Well, one of the problems with working overtime hours is that all those cool ideas you have for NOTs fade into the mush of exhaustion and you’re forced to do the Kraft Dinner of Internet Posts (or Kraft Macaroni And Cheese for you non Canadians), the what happened today in history post.
1953 Dr Jonas Salk publicly announces he has completed successful trials of a Polio vaccine. This happened 43 years before the creation of Faux Newz, 53 years before Facebook goes viral and 3 years before the birth of Andrew Wakefield so most if not all of the world is actually happy someone developed a vaccine to help stop a longtime scourge of mankind.
When Edward R Murrow asked him, “Who owns this patent?”, Salk replied, “Well, the people I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?” (Some patent lawyers would argue: “Why yes, yes you can and should patent the sun.”)
1917 Seattle Metropolitans beat the Montreal Canadians to win Lord Stanley’s Cup. The first time an American team wins the Stanley Cup. A precursor to the Gary Bettman era where no Canadian Teams have won the Stanley Cup since 1993 something that we Canadians love to whine about since, uh, 1993.
1945 The Battle of Iwo Jima ends. The bloodiest battle in the United States Marine Corps history ends. The famous flag raising happened a month earlier while fighting still raged all over the island. John Wayne later reinvades Iwo in The Sands of Iwo Jima in 1949.
1986 Geffen Records signs Guns N Roses. Only 8 months before a cold November rain falls and a mere 22 years before the release of Chinese Democracy.
1997 Heaven’s Gate mass suicide discovered. Nike becomes the official shoe of cults everywhere.
1976 The American League approves the Labatts application for a MLB team in Toronto. A mere 11 years before choking out in the AL East race to Detroit and 16 & 15 years to winning the World Series before sliding into the fate of grey mediocrity and sorrow that awaits most Toronto professional sports teams.
1952 First ever NCAA final four. Shortly the first crying from fans of a busted bracket.
1979 Larry Bird and Magic Johnson or Magic Johnson and Larry Bird face off for the first time in the NCAA final. Magic gives Indiana the Bird.
1885 Kodak manufactures the 1st commercial motion picture film. A few hours later, the first porno movie is made.
1964 Barbara Streisand opens as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl. Only 39 years before Streisand Effect.
1990 Akira Kurosawa wins a lifetime achievement Oscar. How the event unfolded that evening is in dispute depending on who you talk to.
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original comment stuck in tunnel
sooooo…..anybody know a good sky high a trist?
i mean…i just thought manchu was suicidal (and changed me comment…haha edit is awesome)
anyways…..im thinking i need some mental help
I’m not sure I follow about your first comment and I don’t know any psychiatrists. Replying so you know you are not alone. Sorry I can’t be of more help.
…not that hannibal isn’t right about the part where there’s a good chance that everyone could stand to benefit from therapy…though I’d allow that not all therapists are a good fit & the chances of it helping are a lot higher if you find the right one…but I’m hoping I’m right that we don’t have to worry about @farscythe in this instance?
…I missed the first comment before it was edited but I think he may have taken the title of the post to be a reference of a darker tone than it was intended to be…& then had second thoughts…& a side order of remorse for thinking he’d murdered the conversation…so I took the mention of mental help to be a reference to the part where his mind “went there” based on “the easy way out”
…if that ain’t it then I’m right there with you on the part about reaching out…but I’m hoping it is?
sorry for causing confusing by editting my first post
i did take the title for darker than it was intended and then read the whole post thinking maybe manchu was suicidal…
so my original comment was something along the lines of you okay mate? do you need help?
so yeah @splinterrip pretty much nailed the splainer there
i’m not suicidal
i do probably need mental help….its been a rough few years and i can tell my thinking is not working as its sposed too
not entirely feeling in my right mind…if you will
…pretty sure ain’t none of us come through the last couple of years unscathed on the mental health front…but glad as hell to be right about this little interlude
…so in terms of being in one’s right mind…I’m feeling like I might be living in the sort of glass house that would make it inadvisable to throw stones…but this place does a lot to at least help me maintain an appearance of sanity…however tenuous my grasp upon that may sometimes feel…& I’m hoping you might know what I mean on that score
…at least we’re in good company?
It’s my opinion that everyone would benefit from therapy.
In hindsight probably not the best title.
uhh,,sorry if i killed the thread….wasnt my intent
gnite all
Heaven’s Gate was fascinating. There a good documentary about the cult. They were unusual because the leaders weren’t trying to get rich. It was a strange bunch.
but they were found in one of the wealthiest communities, ranchisanta fe, home to celebs at the time like janet jackson & various assorted sportsball players & high-powered/society mucketymucks 😉
But they lived a very ascetic lifestyle. I think Applewhite was completely crazy and believed the whole thing. There are members who left the group and regret not having been part of the mass suicide. It’s nuts!
I have some interesting trivia to impart, if you’re fan of geography and demography.
The geographic center of the Continental US was determined way back in 1918 to be 2.6 miles NW of the enter of Lebanon, Kansas.
To determine the population center of the Continental US, you have to imagine all the residents like points on a graph. As the population inexorably moves south and west, so the population center does likewise. After the 2010 census the population center was determined to be Plato, Missouri. Now, according to the 2020 census, it has crept a little farther west, 11.8 miles, to nearby Hartville, Missouri.
Isn’t that fascinating? To see how this works, the first census where the US had all 48 states was in 1920. Then, the population center was given as 8 miles S/SE of Spencer, Indiana. Google maps tells me that the distance from Spencer to Hartville is about 400 miles, and the trajectory is W/SW.
Time to walk faithful hound and collapse; it’s been a long day.
Yeah, I grew up (and perhaps brightersider did as well) seeing commercials saying to “go see your Mid-America Chevy dealer” — or something to that effect.
Of course, across the river in Illinois is MidAmerica Airport, which has been a focus point for budget airlines to Sun Belt vacation destinations and (I’m guessing?) private planes wanting more direct access into St. Louis. And then past the other side of the state, on the Kansas side of Kansas City, there’s the Mid-American Chapter of the American Translators Association, or MICATA — whose conference I was planning to attend next weekend before it was moved virtually. (They give their keynote speakers a cute little T-shirt that says “MICATA es tu cata.”)
So, it’s sort of a continuum around these parts.
I grew up calling that airport Scott airport because of the proximity to the air force base. Have they always been called Mid America airport?
Apparently? (Of course, I didn’t grow up calling it anything at all because I didn’t get on an airplane at least from the time I was in kindergarten until the time I’d had a year of college under my belt, and if I was along for the ride to pick up anybody who had, the airport in question was always Lambert.)
Yeah I got no clue where that airport actually is because I’ve never been there.
It’s in Belleville and served by only one airline (Allegiant Air). Somehow I think you’ve bee to some of the destinations before, so maybe that’s an idea for next time. . . ?(Hell, you could probably stop at that one place I told you about for something to eat along the way.)
What to do tonight? Watch Everything Everywhere All At Once or play Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands ?
Nevermind. The movie is only out in theaters. Time to get my PS4 whirring (I swear own the loudest one).