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| enthuTIMsiast |
Posted - 07/02/2003 : 4:05:48 PM
I'm sure most of you know where I work... No big secret but I won't get back into it now... I'm moved up (more like laterally, but I won't get into that either) to where I'm now logging in samples and whatnot. The other day I had a few samples from Flourissant, MO.
Yeah, no big deal really, just that that's where Tim once lived or something, and wrote a song about. Thought it was neat.
Also, today I had a few samples that were confiscated on April 20 of this year. I guess a few people will get that too, and see the humor in it...
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| KevinLesko |
Posted - 07/09/2003 : 2:30:46 PM
hmmm, I just got curious as to if anything cool happened on my birthday, and I noticed two funny things, first of all, in the events section, the last entry if from 1981, the year I was born, meaning NOTHING of importance has happened since I was born. Second, Prince Albert's name appears, and that is just funny hehe
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December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 16 days remaining.
Events
867 - Adrian II becomes Pope
872 - John VIII becomes Pope
1287 - Zuider Zee sea wall collapses, killing over 50,000 people
1790 - Alexander Hamilton proposes creation of a Bank of the United States
1819 - Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state
1900 - Max Planck publishes his study of the quantum theory
1902 - First telegraph cable laid across the Pacific Ocean
1911 - First expedition reaches the South Pole, led by Roald Amundsen
1927 - Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom
1939 - USSR expelled from the League of Nations
1946 - UN General Assembly votes to establish its headquarters in New York City
1947 - NASCAR founded
1964 - Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States 379 US 241 1964 decided by U.S. Supreme Court
1981 - Israel annexes the Golan Heights
Births
1503 - Nostradamus, astrologer and mathematician (+ 1566)
1546 - Tycho Brahe, astronomer (+ 1601)
1640 (baptism date) - Aphra Behn, playwright, novelist (+ 1689)
1824 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter (+ 1898)
1866 - Roger Fry, artist, art critic
1870 - Karl Renner, politician and President of Austria 1945-1950 (+ 1950)
1896 - King George VI of the United Kingdom (+ 1952)
1896 - Jimmy Doolittle American World War II General (+ 1993)
1897 - Margaret Chase Smith, American politician
1902 - Frances Bavier, actress (+ 1989)
1908 - Morey Amsterdam, comedian, actor (+ 1996)
1909 - Edward Tatum, geneticist (+ 1975)
1911 - Spike Jones, comedian, musician (+ 1975)
1913 - Dan Dailey, actor (+ 1978)
1914 - Karl Carstens, politician and President of Germany 1979-1984 (+ 1992)
1919 - Shirley Jackson, writer (+ 1965)
1923 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer
1932 - Charlie Rich, country music performer (+ 1995)
1935 - Lee Remick, actgress (+ 1991)
1938 - Leonardo Boff, theologian
1939 - Ernie Davis, American football star (+ 1963)
1946 - Patty Duke, actress
1946 - Michael Ovitz, film producer
1948 - Marianne Fritz, writer
1962 - Ginger Lynn Allen, pornographic film actress
1979 - Michael Owen, football star
Deaths
1542 - James V of Scotland
1788 - Charles III of Spain
1799 - George Washington, first President of the United States
1861 - Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
1873 - Louis Agassiz, zoologist, geologist
1963 - Dinah Washington, singer
1964 - William Bendix, actor
1985 - Roger Maris, Baseball Hall of Famer
1989 - Andrei D. Sakharov, physicist, Soviet dissident
1990 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, writer
1993 - Myrna Loy, actress
1998 - Norman Fell, actor
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| Captain Petersburgh |
Posted - 07/08/2003 : 10:20:00 PM
yeah... |
| victorwootenfan |
Posted - 07/08/2003 : 6:51:51 PM
it's soo cool cause it wasn't planned...and the fact that they smoke a LOT of pot too! It just turned out that way by fate... |
| Captain Petersburgh |
Posted - 07/07/2003 : 10:19:54 PM
dude that's soocool...wonder if you could plan somtihng like that or if it's just like bam...it happens |
| victorwootenfan |
Posted - 07/07/2003 : 06:56:28 AM
speaking of 420, this band i know, makia groove, has a song called 420. The song is split up into all these different polyrythms, like the drummer is playing in 7/8, the guitarist in 3/4, bassist in 5/8, etc... I don't know what it is specifically, but they all meet back at the same downbeat after exactly 420 beats! And they didn't plan it out either, it just happened that way! And it's funny too, cause they're a jam band, with a song named 420, very...original!? |
| Fluffy |
Posted - 07/06/2003 : 5:16:11 PM
My parents anniversary is April 1st. You have to see the irony in that. Truth be told, alot of folks didn't show up for the wedding as they thought it was an April Fools Day joke. Thats great planning if you want to invite alot of people and you really can't afford to. You can count on a good % not showing up. HEHE |
| PJK |
Posted - 07/05/2003 : 10:43:06 AM
Hey Kevin, thanks for the list! I never realized all that happened on 4/20. Some very interesting, very honorable people were born on that day, which makes me less bummed that is was Hitlers birthday.
