Today in 1901, a newspaper article proclaimed 16 year old May Kaarlus as perhaps the greatest trick shot billiard player in the whole world. She really could play that well, though the career of this pool table prodigy went on to take a surprise turn.
An actual presidential candidate, one who’d been up on the debate stage with the heavy hitters, dressing up as Santa Claus, spiking the punch and pretending to throttle one of the main characters, all to a parody version of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”
Regis Philbin’s version of “Rudolph” goes way off the usual course; at one point he just starts naming famous New Yorkers.
I thought we could use a cheerful number in the middle of the countdown, and I think I got mixed up.
If you’re doing an Advent calendar this month, you’re just over halfway finished opening up those little windows to see what’s inside. So let’s open up a few windows into where they came from.
Why wasn’t there a sitar player at the first Christmas? Maybe there was and the drummer drowned them out?
Today in 1986, a newspaper column by film critic Gene Siskel helped to turn a local snack favorite in Chicago into a signature of the city.
Bob and Doug rattle off a Canadian version of the 12 Days of Christmas.
Today in 1972, Apollo 17 landed on the moon. So far, it’s the last mission that put human beings on the lunar surface. And it was the only Apollo mission where the dust all over that surface gave an astronaut a strong allergic reaction.
In this day and age, people get really confused when you say in a cheerful voice “my 13 year old has gotten really into Morphine!”
