Bum nuts beneath beans
Bum nuts beneath beans.
January 16...
Feast day of Concordia.Concordia was the Ancient Roman goddess of agreement and understanding (not currently celebrated by world leaders,hat makers or toddlers under 4).
Happy Birthday...
1853 Andre Michelin, French tyre manufacturer (old tyre manufacturers never die...they just get weary).
1909 Ethel Merman US entertainer(I'm ready for my close up Mr.De Mille).
1974 Kate Moss supermodel(aka super snorter )
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1794 The Bottle Hoax of London -"The Battle of The Bottle-Noddles"
An unknown person advertised that he would this evening, at the Haymarket Theatre, ‘play on a common walking cane the music of every instrument now used, to surprising perfection’ and ‘get into a tavern quart bottle, without equivocation, and while there, sing several songs, and suffer any spectator to handle the bottle; that if any spectator should come masked, he would, if requested, declare who they were; and that in a private room he would produce the representation of any person dead, with which the person requesting it should converse some minutes, as if alive.’
Spectators did, indeed, show up, in great numbers, including the Duke of Cumberland, and paid up to 7 shillings and sixpence. When no performer showed up, a joker in the audience called out that if they paid double, someone would get into a pint bottle. Then pandemonium broke out, with the audience pulling down the theatre sets and the good Duke waving his sword.
Spectators did, indeed, show up, in great numbers, including the Duke of Cumberland, and paid up to 7 shillings and sixpence. When no performer showed up, a joker in the audience called out that if they paid double, someone would get into a pint bottle. Then pandemonium broke out, with the audience pulling down the theatre sets and the good Duke waving his sword.
1796 Australia's first theatre, ‘The Playhouse’, opened in Bligh St, Sydney Town. It was built by convicts and its manager was John Sparrow. The theatre’s first audience saw two plays: The Hotel and The Revenge(the cat'o'nine tails might have given them incentive not to riot at this theatre)
1866 Clamp-on roller skates were patented ( human evolution never looked back after this!)
1889 Australia's highest temperature in the shade was recorded at Cloncurry Queensland-53.1 C (127.6 F)....just a little warmish weather...fry your eggs on the footpath Guv?
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Parkes NSW breaks record for most Elvis impersonators in one place....(new record set for bad taste jump suits and sequin sales)
Bare-bottom bandit given jail sentence......obviously celebrating the Feast Day of The Ass!
Campaign to pardon Britain's last witch....come on,she hasn't raised her broomstick at any naughty children in years ....though judging by some little horrors,maybe she should !
posted by Bugs at 11:21 am
3 Comments:
What, no photo of the burqini? Oh, never mind.
The bottle hoax makes me think that the world back then was full of charlatans and gullible people.
Joe - the amount of people who believe a cream will reduce their fat/wrinkles/tax payment/attraction to other humans and change the tyres on their cars shows we are all still gullible in some ways ;)
What are bum nuts?
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