On this day in...
1305 – William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.
1620 – The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England on its first attempt to reach North America.
1861 – The United States Army abolishes flogging.
1882 – Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.
1914 – In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
1962 – Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
Births
1930 – Neil Armstrong, American astronaut
By far the weakest birthday day thus far in the 'On this day in...' experiment. I could have out some others in but I don't want to start down the slippery slop of throwing nobodys into the list. Is Funk Master Flex really deserving of this honor? I think not.
Apparently Kelsey found some birthdays that missed so we had a nice back and forth today. Here's what that d-bag emailed to me.
ReplyDeleteKelsey: these ARE deserving...so was Funkmaster Flex.
# 1946 – Loni Anderson, American actress
# 1962 – Patrick Ewing, American basketball player
# 1968 – John Olerud, American baseball player
# 1973 – Sean Sherk, American mixed martial artist
# 1977 – Mark Mulder, American baseball player
# 1981 – Carl Crawford, American baseball player
# 1986 – Paula Creamer, American golfer
Look, you all but cussed me out the other day for not keeping up to speed with your daily dose of stand-up bloggery, so the least you could do is put forth an effort noteworthy of a Patrick Gonzales, not a David Weichmann.
You’re welcome. Don’t disappoint me again.
P.S Do you have the stuff I ordered from the hardware store?
Me: Patrick Ewing was my bad. All those other turkeys are not worth my time.
Kelsey: So much to learn...Paula Creamer would’ve made the Odessa High golf team as a 3-year-old.
I'm sorry I didn't go through the proper channels. I failed to realize the unwritten rules of bloggery. Also, you teeling the blog nation that something isn't worth your time might be the most ridiculous thing i've ever read in my life.
ReplyDeleteThe only think that might piss me off more is if I bought $40 dollars worth of produce at Market Street only to find out the next morning that my fresh asparagus was marinating in two inches of Eric Thompson's urine.
But I'll deal with you when I get down there. Glad to hear that next Friday is take a buddy to work day. Hopefully they'll have enough bullet proof vests to go around.