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Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
IS IT THE BUDDY CHRIST ???


I found a Buddy Christ action figure at Pike Place Market in Seattle about a month ago. I should've bought him. They had Moses too.
MTFBWY. Always.

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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Holy crap! Sybeman's a Jedi Knight! I'm out of it for a little while... Damn, I hate that my computer's been broken!


Everybody gets delusions of grandeur.
MTFBWY. Always.

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Congratulations to everybody who has reached personal posting landmarks in the 4 days since I was last here. I bow to you all.

To mark my 1905th post, allow me to share a historical fact about the year 1905:

The Russian Revolution of 1905 began on “Bloody Sunday” when troops fired onto a defenseless group of demonstrators in St. Petersburg. Strikes and riots followed. This event would eventually lead to the rise of communism in Russia.

War does not make one great.

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1906: Finland is the first European country to give women the vote.

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1908: Petroleum production starts in Middle East (and the whole world lived happily ever after…)

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1914: Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo. World War 1 follows.

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1915: World War 1 continues. British oceanliner Lusitania sunk by German submarine, 1,195 perish. Second Battle of Ypres is fought.

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1916: Easter Rebellion in Ireland put down by British troops.

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1917: Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, seize power in Russia.

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1919: Treaty of Versailles, incorporating Woodrow Wilson's draft Covenant of League of Nations, signed by Allies and Germany; rejected by U.S. Senate.

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wow.. what a history lesson. thanks YIYF! now i have more useless trivia to wow my friends.

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Knowledge is power my friend. For example, imagine the power you can command with these snippets of knowledge:

1925: Adolf Hitler publishes Volume I of Mein Kampf

On March 25, 1925, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird gave a demonstration of televised silhouette images at Selfridge's Department Store in London. But if television is defined as the transmission of live, moving, half-tone (grayscale) images, and not silhouette or still images, Baird achieved this privately on October 2, 1925.

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The following year, 1926, Baird gave the world's first public demonstration of a working television system to members of the Royal Institution and a newspaper reporter on January 26 at his laboratory in London. Unlike later electronic systems with several hundred lines of resolution, Baird's vertically scanned image, using a scanning disk embedded with a double spiral of lenses, had only 30 lines, just enough to reproduce a recognizable human face.

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1927: Charles Lindbergh made the first nonstop solo transatlantic flight.

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1928: The first of Joseph Stalin's Five Year Plans imposes collectivization on agriculture in the Soviet Union.

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1929: St. Valentine's Day gangland massacre in Chicago (Feb. 14).

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1930: Nazis gain in German elections.

My Grandmother is born.

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1931: Gangster Al Capone sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion (freed in 1939; dies in 1947).

also in 1931, “The Star Spangled Banner” officially becomes the national anthem of the USA.

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1932: Amelia Earhart is first woman to fly Atlantic solo (May 20-21). 5 years later she would mysteriously disappear over the Pacific Ocean and wind up on the starship Voyager.

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1933: Yoko Ono, Japanese-born singer and artist, and future wife of John Lennon, is born on February 18th.

Merian C. Cooper directs the only version of King Kong the world will ever really need.

War does not make one great.