Happy birthday, Jason, and many, many more!!
Noah, Connie, Logan, Ian & Brenna
>It's just past midnight here on the east coast. According to our records,
>today, December 29th, 2004, is the birthday of RATMMer Jason "Druid816" Tamez.
>Jason is a fan of the show, of course, but also a gaming enthusiast, web geek
>and Tolkien fan. Please join us in wishing Jason a very happy birthday!
Happy Birthday, Jason! In your honor, and to share my love of giant monster
movies and Japanese sci-fi (and because I have no life), I give you Your Day in
G-History:
1947: VINCENT WINTER, who played Sean in "Gorgo", is born in Aberdeen,
Scotland.
1954: "Tomei Ningen" ("The Invisible Man") is released in Japan.
1970: An edited version of "Godzilla vs. the Thing" is released in Japan.
1972: Episode 13 of "Warrior of Love Rainbowman", "Mission: Rainbow", debuts on
Japanese TV.
Episode 39 of "Transforming Ninja Arashi" debuts on Japanese TV.
1973: "Nippon chiubotsu" ("Submersion of Japan") a.k.a. "Tidal Wave" is
released in Japan.
Episode 33 of "Kikaida 01", "Emergency: The Gorilla With Child’s Tears",
debuts on Japanese TV.
Episode 46 of "Kamen Rider V3", "Going On After Riderman", debuts on Japanese
TV.
1979: Episode 48 of "Battle Fever J" debuts on Japanese TV.
1980: ROY ENGEL, who played Major Evans in "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms",
dies of meningitis in Burbank, Calif.
EDWARD INNES, who played Brigadier General Prescott in "The Angry Red Planet",
dies of a heart attack in Las Vegas.
2002: Episode 45 of "Swift Wind Task Force Hurricanger" debuts on Japanese TV.
Reaper "Have a good 'un!" G
http://www.giantmonstermovies.com
http://www.livejournal.com/users/reaper_g/
Happy birthday, Jason. I got you the X-box video game version of "Lord of the
Rings." I have to warn you, you'll need to turn up the brightness and contrast
buttons way up to 11, since you can't even see the over-bleached Gandalf in this
one. Oh, and the AI cheats like hell.
---Andrew "The One Whoopie Cushion to Rule them All" Kunz.
Sheryl
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'"The" Sheryl, MSTie #12802
Filker, punster and bookaholic
Gene police: You! Out of the pool!
Cats are Murphy's way of saying "Nice Furniture!"
-- Gary
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"Gorgeous" Gary Ehrlich, P.E.
http://www.speakeasy.net/~electro/electro.html
http://www.livejournal.com/users/gorgeousgary/
Happy birthday, Jason! Sit back, relax, check out what makes your
birthday extra-special!
Checked In On This Date
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1800 - Charles Goodyear, inventor of the vulcanization of rubber
1808 - Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States
1809 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1840 - Anton Dohrn , zoologist
1876 - Pablo Casals, cellist and conductor
1879 - Billy Mitchell, United States Army officer, United States Air
Force pioneer
1881 - Jess Willard, boxing champion
1890 - Käthe Dorsch , actress
1908 - Helmut Gollwitzer , theologian
1914 - Billy Tipton, jazz musician
1917 - Tom Bradley, mayor of Los Angeles, California
1927 - Andy Stanfield, American athlete
1936 - Mary Tyler Moore, actress
1936 - Ray Nitschke , American football star
1937 - Barbara Steele, actress
1938 - Jon Voigt, actor
1942 - Rick Danko, musician ("The Band")
1946 - Marianne Faithfull, singer
1947 - Ted Danson, actor
1952 - Gelsey Kirkland , dancer
1966 - Brian Keith "Dexter" Holland singer, guitarist (The Offspring)
1967 - Andy Wachowski, director (The Matrix)
1970 - Kevin Weisman, actor
1970 - Frankie Dettori, jockey
1972 - Jude Law, actor
Checked Out On This Date
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1170 - St. Thomas a Becket, English bishop,
1785 - Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet
1825 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter
1894 - Christina Rossetti, poet
1916 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk
1926 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet
1937 - Don Marquis, author
1967 - Paul Whiteman, jazz musician, conductor
1980 - Tim Hardin, musician
1986 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1999 - Jerzy Waldorff , Polish film and music critic
2003 - Earl Hindman, American actor (Wilson, "Home Improvement")
2003 - Bob Monkhouse, British comedian and game show host
This Date In History
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1170
St Thomas Becket, is slain in his own cathedral on orders from Henry II
of England.
1813
War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York
1845
Texas is admitted as the 28th U.S. state.
1851
The first American-based YMCA opens, in Boston, Massachusetts
1860
The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, the HMS Warrior is
launched.
1890
The United States Seventh Cavalry massacres over 400 men, women and
children at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. This was the last major
conflict between Indians and U.S. troops.
1891
Thomas Edison patents the radio
1911
Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the Republic of China
1913
The first serial motion picture, "The Unwelcome Throne" is released by
Seligs Polyscope Company .
1921
William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Prime Minister of Canada
1934
The first college basketball game at Madison Square Garden in New York
City is played, between the University of Notre Dame and New York
University
1934
Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London
Naval Treaty of 1930.
1940
Battle of Britain: Luftwaffe firebombs London, killing almost 3000
civilians
1945
The mystery voice of Mr. Hush was heard for the first time on the radio
show, "Truth or Consequences", hosted by Ralph Edwards.
1945
Sheb Wooley recorded the first commercial record made in Nashville, TN.
1949
KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high
frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
1952
The first transistorized hearing aid was offered for sale by Sonotone
Corporation.
1967
Star Trek's "The Trouble With Tribbles" 1st airs
1969
New York Times reports Curt Flood will sue baseball & challenge the
reserve clause
1972
Following 36 years of publication, the last weekly issue of "LIFE"
magazine hit the newsstands. The magazine later became a monthly
publication.
1975
A bomb explodes at New York City's LaGuardia Airport killing 11.
1982
Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant ends his career with Alabama with a win over
Illinois in the Liberty Bowl
1989
Václav Havel becomes President of Czechoslovakia
1989
Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate
Vietnamese refugees.
1992
Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, resigned.
1996
Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a
peace accord that ends a 36 year a civil war.
1997
Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation's chickens (1.25 million) to
stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.
1998
Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the genocide in Cambodia that
claimed over 1 million in the 1970s.
Tell Your Boss You're Taking The Day Off For
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The fifth day of Christmas in (Christianity)*
HM the King's Birthday (Nepal)
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(* Yes, this is apparently not just a song.)
My name is:
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And my anti-drug is porn.
http://www.geocities.com/mysterysciencefreezer
(MSTings and other assorted brain droppings)
Happy Birthday, Jason! This is just a Tolkein effort on my part, but don't
worry, I won't make a hobbit out of it.
Bill L.
[attach OneBirthdayCakeToFeedThemAll.EXE]
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bil...@hiwaay.net http://home.hiwaay.net/~billfl
"If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people. And if you're smart,
surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you."
Isaac Jaffee (Robert Guillaume), "Sports Night"