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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
Merian C. Cooper directs the only version of King Kong the world will ever really need.


I concur. I still haven't seen Peter Jackson's version, and really have no desire to.

Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.

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1935: Elvis Presley is born in Tupelo, Mississippi, January 8th.

War does not make one great.

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1937: SPAM is born! The first can of SPAM rolls off the production line. Originally called HORMEL Spiced Ham, the company holds a contest to create a name as distinctive as the taste. By combining the ‘sp’ from spiced and the ‘am’ from ham, the winner comes up with ‘SPAM'. Top prize: $100, and ultimate respect from me for sheer genius.

Later, in the 1990s, the word SPAM will become synonymous with internet junk mail and forum junk posting. And on that rather fitting note, I believe I will cease with today’s history lesson.

War does not make one great.

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You know, I genuinely enjoy eating Spam!

Since I was a kid I always got a can of Spam in both my Easter basket and my Christmas stocking. I was thrilled to go to Hawaii and try many different Spam recipes (as well as seeing it sold in McDonalds!) and even bought both volumes of the Hawaiian Spam Cookbooks!

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Did you know that in March 1941, Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act, providing aid to Allied forces, and Hormel shifted into wartime production? Soon SPAM Luncheon Meat was traveling to Britain and Russia to help meet quotas of 15 million cans a week. The "meat of many uses" soon achieved notoriety among the military as "the ham that didn't pass its physical" and a "meatball without basic training."

I think it's fair to say that without SPAM, we'd all be talking German today.

War does not make one great.

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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father

I think it's fair to say that without SPAM, we'd all be talking German today.


SPAM for Victory!!

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This one's for ADigitalMan.

1941: Dick Cheney was born on January 30th. Apparently the entire year lived in infamy.

Another bad thing that happened in 1941 was the Japanese surprise attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor which bought the U.S. into World War II. Seeing their homies were in trouble, Britain also declared war on Japan.

War does not make one great.

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WTF happened in this thread?
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
--Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), The Princess Bride
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Originally posted by: Bossk
WTF happened in this thread?
Sorry, I was bored and decided to boost my post count in a way that benefitted others as well as myself.

War does not make one great.

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A year-by-year account of world history... okay... sure, why not?
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
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I'm just getting why YIYF was posting the years as individual posts. Clever. Very clever indeed.
I am fluent in over six million forms of procrastination.
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yes it is. i wish i was that clever. but nothing really happened in the year 591...

In the year 591 AD the first city wall of Hangzhou was constructed.

oooh. a wall.

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I guess, in 1045 AD, Britain's Houses of Parliament were built in London
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
5880 YEAH BABY!!!


What happened in that year?
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Nothing big here, just 1050.

Congrats to all who have reached milestones in the couple days I've been away.
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Originally posted by: ricardo
yes it is. i wish i was that clever. but nothing really happened in the year 591...

In the year 591 AD the first city wall of Hangzhou was constructed.

oooh. a wall.


Hangzhou?

Gesundheit!
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Originally posted by: ricardo
yes it is. i wish i was that clever. but nothing really happened in the year 591...


I can't even fathom what might happen in my year, should the Earth actually still be around.
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
--Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), The Princess Bride
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Originally posted by: theredbaron
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.


GO TO VIEWASKEW.COM. YOU CAN EVEN GET ONE THAT GLOWS IN THE DARK.

"I'VE GROWN TIRED OF ASKING, SO THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME..."
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I am fluent in over six million forms of procrastination.
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Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
Originally posted by: theredbaron
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.


GO TO VIEWASKEW.COM. YOU CAN EVEN GET ONE THAT GLOWS IN THE DARK.


At my local comic shop, I saw a Jesus Soap-on-a-Rope. The tag line was "Now cleanliness really is next to Godliness!"