This is Date Thread.
Do you want to, you know? ;)
No! this isn't an opportunity for online lasciviousness, this is Date Thread
Maybe later.
I'll explain, person/thing names a year (past or future) and the next p/t answers with something that happened in that year, names a year for the next.
But there hasn't been a new game thread on the forum since 1862... :-\
Can we do day/month/year dates?
I suppose, but not those uncouth month/day/year dates!
Perish the thought. :o
5BC
5BC
Mary has missed her last four periods and says she hasn't done it with anyone.
4BC
4BC
Mary has a baby, some are talking up the miracle,
Jane says Mary would do it with just about anyone,
just about anyone that isn't that slow Slow Joe.
3013
Donald Trump continues to hold rallies and declare victory.
Francisco Franco is still dead.
One Zillion B.C. - October 9 (Hint: Ringo Starr)
The Beatles form the first rock band in the stone age.
1961
1961
I was conceived Octoberish.
The Beatles and the Stones were nearly.
Beware the savage jaw
1984
1984
That year was knocking at our door, but then the Supreme Court postponed it until 2020.
1492
1492
The Ensisheim meteorite is a stony meteorite that fell on November 7, 1492 in a wheat field outside the walled town of Ensisheim in then Alsace, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensisheim_meteorite)
1215
1215
12:15
Saturday night
And the tap drips
Under the strip light
And I'm sitting in the kitchen sink
And the tap drips
Drip drip drip drip drip drip drip...
Waiting
For the telephone to ring
And I'm wondering
Where she's been
And I'm crying for yesterday
And the tap drips
Drip drip drip drip drip drip drip
1901
1901.
victoria augered in and the heads changed on the money.
1902.
On this date in 1902, nothing happened.
2525
2525
The first, white, MtF transexual, non-binary, Orion becomes president of the United federation of Planets.
312 BC
In 312 BC the Appian Way in Rome was begun.
At the same time, my ancestor Oleg the Unintelligent was trying to find his way home after a night of drinking mead.
1066
1066
A very famous periodic comet made a predictable appearance.
571
571 - Muhammad was born.
In other news that year, another one of my ancestors, Oleg the Dickless, was rejected again in his 14th proposal of marriage.
1952
1952 - Vern Barberis, an Australian, won the bronze medal in Men's Lightweight Weightlifting at the Helsinki summer games.
1216, July 17th, 8:20 PM
Quote from: Tank on November 15, 2020, 08:13:00 AM
1952 - Vern Barberis, an Australian, won the bronze medal in Men's Lightweight Weightlifting at the Helsinki summer games.
Oh that's sounds sensible, I didn't know it was a thing. Very good, lifting light weights instead of heavy ones, I approve. It should do away with all that unattractive huffing and puffing.
1216, July 17th, 8:20 PM
There were some boss guys in England or France who wanted what some other boss guys had. So they sent some of their lads to take it. It should have been theirs anyway, god agreed. They might have succeeded.
stardate 44002.3
Stardate 44002.3
Captain's Log, Stardate 44002.3. Repairs are complete and the Enterprise is warping to rendezvous with Starfleet at Wolf 359. Communications from the site of battle have been cut off, possibly due to Borg interference.
1932 1st February.
1932 1st February
10 year old Lennie and his pony Ginger Mick, after a journey of many hundreds of kms near their destination, the opening of the Coat-hanger.
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/peter-lalor-rpt/10426046 (https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/peter-lalor-rpt/10426046)
2001
2001: Dave had some trouble opening the pod-bay door
1524
1524
What is known is that Pedro de Alvarado defeated several tribes in Central America.
What is not so known is that one of his soldiers peed in his rum that night and Pedro drank it. That's where we get Daiquiris.
2020, December 14
2020 December 14 - The electors vote Joe Biden in as the next president.
1334
In 1334 some Pope died and another Pope took over, thus perpetuating that whole scene. And there was much rejoicing.
1836
In 1836, Bad Penny II started talking to people about creating a new game thread on the forum. His idea finally took off in 1862.
1692.
In 1692 religious people were having fun with burning witches in Salem.
2024?
2024 - One of Trump's children make a bid for the White House and fail.
1662
1662 - A drunk Spaniard got into a fight with a drunk Native American in East Texas, and while they were battling a drunk French explorer took all their stuff and slipped back into Louisiana. His friends got drunk to celebrate his return.
December 7, 1941
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on November 19, 2020, 04:53:54 PM
December 7, 1941
my aunt alma put away the stuff from her 34th birthday the day before.
she was born with spina bifida and wasn't expected to live very long. she outlasted every one of her doctors and died at the age of 94.
18 april 1906
18 april 1906
Jelly wobbled in San Francisco.
20th November 1789
20th November 1789
Beethoven's father retired without honours.
1922
1922 is both a Stephen King novel and a movie, besides being a year. Also, Babe Ruth hit 35 home runs.
