Legendary Wild West gunfighter Emmet Dalton, famous for his attempted double bank heist in Coffeyville, Kansas in 1892, died in the year 1937. This makes him contemporaries with a staggering number of people.
Sean Connery, Clint Eastwood, Neil Armstrong, and Buzz Aldrin were all born in the year 1930, making them around 7 years old by the time Emmet passed away. All of them were definitely old enough to remember the event. Barbara Walters was actually 8 at the time, having been born in 1929.
My grandfather was born in 1935, making him 2 years old at Dalton’s passing.
Dalton was contemporaries with Wild Bill Hickhock, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and other Wild West icons. Had his career in banditry not been cut short after the failure of the Coffeyville heist, he may have even fought one of them.
This is weird. Very weird. Especially how they immerse his face in makeup to make him resemble Sean.
Did anyone else know this? Color me shocked. I need to see this. It appears to also have been riffed for an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Which makes me want to see it even more.
Edit - Here's the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.K._Connery
I worked on this for too long for it to go unseen thanks to automoderation in r/cfb, so I’m putting it out there for us. It has clickable links and fun stuff, and I enjoyed making it so here it is!
In Honor of Hate Week, and The Greatest Rivalry in All of Sports, I present to you: 3653 days, A Brief Summary of Things That Have Happened Since Michigan’s Most Recent Win Over Ohio State.
In case you’re a college football fan who only follows their own team, you don’t care for Big Ten football, or you’ve been cryogenically frozen and only recently thawed out:
Welcome to the hellscape year of our Lord(s) 2021.
It’s been 84 10 years since November 26th, 2011; the last time the game clock hit zero and a Michigan Wolverine football team had more points on the scoreboard than the Ohio State Buckeyes. Ten long years since Brady Hoke clapped his way to a Big Ten Coach of the Year award. This is the longest period of time in the history of college football that anyone has went without seeing Michigan beat the Buckeyes. Let’s take a look back at November of 2011 to see what was going on at the time:
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It’s Thanksgiving week, 2011. You’re on the interstate heading home to see your family and friends, and you turn on the pop radio station. It’s Adele’s “Someone Like You”, you’re disgusted with hearing it non-stop, but it’s currently at the top of the charts. You press seek and it lands on a station playing an ad for Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1, now in theaters, followed by “Party Rock Anthem” by LMFAO, more tolerable so you leave it.
ding You’re low on fuel, time to hit an exit! Looking around, you spot a Speedway with gas at $3.31, but you’ll save that .03c with your Speedy card so it’ll have to do. Your brief pit stop costs you 20 minutes, but you’re back on the road, Kanye and Jay-Z blowing out your speakers at 75 mph, homeward bound.
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Its 2021 again!
A look back at other interesting 2011 world events:
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The Obama/Biden administration was gearing up for it’s re-election campaign. That’s right, it was still Obama’s first term.
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The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Texas Rangers in the World Series
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Osama Bin Laden was killed.
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A tsunami caused a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant
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Libya overthrew the Gaddafi regime.
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A plane crash kills the most of the Russian KHL team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl.
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Let's jump right in.
Clancy Brown's performance of The Kurgan. In the trivia on IMDB, apparently he was so into character that the crew were afraid to be around him. For what he is supposed to be in that universe, he really played it well. Over the top and all. I learned today that he improvised the Neil Young quote. And the car scene with Brenda? A psychotic barbarian whom "no one" can kill, who is thousands of years old and has fought in countless battles and fights, living and adapting through to the 1980's. I think Clancy Brown nailed what that personality would be like. I believed his character.
Christopher Lambert. Three things about this guy. One, he was very nearsighted, as in.. he should have been wearing glasses for the sword fight scenes. IMDB trivia tells of how he would keep forgetting to take of his glasses in the scenes where he rode a horse. Two, he really didn't speak English when shooting started, so he worked to learn the language to be able to say his lines. Three, he worked with a dialog coach to produce that accent.
All of Sean Connery's scenes were filmed in a single week. I learned this one today as well. There was a wager involved, the scenes were completed in 7 days, and Sean Connery earned $1 Million for the job.
Actually, that IMDB page does have a ton of interesting nuggets about the movie.
Feel free to add more if you like. I'm not saying that this movie is everyone's bottle of beer.
Do your worst!
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Buenosdillas
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
I won't be doing that today!
You take away their little brooms
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
There hasn't been a post all year!
It’s pronounced “Noel.”
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
When I got home, they were still there.
