Chuck's Daily Diggs for 12/29

Thursday, December 29, 2011

The 363rd day of the year with 2 days remaining in 2011

Today Is

Don't Mess with TexaS:
1845 - U.S. President James Polk and signed legislation making Texas the 28th state of the United States.

Today in Music

1957 - Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme were married.
1963 - The Weavers gave their farewell concert at Orchestra Hall in Chicago.
1967 - Orchestra leader Paul Whiteman died at the age of 76.
1967 - Dave Mason quit Traffic and started a solo career.
1975 - Paul Kantner and Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane were divorced.
1980 - Folksinger/songwriter Tim Hardin died at age forty due to a heroin overdose.
1982 - Jamaica issued a Bob Marley commemorative stamp.
Bob Marley apparel and gear
1994 - Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopes pled guilty to arson charges for setting fire to and destroyed boyfriend Andre Rison's $1 million Atlanta mansion.

Cheetah has died! Get the story here

Here’s the miraculous part. The 80-year-old Cheetah far outlived the life expectancy of a normal chimp (the average chimp in captivity only reaches age 35 or 40). This accomplishment put Cheetah in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s oldest non-human primate. Credit the good living of a Hollywood star. There are some who claim that this is just monkeyshines and that Jiggs, or Mr. Jiggs who actually played Cheetah died in 1938.

Top Nine!

The holidays usually means getting stressed, rundown and (sometimes) knocked out. But we know it's all in our heads. Here are nine of the greatest hypochondriacs in history

9. Charles Darwin. seemed survival of the fittest did not apply to the founder of the theory.

8. Abigail Breslin, kid star who's sick of herself!

7. Hans Christian Andersen. the guy was goofy OCD, including worrying about swallowing pins in meat. Don't ask

6. Hitler. no explanation needed

5. Andy Warhol, (see above)

4. Tennessee Williams, this notorious momma's boy playwright was sick to death of bad reviews and took medicine for imaginary illnesses until he was eventually addicted.

3. Howard Hughes, the man was a walking psyche ward, if something didn't think made him sick he eventually bought it and got sick anyway.

2. Florence Nightingale, the mother of modern nursing needed a nurse constantly, a doctor, too!

1. Michael Jackson, proving once again that what doesn't kill you makes you amazingly talented, then kills you.

Let's go to the Videos!

Kimmie Get's Planted

(not a day to call in sick)

And from the, "this is so cute, I hate you all," department...

Seriously, didn't you think she was going to say no.