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1. As I made very clear yesterday, July 30th is my birthday. A quick scan of a few “This Date in History” sites reveals a few notable events: Arnold Schwarzenegger was born, Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, and, at least according to Wikipedia, Baghdad was founded. What’s the most impressive thing to happen on your birthday?
2. What’s your second-favorite quote from your favorite movie?
3. I once took a vacation day to clean up the residue from a fire extinguisher that my wife had to use on our flaming oven. It was a mess and really did take most of the day to clean, but I’m sure my boss thought the whole ordeal was made up. What’s the strangest real reason you had to miss work? (And if you want to share your best fake excuse, that’d be even better.)
4. Full disclosure: This one might help us with an article we’re working on for next week. Mangesh is reading a book called Picking Cotton about a woman who misidentified the man who raped her, put him in jail for 11 years until DNA proved him innocent, and now they’re really good friends. Can you think of any other unexpected or bizarre friendships or partnerships in history?
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1. first moon landing was on my birthday
2. “this is a price I’d promised myself I’d pay, and now I’m paying it”- Sin City
3. I once overslept for a job interview, I told the manager that I’d fallen in the shower and just got back from the doctor, i rescheduled the interview ended up getting the job
4. i got a call from a person who dialed the wrong number, but he sounded a lot like one of my friends and we ended up talking for 10 minutes before realizing we didn’t know each other
posted by john on 7-31-2009 at 10:23 am
1. My birthday is July 30th too! I always tell people I share my special day with Frank Stallone. Bud Selig too I think.
3. I had to take two sick days because I made a joke about having swine flu. I work at a really uptight company. I finally had to get a doctor’s note saying I didn’t have it before they’d let me back.
posted by Tom on 7-31-2009 at 10:25 am
1. I didn’t realize but I was born on an awful day (August 21st). On my birthday tragedies ranging from a volcano erupting carbon dioxide in Cameroon killing 1,800 people, to a bombing Philippines, to the American Bar Association being founded. On the bright side Wilt Chamberlain was born.
2. After sheriff rolls up wanted poster with Tuco’s picture on it,
“Roll it up, roll it up! I’ll give you a good idea where you can put it!” – Tuco, “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”
3. I got nothing
4. How about Paul and Jesus/God. Paul (then known as Saul) began his life as a Pharisee persecuting Christians, having them arrested and tortured. After a conversion on the road to Damascus he became one of Christianities first great missionaries and ended up writing a large portion of the New Testament of the Bible.
posted by Brian on 7-31-2009 at 10:34 am
1. Yes, I know it’s just a traditional date, based on a pagan festival, but still…December 25. Jesus born. Booya!
posted by loripop on 7-31-2009 at 10:35 am
2 “Why has he got a tea cozy on his head”
3 My in-laws were house sitting for us on a weekend trip. We got home late Sunday to find they had left early and locked us out of our own house. Had to call off work because we slept in the car.
posted by David on 7-31-2009 at 10:35 am
Jason,
Because you turned 30 on July 30th, that is known as your “Golden Birthday.” Its supposed to mean an extra lucky year – so enjoy it! I turned 29 on 4/29, so last year was mine.
posted by Amy on 7-31-2009 at 10:45 am
1.12/21: Segregation on buses found unconstitutional in 1956;
2.”I’m the one rotting, but your face looks graver than mine.” Robert the Bruce’s Father.
3.In college, I was in a car accident and when I got home after the police report was filled out (I rear ended a car which, in turn, rear endeded the one in front of it) , my roommate let me know my parent’s had to put my dog down. I left a message on my Professor’s voicemail stating as much, and he saved it because he figured if anyone could make it through that bad of a day, he could make it through his.
4.I would hope The Beer Summit would result in a friendship between Henry Gates and Sgt. Cowley.
posted by Helenann on 7-31-2009 at 10:45 am
My birthday is August 14 — the date Japan surrendered in WWII, and the date that India and Pakistan declared independence from Great Britain in 1947.
I had to call in late for work once because I had no car keys — my husband took both his set and my set so I ended up taking a taxi to work.
posted by Suzanne on 7-31-2009 at 10:46 am
1. My high school graduation fell on my birthday. I tried to call it Birthduation, but the name didn’t catch on.
3. Are you a pig, Amanda?
No, Miss Trunchbull!
(I looked and acted exactly like Amanda Thripp when I was young.)
posted by Cheryl on 7-31-2009 at 10:47 am
I was shocked to find that the following events took place on my birthday, May 31.
Rameses II became Pharaoh in 1279 B.C.E.
RMS Titanic was launched in 1911
Walt Whitman and Clint Eastwood were born
Adolf Eichmann, Jack Dempsey, and Milivina Dean died (Dean was the last surviving passenger of the RMS Titanic – eerie full-circle effect, no?)
My favorite movie is The Ten Commandments, even though I am not religious. I have just always been a huge fan of Yul Brynner. My second favorite quote is when Charlton Heston, as Moses, parts the Red Sea (Sea of Reeds?) exclaiming “Behold his mighty hand!” I have used and abused this quote in numerous situations, and it is always well receieved.
I once opted not to attend a work related happy hour event because I was feeling under the weather. Much of the office did attend, and many failed to make it in the next day. As I said, I had been feeling under the weather the day before, and woke up fully ill the next morning, at which time I promptly called in. Not realizing others had taken the day as well, I was grouped into the “party crowd” by my boss, and never really got back into his good graces. I didn’t find out why until after I left.
I think another odd friendship was that of Pope John Paul II and his attempted assassin Mehmet Ali Ağca. They struck up a friendship in 1983 following Mehmet Ali Ağca’s failed attempt and remained good friends until JP’s death. Ali Ağca even beseeched the Turkish government to pardon him briefly, so that he could attend the funeral in 2005. His brother described them as having a deep bond, and that JP had become a friend and source of strength to his family.
posted by Matador on 7-31-2009 at 10:52 am
1. What’s the most impressive thing to happen on your birthday?
George Washington and Ted Kennedy born.
2. What’s your second-favorite quote from your favorite movie?
“I didn’t like him anyway, he wasn’t right, IN THE HEAD.” – Braveheart
3. What’s the strangest real reason you had to miss work?
My doctor told me that I needed to lose weight or I would die young. (I have lost 80 lbs since then.) But when I first started going the the gym I over did it on the bench press machine and the next morning I was physically unable to bend my elbows. I was unable to lift my laptop bag, unable to drive… I called my boss who thought I was kidding at first until I said, “I am a creative man and a good liar, if I was skipping for another reason I would make up a story that DIDN’T make me sound like a wuss.” He agreed and I got a sick day.
