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Dillinger

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In 1559 A.D. Italian anatomist Matteo Realdo Colombo claims to have discovered the clitoris. Clitoris... yep, right where his girlfriend left it.

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courtesy of Maxim
 
Yep that's life for you ;) She had probably been playing with it for years as had many many other women and a man gets the recognition for "discovering" it.

[Edited by Juliangel on 01-19-2001 at 08:16 AM]
 
Juliangel said:
Yep that's life for you ;) She had problem been playing with it for years as had many many other women and a man gets the recognition for "discovering" it.

Men! sheesh!! Can't life without 'em....can't live without em! ;)
 
February 23rd:

1792 Joseph Haydn's 94th Symphony in G, premieres

1861 By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from US

1896 Tootsie Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfield

1980 Eric Heiden wins all 5 speed skating golds at Lake Placid Olympics
 
February 23rd

Dillinger said:
February 23rd:

1792 Joseph Haydn's 94th Symphony in G, premieres

1861 By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from US

1896 Tootsie Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfield

1980 Eric Heiden wins all 5 speed skating golds at Lake Placid Olympics

Let's here it for the Tootsie Roll!! MMMMMMMMMmmmmmmm:D
 
1382 French Maillotin uprises against taxes - and yet, here in the US today we all start scrambling to do our taxes!

1692 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, & Tituba arrest for witchcraft (Salem MA) --- *sigh* Never forget... *bowing head in a moment of silence*

1912 Isabella Goodwin, 1st US woman detective, appointed, New York NY - You go grrl!!!

1941 "Captain America" appears in a comic book - When Captain America throws his mighty sheild!!! (who can "sing" the rest?)

1969 Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium - - Jim, come back to us - expose yourself here, no one will complain...

1973 Robert Joffrey Dance Company opens - and, not quite indirectly, led to my first career

1980 Patti Smith & MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith wed in Detroit MI - ASK THE ANGELS! *smile*
 
Jim and Patti mentioned in the same post!

Thanks, Dillinger. That made my day.

Now I can't decide whether to listen to "Horses" or "When the Music's Over" first....
 
Why decide on one or the other first? Listen to both at the same time...

For the music is your special friend
Late afternoon, dreaming hotel
Dance on fire as it intends
Every night before I go to sleep
Music is your only friend
Until the end
Gloria G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria G-L-O-R-I-A,
Until the end

Na na na na na
Na na na na na
Cancel my subscription to the resurrection
I'm with you always
You're ever on my mind
Send my credentials to the house of detention
I got some friends inside

The face in the mirror won't stop
Voice of the Swarm
We follow we fall
The girl in the window won't drop
Voice of the Swarm
We follow we fall
A feast of friends alive she cried
Waiting for me outside

Before I sink into the big sleep
We waltzed beneath motionless skies
I want to hear, I want to hear
The scream of the butterfly
knowing no ending to our rendezvous
Come back, baby
Back into my arms
oh till death do us part
oh till death do us part
oh-oh

We're getting tired of hangin' around
Waiting around with our heads to the ground
cause time will bid and make us rise
make ravens of us all
I hear a very gentle sound
Very near
Yet very far
Very soft
Yet very clear
I been walking
wherefore am I walking
I been walking
Come today
Come today

What have they done to the earth?
What have they done to our fair sister?
oh where we shall await the beat of your feet hammering the earth
and as the earth resounds where the great ones tremble
Ravaged and plundered
And ripped her
And bit her
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn
And tied her with fences
And dragged her down
if you seek the kingdom come, come along
waiting by the ridge there'll be a gathering
I hear a very gentle sound
With your ear down to the ground
waiting underground
in our snow-white shrouds
waiting underground
We want the world and we want it,
We want the world and we want it, now
Now, NOW

So when the music's over
When the music's over, yeah
Like it like that, like it like that, like it like that,
Then you do the watusi, yeah do the watusi
When the music's over
Turn out the light
Turn out the light

For the music is your special friend
Dance on fire as it intends
Music is your only friend
In the sheets
there was a man
dancing around
to the simple
Rock & roll
song
Until the end
Until the end
Until the end

So when the music's over
When the music's over, Yeah
When the music's over
There must be something I can dream tonight,
The air is filled with the moves of you,
All the fire is frozen yet still I have the will, ooh, ah.
Turn out the light
Dream Of Life
Turn out the light
 
:eek:

Genius, Dillinger!!! Pure unadulterated genius.

It's as if you put a transcription device inside my head since I read your post earlier.

Dance on fire, mon frere. . . .

~H~
 
Jim and Patty and the arrest for alleged witchcraft of Sarah Goode, Sarah Osbourne and Tituba all in the same post.
Bowing for a moment of silence also.

Thank you Dillinger.
:rose:

I'll aways miss Jim...
 
Among other things, this happens to be quite a big day in musical history, for some unknown reason.

