phoenix_rising
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What the hell happened on your birthday?
hmm. not much happened except for the briths and deaths.
August 29th: The Roy Orbison single, "Oh, Pretty Woman", was released. (that explains ALOT..)
Phoenix's birthday is my envy! Talk about excitement. I was either born a day late or a couple early for anything of any interest at all sincing up with me. Jack London, the master of irony, was born on the 12th..."The Donkey Serenade" and Mickey Mouse made their debuts on my birthday though. And the accordion was patented. Hmmm....what's a birthday anyway? I'll post again later after I buy an accordion.
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I finally got called back about the job aplication I submitted to the deli near me! I've got to go tomorrow for a job interview, but it's pretty much a done deal, they're going to hire me. Yay!!! I finnally have some sort of income!
Just found it. Not even taken the test yet. Seem to be many, many different types of tests. (I'd be interested in the ladies responses to "Are You A Dark Angel" quiz.
( May have to track back to http://quizilla.com/ )
( May have to track back to http://quizilla.com/ )
I am, according to my driver's license, but to be honest, I felt a little pressured into it. I know it's a wonderful thing, I know it's the ultimate act of selflessness, etcetera, but I have a hard time getting over the "eebeegeebees" of it all.
I am having the *hardest* time deciding this. There are so many pros and cons to each. Ideally, I would want to be placed in one of those mosuleum things, but I doubt my family could ever afford that (pretty sure it's really expensive).
Who has them around here?
I know of a few, but let's make an official list.
I know of a few, but let's make an official list.
does anyone know? Because my friend/co-worker was telling me in passing that her friend's dad made her a digereedoo but she doesn't know how to play it (I assume it's a musical instrument?) and she was saying it as she was leaving for the day, so I never
NICE GUYS FINISH LAST
By: Garrett Hols
It?s amazing that markers can get girls. Actually, now that I think of it, it?s not that amazing. They are markers at heart, but to meet girls they lavish their undying love. IT?S A CHARADE. They act nic
By: Garrett Hols
It?s amazing that markers can get girls. Actually, now that I think of it, it?s not that amazing. They are markers at heart, but to meet girls they lavish their undying love. IT?S A CHARADE. They act nic
i took that test. And scary i was the last part of the zodiac. i'm said to be the lost soul by that test.
wried huh. i'm also the last part of the zodiac also.
wried huh. i'm also the last part of the zodiac also.
A friend clued me into this today:
Perverse, is using 1 chicken feather.
Kinky, is using the whole chicken.
:)
Perverse, is using 1 chicken feather.
Kinky, is using the whole chicken.
:)
Why is it that guy's sexual fantasies often include two women? I mean, it should be the other way around, two guys for every woman. That makes so much mor sense. Women can have multiple orgasms, guys not really, I mean as far as I know. The utility is muc
Well, here's mine, for October 25th. I can't promise a lot of excitement.
732 - Charles Martel, ruler of the Franks, defeated the Saracens at Poitiers.
1415 - Henry V of England defeated the French army at the Battle of Agincourt in northern France.
1555 - Holy Roman Emperor Charles V handed over Italy and the Netherlands to his son Philip II of Spain.
1760 - Britain's King George III assumed the throne.
1854 - In the Crimean War at the battle of Balaclava, Lord Cardigan led the charge of the Light Brigade cavalry against the Russians, one of the most heroic episodes in British military history.
1870 - The first trademark in the United States was awarded to the Averill Chemical Paint Company of New York City.
1900 - Britain's annexation of the Boer Republic, announced on September 1, came into effect. The territory was renamed Transvaal.
1906 - United States inventor Lee de Forest patented his "Audion," a three-diode amplification valve which was to prove a pioneering development in radio and broadcasting.
1909 - Prince Ito Hirobumi, a former Japanese premier and president-general in Korea, was assassinated by a Korean nationalist.
1918 - The Battle of Vittorio Veneto, the final Italian action against the Austrians in World War I, took place on the Piave River.
1919 - The first magazine to be photoengraved, "Literary Digest," went up for sale on magazine racks. The publication was conceived when a printers? strike made regular printed issues nearly impossible to publish.
1920 - King Alexander of Greece died from blood poisoning after being bitten by a pet monkey.
1936 - The governments of Italy and Germany met to form the Rome-Berlin Axis, providing mutual assistance and opposition to communism.
1937 - "Stella Dallas" debuted on the NBC Red radio network. Anne Elstner played the title role for the program's run ended in 1955, on NBc. "Stella Dallas" was "A continuation on the air of the true-life story of mother love and sacrifice, in which Stella saw her own beloved daughter, Laurel, marry into wealth and society, and realizing the difference in their tastes and worlds, went out of Laurel?s life."
1938 - After years of slowly colonizing the country, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini formally declared Libya a part of Italy.
1940 - "Cabin In the Sky", the musical, opened for what would be the first of 256 shows. The one hit song from the show was "Taking a Chance on Love".
1940 - The adventure film Seven Sinners, starring Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Albert Dekker, and Broderick Crawford, opened in the United States.
1943 - On the Capitol label, Benny Carter and his orchestra recorded "Poinciana" whose full title is "Poinciana (Song of the Tree)".
1954 - John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State, briefed President Eisenhower and his Cabinet, about a meeting of foreign ministers in Paris, France; in what became the first televised cabinet meeting.
1955 - In Mansfield, Ohio, the microwave oven was introduced at the corporate headquarters of the Tappan Company. The device, called the new stove, could cook eggs in 22 seconds, and bacon in 90 seconds. For this luxury, consumers would pay $ 1,200.
1955 - Austria resumed its sovereignty, on the departure of the last Allied occupation forces, for the first time since the German occupation of 1938.
1957 - The romantic musical film, "Pal Joey," starring Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, and Kim Novak, opened in theaters. Popular songs included Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered (with modified wholesome lyrics), My Funny Valentine, and The Lady Is a Tramp. Sinatra won a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actor in a Musical/Comedy for his performance as Joey Evans.
1960 - T