Sunday, November 22, 2009

You should not be allowed to use the good scissors,

If you need this product.



or cook for that matter.


November 22, 1940 -
This is Bette Davis at her best - The Letter, premiered in NYC on this date.



Due to the restrictive the Production Code, the film ending is different from the original play because it would not allow one of its characters be seen to get away with adultery and murder.


Today in History
November 22, 1888 -
Tarzan of the Apes (Lord Greystoke) was born on this date, according to Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel.




November 22, 1928 -
"Bolero" by Maurice Ravel has it's first public performance in Paris.



Forget about Bo Derek, sex itself, is never the same.


November 22, 1963 -

A covert CIA operation privately funded by a plutocratic cabal of multinational industrial interests acting in conjunction with extraterrestrial forces and the Knights Templar succeeded in making it appear that Lee Harvey Oswald had assassinated President John F. Kennedy, on this date.


Or this this is too much for you, you can always believe in the MAGIC BULLET.


November 22, 1968 -
Many a KKK member and Daughter of the Civil War were given the vapors on this date in history.



Capt. Kirk (William Shatner) and Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) share the first interracial kiss in TV history on Star Trek.


November 22, 1975 -
Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias is proclaimed king of Spain after he confirms with advisers that Francisco Franco planned to be dead for a while.


Juan Carlos is related to both Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip (and as you know they are related to each other.) To confuse matters even more, his wife Queen Sofia, is related to all three of them.


November 22, 1995 -
Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.





33 more shopping days until Christmas, 20 more shopping days until Hanukkah.

And so it goes

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