Thursday, June 21, 2007

Meme me, it's all about meme
My internet neighbor (and, oh, how wonderful it would be to really share a neighborhood!) launched another one of those nasty memes. Alas, I kinda have fun with those things, so I took a stroll through my birthday - April 29 - on Wikipedia (which is a major god in the internet pantheon, second only to god Google).

I like the very first item - a role, by the way, I would've loved to have added to my resume (Shaw's Joan), but never got the chance:
1429 - Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans.
The second entry reminded me of my favorite Star Trek movie - "The Wrath of Khan" - a gold star to the first person who knows why (no fair Googling):
1770 - James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia
It was a busy day in 1945:
1945 - World War II: The German Army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.
1945 - World War II: Start of Operation Manna.
1945 - Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor.
1945 - The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
I was in the spring semester of my second year in college in Columbia, Missouri when this happened:
1970 - Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
I was once really into baseball, but I don't think I saw this game (I was probably doing a children's show, or in rehearsal for something):
1986 - Roger Clemens sets a major league baseball record with 20 strikeouts in nine innings against the Seattle Mariners.
When this happened, I remember thinking "I won't have a problem remembering the date of this sad bit of history" but, had forgotten it until I saw it in Wikipedia:
1992 - Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, follow the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 54 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
These guy share my birthday. Now I know why I identified so much with the whine "Marsha, Marsha Marsha!," had a great appreciation for the Seinfeld show and, um, well don't have much for Mulgrew. I didn't like her on "Voyager":
1954 - Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian
1955 - Kate Mulgrew, American actress
1958 - Eve Plumb, American actress
Astologically (and pretty darn accurate):
Individuals born under this sign are thought to have a calm, patient, reliable, loyal, affectionate, sensuous, ambitious, and determined character, but one which is also prone to hedonism, laziness, inflexibility, jealousy, and antipathy.
And of course who am I to deny this:
The opposite sign to Taurus is Scorpio and the two signs are widely considered to be the most sexually responsive of all zodiacal members.

 
 
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