Monthly Archives: November 2012

Happy Birthday, Diablo

Posted on November 30, 2012 by James| Comments Off

On November 30, 1996… we all heard Griswald say, “Hello” for the first time.

November 30, 1996 -

Posted in Because I Can, Gaming, On This Day

Happy Birthday, Dick Clark!

Posted on November 30, 2012 by James| Comments Off

Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012)

Richard Wagstaff “Dick” Clark is an American television personality and businessman, best known for hosting long-running shows such as American Bandstand, various Pyramid game shows, and Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.

Clark has long been known for his continued youthful appearance, earning the moniker “America’s Oldest Teenager”, and also for his good health — until he suffered a stroke in 2004. With some speech ability still impaired, Clark made a dramatic return to his New Year’s show on December 31, 2005, and appeared at the Emmy Awards on August 27, 2006.

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Posted in Because I Can, Music, On This Day

RIP Leslie Nielsen

Posted on November 28, 2012 by James| Comments Off

“I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley”

Leslie Nielsen (February 11, 1926 – November 28, 2010)

Leslie William Nielsen, OC was a Canadian American actor and comedian. Nielsen appeared in over one hundred films and 1,500 television programs over the span of his career, portraying over 220 characters.

Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, Nielsen enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and worked as a disc jockey before receiving a scholarship to Neighborhood Playhouse. Beginning with a television role in 1948, he quickly expanded to over 50 television appearances two years later. Nielsen appeared in his first films in 1956 and began collecting roles in dramas, westerns, and romance films. Nielsen’s lead roles in the films Forbidden Planet (1956) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972) received positive reviews as a serious actor, though he is primarily known for his comedic roles.

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Posted in Because I Can, On This Day, The Big Screen, The Little Screen (Television)

RIP Larry Hagman

Posted on November 25, 2012 by James| Comments Off

Larry Martin Hagman (September 21, 1931 – November 23, 2012)

Larry Hagman was an American film and television actor best known for playing ruthless oil baron J. R. Ewing in the 1980s primetime television soap opera Dallas, and befuddled astronaut Major Anthony “Tony” Nelson in the 1960s sitcom I Dream of Jeannie.

He had supporting roles in numerous films including Fail-Safe, Nixon, and Primary Colors. His television appearances also included guest roles on dozens of shows spanning from the late 1950s up until his death, and a reprisal of his signature role on the 2012 revival of Dallas. He also occasionally worked as a producer and director on television. Hagman was the son of actress Mary Martin. He underwent a life-saving liver transplant in 1995. He died on November 23, 2012, from complications of throat cancer.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Posted on November 22, 2012 by James| Comments Off

Undocumented Immigrant

Posted in Because I Can, Humor

John F. Kennedy

Posted on November 22, 2012 by James| Comments Off

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917–November 22, 1963)

The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, USA at 12:30 p.m. CST (18:30 UTC). John F. Kennedy was fatally wounded by gunshots while riding with his wife Jacqueline in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, an employee of the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza, according to the conclusions of multiple government investigations, including the ten-month investigation of the Warren Commission of 1963-4 and the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) of 1976-9. This conclusion initially met with widespread support among the American public, but polls, since the original 1966 Gallup poll, show a majority of the public hold beliefs contrary to these findings. The assassination is still the subject of widespread speculation and has spawned numerous conspiracy theories (even the HSCA, based on disputed acoustical evidence, concluded that Oswald may have had unspecified co-conspirators), though these theories have not generally been accepted by mainstream historians and no single compelling alternative theory has emerged.

Posted in Because I Can, On This Day, Patriotic

Happy Birthday, ISS

Posted on November 20, 2012 by James| Comments Off

On November 20, 1998, the first segment of the ISS, the Zarya FGB, was launched into orbit on a Russian Proton rocket, and was followed two weeks later by the first of three ‘node’ modules, Unity, launched aboard STS-88.