4. Can you think of any other unexpected or bizarre friendships or partnerships in history?
I second Saul/Paul and God.
posted by Witty Nickname on 7-31-2009 at 10:53 am
1. Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain share my birthday. I’d like to think they’d've gotten along fabulously if they had been born in the same generation. On a side note, November 30th is an awesome birthday if you like numbers.**
2. “I believe in two things: discipline and the Bible. Here you’ll receive both. Put your trust in the Lord; your ass belongs to me.” Warden Norton to Andy and other prisoners, Shawshank Redemption
**. Written in number form, any given date tells a November 30th born person their age in months and days – except December where you throw out the months and only use the days. For instance today, it’s been 7 months and 31 days since my birthday. If I could’ve coordinated it with my wife, I’d have found a way to have had a child on November 30, 1999 as each date (in YR-MO-DA form) would give their exact age). Alas, 9 months before that date I was receiving a chemotherapy so baby production wasn’t on my mind then…
posted by Tom in GA on 7-31-2009 at 10:56 am
1) March 9, I share my birthday with Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian cartographer America was named after (clearly we share the date, not the year); I also share my birthday with Barbie (again, date, not year – apparently my year was boring)
2) “Here we come we’re fifty strong and fifty frenchmen can’t be wrong” – from the Mob Song in Beauty and the Beast as the village attacks the castle
3) I tried to go to work once and was foiled at every turn by flooded roads. The weather conspired against me. I’m still not sure if my boss believed me though – I don’t live in a flood prone area
4) I’d have to do research first…
recaptcha: Jack abort
posted by Hastings on 7-31-2009 at 10:56 am
1. July 2, Declaration of Independence adopted by the Continental Congress. Also the day President Garfield was shot.
2. “If you’re going to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.” Tuco in “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”
posted by Josh on 7-31-2009 at 10:57 am
1. September 1: Germany annexed Poland, Rocky Marciano born
3. I had a pet rabbit and on the morning of my first day of a new job, I woke up and he was dead in his cage. I had to call to say I was taking my dead rabbit to the vet to be cremated!
posted by Siobhan on 7-31-2009 at 10:58 am
1) The Louisiana Purchase became official on my birthday and Chuck Norris and I share the same birthdate (though I’m much younger).
2)”Gary, you can’t take a pitch pipe out of someone’s hand when they’re in the middle of a very funky groove!” – The Break Up
posted by K on 7-31-2009 at 11:03 am
1. 1983 Ray Cooney’s “Run for your Wives”, premieres in London. March 30, 1983
2. I third Paul/Saul & Jesus
posted by Sara in AL on 7-31-2009 at 11:08 am
My birthday did not exist in 1582 in Italy, Poland, Portugal, or Spain because of the implementation of the Gregorian calender. :( But I share it with John Lennon and Scott Bakula, so the pain is ameliorated.
posted by Eve on 7-31-2009 at 11:15 am
1. I get to share a birthday with Lucille Ball and Andy Warhol, but it happens to be on the date of the Hiroshima bombing (August 6).
2. Zuzu’s petals! Zuzu’s petals! – the oft-forgotten classic line from It’s a Wonderful Life
4. There’s always the John Adams/Thomas Jefferson late life alliance.
posted by adriana on 7-31-2009 at 11:16 am
3. I’m a Type 1 diabetic and used to use a form of insulin that came pre-loaded in a pen that had a rubber top onto which you could screw a needle. I once stuck one of those into my coat pocket and later put my son’s sippy cup of milk into the same pocket. I forgot they both were in there and the next morning the milk had spilled and been absorbed through the top of the pen, rendering the insulin useless. It was my last pen so I had to call my boss to explain what had happened and that I had to go to the pharmacy to get more. I should add that my boss didn’t know I was diabetic and I didn’t feel like giving him the whole story so I didn’t mention what type of medication it was. It couldn’t have sounded more like a lie if it was one but he did give me some time off to get my refill.
posted by Mother Chat on 7-31-2009 at 11:19 am
Sept 3rd, 1981 Longest game in Fenway Park, suspended in 19, Mariners-7, Red Sox-7 (I happen to be a bostonian)
Also on Sept 3rd,
Germany invades Poland, WWII begins.
Treaty of Paris signed
U.S. Adopts Gregorian Calender
posted by Den Chou on 7-31-2009 at 11:27 am
Same as John’s… plus which on the date of my birth there was a total eclipse of the sun. (So now you know how old I am….)
posted by VM on 7-31-2009 at 11:31 am
1. November 4th is the day that the hostages were taken in Iran. It is also John Wayne’s birthday too, I think.
2. “My way is not very sportsman-like.” Physic in “Princess Bride”
3. A snow storm that started in the middle of the night, paralized Seattle for 3 days. Our roads are designed to shed water not snow so everything iced up. I was working night audit in the Marriott and was on duty until someone could relieve me 2 days after the storm. I had a fever so I got a room and stayed in the hotel the night I got off work. I called in sick 83 feet from work in my hotel room.
posted by Ralph Beatty on 7-31-2009 at 11:33 am
I share my June 1st birthday with Marilyn Monroe – I’m built like her, and even have the same small mole on my face in the same spot…
recaptcha: short-course jerking
(is there a course for that???)
posted by Anne on 7-31-2009 at 11:39 am
My birthday (dec 5) is the day prohibition of alcohol was repealed. pretty important. my 21st was the 50th aniversary!
posted by kaila on 7-31-2009 at 11:40 am
1. My birthday (April 6) seems to be important for Mormons. The Church of Christ later called Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, was founded, and later, same date the Salt Lake Temple was dedicated. Also, Oscar Wilde was arrested after losing his libel case.
3. The broken fan belt is my staple excuse. My “strangest” reason I skipped work was to watch the 2006 FIFA World Cup at a bar.
posted by GoF on 7-31-2009 at 11:46 am
1. I share my birthday with Glenn Close and Bruce Willis.
2. “Why don’t you give me a paper cut and pour some lemon juice on it?!” – Miracle Max from “The Princess Bride”
3. “My parents’ kitchen ceiling has a waterfall coming from it.” It really did, and my parents weren’t home. My parents’ house was about a year old then, and someone during the construction had put a nail into the hot water pipe. Over time, the nail rusted out, and the ceiling got wet and decided to give way. Right over the microwave and stove. It also happened on my first day at a new job. Luckily, my new boss was very understanding.
posted by AmyD on 7-31-2009 at 11:47 am
1. Marilyn Monroe found dead and Jim Morrison appeared on cover of Rolling Stone a little more than a month after he died. As for my “Golden Birthday” we went to the beach & my parents separated the next week.
2. A boy loves his dog.–the last line from movie of same name starring VERY young Don Johnson
3. I missed a midterm in Middle English Lit class because I had enjoyed too much of a bottle of Armagnac with a friend the night before. My prof saw me slowing creeping up the stairs and gave me the key to his office to sleep it off. He gave me a B, anyway. A year later the same guy let me retake a final after the one I wrote was gibberish since I was delirious from flu/fever.
posted by H on 7-31-2009 at 11:52 am
1. Byrd flies over South Pole, Johnson Establishes Warren Commission, Kukla, Fran & Ollie debuts
2. My favorite movie is The Final Countdown, no memorable quotes there, just a great movie. But my 2nd favorite is Airplane, and the 2nd best quote would be, “a hospital, what is it” “it’s a big building with patients, but that’s not important right now”
3. I called in sick to work and was on national TV the same day. A race in Nazareth was postponed from Sunday to Monday, and I called in with “raceitus”. After Michael Andretti crashed, I was taking pictures of the car on the tow dolly, and ESPN2 used the onboard camera at the time—there I was after calling in sick!
4. Donald Trump and Omarosa
posted by Wayne on 7-31-2009 at 11:56 am
1. Well it looks like a lot of stuff has happened on my birthday, January 17th. Operation Desert Storm in the Gulf War started early in the morning in 1991. The 1994 Northridge Quake happened. Popeye the Sailorman first appears in comics in 1929. And in 1995 another earthquake happened in Japan.
I share my birthday with Zooey Deschanel, Michelle Obama, Jim Carey, Andy Kaufman, Robert Kennedy Jr., and Darth Vader himself, James Earl Jones.
