OT: Amazing Factual Tid-Bits

[Section22Sooner]

No links required. Just the facts.

Why the group Jethro Tull declined playing at Woodstock.

Jethro Tull‘s Ian Anderson asked manager Terry Ellis, ‘Will there be lots of naked ladies? And will there be taking drugs and drinking lots of beer, and fooling around in the mud?’ (Because rain was forecast).

Terry Ellis, ‘Oh, yeah.’

Ian Anderson, ‘Right. I don’t want to go.’ Because I don’t like hippies, and I’m usually rather put off by naked ladies unless the time is right."

 

[K2C Sooner]

I like Jetrow, He reminds me of some of the engineers on this board.


Knot and knot and all..... No pie charts..................HA!

 

[Section22Sooner]

I like Jetrow, He reminds me of some of the engineers on this board.


Knot and knot and all..... No pie charts..................HA!

You probably think Lynyrd Skynyrd is a great singer too. No?

 

[K2C Sooner]

You probably think Lynyrd Skynyrd is a great singer too. No?

I was talking about Bodine on the Beverly Hillbillies..............HA!

 

[Soonersincefitty]

You probably think Lynyrd Skynyrd is a great singer too. No?

You sneaky rascal.

Ian was an interesting fellow, saw them at their pinnacle in '69 with 'Yes' in Dallas.
2.5 hours of heavy bliss.

 

[Section22Sooner]

I was talking about Bodine on the Beverly Hillbillies..............HA!

Amazing fact: Jethro Bodine (Max Baer Jr.) was also a movie producer of such terrible movies as "The Legend of Boggy Creek". Wow, did that suck.

 

[K2C Sooner]

Amazing fact: Jethro Bodine (Max Baer Jr.) was also a movie producer of such terrible movies as "The Legend of Boggy Creek". Wow, did that suck.

Wasn't his Dad a heavy weight champion..Max Baer?

 

[Section22Sooner]

Wasn't his Dad a heavy weight champion..Max Baer?

Yes, he was Jethro's pop. Oh, and true to Internet form, I got the amazing fact wrong above. The Movie name was Macon County Line.

 

[Soonersincefitty]

Yes, he was Jethro's pop. Oh, and true to Internet form, I got the amazing fact wrong above. The Movie name was Macon County Line.

Actually, that BAD movie has a distinction, other than being bad.

It held the record for a long time for the least amount to make it versus the amount it grossed.

Like $225,000 to produce against 30 million made from it. FYI

 

[WhyNotaSooner]

Here's you one on American History....
Sometimes the truth is hidden from us as kids. And should you bring it up as an adult you get ridiculed.

People think that Abe Lincoln was such a benevolent President. He was actually a bit of a tyrant. He attacked the Confederate States of America, who succeeded from the Union due to tax and tariffs. (If you think it was over slavery, you need to find a real American history book written before 1960.)

This picture is of 39 Santee Sioux Indian men that were ordered to be executed by Abraham Lincoln for treaty violations (IE: hunting off of their assigned reservation). Yes, the "Great Emancipator" as the history books so fondly referred to him as.

Authorities in Minnesota asked President Lincoln to order the immediate execution of all 303 Indian males found guilty. Lincoln was concerned with how this would play with the Europeans, whom he was afraid were about to enter the war on the side of the South. He offered the following compromise to the politicians of Minnesota: They would pare the list of those to be hung down to 39. In return, Lincoln promised to kill or remove every Indian from the state and provide Minnesota with 2 million dollars in federal funds.

So, on December 26, 1862, the "Great Emancipator" ordered the largest mass execution in American History, where the guilt of those to be executed was entirely in doubt. Regardless of how Lincoln defenders seek to play this, it was nothing more than murder to obtain the land of the Santee Sioux and to appease his political cronies in Minnesota.

 

[pssooner]

Here's you one on American History....
Sometimes the truth is hidden from us as kids. And should you bring it up as an adult you get ridiculed.

People think that Abe Lincoln was such a benevolent President. He was actually a bit of a tyrant. He attacked the Confederate States of America, who succeeded from the Union due to tax and tariffs. (If you think it was over slavery, you need to find a real American history book written before 1960.)

This picture is of 39 Santee Sioux Indian men that were ordered to be executed by Abraham Lincoln for treaty violations (IE: hunting off of their assigned reservation). Yes, the "Great Emancipator" as the history books so fondly referred to him as.

Authorities in Minnesota asked President Lincoln to order the immediate execution of all 303 Indian males found guilty. Lincoln was concerned with how this would play with the Europeans, whom he was afraid were about to enter the war on the side of the South. He offered the following compromise to the politicians of Minnesota: They would pare the list of those to be hung down to 39. In return, Lincoln promised to kill or remove every Indian from the state and provide Minnesota with 2 million dollars in federal funds.

So, on December 26, 1862, the "Great Emancipator" ordered the largest mass execution in American History, where the guilt of those to be executed was entirely in doubt. Regardless of how Lincoln defenders seek to play this, it was nothing more than murder to obtain the land of the Santee Sioux and to appease his political cronies in Minnesota.

Ok, never thought about comparing Woodstock, Ian Anderson and Lincoln..............

 

[WhyNotaSooner]

or if you want something a bit simpler in life, you cn't drink coffee on a running horse.

 

[K2C Sooner]

Good post WNAS......Throw this guy in also. Trail of tears.............

 

[JConXtsy]

or if you want something a bit simpler in life, you cn't drink coffee on a running horse.

A trotting horse not, a running horse maybe. The bounce smooths out to nothing the faster they go.

 

[K2C Sooner]

And while we're on the subject......Why do flying saucers need flashing lights?

 

[Section22Sooner]

No pie charts.

Here. Maybe this will help you understand better. Click to enlarge.

 

[CTOkie]

Here's you one on American History....
Sometimes the truth is hidden from us as kids. And should you bring it up as an adult you get ridiculed.

People think that Abe Lincoln was such a benevolent President. He was actually a bit of a tyrant. He attacked the Confederate States of America, who succeeded from the Union due to tax and tariffs. (If you think it was over slavery, you need to find a real American history book written before 1960.)

This picture is of 39 Santee Sioux Indian men that were ordered to be executed by Abraham Lincoln for treaty violations (IE: hunting off of their assigned reservation). Yes, the "Great Emancipator" as the history books so fondly referred to him as.

Authorities in Minnesota asked President Lincoln to order the immediate execution of all 303 Indian males found guilty. Lincoln was concerned with how this would play with the Europeans, whom he was afraid were about to enter the war on the side of the South. He offered the following compromise to the politicians of Minnesota: They would pare the list of those to be hung down to 39. In return, Lincoln promised to kill or remove every Indian from the state and provide Minnesota with 2 million dollars in federal funds.

So, on December 26, 1862, the "Great Emancipator" ordered the largest mass execution in American History, where the guilt of those to be executed was entirely in doubt. Regardless of how Lincoln defenders seek to play this, it was nothing more than murder to obtain the land of the Santee Sioux and to appease his political cronies in Minnesota.

Lincoln did not believe in the equality of blacks to whites. He was in favor of deporting freed slaves to the West Indies and Africa at one point. He stated that the two races could not live in harmony....he was not The Great Emancipator, but a reluctant one. His Emancipation Proclamation issued on January 1st 1863 was really just a war measure...it did not free slaves in the border states and it freed Union army officers from having to return runaway slaves to their owners under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. The Proclamation also placed the US government against the "peculiar institution" of slavery, thereby putting a barrier between the Confederacy and its European allies who had outlawed slavery.