476 AD
Oh no, let us not talk of 476, it had an extra day in the second month, you all know how I deplore an extended February.
2042
In the year of our Noodly Lord 2042 Trump finally concedes he lost the 2020 election.
1 BCE
1BCE Campaigning starts for the 2024 US elections.
1010 CE
1010 CE:
The Russian city of Yaroslavl was founded. During the celebration, Ivan the Inebriated won the vodka drinking contest, but fell into the river. His body decayed and released the vodka into the city water supply, resulting in many drunken school children. Not much was learned that year.
44 BCE.
44 BCE:
Et tu, Brute?
1642.
1642
Goatees are all the rage in the French court.
9,000 B.C.
9,000 BC
Not much happening, the earth hasn't been formed yet, darkness was upon the face of the deep.
2024
2024
I am elected as President of the United States. My first executive order is to mandate free beer tomorrow. But my cabinet rebels and declares me unfit under the 25th Amendment. I retire from politics and open a tiki bar in Maui.
333 BCE
333 BCE
Pietriclatise presents his method for cutting a custard tart into three, two equal parts and one a bit bigger, but not too obviously so for the cutter.
1666
1666 - The final year of Amish technology progression.
2100
2100 - The year Queen Elizabeth II finally passes away. RIP.
536
536 Iceland farted.
2245
2245 keith richards dies
2246
2246 - Keith Richards rises from the dead and stars in the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie, which beats the 577th James Bond movie at the box office.
December 31, 2020.
December 31, 2020
I'll be enjoying The Keith
January 1, 2021
January 1, 2021
Trump nukes Moscow. WWIII starts.
January 2, 2021
January 2, 2021
vladimir putin moves out to his dacha in odessa, unpacks his fiddle, and calls in all of donald's loans
. . . if i make $10,000 every day starting today, in what year will i be as rich as jeff bezos, who forbes magazine says now has a net worth of 200 billion dollars?
Quote from: billy rubin on December 30, 2020, 04:53:07 PM
January 2, 2021
vladimir putin moves out to his dacha in odessa, unpacks his fiddle, and calls in all of donald's loans
. . . if i make $10,000 every day starting today, in what year will i be as rich as jeff bezos, who forbes magazine says now has a net worth of 200 billion dollars?
And the next date is...
since it will take 54,794 years for me to be as rich as jeff bezos is now-- at $10,000 per day-- the next date is:
31 december, 56,814 AD.
Dec 31, 56,814
My bones are excavated, and sold to the Intergalactic Anthropological Museum for $200,000,000,000.
Year 0.
Year 0.
God farted the Universe into existence.
Year 500,000,000
Year 500,000,000
God sprays air freshener and it all ends.
Back to history: 1863
1863
my mother's grandfather was 17 years old, soon to travel to america where he homesteads in indian territory and marries a chickasaw
my father's grandfather fights the yankees at the battle of chickamauga and is captured. the cherokees are mixed up in there somehow.
1848
1848 - the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the Mexican-American War, ceding the entire southwest to the USA, and establishing the Rio Grande as the border. My kinsman Edward Burleson fought in that war.
In unrelated news, Oleg the Sleigher from Lapland first raised a red-nosed reindeer.
826 AD.
826 AD
Arthur, claiming to be king of the Britains displays the violence inherent in the system by oppressing a dirty annoying whiney bastard.
I thought that happened in 932?
It no doubt did then too, there was much Arthurian oppression of the anarcho-syndicalist in those dark days.
932
932
Sir Joe offers the Orange Knigit peace.
The Orange Knigit refuses, battle ensues.
Sir Joe lops the Orange Knigit's arm off.
Orange Knigit says that that's fake news.
Sir Joe takes the Orange Knigit's other arm.
The Orange Knigit says no he hasn't.
Sir Joe takes off the Orange Knigit's legs.
The Orange Knigit disputes the result
That sounds 2020ish
These things repeat.
932
Quote from: Bad Penny II on January 04, 2021, 11:42:03 AM
932
Sir Joe offers the Orange Knigit peace.
The Orange Knigit refuses, battle ensues.
Sir Joe lops the Orange Knigit's arm off.
Orange Knigit says that that's fake news.
Sir Joe takes the Orange Knigit's other arm.
The Orange Knigit says no he hasn't.
Sir Joe takes off the Orange Knigit's legs.
The Orange Knigit disputes the result
That sounds 2020ish
These things repeat.
932
No end of the world predictions listed for this year. Strange.
1465
1465
Fuck, the curtains are 1472 wide
Green!
Ye, I'm on to it.
932
Galahad was rescued from Castle Anthrax
932
932
There was a spanking after Zoot set alight the grail-shaped beacon, and Sir Galahad was tempted beyond his ability to resist until rescued by Sir Lancelot. It was a very, very good spanking. The Old Man in Scene 24 approved.
January 6, 2021.