2. “Who wants a mustache ride?”- Super Troopers
3. I had to miss work because my car had gotten stolen the day before just outside my work. My boss was off the day before so she didn’t know that my car had been stolen. She didn’t believe me so I told her to ask the assistant manager to tell her everything that happened. I did get the day off but I think she never did believe me.
posted by Colene on 7-31-2009 at 11:58 am
RE #1:
Las Vegas was established on my birthday (although many, decades before I was actually born, ha).
Some other ones:
- 1981, “Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island” airs
- 1970, Beatles’ last LP, “Let It Be,” is released in US
- 1967, Paul McCartney meets his future wife Linda Eastman
- 1940, 1st nylon stockings sold in U.S.
posted by Sarah in CA on 7-31-2009 at 12:02 pm
1. Teddy Roosevelt declared Devil’s Tower in Wyoming to be the country’s first National Monument.
2. Martin Blank-”I’m a professional killer.” Bart Newberry-”Good for you. It’s a growth industry.”
3. I’ve taken a day off just to do laundry before. That was before I had my own washer and washing required more planning.
4. Larry Flynt and Jerry Falwell were good friends.
posted by Dave on 7-31-2009 at 12:04 pm
I looked this up on my own a few years ago.
several of my favorites that occurred on my birthday (January 10th)
49BC–Julius Ceasar crosses The Rubicon river, starting his civil war.
1776–Common Sense is published by Thomas Paine
1870–Standard Oil Company is incorporated by John D. Rockefeller.
1920–The Treaty of Versailles is ratified.
I also share birthdays with Roy Disney (1930), Rod Stewart (1945) and George Foreman (1949).
I like this post
posted by Joshua on 7-31-2009 at 12:11 pm
1. I share a birthday with Charles Dickens, Laura Ingalls Wilder, & Sinclair Lewis.
2. “We’re going to need a bigger boat.” from Jaws
3. As I was driving to work, a truck pulling a trailer of bales of hay was coming from the opposite direction. Just as we approach, his load becomes loose & my car got nailed with the hay. At about 65 mph, the bales did some damage!
posted by TC on 7-31-2009 at 12:14 pm
My birthday is 5/5, so Cinco De Mayo!!
But my husband’s birthday is 9/11. He always complains that he only turned 20 on 9/11/01 and couldn’t even have a drink at the end of the day. Also, once when he got carded, the woman at the grocery store actually looked at his birthday and said “Eww I hate that day!” It’s crappy to share your b-day with something so awful.
posted by Bug on 7-31-2009 at 12:14 pm
1. May 20 – Cher was born
-Cambodia’s National Day of Hatred
2. From Happy Gilmore
Grandma “my fingers hurt”
Orderly “Oh, well, now your back’s gonna hurt, ’cause you just pulled landscaping duty. Anybody else’s fingers hurt?… I didn’t think so.”
3. My husband and I were stuck in Atlanta due to some major car issues / incompetant mechanics. My dad picked us up in Macon, GA… Needless to say we got the car back 3 months later.
4. Elton John and Eminem
posted by sarah on 7-31-2009 at 12:18 pm
3. Slept in, about 3 hours after I was supposed to be at work, I woke up and panicked. My phone had about 12 missed calls from my boss. I called her up and said that I had taken my roommate to the hospital and my cell had died. What was he in the hospital for? A \sexual problem.\ Boss wanted more info. I said he and his girlfriend had gotten something stuck and she had split in fear, so I had to take him to the emergency room. I still had to report later that day.
posted by Tavolini on 7-31-2009 at 12:18 pm
1. I was born exactly four hours after the first man made craft landed on mars. And yes I have heard that joke.
2. “If history has taught us anything, it’s that you can kill anyone” Godfather II
3. I was driving to work when my car broke down. since I was coming in about two hours early anyway, I decided to walk the last 5 miles to get a little exercise in. On the way, I stepped on a dead possum on the side of the road and sprained my ankle pretty badly. I am now in the emergency room. true story
posted by Vince on 7-31-2009 at 12:26 pm
1. My birthday, 11/19, Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address
it’s more of a monologue than a quote, but still it’s my second favorite of the movie…(edited for family friendliness):
2. “I have never done anything for anybody who couldn’t do something for me. I string along an eager kid with promises I’ll pay him money. I only keep him around because he looks up to me. Adam, if you’re watching, don’t be a publicist. You’re too good for it. I lie in person and on the phone. I lie to my friends. I lie to newspapers and magazines who, who sell my lies to more and more people. I am just a part of a big cycle of lies, I should be president. I wear all this Italian stuff because underneath I still feel like the Bronx. I think I need these clothes and this watch. My Two thousand dollar watch is a fake and so am I. I’ve neglected the things I should have valued most. I valued this stuff. I take off my wedding ring to call Pam. Kelly, that’s Pam. Don’t blame her. I never told her I was married. And if I did she, she would have told me to go home. Kelly, looking at you now, I’m ashamed of myself. Alright? I mean, work so hard on this image, on Stu Shepherd, the ‘ahem’ who refers to himself in the third person that I only proved I should be alone. I have just been dressing up as something I’m not for so long, I’m so afraid no one will like what’s underneath. But here I am, just flesh and blood and weakness, and uh and I love you so much. And, um, I take off this ring because it only reminds me of how I’ve failed you, and I don’t, don’t want to give you up. I want to make things better, but it may not be my choice anymore. You deserve better.” -Stu (Colin Farrell) in Phone Booth
believe it or not, that’s my SECOND favorite quote.
posted by Steven on 7-31-2009 at 12:29 pm
2.
Dollbody Kid: What’s your rush, dollbody? What do you say we slip in the back seat, and make a man out of me?
Dottie Hinson: What do you say I smack you around for a while?
Dollbody Kid: Can’t we do both? — A League of Their Own
3. As far as a real reason, I dropped a coffee table on my foot. The location was such that I couldnt get stitches, but the cut wouldnt stop bleeding so I had to lay on my back for three days until it clotted on its own…
A great fake excuse is pink eye; super contagious, but just for 24 hours, and is common.
posted by Sarah on 7-31-2009 at 12:34 pm
Weird, I am also 11/19. So I’ll just add for me and Steven (to the guy up there who was born on the day Garfield was born) that:
11/19 is when Garfield was assassinated
6/19 is when Garfield (the cat) was “born”
posted by Jeff K. on 7-31-2009 at 12:41 pm
My birhtday had a whole bunch of interesting events:
Rebels attacked government forces at Lexington Green and Concord Bridge during the Revolutionary War.
Rebels attacked government forces in Baltimore during the Civil War.
A gun turret exploded on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
Fire ends the siege at the Branch Davidian complex in Waco.
Timothy McVeigh blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168.
posted by Steven on 7-31-2009 at 12:48 pm
1. Dec 27 1945 The World Bank was created with an agreement signed by 28 nations.
2. “I’m just an ordinary guy with nothing to lose.” American Beauty
3. Not a work story, but I once was late to a date because I helped 3 blind people find a bus stop. She didn’t believe me.
4. Nope
posted by JetaN on 7-31-2009 at 12:50 pm
1. 09/11 – enough said.
2. “Oh, who cares, that guy doesn’t matter…let him stay locked up for another half an hour. The police will be here by then and there are TWO DEAD BODIES IN THE STUDY!!!” Mrs. Peacock, Clue.
3. I got fired from a job because I was a no call no show when I was in the emergency room with an IV and kinda out of it. I was rehired two days later when my boss found out I wasn’t BS-ing him.