As for you Jason, it was a long time ago, our wedding, but I think we picked it because of how it fit in with Easter/Spring breaks that year. It wasn't good Friday, but was a Friday. We had a candle lit wedding, very pretty, very romantic. My husband is from Michigan so his sisters, who were teachers, and neices and nephews who were in school, were able to make it out on that date. Since it was a Friday, it gave them 2 days to get back home. We were married in New Jersey.
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| pcbTIM |
Posted - 07/04/2003 : 7:14:11 PM
So was Barney Gumble.
BURP!!! |
| Captain Petersburgh |
Posted - 07/03/2003 : 11:09:29 PM
Adolfe Hitler was born on 4/20 |
| KevinLesko |
Posted - 07/03/2003 : 1:26:12 PM
April 20 is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (111th in leap years). There are 255 days remaining.
Events
1657 - Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City) granted freedom of religion
1689 - The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Londonderry
1775 - American Revolutionary War: British troops begin siege of Boston, Massachusetts
1861 - American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia
1862 - The first pasteurization test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard
1902 - Pierre and Marie Curie isolate radium
1926 - Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film
1972 - Apollo 16 lands on the Moon
1999 - Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold open fire in Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, leaving 15 dead and 23 wounded
2001 - The anti-globalization movement holds a People's Summit and large protest marches, some of which are forcibly put down by police, against the FTAA summit in Quebec City, Quebec
Births
1808 - Emperor Napoleon III of France (+ 1873)
1818 - Henrey von Goebel, inventor (+ 1893)
1832 - Ernst von Leyden, physician (+ 1910)
1845 - Philippe Pinel, physician (+ 1826)
1883 - Harold Lloyd, actor (+ 1971)
1889 - Adolf Hitler, dictator (+ 1945)
1889 - Albert Jean Amateau, businessman and social activist (+ 1996)
1893 - Joan Miró, painter (+ 1983)
1893 - Harold Lloyd, actor (+ 1971)
1900 - Fred Raymond, composer (+ 1954)
1908 - Lionel Hampton, musician (+ 2002)
1915 - Joseph Wolpe, psychotherapist (+ 1997)
1920 - John Paul Stevens, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court
1925 - Tito Puente, musician (+ 2000)
1928 - Gerald S. Hawkins, astronomer
1939 - Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway
1939 - Peter S. Beagle, author
1941 - Ryan O'Neal, actor
1943 - Edie Sedgwick, actress (+ 1971)
1949 - Jessica Lange, actress
1951 - Luther Vandross, singer
1972 - Hank The Angry Drunken Dwarf, radio and television personality (+ 2001)
1964 - Crispin Glover, actor
1964 - Rosalynn Sumners, figure skater
1964 - Andy Serkis, actor
1976 - Joey Lawrence, actor
Deaths
1769 - Pontiac, Chief of the Ottawa tribe
1869 - Carl Loewe, composer
1908 - Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and historia
1912 - Bram Stoker, author
1932 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician
1940 - Alfred Cort Haddon, anthropologist
1947 - King Christian X of Denmark
1982 - Archibald Macleish, author
1992 - Benny Hill, comedian
1999 - Senor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist
Holidays and Observances
In Canada and the United States, April 20th is a ceremonial day to "smoke out" (smoke marijuana). See: 420
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| enthuTIMsiast |
Posted - 07/02/2003 : 5:42:57 PM
Your anniversary is April 20? How random is that... Any particular reason behind that one? |
| PJK |
Posted - 07/02/2003 : 5:41:54 PM
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Also, today I had a few samples that were confiscated on April 20 of this year. I guess a few people will get that too, and see the humor in it...
Hey, that was my anniversary! Oh yeah and National Pot Smoking Day and Hitler's birthday and the anniversary of Columbine! So many lovely things happening on my anniversary none of which had a thing to do with why we picked that day!
But yes, that is funny  |
| Saint Jude |
Posted - 07/02/2003 : 4:39:51 PM
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April 20 of this year
heh
i get it.
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Flourissant, MO.
Valley of Floweerrrrrrrrs. |
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