KFC and the Birthday Meme.

[lillbet]

Note to self- changing the status of the entry and deleting it. Not the same thing.

Comedian Patton Oswalt, who appeared in Dollhouse Ep. 6, finally tasted the KFC Famous Bowl he rips on in his act.

Best quote: “I’m sure I’m in serious need of some moral spankitude, but guess who’s not qualified to be my rabbi?"

Birthday meme. Apparently Oct. 12 is just the day to DO THINGS. Also, lotsa death and destruction. Edited down for cool stuff only:

• 1279 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk founder of Nichiren Buddhism, inscribes the Dai-Gohonzon
• 1492 – Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached South Asia
• 1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1692 – The Salem Witch Trials were ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.
• 1773 – America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia
• 1792 – First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York
• 1793 – The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid on the campus of the University of North Carolina
• 1810 – First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.
• 1823 – Charles Macintosh, of Scotland, sells the first raincoat.
• 1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited in unison by students in US public schools.
• 1901 – President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
• 1928 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston
• 1942 – World War II: Japanese ships retreat after their defeat in the Battle of Cape Esperance with the Japanese commander, Aritomo Gotō dying from wounds suffered in the battle and two Japanese destroyers sunk by Allied air attack.
• 1945 – World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
• 1953 – "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York
• 1960 – Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonialist policy being conducted in Eastern Europe
• 1964 – The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits
• 1970 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas
• 1979 – The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip.
• 1984 – Brighton hotel bombing: Margaret Thatcher survives an IRA bomb, which shredded her bathroom barely two minutes after she had left it.
• 1986 – Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's Republic of China
• 1999 – The Day of Six Billion: The proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born.
• 2005 – The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit.

Comments

[susanbones111.livejournal.com]

I was replying when it disappeared. *lol*

I would have to be starving, desperatly starving, to eat that bowl of salt and fat. But I did read the book, The Artist's Way, so I can relate to the comment, "I'm going to be boring and forgetful in my own potato-y way!".
It was a very cute review.

[andacus.livejournal.com]

Umm, there was a post and then there wasn't. I don't get it.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I love this, but the line that always gets me--the one I still find myself quoting to this day--is:

Everything inside the store—including the employees and customers—looked like it had been rubbed with sad ham.

[roh-wyn.livejournal.com]

See? The thing with Patton Oswalt is...his eloquence is actually going to make more people run out and try the darn thing. ;)

[lupislune.livejournal.com]

The company that I work for, designs most of the KFC, A&W, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut eateries on the west coast.

It is good that Baroness Thatcher didn't doodle too long in the water closet.

1582 that is quite amusing, not only because it is related to my surname, lol.

[andacus.livejournal.com]

Did you miss the part of the meme where it was only supposed to be 10 things to list? Or are you just that into yourself? :p