Daily Archives: 3/30/2021

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Validation

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Had a visit to to the dermatologist this morning. Last week’s visit turned up a little basal cell carcinoma right on the geographical top of my head.

This morning He cut it out. Among the comments were “Unusually thick skin”. I replied that wasn’t the first time I’d heard comments like that, along with “Hard head” or it’s Cajun equivalent, tête dure.

Anyhow – thick skin, more excised that originally planned, got sent home with a prescription for painkillers, of which I took a couple because when I move my head I can feel the skin pulling at the excision site.

And I think I need a nap.

History

Today in History – March 30

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1814 – Britain & allies march into Paris after defeating Napoleon. this event marks the beginning of Parisian status as the five dollar whore of Europe. How many foreign armies have paraded through Paris? The ONLY way that fop de Gaulle was able to march ‘victoriously’ into Paris in 1944 was that the path was paved in the blood of America and the British Commonwealth.

1842 – Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation by Dr. Crawford Long. He uses ether. Ether this or it’s gonna hurt like h**l.

1858 – Hyman Lipman patents a pencil with an attached eraser.

1867 – Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million, about 2 cents/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The news media call this Seward’s Folly. The news media is always right, you know…

1870 – Texas becomes last Confederate state readmitted to Union. Lately they’re asking about a do-over on that. If they do, I’m gonna get me a big hat and haul my Cajun butt over there.

1932 – Amelia Earhart is first woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic, spends first half of trip with left blinker on, applying mascara.

1951 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau. 5,200 vacuum tubes, weighed 29,000 pounds (13 metric tons), consumed 125 kW in electricity.

1964 – Jeopardy!, hosted by Art Fleming debuts. It’s kind of like Wheel of Fortune for smart people.

1981 – President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr., who is trying to impress Jodie Foster. Contrary to rumor, I did NOT send Hinckley a letter telling him that Biden* was banging Jodie Foster like a screen door in a tornado.  Also shot are some others, including James Brady, who is then exhibited by his wife at various fundraisers as the Left’s Favorite Vegetable, a title he held until bumped out of the slot by Christopher Reed.

1991 – William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman (Or as the Kennedy men call it – ‘foreplay’), in keeping with his family’s high tradition. Also in keeping with his family’s high tradition, he’s found “not guilty”