ABC The Rest Is History Game

[Nape]

Malcolm X wished he had reversed his name so he'd receive far more ABC game coverage.

[northbluffer]

Noel Coward wanted to change his name to Noel Hero, all the judge said was "Really? Have you looked at a mirror lately?".

[Nape]

Oslo became so confused with Osco that the city finally installed a drive-through prescription window.

[northbluffer]

Peter Sellars and Blake Edwards make the outragiously funny Pink Panther movies.

[Nape]

Quirky Rasputin starred in the Russian version of Die Hard With A Vengeance.

[northbluffer]

Ron Popeil invents the VegaMatic in 1965 and quits his day job.

[SulaDuck]

Silly Putty is invented in Midland, MI; many of the local home builders find *creative* uses for it.

[northbluffer]

Trying to analyze SulaDuck's sublimal messages takes Northbluffer a week.

[SulaDuck]

Under the cover of night, covert operatives slip into Northbluffer's subconscious and turn on lighbulb. Thus begins the Age of Enlightenment.

[northbluffer]

Very Interesting! SulaDuck knows how to turn on Northbluffer.

[Nape]

Whhhhhhhat? I took off for a few hours, and all hell broke loose.

[northbluffer]

X-actly what did you think would happen? You're our voice of sensibility in Forum City.

[Nape]

You're in trouble, if that's the case. History will be our judge.

[northbluffer]

Zebulon Pike gets a peak named in his honor.

[chancebunny]

Aesop had great morals.

[SulaDuck]

Betty Boop flapped her way around the 1920s

[chancebunny]

Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali

[Nape]

Drip by drip, the Colorado River creates The Grand Canyon, in order to provide a backdrop for a Kevin Kline movie.

[northbluffer]

Esther Williams perfects her underwater smile.

[hulagirl_t]

Frank Sinatra sings his first song

[northbluffer]

Granola gets a press agent.

[Nape]

Harold Stassen attends the premiere of Never Say Never Again.

[northbluffer]

Isadora Duncan has this thing about flowing scarves.

[Nape]

Isadora Duncan has this thing about flowing scarves.

Just about time she should switch to ear-muffs, methinks.

[hulagirl_t]

Kirstie Alley does her first Pier 1 commercial *groan*

[Nape]

Lincoln accidently enters his Gettysburg address twice, disqualifying himself from the HGTV Dream Home.

[northbluffer]

Moana Lisa poses for a portrait, but the artist miss-spells her name.

[hulagirl_t]

Niagara Falls sees its first man-in-barrel stunt

[Nape]

Oregon places a tree on its state flag. Washington responds by honoring a chain saw on its flag.

[hulagirl_t]

Pranking his friend, a bored man writes an email promising Bill Gates' fortune in exchange for forwarding.

[Nape]

Quantity of TV viewers way up during McCarthy hearings.

[chancebunny]

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer got a nose job, and Santa fired him.

[hulagirl_t]

Santa had one too many bowls full of jelly and refused to eat low-carb foods

[northbluffer]

Ted Turner reluctantly asks Jane Fonda for a date.

[JanMarie]

Urkel is voted the sexiest man alive.

[chancebunny]

Woman's Day magazine thinks it might increase it's readership by offering sweepstakes.

[northbluffer]

X-rating is just a ploy to sell tickets to a BAD movie.

[Nape]

Yasser Arafat watches Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, and decides to leave government and go into interior design.

[JanMarie]

Zero Tolerance is instituted to combat school violence. It is quickly followed by One Tolerance, Two Tolerance, Three Tolerance . . .

[chancebunny]

Apollo 13's mission to the moon went off without a hitch, so we never got to see any movies about it.

[northbluffer]

Benny Goodman opted for clarinet lessons.

[Nape]

Claude Monet, tired of being confused with Manet, changes his name to Thomas Kinkaid.

[northbluffer]

Dick Smothers finally retaliates for all those "Mom always liked you best" comments.

[Nape]

Election returns must not be reported until polls have closed and until OS members have completed their dailies.

[northbluffer]

Food pyramid is changed to food rectangle to pacify subsidized farmers.

[Nape]

Grand Canyon becomes the subject of the new hit series, Extreme Seven Wonders Of The World Makeover.

[JanMarie]

Huey Lewis and the News change their career direction from local reporting to worldwide distribution after they noticed sales increased when they sang for their supper.

[chancebunny]

Ivan the Terrible sought counseling from Dr. Phil, and turned into a pretty nice guy.

[northbluffer]

Jack Parr tells the WC joke.

[JanMarie]

Kisses become more sweeter and more addictive; blame it on Hershey's

[chancebunny]

Lindbergh became violently air sick during his first flight, and said the heck with flying, it'll never catch on anyway.

[JanMarie]

Marilyn Monroe scratches a "Seven Year Itch" with some funny "Monkey Business" down by the "Bus Stop."

[northbluffer]

Nanette Fabrey says "Okay, I'll try to work with Sid, but he's so self-centered".

[JanMarie]

Opie has a bunch of Happy Days after leaving Mayberry.

[northbluffer]

Patty Duke plays Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker.

[Nape]

Queen Mary took its maiden voyage without me.

