1st place. BTW, how's them Tiggers doin', Tom. :-)
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On this day in history....not so good. :-)
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Today in 1919 Sir Edmund Hillary was born in Auckland NZ. Why? Because his mother was there. In 1973 martial artist and actor Bruce Lee died at the age of 32 of a brain edema, a month before his first hit movie was released in America, making him a star who had already expired. Exit the dragon. In 1976 the Viking 1 probe landed on the Chryse Planitia region of the planet Mars, becoming the first such device to successfully soft-land upon the surface of the Red Planet. This landing occurred on the seventh anniversary of another landing, in 1969, of Apollo 11's lunar module Eagle upon the surface of the Moon. It was one small step for (a) man, even though the one giant leap may yet to have been accomplished . . . at least to my satisfaction.

And on the obligatory "cultural" note, this song from California duo Jan and Dean hit #1 on the US charts in 1963.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6Cg_DHn69I

This kicked off the whole beach music trend, and helped build the swinging bikini-clad Left Coast image. Am I alone in remembering Annette and Frankie? :-)
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My uncle led the team that made the cameras for Viking. When I was a kid, I had a bunch of the pictures from that, including test photos of the parking lot. While the camera was digital, they used octal instead of binary.
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On this day in 1959 Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green made his major league debut for the Boston Red Sox, entering as a pinch-runner for Vic Wertz in a 2-1 loss to the White Sox. This is notable because he was the first black player for Boston, which was the last team in MLB to integrate. The BoSox had given some guy named Jackie Robinson a tryout back in 1945, but did not sign him, and also passed on a chance to sign another no-name called Willie Mays in 1949. But they wisely held out for the superior talent of "Pumpsie", a lifetime .246 hitter.

Ernest Hemingway was born today in 1899, and became the world's best monosyllabic author. And in 1973 an obscure record with an Afro-Latin beat from an even more obscure Cameroonian artist Manu Dibango hit the Top 40, and began the conflagration of a disco inferno which soon consumed the music industry . . . and still burns people up to this day. You don't remember it? Consider yourself lucky. :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWK_Josc0Og
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Had quite the influence.....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VaveOTQEZg
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Thanks. I was aware of this, but didn't need another reason to hate it. :-)
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I figured you might be, but wanted to spread the wealth of mediocrity throughout the Asylum. :-)
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And we love ya for it. Keep up the bad work. :-)
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On this day in 1852 Henry Wells and William G. Fargo founded their eponymous shipping and banking company. Back in those times highwaymen and robbers were a major concern.

I guess if you can't beat them, join them. :-)
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On this day in history in 1981 through 2005, I had one **** of a hangover.
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