4. ???
posted by Jamie on 7-31-2009 at 12:51 pm
1. I was born on the 199th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution!
2. ‘…he’s a bottle of pancake syrup with legs! Get me SMOOCHY!’ -Death to Smoochy
3. I had to miss work one morning because I was so constipated I had to go to the emergency room. Look… you think thats being too honest? You think thats too disgusting? Imagine what my boss said. My Mom called and told him that I had to go to the hospital and he told me that I would need to bring in a doctors note. So thanks to my mother who made the phone call for me, I got a visit from my boss and a bouquet of flowers. That was REALLY awkward.
posted by Kate on 7-31-2009 at 12:58 pm
1) Born on December 7th – Pearl Harbor Day
2) “Fred, she’s gotten her boobies”. “Huh. Better go get my magnifying glass”.
- Sixteen Candles
posted by Ian on 7-31-2009 at 1:05 pm
1. I was born the day that Pope John Paul II was shot.
2. “Not bad for a quadraped (sp?)” – Groundhogs Day
3. No amazing call out stories – sorry.
4. I believe that Pope John Paul II forgave his shooter. Not necessarily a friendship, but that’s a big thing to forgive the guy who shot you!
posted by Mavis on 7-31-2009 at 1:10 pm
1) I was born on what would have been JFK and Jackie O’s 30th anniversary. It was also my sister’s 3rd birthday. She apparently was not happy about that.
2) LiLu Dallas Multi-pass!- The Fifth Element
3)I’ve taken off the day of and the day after the last three Harry Potter books came out. Can’t work when there’s reading to be done!
4) I got nothing
posted by Tricia on 7-31-2009 at 1:13 pm
Steven, you must have been born on 4/19, like me! Terrible day, all sorts of horrible things happened. Although I guess it’s still better than 4/20 (Hitler’s birthday and Columbine)…
posted by Brooke on 7-31-2009 at 1:15 pm
1. jan 17th – the first gulf war started on my 13th bday.
2. “You better get re-married again, or he’s gonna have someone’s c*ck in his mouth before you can say Jack Robinson.” – slapshot (don’t really have a favorite film, but this one kills me everytime.)
3. i never had to miss work for anything too strange. i suck.
4. milo and otis. natural enemies for eternity, a cat and a dog running around together having adventures. there is nothing more unexpected than that.
posted by grant on 7-31-2009 at 1:18 pm
@Jamie – really? Clue is your favorite movie? It’s mine, and I’ve never before met anyone who likes it the way I do!!! :)
1. I share my birthday (April 9) with Hugh Hefner and Jenna Jameson, among others. And I’m a redhead. Let the jokes begin…
2. “I’m not shouting! Alright, I am. I’m shouting, I’m shouting, I’m shout-” Wadsworth in “Clue”
3. I don’t have a weird one for work, but I missed an afternoon of school my senior year because when I left school at lunch my car’s ignition switch broke and I could not turn the car off. We did not have an open campus, so I wasn’t supposed to be leaving. Yeah, my parents were happy about that one.
posted by Carol on 7-31-2009 at 1:19 pm
1:
1885 : The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
1972 :Watergate scandal: five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
2:
“Relax, all right? Don’t try to strike everybody out. Strikeouts are boring! Besides that, they’re fascist. Throw some ground balls – it’s more democratic”. -Crash Davis. Bull Durham
3:
I once had to call out sick because I couldn’t find my cat. I live in a pretty small apartment but I had lost the cat and couldn’t imagine going to work since I had just got this cat. I spent about 3 hours looking for the cat. After going into the closet for the 3rd time I found the cat in between some jackets.
4:
Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog had the weirdiest relationship. Kinski lived with Herzog family when he was a child and they ened up making insane movies. If you ever get a chance check out “My Best Friend Klaus Kinski” it is insane.
posted by Charles on 7-31-2009 at 1:28 pm
Harry Connick Jr. shares the same birthday as me.
…And the September 11th terrorist attacks.
posted by Sara on 7-31-2009 at 1:30 pm
1. I share my birthday with Michael Jackson (may he rest in peace) and my mom – August 29th
2. Well Sinead O’Rebellion. Shock me shock me shock me with that deviant behaviour.
posted by kJo on 7-31-2009 at 1:34 pm
@carol
Clue is my whole family’s favorite movie! We used to watch it almost every week together. I know so many people that love it.
posted by Jenna on 7-31-2009 at 1:43 pm
2. “Why is there a watermelon there?” Buckaroo Banzai
posted by PartiallyDeflected on 7-31-2009 at 1:43 pm
1. The first public television station started broadcasting in 1953, KUHT.
And Lauryn Hill was born on May 25th.
2. [singing] “She’s your Queen-to-be. A Queen-to-be forever. A Queen who’ll do whatever his highness desires. She’s your Queen-to-be. A vision of perfection. An object of affection to quench your royal fire. Completely free from infection. To be used at your discretion. Waiting only for your direction. Your Queen-to-be.” from “Coming to America”
4. I 4th Saul/Paul and Jesus/God.
posted by Dorothea on 7-31-2009 at 1:51 pm
1. April 10th ~ the 100th day of the year and the date that Titanic set sail on its maiden voyage. Also the ideal date to concieve a child for a New Year’s Day baby.
posted by Laurie Beth on 7-31-2009 at 2:08 pm
11/10 The birthday of the US Marines.
HOO-AH!!!
posted by Josh on 7-31-2009 at 2:11 pm
2. Evil Betty: Hmmm…I’ll kill him! I’ll kill him dead. Like with, with a, rock or something. Like a, like a stone… -Kung Pow: Enter The Fist
posted by Cheezy on 7-31-2009 at 2:12 pm
Born on Halloween – which explains a lot, or which at least has given an excuse for being ‘weird’. A night when most people give away goodies, and many dress up. A night when people throw parties all over the place… and never invite me. <>
Move over, Linus. I’ll wait for The Great Pumpkin with with you.
posted by Doc on 7-31-2009 at 2:16 pm
1: Double feature. Hitler killed himself, George Washington sworn in as President numero uno.
2: she likes pina colada and getting caught in the rain.
posted by Andy on 7-31-2009 at 2:17 pm
4. Maybe not historical, but my mom ran over someone’s dog and now that someone is a good family friend.
posted by rj on 7-31-2009 at 2:17 pm
Bea Aurther, Rue McClanohan and I all share the same birthday- way to go Golden Girls!
“Oh I’m not here with these fellas. I’ve got a piggin’ competition in the Livestock Pavilion and I am gonna win that blue ribbon!”
I called in and told my boss I was moving to California the next day and needed the time to pack. Oh yes, that was a lie. Two birds with one stone- I quit and screwed over my bitchy boss and overbearingly sweet co-workers. About two weeks before that I called them from a location 2 hours away and told them I might be a little bit late. I waited until my shift was 5 minutes from over and said I couldn’t make it. Man, I hated that job. I will never again work in a MALL!
posted by Katrina on 7-31-2009 at 2:25 pm
My birthday – 4/26 – is also the date of the Chernobyl meltdown.
The strangest real reason I had to miss work – a faulty watermain burst on my street overnight, causing a minor flood that ended with the street collapsing, and I couldn’t even brush my teeth or take a shower. I had to stay with my boyfriend for four days while they fixed it.
posted by Eliza on 7-31-2009 at 2:25 pm
1. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I have a dream” speech on August 28th.
