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Author:  bfnjz52 [ Dec Sun 16, 2007 1:39 pm ]
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1553 - Having discovered the pulmonary circulation of blood, Michael Servetus celebrated by being burned for heresy in Switzerland. They didn’t have Disney back then.

1612 - The Polish army invaded Russia so that they could surrender to Prince Dimitri Pojarski and his Cossacks.

1659 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony celebrated the joys of religious freedom by executing two Quakers for their religious beliefs.

1806 - Napoleon entered Berlin as Emperor.

1809 - President Madison decided we’d just go ahead and take West Florida.

1858 - Teddy Roosevelt was born in New York City. He had to fight a bear to get out of the womb. This was back when it was fashionable for some women to have bear vaginas.

1870 - The Prussians took fort Metz from the French.

1873 - Glidden invented barbed wire, or at least received the patent. Others, including Cher, claim to have invented it first.

1891 - D.B. Downing patented the mailbox.
“What, it’s just a box, isn’t it?”
“No, you put letters in it.”

1904 - Mayer George McClellan opened the New York City subway system. He was immediately mugged.

1917 - 20,000 women marched for voting rights in New York. I bet they weren't topless.

1922 - Luigi Facta’s government yielded to Mussolini and his Fascists, who were not a dance troupe after all.

1927 - Fox released the first sound news film.

1939 - John Cleese, ubur comic, was born.

1962 - Kruschev offered to trade his Cuba missile bases for America’s Turkey missile bases.

1994 - The U.S. announced that it had more than one million citizens in jail.

Author:  bfnjz52 [ Dec Sun 16, 2007 1:40 pm ]
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OK.....so it's a slow day. Raining and cold here and I have nothing else to do.
:D

Author:  bbnova [ Dec Mon 17, 2007 8:11 am ]
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:lol:

I was busy putting a heater core in my son's car... :twisted:

Author:  RICK MILLER [ Dec Mon 17, 2007 9:01 am ]
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Gee that sounds like fun :roll:

What kind of car?

Author:  bbnova [ Dec Mon 17, 2007 10:01 am ]
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Buick Skylark. There's just enough room to get your arm where it needs to go.. :roll:

Author:  jacobgiles [ Dec Mon 17, 2007 7:06 pm ]
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thats funny cause i was putting a heater core in my little brothers s10 yesterday too.

Author:  bbnova [ Dec Tue 18, 2007 8:56 am ]
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I'm sure there was a little more room than that piece of **** I was under... :twisted:

How bad was it Jacob???

Author:  Keith Seymore [ Dec Tue 18, 2007 10:54 am ]
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bbnova wrote:
I'm sure there was a little more room than that piece of **** I was under... :twisted:


Well....at least it wasn't your neighbor's snow blower....

:lol:

Author:  bbnova [ Dec Tue 18, 2007 10:56 am ]
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That was earlier that day...... :twisted:

Author:  jacobgiles [ Dec Tue 18, 2007 6:06 pm ]
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bbnova wrote:
I'm sure there was a little more room than that piece of **** I was under... :twisted:

How bad was it Jacob???


not bad, about 2 hours.

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