I love Perfectly Healthy Close Parking Spot Stalker Guy/Girl. They will spend minutes holding up traffic in an entire lot, all to preserve their God-ordained right to not get ten steps more of exercise than they absolutely have to
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ROBERT DE NIRO’s first (uncredited) Film appearance came in a French drama set in New York
THREE ROOMS IN MANHATTAN (1965)
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"So, Patrick Stewart, you're going to be playing a French starship captain. Can you do a French accent?"
"Yes."
"Can we hear it?"
"No."
Remember when people occasionally kept things to themselves? That was nice and we should go back to it
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They just won the World Series and now this ...
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Some days, this app delivers
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Are we sure he shouldn’t be pre-fired for just having won a World Series?
There is no one guilty enough in the world for the true crime crowd not to fall for their doc/podcast
“Maybe poker’s just not your game, Ike. I know. Let’s have a spelling contest.”
One hundred and forty five years ago today, in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, four men walked down Fremont Street and about thirty seconds later three men were dead.
It did not happen at the O.K. Corral.
It happened in a narrow vacant lot beside a photography studio belonging to a man named C.S. Fly. The back entrance of the O.K. Corral was roughly six doors away. The fight was never in it or next to it.
Nobody called it the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral at the time either. The event was barely known outside Arizona until Stuart Lake's heavily fictionalized Wyatt Earp biography in 1931, and the name everybody uses comes from a Burt Lancaster movie in 1957.
The real dispute was not lawmen against outlaws in any clean way. It was factional, and the factions were about as sharp as they get in a town of a few thousand people.
The Earps were Republicans and Northerners, tied to the town, the mining money, and the Tombstone Epitaph. The Cowboys were rural, Southern-sympathizing ranchers with a profitable side business in rustling and stolen horses, tied to county sheriff Johnny Behan and the Tombstone Nugget. Two parties, two newspapers, two economies, one small town.
The legal hook was Ordinance 9, passed in April 1881, which made it illegal to carry a deadly weapon inside Tombstone without a written permit. You checked your gun when you came into town.
The night before, Ike Clanton got drunk, picked a fight with Doc Holliday, and then spent hours telling anybody who would listen that he was going to kill the Earps. Virgil Earp, the town marshal, played poker with him until dawn.
The next afternoon Virgil walked up behind Ike, pistol-whipped him, and dragged him in front of a judge, who fined him twenty five dollars.
Witnesses said Wyatt told Ike he was going to have to fight. Ike said, "Fight is my racket, and all I want is four feet of ground."
Behan then told the Earps he had already disarmed the Clantons and McLaurys. He had not. He later testified that he had only said he intended to.
So Virgil, Morgan and Wyatt Earp walked down Fremont Street, with Doc Holliday, who Virgil had temporarily deputized and handed a shotgun.
Here is the part the movies tend to skip. It is not clear that every man they shot was armed.
Billy Clanton and Frank McLaury certainly were. Ike Clanton said he was unarmed, ran into Fly's building, and survived. Behan testified that Tom McLaury opened his coat to show he had no gun on him. The witness accounts conflict, and they have conflicted for a hundred and forty five years.
Roughly thirty shots in roughly thirty seconds.
Dead: Billy Clanton, who was nineteen years old. Tom McLaury. Frank McLaury.
Wounded: Virgil, Morgan, and Holliday. Wyatt Earp was not touched.
And then the town made its opinion clear. The funeral for the three dead men was described by the Epitaph as about the largest Tombstone had ever seen. The town brass band led it. People packed the sidewalks for three or four blocks.
Ike Clanton filed murder charges. Justice of the Peace Wells Spicer opened a preliminary hearing on October 31 that ran more than a month. On November 30 he ruled there was not enough evidence to indict, and that the Earps and Holliday had acted within the law. He also called Virgil's decision to deputize Wyatt and Holliday an injudicious and censurable act. A grand jury agreed with him.
Legally it was finished. Actually it had just started.
On December 28, 1881, around 11:30 at night, three men fired buckshot at Virgil Earp from an unfinished building across Allen Street and destroyed his left arm. He carried it in a sling the rest of his life.
On March 18, 1882, around ten minutes to eleven at night, Morgan Earp was shot through a glass door while playing billiards. The round broke his spine and he was dead inside an hour. A second shot buried itself in the ceiling just above where Wyatt was standing.
Two days later Wyatt started killing people, and over the following week his posse shot Frank Stilwell, Florentino Cruz, Curly Bill Brocius and Johnny Barnes. Five of the Earp party ended up wanted for murder in Arizona. They left the territory and never came back.
Thirty seconds on Fremont Street is the part that got the movie.
The five months afterward are what it actually cost.
Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers are buried together in Boothill, under a marker that reads "Murdered in the Streets of Tombstone."
And the photographer whose empty lot they died in took their portrait afterward, laid out in their caskets, which is the reason you can still look at their faces.
“We was like the Roman Empire, Tom. The Houston Astros…it was like the Roman Empire.”
“It was once.”
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“Hold up your badge, so they’ll know you’re a Policeman.”
L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997)
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On this night in 1415, King Henry V disguises himself as an ordinary soldier and tours the English camp at Agincourt to listen to his men's fears on the eve of battle — at least that's how William Shakespeare tells it.
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Holy shit man we’re really still doing this
Column: As a kid, this World Series starter rooted for the Astros. Then he learned they cheated. latimes.com/sports/dodgers/s…
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“Well, kid, I’ve got some good news and some bad news.”
“What’s the bad news?”
“Your first name is Gay.”
“Oh no! What’s the good news?”
“People aren’t gonna care about that.”
Dr. Gay Ludwig Hitler (1882–1948), an Ohio dentist and the son of George Washington Hitler...
Dr. Gay Ludwig Hitler was born on January 13, 1882, in Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio, to George Washington Hitler and Ida May Lutz. He worked as a dentist in Circleville, Ohio, for over four decades (practicing from 1922 through 1946).
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The Hitler family (originally descendants of George Hitler, who emigrated from Germany/Maryland to Ohio in the late 1700s) was a prominent, long-standing farming and pioneer family in Pickaway County.
The family had been in America for generations. The first was George Hitler, a German immigrant born in 1763, who settled in Pennsylvania before moving his family to southern Ohio. Some roads in Pickaway County still carry the Hitler name today.
Then, in the 1930s, a man with the same surname rose to power in Germany. By the time WWII ended, it had become the most infamous name in the world. Due to the family's deep local history long before the 20th-century German dictator rose to power, several local places—including Hitler Road, Hitler-Ludwig Road, Hitler Park, and the Hitler-Ludwig Cemetery—were named after them.
Many Americans with the name changed it. Gay Hitler never did. He lived through WWII and passed away on October 27, 1948, in Worthington, Ohio. He was buried under a gravestone that still reads “HITLER.”
His story went viral more than 70 years later, when an old newspaper clipping with his name began circulating online.
Even his first name was a family tradition. It came from Susannah Gay, the wife of the original George Hitler who brought the family to America.
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