Category Archives: Because I Can

Happy Birthday, Arthur C. Clarke

Posted on December 16, 2012 by James| Comments Off on Happy Birthday, Arthur C. Clarke

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name.

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RIP Walt Disney

Posted on December 15, 2012 by James| Comments Off on RIP Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, visionary, and philanthropist. He was the son of Flora and Elias Disney, and had three brothers and one sister. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Walt became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world.

Walt Disney

Walt Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966)

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Bond Chicks

Posted on December 13, 2012 by James| Comments Off on Bond Chicks

BC

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Reasons I Consult Wikipedia

Posted on December 12, 2012 by James| Comments Off on Reasons I Consult Wikipedia

Reasons I Consult Wikipediawikipedia

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Countdown to Christmas

Posted on December 9, 2012 by James| Comments Off on Countdown to Christmas

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Pearl Harbor

Posted on December 7, 2012 by James| Comments Off on Pearl Harbor

Flag at half mast

My personal thanks for all of those who served, lived and died.

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Happy Birthday, Walt Disney

Posted on December 5, 2012 by James| Comments Off on Happy Birthday, Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, visionary, and philanthropist. He was the son of Flora and Elias Disney, and had three brothers and one sister. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Walt became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world.

Walt Disney

Walt Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966)

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No man is a failure…

Posted on December 4, 2012 by James| Comments Off on No man is a failure…

Dear George:—
Remember no man is a failure who has friends.
Thanks for the wings!
Love
Clarence.

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Christmas Lights

Posted on December 2, 2012 by James| Comments Off on Christmas Lights
Christmas Lights

Click to view the movie

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Don’t Forget to Mail Those Christmas Cards!

Posted on December 1, 2012 by James| Comments Off on Don’t Forget to Mail Those Christmas Cards!

Postal Crack

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Happy Birthday, Rex Stout

Posted on December 1, 2012 by James| Comments Off on Happy Birthday, Rex Stout
Rex Stout

Rex Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975)

Rex Todhunter Stout was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. Stout is best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as “that Falstaff of detectives.” Wolfe’s assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the cases of the detective genius from 1934 (Fer-de-Lance) to 1975 (A Family Affair).

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Happy Birthday, Diablo

Posted on November 30, 2012 by James| Comments Off on Happy Birthday, Diablo
On November 30, 1996… we all heard Griswald say, “Hello” for the first time.
Diablo Cover

November 30, 1996 -

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Happy Birthday, Dick Clark!

Posted on November 30, 2012 by James| Comments Off on Happy Birthday, Dick Clark!
Dick Clark

Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012)

Richard Wagstaff “Dick” Clark is an American television personality and businessman, best known for hosting long-running shows such as American Bandstand, various Pyramid game shows, and Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.

Clark has long been known for his continued youthful appearance, earning the moniker “America’s Oldest Teenager”, and also for his good health — until he suffered a stroke in 2004. With some speech ability still impaired, Clark made a dramatic return to his New Year’s show on December 31, 2005, and appeared at the Emmy Awards on August 27, 2006.

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RIP Leslie Nielsen

Posted on November 28, 2012 by James| Comments Off on RIP Leslie Nielsen

“I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley”

Leslie Nielsen

Leslie Nielsen (February 11, 1926 – November 28, 2010)

Leslie William Nielsen, OC was a Canadian American actor and comedian. Nielsen appeared in over one hundred films and 1,500 television programs over the span of his career, portraying over 220 characters.

Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, Nielsen enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and worked as a disc jockey before receiving a scholarship to Neighborhood Playhouse. Beginning with a television role in 1948, he quickly expanded to over 50 television appearances two years later. Nielsen appeared in his first films in 1956 and began collecting roles in dramas, westerns, and romance films. Nielsen’s lead roles in the films Forbidden Planet (1956) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972) received positive reviews as a serious actor, though he is primarily known for his comedic roles.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Posted on November 22, 2012 by James| Comments Off on Happy Thanksgiving!

Undocumented Immigrant

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John F. Kennedy

Posted on November 22, 2012 by James| Comments Off on John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917–November 22, 1963)

The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, USA at 12:30 p.m. CST (18:30 UTC). John F. Kennedy was fatally wounded by gunshots while riding with his wife Jacqueline in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, an employee of the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza, according to the conclusions of multiple government investigations, including the ten-month investigation of the Warren Commission of 1963-4 and the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) of 1976-9. This conclusion initially met with widespread support among the American public, but polls, since the original 1966 Gallup poll, show a majority of the public hold beliefs contrary to these findings. The assassination is still the subject of widespread speculation and has spawned numerous conspiracy theories (even the HSCA, based on disputed acoustical evidence, concluded that Oswald may have had unspecified co-conspirators), though these theories have not generally been accepted by mainstream historians and no single compelling alternative theory has emerged.

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Happy Birthday, ISS

Posted on November 20, 2012 by James| Comments Off on Happy Birthday, ISS

On November 20, 1998, the first segment of the ISS, the Zarya FGB, was launched into orbit on a Russian Proton rocket, and was followed two weeks later by the first of three ‘node’ modules, Unity, launched aboard STS-88.

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RIP “Mr. Whipple”

Posted on November 19, 2012 by James| Comments Off on RIP “Mr. Whipple”

 

 

Mr. Whipple

Dick Wilson as Mr. Whipple with the Charmin.

Dick Wilson, born Riccardo DiGuglielmo (30 July 1916 – 19 November 2007), was a British-born American character actor who played the role of finicky grocery store manager Mr. (George) Whipple in over 500 Charmin toilet paper television commercials (1965–1989, 1999).

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Happy Birthday, Calvin & Hobbes

Posted on November 18, 2012 by James| Comments Off on Happy Birthday, Calvin & Hobbes

Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Watterson, following the humorous antics of Calvin, an imaginative six-year old boy, and Hobbes, his energetic and sardonic—albeit stuffed—tiger. The pair are named after John Calvin, a 16th-century French Reformation theologian, and Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century English political philosopher. The strip was syndicated daily from November 18, 1985 to December 31, 1995. At its height, Calvin and Hobbes was featured in over 2,400 newspapers worldwide. To date, more than 30 million copies of the 18 Calvin and Hobbes books have been printed.

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Veteran’s Day

Posted on November 11, 2012 by James| Comments Off on Veteran’s Day

Veteran's Day

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