ortho_bob: that damn what happened on your birthday meme

Ortho_Bob (

ortho_bob) wrote,
@ 2006-04-07 09:23:00

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that damn what happened on your birthday meme
461 - St. Hilarius becomes Pope.
1493 - Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico.
1863 - Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address.
1946 - Iceland joins the United Nations.
1954 - Sammy Davis, Jr. loses his left eye in an automobile accident.
1959 - The Edsel is discontined.
1973 - American football player Lance Rentzel is arrested for exposing himself to a ten-year-old girl.
1985 - Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
1990 - Pop group Milli Vanilli stripped of their Grammy Award.
1998 - Impeachment hearings beginagainst US President Bill Clinton.
2004 - The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie released in theaters.

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	blue_condition 2006-04-07 07:50 am UTC (link)
	Don deLillo could make a semi-coherent novel out of that sequence of events, but I think Pynchon would be more fun. (Reply to this)

	the_gardener 2006-04-07 08:18 am UTC (link)
	The closer one gets to the present, the more desperately the Wikipedia authors seem to be casting about for allegedly "historic" events. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie?!? Boggle!! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	ortho_bob 2006-04-07 08:22 am UTC (link)
	Well, I was rather selective in shaping that list. Wars began and ended on that day -- and Jody Foster was born. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

the_gardener
2006-04-07 08:52 am UTC (link)

The list certainly goes from the sublime to the ridiculous as far as my birthdate is concerned -- Jane Austen was born (1775), von Runstedt's Ardennes Offensive began (1944), the ANC's military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe was founded (1961) and, er, the Appalachian State University won the NCAA Division I-AA National Football Championship over the University of Northern Iowa (2005).

(Bloody football. Gets everywhere. Mutter.)

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	belphoebe 2006-04-07 08:21 am UTC (link)
	happy birthday! send me your address for some cool mail fun. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	belphoebe 2006-04-07 08:22 am UTC (link)
	ps i know it isn't your birthday, but this way is more fun. and i still want your address. (Reply to this)(Parent)

alfaguru
2006-04-07 08:46 am UTC (link)

Reminds me of this list of events allegedly predicted by the Great Pyramid:

* 4000 BC. The year of man's creation. Any evidence of man before this date must obviously be wrong, as unbiblical.
* 2344 BC. The Great Flood.
* Saturday October 6, 4 BC. Birth of Christ.
* Friday April 7, AD 30. Death of Christ.
* AD 1558. Start of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
* 25 January, 1844. Amongst other items, the passing of the Bank Charter Act.
* August 2, 1909. Czar of Russia met King Edward and inspected the Great Fleet at Clowes.
* December 2, 1924. 'On this date the new English Parliament met for the first time, after the Labour Party Parliament, which resigned, had been in power only 286 days'.

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	ortho_bob 2006-04-07 08:49 am UTC (link)
	But did the great pyramid predict the opening of the Spongebob Squarepants movie? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	alfaguru 2006-04-07 08:56 am UTC (link)
	Probably. I've got another book which says Icelanders are the tribe of Benjamin (apparently the Great Pyramid points to Iceland or something), so it may be in there somewhere. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	anne_jumps 2006-04-07 10:03 am UTC (link)
	...St. Hilarius, eh? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	ortho_bob 2006-04-07 10:12 am UTC (link)
	Patron saint of the whoopie cushion, the custard pie and the imitation dog turd ("a LAFF riot!"). His feast day is celebrated by 50 senior cardinals slipping on banana skins at a special Vatican ceremony. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	herculesmusic 2006-04-07 01:52 pm UTC (link)
	The only interesting thing that happened on my birthday (other than lots of death, misery and destruction) was that in Sweden, traffic changed from driving on the left to driving on the right. Yeah! Nothing as good as your Milli Vanilli one. (Reply to this)

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