Contestants in the 1956 Chiropractor’s Beauty Contest, 1956.
The Carlisle Times
Est. 2011
Inevitably.
Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose. But fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a bullet - there is where the bullet went through - and it probably saved me from it going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best.
Teddy Roosevelt, candidate of the (third party) Bull Moose Party, October 14, 1912.
—Having become President when William McKinley was assassinated in 1901, Roosevelt served as President until 1909. He then ran as a third party candidate for the Bull Moose Party against his Republican successor as President, William Howard Taft, and the eventual winner of the 1912 election, Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson.
His speech lasted 20 minutes. With a bullet in his chest.
(via politicalprof)
No, no, this is the revolutionary costume!
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Obama Wedding Registry?
Now I have officially seen everything. The Obama campaign offically suggests that one asks guests to donate to Obama in lieu of gifts?
In this economy, this is the definition of ill-mannered.
http://www.barackobama.com/news/entry/the-obama-event-registry
Lucille Ball accepting her Emmy Award for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series, 1967
What to Say in a Sports Bar: NBA Draft Edition
Brian and Colin break down the NBA draft and wonder whether Tebow is Jesus or Harry Potter.
How do you culturejam a subway-station advertisement? This is how you culturejam a subway-station advertisement.
Also, we reviewed this movie. Which means we had to watch it. Have mercy on us.
You know you went to #Gtown when you get an email with the subject line: DOG and wonder what govt agency that is.
