Fartypants and The Bells
January 23...
Happy Birthday...
1832 Edouard Manet- French artists are very impressionable.
1957 Look,up there ! In Hello magazine ! With more ice than Queen Liz,starchier manners than Queen Vic,more commonsense than all her relatives - it's a 50 year old Princess Caroline of Monaco!
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393 In a classic case of neopotism, Roman Emporer Theodosius proclaimed his 9 year old son Honorius his co-emporer(see! it's never what you know but who you know!)
1533 Anne Boleyn,mistress of King Henry VIII discovered herself pregnant(sitting on the royal throne will do that)
1851 The name of a new city in Oregon was decided on the toss of a coin, Portland won(and decided to bat first with Boston winning more runs than the English cricket team)
1936 George Orwell stated in an interview "I worshipped Kipling at 13,loathed him at 17,enjoyed him at 20,despised him at 25,and now again rather admire him" (Kipling was unavailable for comment for this blog)
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Trapped drunk rang out SOS on church bells.....a new mashup of ABBA's"Ring,Ring","SOS" and The Reels' "Quasimodo's Dream" perhaps?
Fartypants launched....no longer will the innocent dog be blamed for that chili you ate !
Patient fixes hospital machine....better be packing your tool box next time you call an ambulance !
posted by Bugs at 8:29 am
2 Comments:
I've heard this story about Portland and Boston. Strange it would come down to a coin flip. It is a great town though. I would move there in a heartbeat.
The toss of a coin has decided many a great event...cricket,footy,fortunes in two-up,who gets the last pizza slice and which 6 foot tall teenager has to sleep in the bucket seat of the car during a camping trip.
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