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  1. Posted

    5 hours ago, Tom Sewell said:

    I wonder why Dan never did something with KP, at least a cameo. EGS and KP are both about teenagers in high school mixed in with weird and (mostly) humorous adventures.

    It might have worked as a One Shot, Filler, Sketchbook, or stand alone NP comic back in the early days of EGS.  The Mouse's legal team probably would have regarded it much like all the other KP fan art out there.  But the Disney Lawyers can be very protective of their property if it is used commercially.  And Dan has been making money off EGS for some time now.  Maybe not much, but it doesn't take much blood to attract sharks.

    Setting aside the copyright issues.  It would be difficult to work the KP & Co characters into one of the long EGS story arcs organically.

    That said, with a new live action Kim Possible movie scheduled to premier on the Disney Chanel next year, it will probably be quickly released to video.  There are ways the EGS characters might talk about Kim Possible within the context of the comic.  Susan and Elliot discussing the video on their review show comes to mind almost immediately.  Or perhaps Justin and Grace playing that instead of Spaceballs during the card tournament.  After all, Nanase and Ellen were more than ready to solve a mystery.  Or rewrite history.  Woo-oo.

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    18 September

    1066 – Norwegian King Harald Hardrada (he also claimed the throne of Denmark and who knows what else) lands with Tostig Godwinson at the mouth of the Humber River and begins his invasion of England.  English forces eventually kill Hardrada at the Battle of Stamford Bridge and England's King Harold Godwinson keeps his crown.  Under most circumstances, repelling one foreign invader/usurper in a given year is more than enough.

    1714 – George I arrives in Great Britain after becoming king on August 1st.  It took him a while to find his way since he had never been there before.

    1837 – Tiffany & Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".  They still deal in "Fancy Goods".

    1919 – The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.  The Dutch Kingdom also gives women the right to pay their own way on a date.

    1927 – The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.  Despite what the name may suggest this is an English language radio, and later television, network operating in the USA.

    1928 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.  Ok, the Autogyro may not be quite what Juan De La Cierva originally had in mind when he set out to design an aircraft that wouldn't stall at slow speeds.  And it may be so rarely used that spellcheck doesn't recognize the name "autogyro" as a standard English word.  But at least it still beats an Ornithopter.

    1931 – The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.  Manchuria, don't blame your self for "Giving Japan an Excuse".  If a country is looking for a pretext for military activity, they will usually find it.

    1939 – World War II: The radio show Germany Calling begins transmitting Nazi propaganda.  Even with an announcer named Lord Haw Haw, the show really isn't all that funny.

    1943 – World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.  The orders didn't specify neutral Sweden as the destination.  But somehow that is where most of them went.

    1945 – General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.  With the Japanese Emperor scheduled to renounce his divinity, MacArthur wanted to be in position to take up that mantle.

    1948 – Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of the army of Hyderabad.  When Britain gave up its control over India and Pakistan, the so-called Princely States that were not directly controlled by Britain technically had the right to remain independent, or seek unification with India or Pakistan on their own terms.   Apparently India didn't agree with that part of the treaty.

    2001 – The 2001 Anthrax attacks begin.  The enduring lesson is that using the US Postal Service may be the least effective way to spread Anthrax.

  6. Posted

    17 September

     I can't believe you forgot the big one...

    1859 – Joshua A. Norton contacts the newspapers of San Francisco, California, and declares himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States."  Mainstream historians would later try to revise history by portraying the Emperor as insane.  But does declaring yourself a ruler without the support of the citizens, religion, military, or other politicians really mean that you are insane?

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  7. Posted · Edited by Pharaoh RutinTutin
    Posted before I was finished writing

    If you're not feeling well, take all the time you need.

    Moderator is not a duty that should compromise your health or sanity.  Your sanity needs to be compromised before you take the job.

    6 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    I was looking at Youtube videos and my brain insisted that one was titled "How will undecided Senators evaluate alligators?" I made the operative decision that I need to withdraw a bit and I will leave the alligator problem in Pharaoh's capable hands.

    I don't see what the problem would be.  Given a choice between Senators and Alligators?  Well, I think you know which side I support.