2. “She was a junkie for the printed word. Lucky for me, I manufactured her drug of choice.” –Wonder Boys–
4. I’d have to say Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson. It sounds reasonable, but watching it unfold was a bit bizarre.
posted by Monica on 7-31-2009 at 2:27 pm
1. Invasion of Normandy. On my second birthday, my brother was born (Tricia, I know how your sister feels).
2. “Slugs! He created slugs! They can’t hear. They can’t speak. They can’t operate machinery. Are we not in the hands of a lunatic?” Time Bandits
posted by Barbara on 7-31-2009 at 2:28 pm
1) My parents chose my birthday (Nov. 10) because that was the first anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald sinking.
2) “I only speak two languages lady – English and Bad English” – The 5th Element
3) I call in sick every “day after the general election day” because I stay up late watching returns and commentary.
4) Weirdest couple – Burt and Linda Pugach – (documentry: Crazy Love)- he was abusive to her and hired some dudes to throw acid in her eyes, rendering her blind, he went to jail and when he got out, they married.
posted by Amy on 7-31-2009 at 2:34 pm
1. Mr. Rogers died on my birthday. It can’t get much worse then that.
posted by Kate on 7-31-2009 at 2:35 pm
1. May 23: Bonnie & Clyde shot to death. There’s not really anyone that famous who shares my b-day.
2. No s..t Chet, no s..t. -wierd science
3. I stepped in a hole in my back yard and sprained my ankle very badly. Such a lame excuse. My boss would’ve thought I was lying, except the swelling and bruising lasted more than a week!
posted by Renee on 7-31-2009 at 2:49 pm
1. September 11. Enough said.
2. “You stupid bimbo! He’s been POISONED.” — latest Harry Potter
3. A car crashed into my house, and I was still filling out insurance papers.
4. I think the Gates/Boston cop is a good one.
posted by lleachie on 7-31-2009 at 2:58 pm
1. My birthday is on Halloween, I guess thats significant
2. From the Usual Suspects: Keaton always said, ‘I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of him.’ Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze.
posted by Izam on 7-31-2009 at 3:00 pm
1. Not too much of note on my birthday (May 3), except for sharing it with Niccolò Machiavelli. However my husband’s birthday, January 30, is full of significant occurrences, including:
-Richard Lawrence’s failed assassination attempt on President Andrew Jackson (you know, where Jackson beat him with his cane).
-Adolf Hitler sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
-Ghandi’s assassination, as well as the day Betsy Ross and Orville Wright died.
-Franklin Roosevelt’s birthday.
-The Beatles’ last public performance.
Could it get any more interesting?
2. “I’m not a witch, I’m your wife! And after what you just said, I’m not even sure I want to be that anymore!” “You never had it so good.” -The Princess Bride
3. My strangest excuse for missing work is not terribly exciting. On the way back from a family vacation the brakes on the car gave out. After my dad managed to pull into a parking lot and stop the car (to the soundtrack of my sister screaming “We’re going to die!”) we had to wait several hours before everything was fixed, and I missed my shift that evening. Luckily my boss was very understanding.
4. Can’t think of any unusual friendships to contribute, but I’ll go ahead and add my vote to the Paul/Jesus combo.
posted by Kelsey on 7-31-2009 at 3:12 pm
1. The NYC blackout happened on my birthday July 13, same year. A lot of other baseball-related milestones. I share a birthday with Harrison Ford and Cheech Marin.
2. “Yes, I’m mad that you shot my girlfriend’s dog.” -Wonderboys
3. I once concocted an elaborate story about my car breaking down in a city about 2 hours away. My bosses had managers out from another branch looking for me. I was actually partying with my friends. I confessed and got fired. Ah, college.
posted by BMC on 7-31-2009 at 3:37 pm
1. October 15– the day Mata Hari was executed, and the day the I Love Lucy debuted.
2. My favorite movie is an obscure Bob Hope movie called The Ghostbreakers. My favorite line is, “the way you goin’, one of these days when I get you up in the mornin’ I’m gonna have to pull the sheets up instead of down.” my second favorite is, “Would you like a subscription to Weird Stories magazine?” (to a woman living with a zombie.)
3. My toilet broke, and my father tried to fix it by flushing. this caused it to overflow, and directly below the bathroom was the family computer. All just as I was getting ready for work. My boss’s reaction was “No one could make that up.”
4. Maria Schriver and Arnold Swarzenegger.
posted by emily on 7-31-2009 at 3:44 pm
1. I was born the same day that John Lennon was killed — Dec 8, 1980.
2. Any of Yoda’s lines in The Empire Strikes Back before Luke actually knows that he is talking to Yoda … Hilarious scene!
posted by Jonathan on 7-31-2009 at 3:47 pm
@Ian – I was also born Dec 7th on “a date that’ll live in infamy”. When I was younger everyone knew what that meant. Two years ago I made that comment to someone in my office and she thought I was referring to 9/11. She had no idea what I was talking about.
#2: From The Usual Suspects
(Cop: I can put you in Queens on the night of the hijacking.)
Hockney: Really? I live in Queens. Did you put that together yourself, Einstein? Got a team of monkeys working around the clock on this?
#3: About 25 years ago I had a friend call my boss and tell her a huge limb fell from the tree in front of my house and I couldn’t get out the door. He also told her that the wires were pulled down and I had no electricity or phone and that I was waiting for police/fire/EMS to come and remove/cut up the tree. I took my phone off the hook and spent the day at Coney Island. I called back at 2:30 (making sure the Cyclone couldn’t be heard in the background) and told her they just finished and asked if she wanted me come in. She said no, it was OK. I was never charged for the day.
#4: Soon-yi and Woody Allen.
Al and Jeanie Tomaini. Al Tomaini was a circus giant. In 1936 he met Jeanie. Jeanie was born without legs and was only 2 ft 6 in (76 cm) tall.
Chang and Eng, the Siamese twins and their wives.
posted by Sue on 7-31-2009 at 3:54 pm
1. 9/15 The International Day of Democracy, if only it were that simple.
2. “Everything that you wanted I have done. You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me, I was frightening. I have reordered time. I have turned the world upside down, and I have done it all for you! I am exhausted from living up to your expectations of me.” Labyrinth
3.I’ve called out because my dog was having a seizure.
4. Anne Rule & Ted Bundy
posted by Jess on 7-31-2009 at 3:58 pm
1. 2007, two months after I’d moved here to Brazil, there was a horrendous plane crash about 5 minutes from where I live. On my birthday. For all those that sent me worried questioning messages, I was in the UK!
2. So many good quotes from my favourite film. Had to go for this as second favourite: Elwood: It’s got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it’s got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It’s a model made before catalytic converters so it’ll run good on regular gas. What do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?
3. Actually quite funny the other way round – managed to dislocated my shoulder AC and had 2 pins put in my shoulder temporarily. But kept coming to work and driving, somehow within 2 weeks I managed to break one of the pins and had to spend the next 4 weeks at home doing nothing!
4. I constantly find those photos of puppies weaning tigers or penguins playing with whales amazing. All those unlikely combinations which shouldn’t in theory occur in the animal kingdom
posted by Ben E on 7-31-2009 at 4:24 pm
1) My birthday, August 3rd (MONDAY!) is also the day that Germany declared war on France back in 1914. It’s also the day the Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492. Talk about one downer of a day, right?
2) “They all did it. But if you wanna know who killed Mr. Boddy, I did. In the hall. With the revolver. Okay, Chief, take ‘em away. I’m gonna go home and sleep with my wife.” — Clue
posted by Rebecca on 7-31-2009 at 4:24 pm
1) My birthday is the same as \Hollywood\ Hulk Hogan! – August 11
2) \Them sirenes done loved him up and turned him into a Horny Toad!\ -Delmar from ‘O Brother Where Art Thou?’
