NASA space shuttle Atlantis blasts off for the last time. This ends the NASA space shuttle program. I personally am not a big ‘space’ guy. Not until we have aliens and laser blasters. However, knowing that the US bank bailout exceeded the half-century lifetime budget of NASA, makes me appreciate them a little more and approve of the people who make decisions on what gets funded in this country a little less.
— R.A. Rickard
Mad Respect to the Wauzeka High School Track Team. Congrats on the co-conference title and even more respects to this Michael Molini who broke my 300 hurdle record. Got nothing but love!
i advise college. I dont know anyone that went to college and sucked more.
— R.A. Rickard (advice i just gave a new high school grad)
I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.
— Mark Twain
There he goes. One of God’s own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
— Raoul Duke
Not saying i dont like who i am. I love me. But if i had the power, i would have been a Kennedy - Newly released 1961 FBI memo claims Ted Kennedy sought to rent brothel in Chile.
Drunk & naked Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia (the first Valentine’s day) by sacrificing a goat and whipping women with the hides.
This also included a matchmaking lottery. Men drew the names of women from a large jar. The lucky lady would then ‘couple-up’ with the man who drew her name for the duration of the festival. If the match worked out well it may last a bit longer.
So why was this cool pagan date changed to a nice day for those in love? The answer is the same for any major holiday - because people died. Claudius II of Roam executed two men. Both of them were named Valentine (one or both a Catholic priest). Both were executed on Feb 14th (but in different years). A couple hundred years later the Catholic Church supported the day and renamed it Saint Valentine’s Day. They did however take out the pagan rituals and the cool jar. This would have all ended as a neat little martyr holiday for the church, but some poet named Chaucer had to go and write St. Valentine’s Day into some romantic lame day for lovers. Not even the church could take all the sappy lovie-dovie that the day turned into, so they took it off the holy calendar of saints in 1969.
Now, Hallmark makes a good portion of their profit from Valentine’s day. You see, they own the legal rights to ‘love’, so the only way you can buy ‘love’ is from Hallmark. (its a fact, look it up or ask Lisa S.)
And no, this tirade did not come from my bitterness that my wife is on call today - all day! grrr!
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
— Abraham Lincoln
Good afternoon Internet. Im Rob Rickard, and your not. Here is todays news …
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
— Samuel Beckett writes as cool as he looks. Every time i read this, i like it more and more. It motivates me. It inspires me. It makes me fearless to ‘fail better’.