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    16 September

    1620 – Pilgrims set sail from England on the Mayflower...  Skip ahead a few years...  So now a New York department store holds a parade to advertise Christmas shopping while the rest of America eats a turkey late in November.

    1701 – James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.  Guys, "what-if" games are a fine academic exercise.   But by the Eighteenth Century, Britain was already more "Parliamentary" than "Monarchy".  Parliament said that the crown would pass through Sophia of Hanover instead of any other descendant of that King they named after the Bible.  Holding your breath until you're as blue as the Nile won't make the government drop what they're doing and put you in charge.

    1810 – With the Grito de Dolores, the Cry of Dolores,  Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain.  A few people in the Spanish government begin to question if perhaps they should have saved some of that gold they had been looting from the Americas rather than spend it on European wars as soon as they moved it over the Atlantic.

    1893 – Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.  This is the fourth and largest of the Oklahoma homesteading land runs.  And once again "Sooners", or settlers entering the designated territory before the event officially began, claim much of the best land.  A majority of the legitimate participants were unable to secure claims for  themselves.

    1908 – The General Motors Corporation is founded. "...what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa." Charles E. Wilson, GM CEO, 1952, in Confirmation hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

    1920 – The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 people and injuring 40.  The property damage, other than the horse and wagon, was mostly superficial.  The human victims were mostly young messengers, clerks, and stenographers.  It is suspected that the perpetrator was an anti-capitalist agitator.  Possibly Communist or Anarchist.  Unfortunately for the bomber, the most wealthy and powerful capitalists escaped injury.  Unfortunately for justice, New York's zeal to clean up the mess and get back to work the next day wound up destroying most of the evidence so no particular culprit was ever identified or prosecuted.

    1945 – World War II: The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.  Is it possible they some how didn't get word that the rest of the Japanese Empire had already surrendered two weeks ago?

    1955 – The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.  Don't cry for me, Argentina.  And while you're at it, don't shoot or arrest me either.

    1961 – The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed happens to fall by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury.  Fidel Castro and a generation of conspiracy theorists are convinced that the US Government is controlling hurricanes as weapons.  The US Government, in actual reality, is forced to concede a point that the legitimate meteorologists claimed all along.  Humans can't control hurricanes.  A terrifying prospect.

    1966 – The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.  Why must so many Operas about Egypt revolve around that Ptolemaic Queen?  Sneferu led quite the colorful life.  And Imhotep more than deserves artistic recognition.  Cleo just accelerated the end of both an independent Egypt and the Republic of Rome.

    1976 – Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.  Injuries and infections from this event end his competitive career.  The title "Hero" is used a lot in sports.  So often that many people forget what it is actually supposed to mean.

    1987 – The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.  This is good news indeed.  Now can someone pass the SPF One Million Sunblock?

  11. Posted

    14 September

    1656 – Birth of Thomas Baker, English historian and author.  Official records state that he died in 1746.  But we know that Tom Baker is just one alias for a historical expert with a unique perspective.

    1741 – George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.  The work would not premier until the next April.  Which means that the Christmas of 1741 was the last time no one demanded that the Hallelujah Chorus be included in the Christmas Concert.

    1752 – In the last step of a process that had taken almost two years, the British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar by skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).  Of course, no where in the legislation is the Gregorian Calendar specifically mentioned.  This was entirely an original idea on the part of the British Parliament that just happened to synchronize their dates to the calendar being used in the rest of Western Europe.

    1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée enters Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city.  And if we are to believe Tchaikovsky, both the French and Russian army bands were forced to replace their regular percussion with artillery.

    1954 – In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.  Not to get too nitpicky, but, if we know about it, was it really "Top Secret"?

    1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.  Up until this point, the only disk concerns with computers would be the swollen disks between the vertebrae of the people trying to move those early computers.

    1959 – According to the official records, the Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.  But how did Beethoven write the Moonlight Sonata without going there?

    1975 – The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.  Apparently, deceased American Catholics are not causing enough miraculous intercessions to get noticed by the Vatican.  Even after you're dead, you can still help your country.

    2007 – Financial crisis of 2007–2008: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.  But according to Mary Poppins, there was a run on a bank in London in 1910.  Please don't make me chose between encyclopaedical or Disney history.