3) Called out to get car inspected – It was 4 months overdue. Decided I needed to stop putting it off.
4) The greatness of dipping a french fry in a Wendy’s Frosty. Fries and ice cream should not a good pairing make, but it is AWESOME!
posted by Drew C. on 7-31-2009 at 4:56 pm
3. I called in sick after a four-day mini-vacation, claiming sunburn too bad to work. They probably didn’t believe me at the time, especially since I took the whole rest of the week off in sick time — but when I came back the next week, hobbling in bandages and flip-flops, they believed me. I had burned my legs so badly that I couldn’t walk for days.
posted by M on 7-31-2009 at 5:21 pm
1. My actual birthday, Nov. 3, 1957 was the day the Russians launched the first animal (dog) into space on Sputnik 2.
2. “We’ll always have Paris.” Casablanca
3. Once some bees built a nest in between the two floors of our town house. My wife called me to say that the bees had just chewed through the kitchen ceiling and were swirling through the apartment. I had to go home to deal with that.
4 I understand that Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey became close later in their lives.
posted by Tex on 7-31-2009 at 5:23 pm
1. Mount St. Helens erupted on my second birthday, May 11. Must have something to do with my temper.
2. From Back To The Future II:
Marty: ” ‘..He was arrested, tried and convicted within two hours..’…WITHIN TWO HOURS?”
Doc: “Yes! The speed of justice moves much faster now that they’ve abolished all lawyers!”
3. Right before leaving work one day, I realized there was a bird stuck in our chimney. I knew he would escape into the house if I didn’t free him, so I did…and guess what, he escaped into the house.
After chasing him for half an hour, the poor thing finally flew out the window…but not before leaving bird droppings ALL OVER THE HOUSE.
I had to take a half-day to clean it up-and yes, I know my boss didn’t believe me!
posted by Christielea on 7-31-2009 at 5:27 pm
2. “Although we adore men individually, we agree that as a group, they’re rather stupid.” Mary Poppins.
3. My professor told this story: a student was a no-show for the final exam (grounds for immediate failure of the class). He came in the next day and told the police he was hijacked by escaped convicts from the nearby prison and forced to drive a high-speed chase a town away before the police intervened. Prof said he wouldn’t have believed him if he hadn’t brought the headline from the newspaper setting out the details.
recaptcha: ploying titted.
posted by Rebecca on 7-31-2009 at 5:52 pm
1. 7/5/1946 – The bikini was introduced. Enough said.
2. What are you talking about? I’m as clean as a preacher’s sheets.
3. Took a sick day once because I had to make 24 pans of jello for my kids school project.
4. Crowley-Gates
posted by The Real Jimster on 7-31-2009 at 5:58 pm
1. TWA 800 crash- 7/17…oh yeah, and it’s The Hoff’s birthday too!
2. “I’m a priest, not a saint”–Abbe Faria, The Count of Monte Cristo
3. My dog got stung by a bee and he’s allergic to bees. His poor head was swollen and bleeding and I had to leave work to take him to the vet.
posted by KerriD on 7-31-2009 at 6:01 pm
1. august 13:
3114 BC, the start of the Maya calendar.
Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
The roof of the uncompleted Rosemont Horizon near Chicago, Illinois collapses, killing 5 workers and injuring 16.
Michael Phelps sets the Olympic record for most the gold medals won by an indivdual in Olympic history with his win in the men’s 200m butterfly.
some births: Annie Oakley; Alfred Hitchcock; Katharine Close, Scripps National Spelling Bee champion; Fidel Castro and Niko Kranjcar, footballer.
another thing i found interesting: it’s international lefthanders day!
2. “When you gotta go, you gotta go”- Jeff Goldblum as Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park
3 AND 4 can’t think of anything
posted by jaz on 7-31-2009 at 6:03 pm
1. I’m glad you asked this question – I had no idea my birthday (March 20) was so exciting! Some of the many highlights (or lowlights, depending on your views): it’s the vernal equinox, the Dutch East India Company was founded, Napoleon began his 100 days rule, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity was published, John Lennon and Yoko Ono were married, Tunisia gained independence, and we declared war on Iraq. Famous births: Ovid, Napoleon II, Rosetta Tharpe, Mr. Rogers, Spike Lee, Holly Hunter. Famous death: Henry IV. Whew!
posted by Katie on 7-31-2009 at 6:10 pm
1) aside form the obvious, “I was born” answer: Sept 13th:Treaty of Worms (1743), The Battle of the Plains of Abraham (1759), Star Spangled Banner Written from a ship in Balitmore Harbor (1814), 1st American car wreck fatality (1899), Krushchev appointed secretary-general of USSR (1953), Milton Hershey, Grigori Potemkin, John J Pershing, Walter Reed, Roald Dahl were born
2) “Was it over whn teh Germans bomberd Pearls Harnor?” “The Germans?…let him go, he’s on a roll”
4) Reagan and Gorbachev
posted by Chris on 7-31-2009 at 6:10 pm
1. William Faulkner was born in 99 years after I was.
2. “Oh, we have twelve vacancies. Twelve cabins, twelve vacancies.” – Psycho
ReCAPTCHA: 25% packed
posted by Lauren on 7-31-2009 at 6:12 pm
1. I was born on Jan 19, 1981 – Iran Hostage Crisis deal to release hostages is struck, and I share it with Dolly Parton, Janis Joplin, and Edgar Allen Poe
3. My cat died..I had her for 21 years, so I took it hard.
4. In college, there was a girl with the same first name and a similar last name. We lived in the same dorm, and our phone numbers were the same numbers, but different order. Her mother called, and asked for Megan. Well, I started talking to her, and eventually I realized it wasn’t my mother. Even our advising professor (b/c we majored in the same thing) confused us.
posted by Megan on 7-31-2009 at 6:45 pm
1) OJ Simpson acquitted
2) “They sucked his brains out.”
3) Bad hair color
posted by Antinous on 7-31-2009 at 7:18 pm
1) I share my birthday with Jerry Springer, Pope Alexander XII, Thomas Malthus, Chuck Yeager, Bess Truman, Coach K & Peter Gabriel
2)That’s my corn out there! You guys are guests in my corn! – Field of Dreams
posted by Sean O. on 7-31-2009 at 7:41 pm
Best true work excuse, 18 years ago. I am extremely nearsighted. I was trimming my toe nails by puting my foot up to my nose. I clipped, it flew into my eye and I missed 2 days of work due to a deep corneal abrasion. They laughed their a@@es off in the ER.
posted by Lolagranola on 7-31-2009 at 7:58 pm
1. 8/16 — share a birthday with Madonna & Kathie Lee Gifford, but I’ve always gotten a kick out of deaths that have occurred on it. Robert Johnson (Blues singer of sold his soul at the crossroads legend), Bela Lugosi, Babe Ruth and Elvis.
2. 2nd favorite quote — tough one
3. I got nuthin’
4. Parnership — I like the 80s triumverate of Frank Zappa, Dee Snider & John Denver appearing before Congress against music censorship
posted by Karl Hungus on 7-31-2009 at 8:04 pm
2.
Mrs. Hatch: [calling from upstairs]
Mary, who’s down there with you?
Mary: It’s George Bailey, mother!
Mrs. Hatch: Well, what does he want?
