Time Traveler?

Okay – this one is weird. Somebody spotted something strange in an old Charlie Chaplin movie. Footage of the 1928 movie ‘The Circus’ shows a street scene – and there’s a woman walking across the set in the background…talking on a cell phone. At least it looks like a cell phone. Some people are saying the obvious answer to the conundrum…she has to be a time traveler caught on film.  Watch this:

Then the obvious question to their obvious answer…so who’s she talking to?  Because we’d been looking at some unbelievable roaming charges!!

Music History 101: October 28, 1961 - A customer asked London record store owner Brian Epstein for a record called "My Bonnie" by a hot new Liverpool band. Epstein didn’t have it, but he went to the Cavern Club to check out the group and signed them a few days later. It was the Beatles.

History 101: October 28, 1793 - Eli Whitney applies for a patent for his cotton gin.

The 101 number one song of the day was written in a schoolyard, the instruments used to back up the writing process were cardboard boxes and it went on to be the biggest hit of one rock’s early icons.  His career got its start when he and members of his neighborhood gang (the Fordham Baldies) recorded for songs as a Valentine’s present for his mother. His proud mom played the songs for friends and one of them knew someone who worked for a small label called Mohawk Records. Although they never got together, the experience led to interest in him elsewhere and when he and friends formed a group and named themselves after a street near their homes, it led to a string of hits. Fast forward now to 1961 – by this time today’s featured singer had ventured out on his own but hadn’t left his neighborhood in the Bronx. It was there, while banging on cardboard boxes, that today’s 101 number one song of the day was born. It was at the top on October 28th, 1961 for the former Belmont – Dion “Runaround Sue”

Other Stuff:

Remember Balloon Boy dad Richard Heene?  Well he’s back and in a big way!  At least he’s hoping that his new invention will catch on -

While the BearScratcher is getting some attention, this next innovation was all over the news this morning.  Kimberly-Clark is test marketing a revolutionary new toilet paper – there’s no cardboard roll in the center. They say it still fits on the dispenser…but now every sheet is useable – there’s not a few at the end of the role glued to the cardboard. They say it’s a new ‘green product – because there’s no cardboard tube to throw away. If it tests well – they hope to take it national…with Scott Natural Tube Free Toilet Paper.

They’re going to ‘roll it out’…hoping to wipe out the competition.

NASA is working on their next big mission in space…and this one’s a doozy! It’s called The Hundred Years Starship…with plans to send astronauts to Mars to colonize the red planet. But here’s the catch – whoever goes…knows they’re never coming back! The astronauts would be sent supplies from earth on a regular basis – but there’s no economical way to get them back. NASA said the astronauts would have to become self-sufficient as quickly as possible…and once we’re established on Mars we can move to other planets. And NASA also admits each astronaut would have to come to grips with the fact there would be a good chance of dying during the mission.

Volunteers? Anybody? Anyone? Let’s see some hands!

Weird dental requests coming out of England. Dentists there say more and more people are requesting a cosmetic procedure to add a gap between their front teeth. The process involves sanding down between the two front teeth and the dentists say they warn all their patients once you have it done – you can’t un-do it.  And the spokesman is?

-That’s a shocking story…in that I didn’t know they even had dentists in England!!

We’re just days away from election day and Democratic incumbent Loretta Sanchez is running for reelection in California. Her opponent just put out a ‘scratch and sniff’ postcard slamming her. When scratched, the postcard smells like garbage. Her opponent claims it’s the stench from Washington.

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