tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305022Sun, 01 Dec 2024 21:07:18 +0000Just what you've always wanted - a web trail of a retired over-the-hill bald guy.http://bogus-boggess.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Blogger2032125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305022.post-61695574233587898Tue, 24 Jan 2023 14:33:00 +00002023-01-24T13:00:38.160-05:00 Blowing off the dust and clearing out the cobwebs (not to mention doing some structural repair). More to come? http://bogus-boggess.blogspot.com/2023/01/can-this-be-return-of-bbb.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305022.post-2461256447480517944Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:00:00 +00002023-01-24T09:42:28.167-05:00All good things must end; so too the BBB. With 2030 entries off-and-on over five years (the anniversary was last Monday), it has served as an excellent vehicle for surfing and sharing BB web journeys. Thanks to all for checking in. The BBB is dead, long live the BBB!Wyatt and I are on to new adventures! See you along the path.http://bogus-boggess.blogspot.com/2008/04/last-bbb-admin-note.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305022.post-7963839521495832294Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:15:00 +00002023-01-24T09:08:16.978-05:00Two to beam up! Get ready for the ultimate Star Trek adventure with this original series Communicator! With sound effects and clips from the ground-breaking classic series, each of these limited collectibles features a pop-open design and deluxe window-box packaging. Don't be caught on your next away mission without one of these handy life-savers!http://bogus-boggess.blogspot.com/2008/04/two-to-beam-up-get-ready-for-ultimate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305022.post-9161705853089331514Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:10:00 +00002008-04-24T03:04:08.532-04:00Your Hit Parade ended after a nine-year run on television and many more years on radio. The show debuted in 1935. On the final show, these were the top five songs:1 - Come Softly to Me2 - Pink Shoelaces3 - Never Be Anyone Else but You4 - It's Just a Matter of Time5 - I Need Your Love Tonighthttp://bogus-boggess.blogspot.com/2008/04/today-in-history-1959_24.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305022.post-7000692399083936740Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:05:00 +00002008-04-24T03:02:40.726-04:00It was to be one of the biggest science experiments ever seen yet there was not a bunson burner or test tube in sight. Around 1,500 students kitted out in waterproof ponchos discovered exactly what happens when you drop a mint sweet into a bottle of Coca Cola, in an attempt to break a world record. The students, from Belgium, tried to out-fizz the previous record for so-called Mentos fountains byhttp://bogus-boggess.blogspot.com/2008/04/news-from-all-over-leuven.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305022.post-8413317332253915773Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:00:00 +00002008-04-24T03:01:22.704-04:00Your Hit Parade was the first TV show to use the NBC living color peacock.http://bogus-boggess.blogspot.com/2008/04/so-now-you-know_24.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305022.post-95196304615786200Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:15:00 +00002008-04-23T06:00:11.471-04:00Two words ... Aquatic Archeology. Sounds intriguing, right? Explore the depths at this cool site.http://bogus-boggess.blogspot.com/2008/04/bbb-swell-site_23.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305022.post-5562404803537920473Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:10:00 +00002008-04-23T05:58:47.048-04:00Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, from Holyhead, Anglesey, admitted assaulting Barney Jones and cousin Michael with a metal crutch. Hughes, who was drunk and dressed in a black bin bag, shouted "Darth Vader!"Earlier, when Hughes failed to arrive on time, District Judge Andrew Shaw issued an arrest warrant, adding: "I hope the force will soon be with him."Hughes turned up and the case at Holyhead http://bogus-boggess.blogspot.com/2008/04/news-from-all-over-holyhead.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305022.post-2991602100139635553Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:05:00 +00002008-04-23T05:51:26.783-04:00The Associated Press began use of its new Teletypesetter circuit. The AP provided a perforated, paper-tape message to a news bureau in Charlotte, North Carolina. The message was then fed to a monitor for preparation into a printer. From there, the newspaper copy was completed.http://bogus-boggess.blogspot.com/2008/04/today-in-history-1951.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305022.post-3586818803229576661Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:00:00 +00002008-04-23T05:51:00.608-04:00The thing that makes this archeology and not treasure-hunting or salvage is the scientific approach, which includes precision navigation and mapping.-Brendan Foleyhttp://bogus-boggess.blogspot.com/2008/04/quotable-quote_23.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305022.post-8149189499919913698Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:55:00 +00002008-04-23T05:50:39.226-04:00http://bogus-boggess.blogspot.com/2008/04/todays-chuckle_23.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305022.post-8903040387486488735Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:15:00 +00002008-04-22T05:31:25.726-04:00The title of an immensely popular song taken from the melodrama Clari, or the Maid of Milan (1823) written by the American John Howard Payne (1791-1852) - who never had a home in his life - with six musical numbers composed by Sir Henry Bishop (1786-1855). The words do not actually occur in the body of the song, though 'home, sweet sweet home' does.http://bogus-boggess.blogspot.com/2008/04/bbb-etymology-home-sweet-home.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305022.post-6235272853648521090Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:10:00 +00002008-04-22T05:30:19.998-04:00Mayor Bloomberg has been encouraged by advisers in his inner circle to consider making a bid for The New York Times after he leaves office, Newsweek magazine reports.A source with close ties to the billionaire media magnate told the magazine that a friendly Bloomberg News-New York Times merger appealed to the mayor's sense of "civic-mindedness." "It is clearly a brand that Bloomberg could help http://bogus-boggess.blogspot.com/2008/04/news-from-all-over-new-york.