I'm taking some off time and checking This Day in History. [http://www.scopesys.com/cgi-bin/today2.cgi]It says that Andrew Jackson was admitted to the bar on this day in 1787...would that be as a lawyer or alcoholic-prior-to-conversion?!! Did he have to set everyone up with a round?! Did they lower the bar to let him in or raise it BECAUSE he entered?!
In 1837 Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times...was this before or after Foster's Beer was first brewed? (Before...Foster's came on the scene in the early 1970s.) My next question is WHY?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In 1871 Moses Gale patents a cigar lighter...wasn't it bright enough? Did it have 30% less smoke? Why not "cigar igniter"...of course, you could only use it after dark...it would be an ig-dayer while the sun was up.
In 1933 1st US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service...SERIOUSLY, NOW...why not simply spell his name Bullet so they got the point?!! And the "W.C."? EVERYBODY knows that's a British "water closet" found in one's "inner room!!" ;p
In 1990 Signing of Declaration of "End of Cold war" in Paris...FINALLY the REAL reason for Global Warming is discovered and revealed to all who want to know!!
Just think...sometime in the waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay distant future, some fool might include this post as something that happened Today in History!
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