[chancebunny]

Raindrops kept falling on Burt Bacharach's head, causing him to write a catchy tune. Good thing he forgot his umbrella.

[Nape]

Supreme Court refuses to determine how many goldfish wallets each of us should receive.

[northbluffer]

Three sisters (Patty, Maxine, and LaVerne Andrews) sing about Rum and Coca-Cola.

[breege]

Uganda becomes a country.

[JanMarie]

Viva le Visa! 1958: Visa's roots start as Bank of America's "BankAmericard."

[northbluffer]

Wet T-shirt contests in bars dramatically improve beer sales.

[katieco]

Xenadrine diet pill hits the shelves.

[chancebunny]

Young Frankenstein shows that monster movies can be funny.

[Nape]

Zealous to a fault, Warren G. Harding's daughter, Tonya, hired a crowbar-wielding hit-man to knock out his presidential competition.

[hulagirl_t]

Actors David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, and Lisa Kudrow get job offers to be cast in a new tv show.

[northbluffer]

Brother Jeb managed to deliver Florida

[Nape]

Coney Island brings us the hot dog.

[Suann47]

Daniel Webster penns the first dictionary

[northbluffer]

Edgar Bergen names his daughter Candice, despite Charlie's protests.

[breege]

Francis Drake sails to America

[northbluffer]

Gracie tells George to quit his day job.

[breege]

Huns invade

[chancebunny]

Ice Age wasn't too much fun, but is later made into a cute, animated movie.

[Nape]

Jimmy Jones makes friends with Kool-Aid.

[northbluffer]

Kool-Aid communion services suddenly fall out of favor in conservative churches.

[Nape]

Long Island iced tea becomes the popular communion drink.

[northbluffer]

Modern congregations don't break bread, they buy it sliced.

[Nape]

No one was interested in running for the American Presidency in 2004, so we just did without.

[northbluffer]

Our nation responded admirably, and the U.N. sent advisors to evaluate our form of government.

[Nape]

Problems formerly handled by the Executive Branch now resolved with a Magic 8 Ball.

[northbluffer]

Quite possibly this could improve the current administration's policy decisions.

[SulaDuck]

Richie Rich is hired as a masseur for Mrs. Bill Gates.

[northbluffer]

Sam Elliott's voice changes.

[breege]

Ten Commandments are published..in stone

[SulaDuck]

"Unfinished Symphony" is the inspiration for many an artist.

[chancebunny]

volunteer army replaces the draft, so nobody has to escape to Canada anymore, unless they are going for a vacation

[Nape]

Wigs worn by English barristers replaced with black Beatle wigs.

[northbluffer]

X's were just one problem with the Roman numerals

[Nape]

"Yesterday, December 7th...," began FDR.

[chancebunny]

Zapping through tv channels with a remote control is being considered as a men's Olympic event.

[northbluffer]

Arthur Ashe finds a tennis court where he is allowed to play.

[songcat]

Baby Lindbergh is kidnapped

[Nape]

Charles Colson converts from conspirator to Christianity.

[northbluffer]

Dale Evans gets Roy off of Trigger long enough to get married.

[Nape]

Eager to see the new World War II memorial in Washington D.C.

[northbluffer]

Foster Brooks gets a few laughs playing a drunk.

[Nape]

Greek tragedies inspire complexes in Freud.

[northbluffer]

Henry Ford raises factory workers pay to five dollars a day.

[pechuna]

Indiana University hires the young basketball coach at the U.S. Army Academy at West Point, Robert Montgomery Knight.

[Nape]

Japan introduces Nintendo, and 8-year-old boys disappear into the void, never to be heard from again.

[northbluffer]

King Abdullah whispers in President Bush's ear, and the President says he is sorry.

[pechuna]

Lose the terrorist backers or you will meet Allah earlier than you thought said W to Abdullah

[Nape]

Manson family makes our own families appear healthy.

[northbluffer]

Nothing is more resposible for the "good old days" than a poor memory.

[chancebunny]

Online-Sweepstakes became the sweepstakes site.

[Nape]

Pyramids operated as casinos until Egypt outlawed gambling; at that point, they developed a tomb-like atmosphere.

[northbluffer]

Quincy Jones resists the temptation to make a quick buck recording Country and Western.

[Nape]

Robespierre tried to shoot himself and missed.

[northbluffer]

Stanley Kubrick Makes 2001

[Nape]

Taupe is eliminated as a potential color for the American Flag.

[northbluffer]

Unit pricing becomes standard in grocery stores, but most consumers still don't compare prices.

[pechuna]

Victory in the Cold War is Reagan's legacy. "Mr Gorbachev, tear down that wall".

[northbluffer]

Will Rogers said "I never met a man I didn't like", and for many, many years people have been saying "Will Rogers never met -------------".

[Maprinces3]

X-Rays were found to be harmful

[northbluffer]

Young Tom Edison just wouldn't quit tinkering with things.

[pechuna]

Zing Went the Strings of My Heart sang Frank Sinatra and girls in attendance at the concert swooned.

[northbluffer]

Art Carney found work after The Honeymooners.

