Re: Smoke one...Happy Birthday dear friend.....enjoy the day!
On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:37:00 GMT, Miss Elaine Eos
<Misc@your-pants.PlayNaked,com > wrote:
>For Marc "CigarBaron" Schneiderman, since he's such a swell guy. Plus,
>it's his birthday.
>
>Elsewhere in history...
>
>Apr 12 1945
>Franklin D. Roosevelt, the only president ever elected to four terms of
>office, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, GA. The following
>day, Vice President Harry S. Truman assumes the post and is told for the
>first time about the Manhattan Project.
>
>Apr 12 1960
>Eric Peugeot, 4-year-old son of the auto manufacturer, is kidnapped in
>Paris. The child is later freed after a $300,000 ransom is paid.
>Ultimately, the perpetrators are caught and sent to prison.
>
>Apr 12 1961
>Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alexeyevich Gargarin is the first man in space,
>aboard Vostok I.
>
>Apr 12 1988
>U.S. patent 4,736,866 is granted to Harvard University for a
>genetically-modified mouse, engineered to be particularly susceptible to
>carcinogens. The cancer-prone "Harvard Oncomouse" is the world's first
>patented creature, and perhaps also the most screwed.
>
>Apr 12 1989
>1960s counterculture icon Abbie Hoffman kills himself by overdosing on
>barbituates.
>
>Apr 12 1992
>EuroDisney opens to the public, attracting a meager 50,000 visitors.
>Expectations had been about ten times as many. This underwhelming
>response by the European public will continue for more than a year.
>Finally, after 18 months of retooling, the resort is ultimately
>rechristened Disneyland Paris.
>
>Apr 12 1994
>The US Tax Court rules that Indiana exotic dancer Chesty Love can claim
>a $2,088 tax credit for depreciation on her 56FF breast implants. The
>judge found that Love's surgical augmentation did in fact increase her
>income, also that she was unable to derive any personal benefit from
>them, as the oversized mammaries "contorted her body into a grotesque
>appearance."
>
>Apr 12 1995
>To celebrate David Letterman's 49th birthday, actress Drew Barrymore
>climbs atop the Late Night desk and flashes her bosomy protuberances at
>the man.
>
>Apr 12 1995
>The Hong Kong Eastern Express reports that China sanctions the
>consumption of aborted human fetuses as a "health benefit." One
>practitioner willing to admit a taste for this is Dr. Zou Qin of the Luo
>Hu Clinic, who boasts having consumed more than 100 meals of human veal
>-- stew and soup, mostly.