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  6. Posted

    Who buoy!

    I still think that Vladia is Greg's yet-to-be-confirmed girlfriend.
    But if a certain immortal happened to be jealous?
    This might be part of the reason why we have not seen Vladia in the story comics since the video call on Grace's birthday.

  7. Posted

    April 27

    1667 – Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.This fails to discourage future generations of writers.

    1791 – Birth of Samuel Morse.  Or as he would later put it, .---- --... ----. .---- / -... .. .-. - .... / --- ..-. / ... .- -- ..- . .-.. / -- --- .-. ... .

    1932 – Birth of Casey Kasem.  Zoinks!

    1939 – Birth of Judy Carne.  Sock it to me!

    1945 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.  This was the second time Il Duce was arrested during the war.  He would not escape a second time.

    1953 – Korean War:  Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea.  The first MiG pilot does not land in South Korea until after the Cease-Fire.

    1981 – Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.  They follow that with a computer cat to catch the mouse, a computer dog to catch the cat, and I don't know why she swallowed the fly.

    1987 – The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the USA, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.  Only ten years after NASA included his voice as an official greeting, as UN Secretary General, on the Voyager Records.

  9. Posted

    April 26

    1607 – English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.  They know the location because they hear singing "I'm Henry The Cape, I Am."

    1777 – Sybil Ludington, aged 16, rode 40 miles to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces.  This was more than twice as far as Revere rode in 1775.  I guess Longfellow couldn't come up with a good rhyme for Ludington.

    1803 – Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist.  Is it possible that Aristotle might have been wrong about something?

    1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.  This is the first military victory for the US on foreign soil since the Revolutionary War.  The Corps will recall this battle as the Shores of Tripoli.

    1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.  The event convinces Moon Scientists that Earth Probes exist.  Is it possible that Aristotle might have been wrong about something?

    1986 – A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.  Three Mile Island, PA sends heartfelt thanks.

  11. Posted

    6 hours ago, Vorlonagent said:

    Novelty is a poor reason to vote for a candidate.

    Trouble is that there are even worse reasons, and A LOT of even worse candidates.

    10 hours ago, Illjwamh said:

    1792 - Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle pens a startlingly gory call to arms that French citizens still sing proudly today whenever one of their countrymen wins a bobsled medal or something.

    Admittedly, cutting the throats of your women and your sons while watering your fields with your enemy's blood is a bit gory.
    But is it really worse than singing about a British fleet that couldn't hit the broad side of a flag?

  13. Posted

    4 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    griffins are not things.

    What if the Griffins are Law Speakers in a Viking proto-parliament?

    And while it can be considered rude to refer to intelligent life forms as "things", we are things.
    At the least, our form is collection of things that together form a thing that we conventionally refer to as a person and not a thing.
    But a pile of things is still a thing.

  14. Posted

    Thousands of something is just ten times more than hundreds of something.
    So depending on the observer's point of view and position on the Hyperbole-Understatement scale, "hundreds" or "thousands" may be referring to the same number.

    This is one of those times when you really need Grandma to show up and explain to the kiddies exactly what it is they have been using as toys in the attic.

     

  17. Posted

    Not too long ago I found myself thinking about the Demonic Duck.

    I was thinking that Dan's story telling style and abilities had changed so much over the years that he probably would not need gimmicks like the Demonic Duck anymore.

    I also thought that DC did not need gimmicks like Bat-Mite any more.

  18. Posted

    57 minutes ago, Southern Cross said:

    Kevin is actually at least as useful than the current magic detection wand, and not as annoying.

    As useful as the current Magic Detection Wand?  Perhaps.

    However, I am guessing that Kevin may be incredibly annoying in his own way.

  20. Posted

    April 21

    753 BC – Romulus founds Rome.  The Star Empire came later.

    1509 – Death of Henry VII of England.  His son's Coronation Anthem would later become a hit for Herman's Hermits.

    1898 – The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports.  When the U.S. Congress issued a declaration of war on April 25, it declared that a state of war had existed from this date.  Engaging an enemy before formally declaring war is a strategy that will certainly never be used against the US.

    1918 – German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, better known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.  Some of the most intense fighting of the First World War breaks out between various allied units claiming responsibility for the kill.

    1926 – The Duchess of York gives birth to a girl.  Although third in line to the throne at birth, no one really expects Elizabeth Alexandra Mary to ever become Queen.

    1934 – The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail.  In 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax.  Who would have thought that the Surgeon's Photograph might have been doctored?

    1962 – The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.  Its most enduring legacy is the ability to quickly identify the location of series "Frasier" simply by the outline in the title.

    1963 – The first election of the Universal House of Justice is held.  This is regarding the establishment of the supreme governing institution of the Bahá'í Faith.  Not the longstanding team up of Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Batman and Robin.

    1977 – The musical "Annie" opens on Broadway, giving radio and TV weathermen their most overused musical cue ever.

  22. Posted

    We know felines, despite being vertebrates, are so much more flexible than humans that they are effectively liquid.

    Catgirl Catalina.
    We know the cat ears are cute, the night vision is useful, and the retractable claws can be a nasty surprise.
    But the flexibility would seem to be the characteristic that should define what it is to be a felinized hominid.

  24. Posted

    9 hours ago, Drasvin said:

    ...I blame my memory. It rebels against me sometimes.

     

    8 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    I hear you. Memory is like a whatchamacallit.

    The older you get, The more you forget
    To remember what you should recall.
    You fill up the blanks in your memory with things
    That may not have happened at all.