Thursday, October 04, 2007

Nothing Compares To TRIVIA QUIZ!

Today is National Taco Day. Ole!

Today is Dick Tracy Day, marking the comic strip detective's debut on this date in 1931 in the Detroit Daily Mirror as "Plainclothes Tracy." Hm, I can see why they'd want to re-tool that original title!

On this day in 1898, Harold Stilski patented the refrigerated cow. The device looked like a life-size steel cow and was mounted on a wagon to deliver milk door-to-door.

On this day in 1981, history's oldest gerbil, Sahara, died at age 8 years 4-and-a-half months. Sahara was owned by Aaron Milstone of Lathrup Village, Michigan.

On this day in 1992, singer Sinead O'Connor ripped up a picture of the pope on Saturday Night Live. The resulting uproar damaged her career.


Gotta love the fall TV season: What show, which debuted today back in 1957, featured the Cleaver family?

Good luck :)

6 Comments:

At 9:32 AM, October 04, 2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Was it "Leave it to Beaver?"

(When I was in marching band, we had a horn player whose last name was Leaver, and we always used to say "Beave it to Leaver." Yeah, we were dorks. What a surprise.)

 
At 10:02 AM, October 04, 2007, Blogger jody said...

my brother and i used to watch leave it to beaver.. i didn't quite realize just how old it was..

 
At 11:16 AM, October 04, 2007, Blogger Kim said...

Leave it to Beaver, but it seems many people have gotten here before me

And I understand the rationale behind changing the name from "plainclothes" but what I don't get is why they changed it to "dick"...

 
At 6:45 AM, October 05, 2007, Blogger R-dogg said...

Yup, it was Leave it to Beaver all right...nice work, everyone! Anybody up for a bonus round? Who played the Beave on the show???

 
At 9:20 AM, October 05, 2007, Blogger jody said...

ohyword, i have no idea.. but wasn't he someone who didn't do too much after? or am i thinking of some other 50's child star?

 
At 7:42 AM, October 09, 2007, Blogger R-dogg said...

I think it was Jerry Mathers, but I'm not positive! I don't believe he went on to have a wildly successful career in film, though!

 

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