| Celebrities Born Today: < |
Billy Idol (1955)
Robert Guillaume (1927)
Ben Stiller (1965)
Jonathon Swift (1667)
Mandy Patinkin (1952)
Bo Jackson (1962)
Clay Aiken (1978)
Kaley Cuoco (1985)
Dick Clark (1929)
Abbie Hoffman (1936)
G. Gordon Liddy (1930)
Roger Glover (1945)
Elisha Cuthbert (1982)
Mark Twain (1835)
Ridley Scott (1937)
Jorge Negrete (1911)
Richard Crenna (1927-2003) |
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| November
30 Trivia: |
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► 1982 - Michael Jacksons Thriller released. It has
sold something close to 30,000,000 copies.
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| November
30th's Joke... |
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In rural Carbon County, PA, a group of men were drinking beer
and discharging firearms from the rear deck of a home owned
by Irving Michaels, age 27. The men were firing at a raccoon
that was wandering by, but the beer apparently impaired their
aim and, despite of the estimated 35 shots the group fired,
the animal escaped into a 3 foot diameter drainage pipe some
100 feet away from Mr. Michaels' deck.
Determined to terminate the animal, Mr. Michaels retrieved
a can of gasoline and poured some down the pipe, intending
to smoke the animal out. After several unsuccessful attempts
to ignite the fuel, Michaels emptied the entire 5 gallon fuel
can down the pipe and tried to ignite it again, to no avail.
Not one to admit defeat by wildlife, the determined Mr. Michaels
proceeded to slide feet-first approximately 15 feet down the
sloping pipe to toss the match. The subsequent rapidly expanding
fireball propelled Mr. Michaels back the way he had come,
though at a much higher rate of speed. He exited the angled
pipe "like a Polaris missile leaves a submarine,"
according to witness Joseph McFadden, 31.
Mr. Michaels was launched directly over his own home, right
over the heads of his astonished friends, onto his front lawn.
In all, he traveled over 200 feet through the air. "There
was a Doppler Effect to his scream as he flew over us,"
McFadden reported, "Followed by a loud thud."
Amazingly, he suffered only minor injuries. "It was
actually pretty cool," Michaels said, "Like when
they shoot someone out of a cannon at the circus. I'd do it
again if I was sure I wouldn't get hurt."
There still is no word about the raccoon.
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| Today's
Celebrity Quotation: |
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education
- Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
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| Stand
Tall! |
Why does a flamingo lift up one leg?
Because if he lifted up both legs he would fall over! |
