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Stoogey

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  1. 1912. The Vanderbilt Cup Race went through my neighborhood.
  2. Police raid on the Rainbow Players musical Tutankhamun! ?
  3. Tiki was in the line up for criminal trespass 6/11/18. DOB: 6/6/78. Brand new neck tattoo and hair color. This is one of her better mugshots over the past eleven years.
  4. September 29,1888. On this date 130 years ago, Scotland Yard receives a letter signed Jack the Ripper forwarded from Central News Agency. The letter was regarded as a fake due to Central News Agency's dubious reputation (police suspected journalist Thomas John Bulling of writing the "Dear Boss" letter and "Saucy Jack" postcard to boost circulation) but we continue to refer to the killer as Jack the Ripper and not the Whitechapel Murderer or Leather Apron.
  5. At this time in 1990, Texan blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan died when his helicopter crashed into a ski hill at Alpine Valley Resort after a concert with Eric Clapton at the Alpine Valley amphitheater in East Troy, Wisconsin.
  6. How did Bambi evolve from The Prince Of The Forest to a stripper name?
  7. Airport vehicles blocking runway in desperate attempt to prevent Post Malone from landing.
  8. Valerie Bertinelli reprises her role of Barbara Cooper Royer from the beloved television program One Day At A Time. Stinging from a fresh divorce, Barbara moves to a lake house in a small rural community. A series of unsettling events (footprints in dirt, broken window, a locked door left open while she is on her weekly trip to the city offices of the women's fashion magazine she edits) leads plucky Barbara to believe she is being stalked. The one-man police force is helpless to act without solid evidence and even casts doubt on Barbara's claims. Is she imagining things? In a Lifetime Movie Network plot twist, the stalker is revealed as Julie Cooper, Barbara's sister from One Day At A Time, played by wingding extraordinaire Mackenzie Phillips. Or maybe Valerie's real life former husband, guitarist Eddie Van Halen.
  9. Global warming is a real thing. A highlight of an Alaskan cruise is sailing Glacier Bay. First time my wife and I saw the glacier calving icebergs twice during the hour we the ship spent there. The ship is far enough away that you see the iceberg falling before hearing the sharp crack noise of the ice separating, rumble and splash. On our most recent trip it sounded like being at a rifle range, the glacier was calving so frequently. The activity has caused the glacier to retreat more than twenty miles from Captain Cook's maps in some places. Also the lake in front of the Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau - I would have described it as a pond thirty years ago.
  10. Way ahead of you. My house is almost one hundred years old. Not as easy as it sounds. Replacements parts such as fuses were getting hard to find. Whenever I went to a small town with an old hardware store I'd buy all the fuses. (Pre-internet.) Had circuit breakers installed twenty-some years ago to replace assorted fuse boxes and switches that looked like they came out of Dr Frankenstein's lab. Also had the cloth-insulation wiring and wall switches replaced to bring things up to code. The switch looked something like this: My power goes out two or three times a year so I still have the infinite pleasure of resetting the microwave oven clock.
  11. There's a triple switch in my living room, one of which turns off the outlet for the television set. Can't tell you how many times during the 1980s I had to reset the clock and programming on the VCR because my wife flipped the wrong switch.
  12. Years ago I had my first apartment up on the sixteenth floor. Due to some peculiarity I could hear conversations at street level when the windows were open which they often because valve on the steam radiator wasn't working properly. Got to be Christmas and the one of the neighbors living in a house far below got a puppy for Christmas. They named it Butchy. At first everything was great but within a few months the guy became abusive to the dog. I could hear the shouting, the thump of him kicking the dog and the dog whimpering. I'd go to the window to try to identify which of the neighbors was involved but I couldn't see the yards through the canopy of trees. Summer turned to autumn and one morning the shouting began earlier than usual. Butchy started growling. Suddenly there were cries of pain. "No, Butchy! Stop, Butchy!" Good for you, Butchy. Good boy! Every dog has its day and Butchy had his. I celebrated with a beer. I can't stand people who abuse animals - or children or women for that matter. After that, one of his kids must have been assigned dog care because there wasn't any more shouting or whimpering.
  13. If Ernest Borgnine wasn't dead he'd kick your ass.
  14. Washcloths are okay. Poof ball things are good. Loofahs are better. Salux exfoliating washcloths are the best. A new level of clean. And it is 11" X 35" / 28cm X 90cm - big enough to scrub your own back. Trust me.
  15. Didn't get the memo about not using Imgur three months ago?
  16. My wife named the cat Ginger. When the cat got lost, she walked around the neighborhood. "Gin! Gin Gin!" Sounded like a girl on a bender. When my wife got back home I was on the porch with an extension cord and the electric can opener and Ginger and about fifteen other cats.
  17. 薩英戦争 (Satsuma War) AKA Bombardment of Kagoshima. August 15 - 17, 1863. The British demanded £100,000 for the Namamugi Outrage, in which Charles Lennox Richardson was killed for not showing the proper respect to the Japanese regent. The shogun was in Kyoto; the bakufu (Tokugawa shogunate administrators) paid the British but Satsuma Province refused to apologize by executing the two samurai and paying a £25,000 compensation to Richardson's survivors. The reasoning was the Unequal Treaties. An example is white people behaving as they pleased without obeying Japanese law and custom which caused a growing anti-foreigner sentiment. Emperor Komei decreed the "Order to expel barbarians". After months of stalled "negotiations", British warships sailed from Yokohama Bay into Kagoshima Harbor. To teach the Japanese a lesson, they pirated several commercial steamships (which they burned to the waterline - pissing off the British sailors as they wouldn't have a share in the plundered prize money). Meanwhile, Satsuma Province had enough of the British shit . The city was evacuated and shore batteries began firing on the ships. Suffering heavy losses, the British left. It is curious how often American and European powers resorted to naval and military action against foreign cities and fortresses if things didn't go their way.
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