    2015 – The first observation of gravitational waves was made.  But the official announcement by the teams studying the LIGO and Virgo collaborations was not made until 11 February 2016.  Deliberately checking data for months before making a significant announcement?  What would happen if politicians and mainstream news sources got into that kind of habit?

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    13 September

    509 BC – The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated.  It can also transform into a tractor-trailer or a large humanoid robot.

    1437 – Battle of Tangier: a Portuguese expeditionary force initiates a failed attempt to seize the Moroccan citadel of Tangier.  Next time, the Portuguese Navy should just buy a few tangerine trees.  They will grow almost anywhere in greenhouses.

    1541 – After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism.  Almost as if he was predestined to lead this reformation...

    1743 – Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.  This treaty was one of the worst diplomatic moves Britain ever made.  But I will take any opportunity to mention the City of Worms.

    1791 – King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.  A nice gesture.  But probably too little, too late.

    1814 – In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore. During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", which is later set to music and becomes the United States' national anthem.  But there had to be better tunes that could fit the meter of the poem.  Singing John Stafford Smith's Anacreontic Song is not as easy as entwining the myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine.

    1848 – Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives an iron rod 1 1⁄4 inches (3.2 cm) in diameter being driven through his brain; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions.  One of the first assumptions to be challenged is that a human brain through which an iron rod has been driven can not function.

    1899 – Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.  He would not be the last.

    1985 – Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the Famicom (NES), which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.  If human history somehow survives this, it has a chance of surviving anything.

    1987 – Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.  Turns out that radioactive material does not stop being radioactive when you are done using it.  Who knew?

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    12 September

    490 BC – Battle of Marathon: The conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon. Some sources insist that the date was a month earlier based on excuses the Spartans gave for not participating in the fight.  The Athenians and their Plataean allies defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece.  This proved  two things to the Greeks.  First, the Persians were not invincible.  Second, the other Greek states could defend themselves without relying on or submitting to Sparta.

    1213 – Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Battle of Muret.  This was A Crusade where French Nobles didn't need to leave their home country or learn a foreign language.  Plus they could still kill people to claim their victim's property with the blessings of the Church.

    1846 – Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning.  Someone should write a poem about this.

    1847 – Mexican–American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.  Despite heavy losses, US Marines are victorious in a battle near an old Aztec fortress.  Someone should write a song about this.

    1933 – Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.  Designing the atomic bomb because he was stuck in traffic.  This is the ultimate case of road rage.

    1940 – Old graffiti is discovered in caves near Lascaux, France.  Some see it as a treasure of prehistoric art.  Others see it as a lot of bull.

    1953 – U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.

    1958 – Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.  That circuit was integrated without a court order and without the protection of Federal Marshals.

    1962 – On their ninth anniversary, President Kennedy is overheard paraphrasing Jackie Gleason's "To the Moon" line to his wife, Jackie, at Rice University.   Improvising, he expands this comment into the "We choose to go to the Moon" speech.

    1966 – Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program.  This flight reaches an altitude of 739 nautical miles, and remains the current human altitude record holder.  Except, of course, for the Apollo missions that went to the Moon.  This is less than the drive from Detroit to Winnipeg or Pensacola.  Less than the distance from Copenhagen to Monaco.  Closer than Alexandria to Baghdad.

    1983 – A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.  People robbing Wells Fargo?  This was 1983, not 1893.

    1983 – The USSR vetoes a United Nations Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007.  Apparently nothing you do is deplorable as long as you have a Veto on the UN Security council.

    1992 – In a desperate bid to prove their inclusiveness, NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.

  20. Posted

    09 September

    9 AD – Arminius' alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.  The Roman Legions were not invincible.  Rome was, however, able to hire mercenary legions to retaliate against you faster than you could appeal to your fellow barbarian tribes to  unite with you  in opposition to Rome.

    337 – Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors. The Roman Empire is divided between the three Augusti.  A typical political family made up of Con-men.