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305022.post-4346765135343349931Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:05:00 +00002008-04-22T05:29:57.678-04:00A contraption known as the autogyro received publicity when veteran Pitcairn pilot Jim Ray landed on the White House lawn and took off again for the ceremony at which President Herbert Hoover presented the Collier Trophy to manufacturer Harold Pitcairn "for the greatest achievement in aviation, the value of which has been demonstrated by actual use in the preceding year." Pitcairn built 51 http://bogus-boggess.blogspot.com/2008/04/today-in-history-1931.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305022.post-249564392110849170Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:00:00 +00002008-04-22T05:29:41.724-04:00The song Home Sweet Home is famous in Japan as "Hanyu no Yado" ("A Lodging"). It has been used in such movies as The Burmese Harp and Grave of the Fireflies and is also used at Senri-Chuo Station on the Kita-Osaka Kyuko Railway.http://bogus-boggess.blogspot.com/2008/04/so-now-you-know_22.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305022.post-8133522331493729522Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:15:00 +00002008-04-21T06:09:25.289-04:00Cereal boxes are their own pulp art form, right? Back in 1904, Elijah's Manna corn flake cereal was created by CW Post. The name came from "Elijah" of Biblical fame. The cereal was renamed Post Toasties in 1908 reportedly due to pressure from Fundamentalists.http://bogus-boggess.blogspot.com/2008/04/bbb-pulp-pick-elijas-manna.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305022.post-5366408551874741812Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:10:00 +00002008-04-21T06:09:14.282-04:00Police say a man left a Pick N' Save store around 4:10 p.m. Saturday carrying a three-foot-tall, yellow M&M statue but an employee saw him and followed him to his vehicle. The man put the statue in his back seat and the employee confronted him.The thief offered the employee $5 for the statue, which is actually worth about $50. Police say the employee grabbed the statue out of the vehicle and the http://bogus-boggess.blogspot.com/2008/04/news-from-all-over-sheboygan.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305022.post-5061915248719608047Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:05:00 +00002008-04-21T06:08:56.216-04:00The prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for Broadcasting was presented to You Bet Your Life star, "The one, the only, Groucho Marx." This was the first time the honor had been awarded to a comedian.http://bogus-boggess.blogspot.com/2008/04/today-in-history-1949.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305022.post-3605569870037375825Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:00:00 +00002008-04-21T06:08:32.431-04:00Groucho's greasepaint mustache and eyebrows originated spontaneously prior to a vaudeville performance when he did not have time to apply the pasted-on mustache he had been using (or, according to his autobiography, simply did not enjoy the removal of the mustache every night because of the effects of tearing an adhesive bandage off the same patch of skin every night). After applying the http://bogus-boggess.blogspot.com/2008/04/so-now-you-know_21.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305022.post-6404532817639610795Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:15:00 +00002008-04-18T06:12:08.436-04:00Is it too late to think about my trip to Mars? Age *is* a state of mind, right? While I contemplate these age-old (ha) questions, I'm also planning my stint* at the "Mars Desert Research Station". You can witness the missions (photos, journals and the like) from this site.OK, it's a virtual "stint" but a guy's gotta dream!http://bogus-boggess.blogspot.com/2008/04/bbb-destination-hanksville.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305022.post-2632875823448577434Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:10:00 +00002008-04-18T06:11:46.157-04:00The Florida Senate today debated and passed an amendment to impose a $60 fine, charges of a moving violations, and points against a driver license for displaying reproductions of bull genitalia on a vehicle or trailer. The ban was proposed by Sen. Cary Baker, R-Eustis, who said the items are "not appropriate," even though he sees a lot of them in his district. Other members agreed on their http://bogus-boggess.blogspot.com/2008/04/news-from-all-over-tallahassee.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305022.post-6070000821841489786Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:05:00 +00002008-04-18T06:11:31.727-04:00On this night, the British army began its move across the Charles River toward Lexington, and the Sons of Liberty immediately went into action. At about 11 PM, Paul Revere was sent across the Charles River to Charlestown where he could begin a ride to Lexington, while another patriot, William Dawes was sent the long way around, via the Boston Neck and the land route to Lexington.Riding through http://bogus-boggess.blogspot.com/2008/04/today-in-history-1775.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305022.post-1574728349609713905Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:00:00 +00002008-04-18T06:11:19.681-04:00Revere certainly did not shout the famous phrase later attributed to him ("The British are coming!"), largely because the mission depended on secrecy and the countryside was filled with British army patrols; also, most colonial residents at the time considered themselves British as they were all legally British subjects. Revere's warning, according to eyewitness accounts of the ride and Revere's http://bogus-boggess.blogspot.com/2008/04/so-now-you-know_18.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305022.post-6749170955365845270Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:55:00 +00002008-04-18T06:10:54.120-04:00http://bogus-boggess.blogspot.com/2008/04/todays-chuckle_18.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305022.post-6856275737006449793Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:15:00 +00002008-04-17T06:30:06.854-04:00Two words ... Mathematical QuiltsPoincaré Planehttp://bogus-boggess.blogspot.com/2008/04/bbb-geeky-novelty_17.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)