Railroaders place to shoot the shit.

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RE: Today in music history

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Jan 18 1978

"Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa, Chicago Tribune

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Jan 19 1991

Wendy O. Williams, of the Plasmatics, arrested formasturbating herself onstage with a sledgehammer.

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Jan 25 1980

Beatle Paul McCartney is deported from Japan for possession of nearly a half pound of marijuana. It is Sir Paul's third pot bust and his second deportation, an earlier one occurring in Germany 20 years previously after setting fire to a condom.

Jan 25 1994

Michael Jackson pays $10M in an out of court settlement to the family of 14 year old Jordy Chandler, who accused him ofchild molestation. Quote from the affidavit, citing May 1993 as the time period: "That's when the whole thing really got out of hand. We took a bath together. This was the first time that we had seen each other naked. Michael Jackson named certain of his children friends who had masturbated in front of him."

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Jan 26 1984

Michael Jackson's hair is ignited by a magnesium flash bomb at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles during the filming of a Pepsi television commercial, causing third-degree scalp burns.

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Jan 27 1997

Pat Boone goes heavy metal.

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Troll wrote:
Jan 27 1997
Pat Boone goes heavy metal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxJhDlz4jxM

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Troll wrote:
Troll wrote:
Jan 27 1997
Pat Boone goes heavy metal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxJhDlz4jxM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIqY-zvdESQ

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Feb 2 1979

Sid Vicious, bassist for the Sex Pistols, dies in his sleep of a heroin overdose. He was waiting to stand trial for the stabbing death of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen.

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Feb 4 1983

Karen Carpenter dies of anorexia nervosa. She frequently took laxatives and induced vomiting to prevent weight gain. At the time of her death she was pencil thin.

Feb 4 1987

Pianist/homosexual Liberacedead from AIDS in Palm Springs, California. Nobody even suspected the man was gay.

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Feb 7 1969

Beatle George Harrison has his tonsils removed. He had them destroyed to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands.

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Feb 7 1995

Rapper Tupac Shakur sentenced to 4.5 years for grabbing somebody's ass (sexual abuse, "forcibly touching the buttocks").

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48 years ago tonight, live:

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Bullfuckingschitt! It was on a Sunday night.

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Bullfuckingschitt! It was on a Sunday night.

Not been enacted yet, Snippy.

A Calendar that Never Changes and the World on the Same Time?

By Vickie Frantz, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer

Jan 2, 2012; 9:30 AM ET

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Steve H. Hanke, a Professor of Applied Economics at John Hopkins University, and Richard Conn Henry, a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at John Hopkins University, have developed a permanent annual calendar and propose that the world adopt Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) as the only measurement of time.

Henry worked on a calendar that would not change from year to year. In 2007, he showed his calendar to Hanke. He wanted Hanke's insights about what economic benefits the calendar could have.

Henry and Hanke had several meeting with their colleagues and some graduate students. After some time, they were able to finalize their plan for the permanent calendar.

With the Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar in place, important dates fall on the same day every year. An example is Independence Day in the U.S. Independence day has always been celebrated on July 4. With the new calendar, July 4 would always be on a Wednesday.

The Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar consists of two months of 30 days followed by one month of 31 days. The result is every quarter of the year contains 91 days. The only change that would need to be made to the calendar is the addition of a week every five or six years. This would keep the months in line with the seasons. This extra week would be added at the end of December.

"Think of it as an adult spring break," said Hanke.