Very Important Day In History

[litl rooster]

1899     Carnation started production of canned milk.....I guess the cow wasn't right package for it.


1901 President McKinnley was shot and died 8 days later.

[Delmonico]

Where did you get that date for the canned cow?  My research says late 1850's, exact date not specified, but patented in Aug of 1856.

[litl rooster]

Where did you get that date for the canned cow?  My research says late 1850's, exact date not specified, but patented in Aug of 1856.

http://www.brainyhistory.com/days/september_6.html

[Silver Creek Slim]

Borden started canning milk in 1856.

Carnation with a later competitor.

Slim

[Delmonico]

Now that makes sense.

Carnation Milk, the best in the land,
Comes to you in a nice silver can.
Not teats to pull, no hay to pitch,
Just punch a hole in the son of a ........

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Witch?
Mornin' all. Late again today. Dropped the truck off after the morning run to get that ball joint put in, finally!
Another hot one perdicted for here today, callin' for high 80's to 90. That dang bus is gonna be hot this afternoon...............Buck

[Silver Creek Slim]

Today is "International Talk Like A Pirate Day".

Slim

[Trinity]

Dagnabbit!

Well, shivver me timbers.  I missed it again!

[litl rooster]

In celebration Slim put the Parrot in the Dutch oven this evening

[Silver Creek Slim]

Anyone fer roasted parrot? 

Slim

[Arcey]

Ole pirate 'n a raw rookie standin' it the rail lookin' out o'er the sea.  Ole fella walkin' on a peg-leg.  Patch o'er a missin' eye.  Has a hook where his right hand outta be.

Rookie – 'Doan mind me askin', howed ya lose yer leg?

Ole Timer – Aww, me lad.  We was boardin' ah merchantman when I wuz green iz you.  Second me feet hit the deck there was cannon fire.  Blew me down 'n ripped me leg off.

Rookie – Shiver me timbers, matey!  The hook?

Ole Timer – Why right here aboard dah Blood 'n Bones.  A mutiny! Blades swingin' 'n flashin' in the sun.  Wuz struck 'n me hand severed clean.  Aye.

Rookie – Right aboard?  Avast me hearty!  'N yer eye, ole man?

Ole Timer – The day I got's me hook ah seagull crapped in me eye........................

[Trinity]

 



"Ah'll have me soma that purret."

[litl rooster]

Happy Birthday

January 10, 1843

Outlaw Frank James born in Missouri
Franklin James, the lesser-known older brother of Jesse, is born in Clay County, Missouri.

Frank and Jesse James were both legends in their own time, though Jesse is better remembered today because of his more dramatically violent death. The two Missouri brothers drifted into a life of crime after serving in Confederate guerilla forces during the Civil War. They began robbing banks in 1866, and their bold and impudent style won them a good measure of popular admiration. Once Jesse stopped to tell a crowd of townspeople gathered for a political speech that he thought something might be wrong at the bank he and Frank had just robbed. On another occasion, they staged an audacious hold-up of a Kansas City fair box office in the middle of a crowd of 10,000 people.

In an era of lingering sectional hatred and increasing public dislike for large corporate railroads and banks, some Americans began to see the James brothers as heroes, modern-day Robin Hoods who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Newspapers, eager to increase their readership, contributed to this mythic view of the brothers. In reality, the James brothers were brutal criminals who willingly killed innocent victims in their pursuit of money, but misguided public sympathy for the men was so great that the Missouri state legislature at one point nearly approved a measure granting amnesty to the entire James gang.

After the brothers murdered two innocent men during an 1881 train robbery, though, the state of Missouri came to its senses and offered a reward of $5,000 each for the capture of Jesse and Frank. Shot down for reward money in 1882 by one of his own gang members, Jesse achieved a false but enduring reputation as a martyr in the cause of the common people against powerful interests. One Kansas City newspaper mournfully reported his death in a story headlined, "GOODBYE JESSE."

Had Frank suffered the same fate, no doubt he too would have achieved martyrdom and been the subject of popular songs like the "Ballad of Jesse James." However, Frank wisely preferred long life to martyrdom, and he turned himself in a few months after his brother was murdered. Prosecutors were unable to convince juries that Frank was a criminal, and he was declared a free man after avoiding conviction at three separate trials in Missouri and Alabama.

Entering middle age and having grown weary of the criminal life, Frank James was not so foolish as to tempt fate and the watchful eyes of Missouri law officers by resuming his old ways. For the next 30 years, he lived an honest and peaceful existence, working as a race starter at county fairs, a theater doorman, and a star attraction in traveling theater companies. In 1903, he joined forces with his old criminal partner Cole Younger to form the James-Younger Wild West Show. Frank retired to his family's old farm in Missouri, where he died at the age of 72 in 1915.

   

[Delmonico]

January 19, 1935 – In Chicago, Coopers Inc. sold the world's first briefs, a new style of men's undergarment.

[Texas Lawdog]

Salute!

[litl rooster]

Salute!

prefer Boxers

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Briefs here, but sleep in boxers. This summer I spent a month and a half in boxers after my surgery constantly in lounge pants, too. Had to leave a lot of room, don't 'cha know

[Texas Lawdog]

I'm not a swinger, I need my briefs.

[Arcey]

Got in a knife fight with some doctor back '89 er '90. He won. Always wore briefs 'fore that. Boxers since.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

I know from whence you come, Arcey