Pin makers and mice.
Passionfruit on the vine.Loaded with fruit,there will be plenty given away again this year !Feast day of St.Sebastian.He was martyred in 288 by being bound to a tree,shot with arrows then beaten to death.He is therefore the patron saint of pin makers.(Pin makers. How ripped off was poor Sebastian ?!)
Happy Birthday...
1896 George Burns comedian,orator of gems such as
"I get a standing ovation just standing"
"I don't believe in dying...it's been done"
"Nice to be here ? At my age it's nice to be anywhere"
1920 DeForest Kelly,Star Trek's Dr.McCoy (It's life Jim but not as we know it).
1936 Tom Baker,the scarf wearing,curly mopped 4th Dr.Who and narrator of Little Britain (And now my friends, the time has come! So stand up, take your clothes off and salute the arrival of a brand new series of 'Little Britian' on BBC One! Bring it on! Good Pie !)
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1156 A Finnish soldier named Lalli martyred the crusader bishop Henry of Uppsala and was forever afterwards tormented by mice.(Good grief ! With a near mouse plague,how many bishops have they offed in South Australia???)
1949 J.Edgar Hoover gave Shirley Temple a tear-gas fountain pen(those dratted Kewpie dolls were always rioting)
1958 St Louis, Missouri, USA, radio station KWK completed its ‘Record Breaking Week’. Orders of station management had all rock & roll music banned from the airwaves. The disk jockeys gave every rock & roll record in the station library a ‘farewell spin’ before smashing it into pieces. Station manager Robert Convey called the action "a simple weeding out of undesirable music". (this station manager can now be found cleaning toilets in undesirable places).
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Opera performed in a pig shed.....not a case of pearls before swine.
School report from wrong school....sure beats the old "losing the report in the bottom of the school bag".
Skateboarding across Australia....has he not heard of backpacking ?
posted by Bugs at 8:20 am
2 Comments:
George Burns and Jack Benny were close friends. Burns used to crack Benny up at the drop of a pin.
Once they were at a party together, and just before the entertainment started Burns said to Benny "wouldn't it be terrible if just when she began singing, somebody started to laugh?" Of course when she started to sing, Benny was ROFL.
LOL Joe :)
George Burns was always a guarantee for laughs.
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