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Posted in Because I Can, On This Day, Patriotic

RIP “Mr. Whipple”

Posted on November 19, 2012 by James| Comments Off

Dick Wilson as Mr. Whipple with the Charmin.

Dick Wilson, born Riccardo DiGuglielmo (30 July 1916 – 19 November 2007), was a British-born American character actor who played the role of finicky grocery store manager Mr. (George) Whipple in over 500 Charmin toilet paper television commercials (1965–1989, 1999).

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Posted in Because I Can, The Little Screen (Television)

Happy Birthday, Calvin & Hobbes

Posted on November 18, 2012 by James| Comments Off

Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Watterson, following the humorous antics of Calvin, an imaginative six-year old boy, and Hobbes, his energetic and sardonic—albeit stuffed—tiger. The pair are named after John Calvin, a 16th-century French Reformation theologian, and Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century English political philosopher. The strip was syndicated daily from November 18, 1985 to December 31, 1995. At its height, Calvin and Hobbes was featured in over 2,400 newspapers worldwide. To date, more than 30 million copies of the 18 Calvin and Hobbes books have been printed.

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Posted in Because I Can, Humor, Literary

Veteran’s Day

Posted on November 11, 2012 by James| Comments Off

Veteran's Day

Posted in Because I Can, Patriotic

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Posted on November 10, 2012 by James| Comments Off

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald, May 1975.

SS Edmund Fitzgerald was a cargo ship that sank suddenly during a gale storm on November 10, 1975, while on Lake Superior. The ship went down without a distress signal in 530 feet (162 m) of water at 46°59.9′N 85°6.6′W, in Canadian waters about 17 miles (15 nm; 27 km) from the entrance to Whitefish Bay. All 29 members of the crew perished. Gordon Lightfoot‘s hit song, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, helped make the incident the most famous marine disaster in the history of Great Lakes shipping.

Posted in Because I Can, On This Day

Woman who drove on sidewalk must wear ‘idiot’ sign

Posted on November 8, 2012 by James| Comments Off

CLEVELAND (AP) — A woman caught on camera driving on a sidewalk to avoid a Cleveland school bus that was unloading children will have to stand at an intersection wearing a sign warning about idiots.

Court records show a Cleveland Municipal Court judge on Monday ordered 32-year-old Shena Hardin to stand at an intersection for two days next week. She will have to wear a sign saying: “Only an idiot drives on the sidewalk to avoid a school bus.”

The judge ordered her to wear the sign from 7:45 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. both days.

Hardin’s license was suspended for 30 days and she was ordered to pay $250 in court costs.

Messages seeking comment were left at a telephone listing for Hardin and at her attorney’s office.

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Election Day

Posted on November 6, 2012 by James| Comments Off

Election Day 2012

Posted in Because I Can, Patriotic

RIP Michael Crichton

Posted on November 4, 2012 by James| Comments Off

John Michael Crichton, M.D., (October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008 ) is best known as the author of Jurassic Park and the creator of NBC’s ER.

Crichton’s books have sold more than 150 million copies worldwide. He was the author of The Andromeda Strain, Congo, Disclosure, Rising Sun, Timeline, State of Fear, Prey, and Next. He was most famous for being the author of Jurassic Park, and its sequels.

His most recent novel, Next, about genetics and law, was published in December 2006.

He had won an Emmy, a Peabody and a Writer’s Guild of America Award for ER.

Posted in Because I Can, Literary, On This Day

Monthly Archives: November 2012

Happy Birthday, Diablo

Happy Birthday, Dick Clark!

RIP Leslie Nielsen

RIP Larry Hagman

Happy Thanksgiving!

John F. Kennedy

Happy Birthday, ISS

RIP “Mr. Whipple”

Happy Birthday, Calvin & Hobbes

Veteran’s Day

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Woman who drove on sidewalk must wear ‘idiot’ sign

Election Day

RIP Michael Crichton

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