Category: Teh Silly

1985 – The largest sand castle in the world was completed near St. Petersburg, FL. It was four stories tall.

1965 – “Pampers” were patented by R.C. Duncan.

****Sven won the 04-19 Caption Contest!***

Sven’s Fabulous Prize!

That was fun! Now, let’s lift the veil on a New Thread!

(Yeah, I really like this so I nicked it from Fatwa.)

Pop culture! And who better to celebrate that with than the Red Queen of Inscrutable Weirdness, Lady GaGa.

She’s making a speech here, she’s got somethin’ really important to say, and I’m sure you know just what that something is…so Caption That!

*** This week’s Caption Contest prize is really special, so … may the odds be evah in your favor! ***

Here it is! Ha-ha, fooled ya, di’int I?! Last Friday we captioned:

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And now, you get to vote:

This week’s fabulous prize for Best Comment is: A lovely* Capodimonte Lamp. For just the price of shipping and handling**, you can own your own 1 ft. (approx), multi-colored (pink and yellow roses) vintage lamp***.

*Says me. Fatwa, however, wishes to make known that he finds the lamp hideous and probably infested with demons.
**$2,000.39, ships in the continental US only
***Lampshade not included.

1975 – B.J. Thomas had the longest title of a number one song at the top of the “Billboard” popular music chart. The song was “(Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song.”

1979 – The film “Rock & Roll High School” starring the Ramones premiered.

1974 – David Bowie released “Diamond Dogs.”

1900 – The word “hillbilly” was first used in print in an article in the “New York Journal.” It was spelled “Hill-Billie”.

1987 – The American Physical Society said that the “Star Wars” missile system was “highly questionable” and would take ten years to research.