Mary: I don’t know!
[to George]
Mary: What do you want?
George Bailey: What do I want? Why, I’m just here to get warm, that’s all!
Mary: [calling up] He’s making violent love to me, mother!
- Its a Wonderful Life
3. Where I work I could send an email at 9am saying I won’t be in today and won’t even be questioned. Where my wife used to work someone called in from Hawaii on the last day of their vacation saying their plane was delayed and would be back a day late. They were fired for this and 2 months later their picture was still hanging on the wall as the employee of the quarter. How messed up is that the employee of the quarter being fired for a plane delay they couldn’t control.
posted by Steve M on 7-31-2009 at 8:06 pm
1) I like to say that Mohandas Gandhi and I are ‘Birth Twins’… he was born 100 YEARS BEFORE me on October 2, 1869. I am also pleased that my birthday is also that of King Richard III of England, in 1452. There are numerous ‘Celeb’ birthdays, including Don ‘American Pie’ McLean – who was born in the same CITY , though in 1945.
2) “It’s called Spanish Fly. I learned it from someone.. in Spain.”
posted by Amy on 7-31-2009 at 9:17 pm
I take back my answer to #2 (Foul Play, btw), now that I see ‘Wonder Boys’…
Mine is “Even though Poe and I were not exactly what you’d call simpatico that’s no reason he should’ve taken two in the chest”
Actually, I’ve TOO MANY Favorite Quotes/Movies to limit it, so I’ll stick w/ these! :-)
posted by Amy on 7-31-2009 at 9:26 pm
1. My birthday is June 6th, so I share the day with D-day.
3. From Across the Universe as said by Bono’s character, Dr. Robert- “We’re navigators, we’re aviators, eatin’ taters, masturbatin’ alligators, bombardiers, we got no fears, won’t shed no tears, we’re pushin’ the frontiers of transcendental perception.”
posted by Jamie M on 7-31-2009 at 9:29 pm
Exxon Valdez spilled 11.3 million gallons of oil off the coast of Alaska.
Kennedy half dollar issued.
On my actual day/year of birth, the U.S. appeals court rules “Lady Chatterly’s Lover” not obscene.
Elvis Presley joins the army.
(Former) planet Pluto named.
First automobile sold.
posted by Vickey on 7-31-2009 at 9:31 pm
!. June 26th, the day the pied piper led the children out of Germany, Chris O’Donnell and I are the exact same age, and tons of other things
2. Not Favorite movie, but Loved “Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight” from a batman movie
3. Where I used to live the county closed the highway due to Blizzard conditions. My husband had tried to go to work but was caught by the police and told to go home or be arrested and have his car impounded. Since we only had 4 inches of snow (Ah, the stories I could tell), since my husband’s employer was 2 counties away (and had a braincell) they didn’t believe the roads were closed until they called the police station.
4. I was in a Dentist office the other day and there was a reader’s digest article about a gentleman researching his history and discovered he had the same name as a descendant of his ancestor’s owners. “In a quest to find answers to America’s racial divide, the 28-year-old African-American journalist looks to his family’s past. Along the way he meets the descendant of his ancestors’ slave master – another David Wilson, a 62-yr-old white man from North Carolina. “
posted by Lorelei on 7-31-2009 at 9:34 pm
1. My birthday (December 9)
Pixar Animation Studios is founded
Prince Charles and Princess Diana announce separation
Frank Sinatra Jr. is kidnapped
The Chronicles Of Narnia is released in theatres
The Dark Knight came out on DVD
posted by Cecilia on 7-31-2009 at 9:47 pm
1. July 3rd.. I share my b’day with a musical patriot – George M. Cohan (he wasn’t born the 4th like he claimed in the song). Yeardley Smith – both she and I have odd voices.. and Tom Cruise.. ooh.. lucky me!
2. “Claude Perkins? I thought he was dead! Why can’t he be dead!” from the Ritz.
3. I once had a very large beetle bite my cheek while I slept.. I lived in an illegal basement apartment in NYC and these big bugs only made their way to the surface every few years. Anyway.. I felt a burning on my cheek as I slept and owke to find this bug near my head. I ran to the bathroom, and found that my cheek had already swollen.. so I called my brother to pick me up and take me to the hospital. Turns out, by the itme I got to the emergency room my eye was swollen shut and the right half of my face as twice it’s size.. spent the night in the ER. Next day, I called to tell my job I couldn’t come in.. and the manager only half believed me. Two days later, I went back to work.. still swollen.. with a very large bandage covering where the bug did it’s damage. The manager freaked out.. he thought I was faking until he saw it for himself.. He was going to ream me out for not coming in and instead.. he put extra hours on my time card that week.
posted by Mindy on 7-31-2009 at 9:54 pm
April 5th, 1531 – Richard Roose boiled to death for trying to poison an archbishop.
Wow!
posted by Kat on 7-31-2009 at 10:02 pm
1.) 11/29 is the 333rd day of the year
I share a birthday with C.S. Lewis.
On the downside, it seems to be the annual “massacre day” around the world –
November Uprising
Whitman Massacre
Sand Creek Massacre
Battle of Lost River
Zong Massacre
2.)Build a bridge out of ‘er!
posted by Traci on 7-31-2009 at 10:30 pm
1.My birthday is on October 4th, which is also the birthday of Buster Keaton. October 4th also happens to be the day that Sputnik 1 was launched into space.
2.
Juror #3: I’ll kill him! I’LL KILL HIM!
Juror #8: You don’t really mean you’ll kill me, do you?
-12 Angry Men
posted by Hannah on 7-31-2009 at 10:36 pm
1) Sept 4th
Beyonce, Mike Piazza, Dr. Drew, Tom Watson and Daniel Burnham (noted architect) were all born.
Steve Irwin and Edvard Grieg died.
Google was founded, the Ford Edsel was introduced, Los Angeles was founded, and the Great Fire of 1666 ripped through London.
2) Movie: The Matrix
Best Quote: I know Kung-Fu!
2nd Best: What do you need? Guns, lots of guns.
3) Work related slacking: Not sick days necessarily, but I negotiated with my boss not to work during any of England’s World Cup games in 2006. My boss agreed to let me stay home, figuring I wouldn’t do any work if I was in the office.
4) Erm, nothing comes to mind. Sorry!
posted by Paul on 7-31-2009 at 11:43 pm
I was born 08-06-1945, the day that the Atom Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
“We’ll always have Paris” – Casablanca
posted by Richard on 8-1-2009 at 12:02 am
1. A few interesting things (to me, at least) have happened on my birthday (May 21):
1927: Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Oddly enough, 5 years later to the exact day, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
1979: White Night riots (occurred after Dan White – the killer of Harvey Milk and George Moscone – was convicted of manslaughter)
I also share my birthday with a few well-known people, ranging from Henri Rousseau to Al Franken to Jeffery Dahmer.
Of course, undoubtedly the most amazing person to share my birthday is none other than Mr. T.
2. From Almost Famous: “If you think Mick Jagger will still be out there trying to be a rock star at age fifty, then you are sadly, sadly mistaken.” (Favorite: “I am a golden god!”)
3. Well, although I didn’t actually miss all of it, I was late for class last semester because when I was driving to campus, I got stuck going 3 mph down a one-lane road, because an old woman on a Lil Rascal scooter was humming down the road in front of me.
4. I got nothing.
posted by Sam on 8-1-2009 at 12:45 am
1.) I share a birthday with Beatrix Potter and Jacqueline Kennedy. Oh, and Stephen Lynch! (July 28th!)
