a day to call in well.
It’s also Computer Security Day.
And it’s Perpetual Youth Day
always on the birthday of Dick Clark who is 82 today. And he doesn’t look a day over 28 (of course in this picture that’s his actual age!)
1960: The last DeSoto is built by Chrysler, which had decided to retire the brand after 32 years.
Music History 101: 1996 A singer whose birth name was Herbert Khaury died after performing the song that made him famous at a benefit concert in Minneapolis. He was better known as Tiny Tim and his big hit was “Tiptoe Thru’ The Tulips”
The 101 number one song of the day was hated by the lead singer of the group that recorded it– not because he didn’t like the melody but rather because it hit much too close to home.
Dennis Edwards remembers the first time he heard the song, he got terribly upset. Eventually, he grew to love the song but not until it got to number one and won a Grammy to boot. The original problem was a particular lyric: “It was the third of September/That day I’ll always remember/Cause that was the day my daddy died.” As it happened, that was the day Dennis’ father actually did die, although he was a real preacher, not the kind portrayed in the song which reached number one on this week in December, 1972 for the Temptations (Papa Was a Rolling Stone)
and finally,
A new urinal-based video game system uses infrared sensors to enable men to steer down a ski slope by aiming their urine to the left, right, or center. Tech Digest describes the invention as "featuring a 12-inch LCD screen with an Atom-dual core microprocessor running Windows 7 embedded, Captive Media’s urinal game features a patented contact-less sensor unit that tracks the heat and movement of a user’s urine stream. It’s a bit like a Wii motion-sensor for wee.”
A bar in London is said to be the first to install the system in their men’s room.
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