On May 4, 8:42=A0am, Miss Elaine Eos <M...@your-pants.PlayNaked.com>
wrote:
> ...for Ken =A0"Smoke" Wortley, today's ASC birthday boy.
>
> Elsewhere in history...
>
> May 4 1854
> Joseph Tussaud returns to London with the well-used blade of the
> guillotine he purchased from Clement Sanson, the last in a line of
> Sansons who held the office of Executioner of Paris for over 150 years.
> The blade is now part of Tussaud's Wax Museum collection.
>
> May 4 1970
> 28 Ohio National Guardsmen kill four students and wound nine others at
> Kent State University. The Guardsmen had read them the riot act, but the
> students refused to disperse. So they shot them.
>
> May 4 1991
> Bing Crosby's son Dennis Crosby puts a shotgun to his head, ending his
> life in a boarding house in California. A younger brother, Lindsay, had
> also killed himself with a shotgun two years earlier.
>
> May 4 1999
> At the Sigma Chi fraternity at the University of Wisconsin, Chad Alvarez
> nukes a fraternal brother's Quaker parrot, Iago, in the house microwave.
> The animal explodes. For this he is sentenced to ten days in jail, and
> fined $1000. Alvarez is the son of the university's football coach.
>
> May 4 1999
> A newly-delivered baby falls through a train toilet as it is born near
> the city of Guangzhou, China. After the fall, a second train speeds over
> the newborn. Although the baby survives unharmed, radio announcers are
> later reprimanded for laughing hysterically as they report the story.
>
> May 4 2000
> The "I Love You" computer worm rampages through Internet email systems,
> inflicting damages somewhere in the $2-to-$15 billion range. The worm
> spreads by exploiting design flaws in the Microsoft Outlook mail client
> and also the gullibility of your typical computer user. A variety of
> Filipino suspects is ultimately narrowed down to an AMA Computer College
> student from Manila.
>
> May 4 2001
> After dinner at Vitello's in Studio City, film and television actor
> Robert Blake remembers that he left something at the restaurant. When he
> returns to the car, he discovers his wife, Bonnie Lee Bakley, slumped
> over in the passenger seat. She had been shot in the head by person or
> persons unknown. Bakley later dies of her injury. One year later, Blake
> is charged with the murder.
>
> --
> Please take off your pants or I won't read your e-mail.
> I will not, no matter how "good" the deal, patronise any business which se=
nds
> unsolicited commercial e-mail or that advertises in discussion newsgroups.=
Last time he posted was Sept. 2003 You really are desperate to make
ASC look viable. Even the M&M=92s are fading. One of the M's may be in
jail soon.