2.) “What… like the back of a Volkswagen?”
3.) I had to miss work once because I didn’t have any kitchenware and my hair dryer wasn’t working. We had a really bad snow storm and it froze my door shut. I had just moved into my apartment so I didn’t have anything thing to boil water in to help thaw the doors and windows and I couldn’t get my hair dryer to turn on either.
4.)Alex and the husband of the woman his gang assaulted in A Clockwork Orange. Even though it turned out bad wicked quick. D=
posted by Tabitha on 8-1-2009 at 12:55 am
1. November 15. 1776–Articles of Confederation approved for ratification. 1968–ODB was born
2. “Sometimes nothin’ is a real cool hand.” Luke (Paul Newman) in Cool Hand Luke
4. Roy Horn & Montecore
posted by Zach on 8-1-2009 at 2:04 am
jan. 29: Sir Stamford Raffles steps onto Singapore for the first time, leads to a chain of colonial control that becomes the nation today.
posted by marc on 8-1-2009 at 4:05 am
1. April 13th. It’s funny actually that this year i looked it up and found out Guy Fawkes shares my birthday. This is only really notable to me because my boyfriend’s birthday is November 5, Guy Fawkes Day. We thought that was a funny coincidence.
posted by Amy on 8-1-2009 at 7:09 am
July 13th – Harrison Ford, Cheech Marin, Robert Forster, and Patrick Stewart share my birthday!
1787 – The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
“That’s a matter of opinion and I don’t give a fuck about yours.” From Dusk Till Dawn
As to a post above, Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18th, not the 11th. I may have still been in my moms belly, but they lived just outside of Seattle. I hear stories all the time…
posted by Christina on 8-1-2009 at 9:27 am
The only really weird reason I’ve missed work was because I had to go to China and adopt a baby. For the second one, I only went to Cincinnati, which isn’t quite as weird.
Then there was the time I had to leave work for about an hour because someone had spotted my dog five miles from home and I had to go find her.
posted by Miss Cellania on 8-1-2009 at 10:03 am
What makes my birthday special? Well besides being on the 30th of July(which I seem to be finding more people that share it with me). The thing that makes it the most special is because it’s mine!! We also share birthdays with Delta Burke and Lisa Kudrow.
posted by Tiffany on 8-1-2009 at 11:47 am
1. November 13, so I can take my fellow birthday celebratees, the delicious Gerard Butler and the gorgeous Chris Noth (win-win situation), to Whoopi Goldberg’s house and we can all have cake. Sadly we might be discussing the Bhola Cyclone, the 20th centuries worst natural disaster (in yer face, Boxing Day Tsunami!), toasting Sweden’s entry to the EU or bemoaning Franklin’s truthful quote about “death and taxes”.
2. Second fave quote from one of my favorite films, The English Patient:
Katharine Clifton: What do I love?
Almásy: Say everything.
Katharine Clifton: Water, and the fish in it. Hedgehogs, I love hedgehogs. Marmite. Baths, with other people! Islands. I could go on all day.
Almásy: Go on all day.
Katharine Clifton: Your handwriting.
Almásy: And what else?
Katharine Clifton: My husband.
Almásy: What do you hate most?
Katharine Clifton: A lie.
3. I had to call in sick with such severe sunburn (after getting loaded on margaritas at a golf tournament), my bi-polar boss didn’t believe me and decided to fire me. When I came in on Tuesday still flaming red, covered in cream and unable to wear a bra, she was apprently irritated that she had been wrong and the girls in the office who believed me had been right, and told me to pack my things and go. (ps, she’s become known in Dallas PR as a complete mental case). I also once had to lure my cat out from under my house, and that took all day.
4. Always think it is interesting when a man’s exwives become very good friends.
posted by MartinaO on 8-1-2009 at 12:49 pm
1. My birthday is Halloween, beat that.
2. “I have my country’s 500th anniversary to plan, my wife to murder and Guilder to frame for it. I’m swamped!” Prince Humperdinck in The Princess Bride
3.I’ve never had a job but I faked sick to school more than once to go to the lake with friends.
posted by Anna on 8-1-2009 at 4:27 pm
Okay, SECOND favorite ‘Kill Bill Vol 2′ quote is:
“Gargantuan”. You know, I’ve always liked that word “gargantuan”, I so rarely have the opportunity to use it in a sentence.
(First is: “I… overreacted”. Second – ” Hmm, I’m sorry, Budd. That was rude of me, wasn’t it? Budd, I’d like to introduce my friend, the black mamba. Black mamba, this is Budd. “
posted by Amy on 8-1-2009 at 6:36 pm
Oops! ‘2nd second’ shiuld be THIRD
posted by Amy on 8-1-2009 at 6:37 pm
I too was born on Sept 11.
posted by Joelm on 8-1-2009 at 7:53 pm
I’m quite late to the party, but I thought I would throw in my answers!
1. There are several notable events that took place on my birthday, April 15: Abraham Lincoln died after being shot by an assassin, the Titanic sank, and income taxes are due (in the United States).
2. “But Westley, what about the ROUSes?”
3. I woke up one morning, and my lower back hurt so badly that I was absolutely sure that the titanium rods that are screwed into it had come loose. I rolled out of bed onto the floor, called in, and then called a friend to beg them to take me to get x-rayed. It turns out I “only” had osteoarthritis, and little bone spurs were grinding in between my vertebrae.
4. None come to mind that haven’t been mentioned already
posted by Mel on 8-1-2009 at 9:00 pm
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All they found of him was a muddy set of prison clothes, a bar of soap, and an old rock hammer, damn near worn down to the nub. I used to think it would take six-hundred years to tunnel under the wall with it. Old Andy did it in less than twenty.
posted by Anon Emous on 8-1-2009 at 9:16 pm
1)Decemebr 6 1865 the 13th amendment is ratified. (If you dont know what this abolished your sad.) December 6 1922 1st constitution of the Irish Free State takes operation
2)”A shepard must tend to his flock, and at times fight off the wolves”(From the patriot when the reverend answers on why he is fighting.)
3)I was stuck in traffic b/c of an overturned truck hauling chickens.(seriously)
4)The U.S. and Soviet Union during World War II
posted by CJ on 8-1-2009 at 9:50 pm
1)Pebbles and Bamm Bamm got married on my birthday in 1993.
2)My second favorite quote is “No no, it’s just a flesh wound!” from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
3)Once when I was in 9th grade the entire state of Georgia missed school because of a gas crisis. This was shortly after hurricane Katrina.
4) In my opinion the best friendship under the weirdest circumstances was forged by my best friend and I after I nearly drowned her when we were 12.
posted by Shayla on 8-2-2009 at 2:31 pm
1- Nov. 25, sometimes Thanksgiving falls on my birthday (I believe my 1st, 7th, 13th and 18th birthdays so far) and JFK was buried on my birthday.
2- “What ‘cha doing?”
“Writing in my gournal. I write my thoughts in it every day.”
“Oh, you mean a journal?”
“Yeah, whatever. I guess I’m not all smart like you.”
posted by Lauren on 8-2-2009 at 10:19 pm
1. Jordan Knight (new kids on the block)
2. “Say Hello to my pretty Gun” Scarface
3. On the morning of my first day, I get up early to take a shower, on my way to the bathroom I trip and break my foot in 3 places.
4. Me and my husbands Ex wife
posted by Brandi on 9-4-2009 at 4:03 pm