  • 1858 Leoncavallo's opera "I Pagliacci" is produced (Naples) (Ah, I remember it well...)
  • 1813 1st concerto of Royal Philharmonic
  • 1884 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Piano suite
  • 1887 Everett Horton, Connecticut, patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes
  • 1896 Volunteers of America forms (New York NY) (Jefferson Airplane, right?)
    Look what's happening out in the streets
    Got a revolutionGot to revolution
    Hey I'm dancing down the streets
    Got a revolutionGot to revolution
    Ain't it amazing all the people I meet
    Got a revolution Got to revolution
    One generation got old
    One generation got soul
    This generation got no destination to hold
    Pick up the cry
    Hey now it's time for you and me
    Got a revolution Got to revolution
    Come on now we're marching to the sea
    Got a revolutionGot to revolution
    Who will take it from you
    We will and who are we
    We are volunteers of America
  • 1898 Richard Straus' "Don Quixote" premieres in Keulen
  • 1900 National League decides to go with 8 teams They exclude Baltimore, Cleveland, Louisville & Washington (in 1953 Boston Braves move to Milwaukee)
  • 1902 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 2nd Symphony (hell yeah - going to go put this on right now)
  • 1906 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Smiths Falls (Ontario) in 2 games (Just exactly WHO is Stanley? And was his jockstrap really that big?)
  • 1911 International Women's Day (1st celebrated)
  • 1913 Internal Revenue Service begins to levy & collect income taxes (FUCK!)
  • 1917 Russian revolution breaks out (in Petrograd/St Petersburg)
  • 1920 Denmark & Cuba join the League of Nations (now that's a hell of a combination - Personally, I think they should merge into one nation)
  • 1930 Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with New York Yankee GM Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth" (Uh... right... just a lesson in never ever saying "ever")
  • 1930 Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India (That's what we need here at Lit! Civil Disobedience. Peaceful sit-ins. Uh... sex... lots of sex.)
  • 1934 Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars (Hubble was DA MAN!)
  • 1945 "Kiss Me Kate" opens in Britain (mmmm... nice)
  • 1945 International Women's Day is 1st observed (So - what was the 1911 deal and why'd it take 34 years ot actually observe it?)
  • 1948 Supreme Court rules religious instructions in pub schools unconstitutional (I think we should have this as an official holiday, like Christmas)
  • 1959 Groucho, Chico & Harpo's final TV appearance together (What about Karl?)
  • 1962 Beatles, with Pete Best, TV debut (perform "Dream Baby" on BBC) (Pete who?)
  • 1968 Fillmore East opens (HAIL HAIL ROCK 'N ROLL!!!)
  • 1983 IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0 (And Microsoft still can't figure out how to improve on it.)
  • 1991 - My oldest daughter was born! *BIG smile*
 
  • 1844 Nicolai Andreevich Rimski-Korsakov is born in Tikhvin Russia, one of my favorite composers! (Flight of the Bumble Bee, Scheherazade)
  • 1970 Queen Latifah [Dana Owens] is born in Newark NJ, Some say she is the re-incarnation of Rimski-Korsakov...
  • 1881 [PT] Barnum & [James A] Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens (Madison Square Garden) (and probably, somewhere during the show, the music playing was Carnival of Animals by Korsakov's buddy Saint-Saens)
  • 1899 Phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by Pickering (and dozens of new-born girls are named Pickering in honor of this event.)
  • 1902 Schönberg's "Verklärte Nacht" premieres in Vienna (Oh yeah! We got 12-tone in the Vienna HOOD!)
  • 1919 Order of DeMolay is established in Kansas City (they have an orgy and Rebecca is born)
  • 1920 Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar (welcome to the 20th century, dudes).
  • 1930 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh (US) (and dozens of new-born cartoon characters are named in honor of this event.)
  • 1949 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) ratified (and dozens of new-born girls are named NATO in honor of this event.)
  • 1961 Poppin' Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy introduced (and dozens of teenage girls including those named Pickering, Pluto, NATO, Latifah find out what they really mean by "poppin fresh"!)
  • 1963 Supreme Court's Miranda Decision: defendants must have lawyers (We have quite a few "must have" lawyers here at Lit!)
  • 1965 Rolling Stones fined £5 each for public urination (no comment).
  • 1967 Beatles' "Penny Lane" single goes #1 (And dozens of new-born girls are named Penny Lane in honor of this event)
    In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs
    of every head he's had the pleasure to have known
    and the people that come and go, stop and say hello.

    On the corner is a banker with a motorcar
    and little children laugh at him behind his back
    and the banker never wears a mack, in the pouring rain, very strange.

    Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes,
    there beneath the blue suburban skies,
    I sit a meanwhile back...

    In Penny Lane there is a fireman with an hourglass
    and in his pocket is a portrait of the queen.
    He likes to keep his fire engine clean, it's a clean machine.

    Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
    for a fish and finger pies, in summer, meanwhile back,

    Behind the shelter in the middle of a roundabout
    The pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray
    and though she feels as if she's in her place, she is anyway.

    In Penny Lane the barber shoots another customer,
    we see the banker sitting waiting for a trim
    and the fireman rushes in from the pouring rain, very strange.

    Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes, there beneath the blue suburban skies, I sit and meanwhile back, Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes, there beneath the blue suburban skies... Penny Lane!
  • 1977 Clash releases their 1st recording "White Riot" (Really just a remake of Penny Lane )
 
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