    999 or 1000 – Battle of Svolder or Øresund.  On or about this date a naval battle between Nordic nobles determined many of the details that would eventually mark the end of the Viking era and the transition of Northern European culture into the High Middle Ages.  The earliest existing Icelandic record of the event was written two centuries after the fact and is regarded by almost everyone as unreliable.    Please, for the sake of all future historians, before you kill or are killed, document everything.

    1087 – William Rufus becomes King of England, taking the title William II.  The title of King Rufus will remain unclaimed among English speaking monarchs until the Naked Mole Rat Uprising.

    1776 – The Continental Congress officially names its union of states the United States.  They never gave serious consideration to naming the country "Fred".

    1791 – Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.  Legend claims that George Washington chose the point where the city should start by throwing a silver dollar across the Potomac River.  This could not happen today because everyone knows that a dollar doesn't go as far anymore.  Thank you.  I'll be here all week.  Be sure to tip your waitress.

    1801 – Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of Baltic provinces.  Would any of these include the "Privilege" of not being a vassal state to Russia?

    1839 – John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.  Eventually he would discover things outside his kitchen to observe and study.

    1863 – American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.  This trip did not involve a Choo-Choo at Track 29

    1939 – World War II: The Battle of Hel begins, the longest-defended pocket of Polish Army resistance during the German invasion of Poland.  As has been observed by so many others, War is Hel.

    1956 – Elvis Presley appears on the Ed Sullivan Show for the first time, from the waist up.

  22. Posted

    08 September

    617 – Battle of Huoyi: Li Yuan defeats a Sui dynasty army, opening the path to his capture of the imperial capital Chang'an and the eventual establishment of the Tang dynasty.  Yet even with the dynasty founded, they never appreciated the value the orange flavored powder would have towards enabling human space flight.

    1253 – Pope Innocent IV canonizes Stanislaus of Szczepanów, killed by king Bolesław II.   This is a warning from the Pope to all Kings, everywhere.  If you kill the Bishops that annoy you, they will be canonized.

    1504 – Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Piazza della Signoria in Florence.  There have been more than enough wardrobe malfunction comments about this statue over the years.  I just have one question.  Why is this marble depiction of one of the greatest heroes of the Hebrew people uncircumcised?

    1565 – The Knights of Malta lift the Ottoman siege of Malta that began on May 18.  At the next breakfast, they all sit down for Malta Meal.  It's good stuff, Maynard.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoAJNn6SETs

    1775 – The unsuccessful Rising of the Priests in Malta.  Obviously they skipped breakfast, because winners warm up with Malta Meal.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpBzck6HJtA

    1888 – In England, the first six Football League matches are played.  Everything before this point is mostly footnote.  History really begins with Football.

    1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.  As originally published, the Pledge does not specifically mention "The United States of America" or "Under God", and yet it is popular and patriotic on its own.

    1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.  The "Scotch" brand name was originally an insult towards the manufacturers from the early testers who thought that the makers were far too stingy with the adhesive chemicals.  Even though it was an insult about a lack of stickiness, the name somehow stuck.

    1945 – The division of Korea begins when United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.  Just like with Germany, this division of a country between the United States and the Soviet Union will almost certainly be a temporary situation.

    1966 – "The Man Trap" airs on NBC.  This is the first episode to be broadcast of a new science fiction series.  It probably won't last long or amount to much.

    1974 – Watergate scandal: US President Gerald Ford signs the pardon of Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.  Strangely, this was an attempt to save money.  If the incoming President has already decided that he intends to pardon the outgoing President, then the legal process becomes an expensive side show distracting the government from the work it needs to do.  Having the prosecutors investigate and file charges.  Depositions.  Court appearances.  Hearings.  Procedures.  Appeals.  Why bother when the Commander in Chief has already decided what he will do when the dust settles?  Pardon everything in advance, and there isn't even a need for an investigation in the first place.  Yes, the Pardon was purely for economic reasons and not political payback.

  24. Posted

    Susan, I am disappointed on two separate matters.

    First, you don't need any additional excuse.
    If the offense is twitch-worthy, it is rant-worthy.
    And for that matter, it is Hammer-worthy, but Mr Tensaided probably frowns on hammering customers.  Especially those customers you can hammer on your own time.

    Second, wearing WHITE cartoon gloves AFTER Labor Day?
    Have you no sense of fashion or style?

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