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Back to the Future Turns 30 Today

Posted on July 3, 2015 by James| Comments Off on Back to the Future Turns 30 Today
Back to the Future was released on July 3, 1985.

Back to the Future was released on July 3, 1985.

 

Posted in On This Day, The Big Screen

RIP Andy Griffith

Posted on July 3, 2015 by James| Comments Off on RIP Andy Griffith
Andy Griffith

Andrew Samuel “Andy” Griffith (June 1, 1926 – July 3, 2012)

Andy Griffith was an American actor, director, producer, Grammy Award-winning Southern-gospel singer, and writer. He gained prominence in the starring role in director Elia Kazan’s epic film, A Face in the Crowd (1957) before he became better known for his television roles, playing the lead characters in the 1960–68 situation comedy, The Andy Griffith Show, and in the 1986–95 legal drama, Matlock. Griffith was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by US President George W. Bush on November 9, 2005. Griffith died on July 3, 2012 at the age of 86.

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Posted in Because I Can, On This Day, The Little Screen (Television)

Anniversary of the Disappearance of Amelia Earhart

Posted on July 2, 2015 by James| Comments Off on Anniversary of the Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart (July 24, 1897 – 1937?)

Amelia Earhart SignatureAmelia Mary Earhart (July 24, 1897 – disappeared 1937) was a noted American aviation pioneer and author.Earhart was the first woman to receive the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross,awarded for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.  Earhart joined the faculty of the Purdue University aviation department in 1935 as a visiting faculty member to counsel women on careers and help inspire others with her love for aviation. She was also a member of the National Woman’s Party, and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment.

During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10 Electra, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Fascination with her life, career and disappearance continues to this day.

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Posted in On This Day, Planes Trains and Automobiles

Happy Birthday, Mr. “The King”

Posted on July 2, 2015 by James| Comments Off on Happy Birthday, Mr. “The King”

Richard Petty

Richard Lee Petty (born July 2, 1937) is a former NASCAR driver who raced in the Strictly Stock/Grand National Era and the NASCAR Winston Cup Series. “The King”, as he is nicknamed, is most well-known for winning the NASCAR Championship seven times, winning a record 200 races during his career, winning the Daytona 500 a record seven times, and winning a record 27 races (ten of them consecutively) in the 1967 season alone. (A 1972 rule change eliminated races under 250 miles (400 km) in length, reducing the schedule to 30 (now 36) races.) Petty is widely considered one of the greatest NASCAR drivers of all time. He also collected a record number of poles (127) and over 700 top-ten finishes in his 1,185 starts, including 513 consecutive starts from 1971–1989.

Posted in Planes Trains and Automobiles

Awesome Flyby

Posted on July 1, 2015 by James| Comments Off on Awesome Flyby

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Batman Trike

Posted on June 30, 2015 by James| Comments Off on Batman Trike

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Game Over Cycles, a Poland-based shop that customizes and rebuilds vintage cars and motorcycles, is currently in the process of building an amazing Batmobile-themed trike motorcycle that resembles the memorable Batmobile from the Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992) films. The entire collection of Batman bike photos are available to view online at Game Over Cycles’ Facebook page.

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Posted in Planes Trains and Automobiles

My Sense of Humor

Posted on June 30, 2015 by James| Comments Off on My Sense of Humor

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Posted in Humor

Modern Man

Posted on June 29, 2015 by James| Comments Off on Modern Man

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Posted in Gadgets, Humor

Terminator Lives!

Posted on June 28, 2015 by James| Comments Off on Terminator Lives!

Posted in Humor, The Big Screen

The Safety Truck

Posted on June 28, 2015 by James| Comments Off on The Safety Truck

Posted in Gadgets, Planes Trains and Automobiles

Two Planes Fly Through a Hanger

Posted on June 28, 2015 by James| Comments Off on Two Planes Fly Through a Hanger

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You’re Fired

Posted on June 28, 2015 by James| Comments Off on You’re Fired

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Posted in Humor

Let’s Pizza!

Posted on June 27, 2015 by James| Comments Off on Let’s Pizza!

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Posted in Gadgets

Rocket Packs

Posted on June 27, 2015 by James| Comments Off on Rocket Packs

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Posted in Humor

Three Little Pigs Memorial

Posted on June 26, 2015 by James| Comments Off on Three Little Pigs Memorial

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In early June, a semitrailer carrying two thousands pigs suffered a big bad crash on Ohio’s Highway 35 in Xenia. Recently, are residents came across a touching memorial to the pigs on the side of the road that look straight out of the fairy tales!

The Dayton Daily News reported that the houses, modeled out of the Three Little Pigs fable, are made from straw, sticks, and bricks were discovered early Monday morning and have been slowing down traffic and attracting on-lookers.

Even though the Big Bad Wolf huffed and puffed and couldn’t blow these houses down, the local police department did. They removed the houses to avoid traffic accidents and people crossing the highway to take pictures of the houses.

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The police and the media wanted to know who built the fairy tale houses, but so far, no one’s squealed.

Posted in Because I Can, Critters

It is the same…

Posted on June 26, 2015 by James| Comments Off on It is the same…

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Posted in Humor

Good Morning

Posted on June 25, 2015 by James| Comments Off on Good Morning

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Posted in Critters, Humor

Shootout at OK Chorale

Posted on June 24, 2015 by James| Comments Off on Shootout at OK Chorale

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86 is enough

Posted on June 23, 2015 by James| Comments Off on 86 is enough
Dick Van Patten (December 9, 1928 – June 23, 2015)

Dick Van Patten (December 9, 1928 – June 23, 2015)

Dick Van Patten, a onetime juvenile star of Broadway, radio and TV who played the genteel patriarch on the hit 1970s comedy-drama “Eight Is Enough” and proved his versatility in Walt Disney fare and Mel Brooks parodies, died June 23 in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 86.

Richard Vincent “Dick” Van Patten was an American actor, businessman, and animal welfare advocate, best known for his role as patriarch Tom Bradford on the television comedy-drama Eight Is Enough.

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RIP Peter Falk (Farewell Detective Columbo)

Posted on June 23, 2015 by James| Comments Off on RIP Peter Falk (Farewell Detective Columbo)

Peter Michael Falk was an American actor, best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the television series Columbo. He appeared in numerous films and television guest roles and was nominated for an Academy Award twice (for 1960’s Murder, Inc. and 1961’s Pocketful of Miracles), and won the Emmy Award on five occasions (four for Columbo) and the Golden Globe award once.

Peter Falk

Peter Michael Falk (September 16, 1927 – June 23, 2011)

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Posted in The Little Screen (Television)