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Sunday, 10-14-07
On this day in 1952, young Richard Cheney is on the receiving end of a rough prank in gym class, forming in him a lifelong will for vengeance, and inspiring historians to call it “the wedgie heard ‘round the world.”
Tuesday, 10-2-07
1957 - Portugal scraps its plan to launch a satellite carrying a live pig into space after it is pointed out to directors of the space agency that pork would make a tasty menu addition at the upcoming annual employee picnic.
Saturday, 9-29-07
Edward the Tidy uses the last of the soap, igniting the Hundred Years Without Bathing War (also known as The Big Stink) – 1653
Wednesday, 9-19-07
To placate the Christians in his empire, Baltruscan emperor Sleazius IV decrees that anyone impaled alive upon a pike shall receive periodic compassionate pats on the head until they bleed to death. - 543 A.D.
Saturday, 9-8-07
At a post-race press conference, stock car driver L. J. Fraught claims his record time in the Chief Puffy Cheek Tobacco 400 was due to the fact that he had forgotten to use the men’s room before the start of the race. - 1977
Sunday, 9-2-07
1555 - Nostradamus foresees the invention of the Rubik’s Cube and spends the better part of three days trying to solve it in his head, before giving up to watch his precognitions of season 3 of “Lost.”
Saturday, 8-11-07
From the journal entry of Marvino da Vinci, cousin of Leonardo, from this date in 1596: “I reason that if one were to take musical compositions and sub-divide them into their smallest constituent pieces, which one might represent using a series of slightly larger assemblages composed entirely of the numerals one and naught, and if one were to then craft a container into which these pieces could be ingested for safe-keeping and dispensing forth as its master might wish, through conduits of ductile metal having membranes that vibrated sympathetically as their termini, for instance, and which said membranes were placed exteriorly on its master’s hearing organs, one might then partake of slammin’ tunes at one’s leisure and ease.”