Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Today is UFO Day

marking the first reported sighting of a UFO in America by Pilgrims in Boston.   Wonder if the flying saucer looked something like this?

pilgrim hat

The year was 1644.

History 101: The Sandwich Islands were discovered by Captain Cook 232 years ago today.  And what did they look like?

sandwich islands

 

Not really, more like this-

hawaii-map-2

we now call those islands, Hawaii.

music history 1011996: Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce after 20 months of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences. from Michael Jackson.

michael and lisa marie

The 101 number one song of the day was recorded by a short-lived group that got its start at a trendy Hollywood party. The two founding members were drawn together because they stuck out like sore thumbs.  All the guests were expected to wear white. Peter Beckett, a guitarist from Liverpool showed up wearing blue jeans. Only one other partygoer was dressed in the same way – John Charles Crowley, a musician who hailed from Galveston Bay, Texas. The struck up a conversation and soon decided to get together for a jam session. Because the session went so well they decided to form a band which eventually recorded today’s 101 number one song of the day which topped the charts on January 18, 1978. They decided on a name for the band while watching TV – after a show the credits rolled up listing the “Players.” They dropped the “S” and became simply “Player” (Baby Come Back.)

player 2

And this was a surprise:  Sometimes we assume something to be “easy” and it doesn’t turn out that way.  Today’s 101 Gold Nugget of Knowledge came from Men’s Health Magazine:  40% of men said their significant other does this about every month or so and 1% of men admitted to doing it about every 5-10 years.  What is it?

It took about 45 minutes and lots of wrong answers to come up with the correct one:  Cry

This man cries about ever 5-10 minutes:

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