[Tammylyne]

Britian loses Lady Di :(

[northbluffer]

Cher begins her farewell tour

[chancebunny]

Darwin produced his Theory of Evolution.

[pechuna]

Esther Lederer and her twin sister Pauline decide to write advice columns under non de plumes. Esther chose Ann Landers while Pauline chose Abigal Van Buren (Dear Abby).

[chancebunny]

Fabio takes a ride on a roller coaster, forgetting that there may be geese flying through the air.

[northbluffer]

"Green eggs and ham" from the creator of Doctor Seus.

[chancebunny]

"Houston, we have a problem."

[northbluffer]

"I like Ike" became a catchy campaign slogan.

[cappyone]

Jesse James robs banks.

[northbluffer]

King Vidor produces "The Jungle Boy".

[Nape]

Lyndie England leaves the military to become a corporate consultant for Sensitivity Training seminars.

[chancebunny]

Microwave ovens are invented.

[northbluffer]

Nape's mysterious disappearance makes the front page of several tabloids.

[chancebunny]

O-S picks up more members as the result of the tabloid stories about Nape's disappearance.

[northbluffer]

Practical jokers flood the internet with ficticious reports of "Nape" sightings.

[northbluffer]

"Quality is job one" was a great slogan for Ford, but it became job ten real fast.

[Suann47]

Real McCoys were a number 1 hit

[northbluffer]

Stan Laurel teams up with Oliver Hardy.

[ThinLizzy]

TupperWare is invented by Jimmy Hoffa

[northbluffer]

Underworld figures steal Tupperware patent from Jimmy Hoffa

[ThinLizzy]

Victoria's secret is revealed on network television

[northbluffer]

Wally Cox declares "I am not Mister Peepers, I am a man!".

[ThinLizzy]

X-Men ask Wolverine to join forces

[northbluffer]

Young Thomas Edison will not go outside and play.

[chancebunny]

Zorba the Greek can't dance.

[ThinLizzy]

Alpine skiers come together and create one of the world's best car stereo systems

[northbluffer]

Barry Goldwater said "I'd rather be right than be President".

[ThinLizzy]

Caligula appoints his horse to Roman senate

[pechuna]

Don Johnson auditions for a TV cop show, "Miami Vice"

[ThinLizzy]

Earl Sheib, at age three, paints his favorite Hot Wheels car with a Q-tip and nail polish.

[northbluffer]

Forrest Tucker finds TV success in "F Troop".

[ThinLizzy]

Grandpa oversleeps and has no idea what's for supper on HeeHaw.

[chancebunny]

Hubert Horatio Humphrey declared that it was cruel for parents to name their kids Hubert Horatio.

[northbluffer]

Ike Turner got dumped by Tina (for all the right reasons).

[pantherpaw]

Jack Sprat goes on fat free diet.

[ThinLizzy]

Kris Kristofferson writes Me And Bobby McGee

[chancebunny]

Larry King decides that it would be fun to get married a lot.

[ThinLizzy]

Mr. T, at his 4th birthday party, receives a 16" gold chain.

[northbluffer]

Nancy Davis really fell for the guy.

[chancebunny]

Orville Redenbacher decides to take a chance on a new line of gourmet popcorn.

[ThinLizzy]

Popeye Doyle decides to become a policeman

[pantherpaw]

Quayle runs for office with the slogan "Bad Spellers Untie!"

[northbluffer]

Red Foxx was raunchy, politically incorrect, and outrageously funny!!

[pantherpaw]

Sawyer and Finn go into the fence painting business

[chancebunny]

Ted Turner thought that the public needed some new tv channels.

[ThinLizzy]

Underwear changes when the Hanes Bros. decide to sell their tobacco company to RJ Reynolds.

[northbluffer]

"Velvet Fog" Mel Torme writes a Christmas song.

[funkyrunt]

World War I

[hazendcry]

Xanadu was where Kublai Kahn decreed a stately pleasure dome.

[northbluffer]

"Yellow Bird" has nonsensical lyrics, but the Mills Brothers record it anyway.

[htg20]

Zoe married Jack (??????????? :laugh: )

[astromynx]

Albert Einstien forgets he hasn't brushed his hair in 14 years.

[1bmore]

Bambi becomes a Walt Disney Classic.

[northbluffer]

Candice Bergen thinks a little TV series would be fun.

[azrosebud]

David Letterman becomes a daddy

[Maprinces3]

Earth Day #1

[ANGSWIN]

Ferdinand and Isabel think Columbus is kinda cute!

[pechuna]

Gregory the Pope begins to chant

[chancebunny]

Harrison Ford decides that he wants to start dating very thin women.

[funkyrunt]

Ivanhoe is published and is the longest book of the time period

[Beffie]

Jackie Joyner-Kersee runs her first race...

[northbluffer]

Kids believe a purple dinosaur is their friend...

[ThinLizzy]

Lois Lane decides to take a job at the Daily Planet.

[northbluffer]

Marc Antony takes a good look at Cleopatra

[chancebunny]

Napoleon would have wanted to be remembered as a great general and emperor, but when most people hear the name, they think of a pastry.

[Nape]

Ozzie and Harriet used my family background as a model for their TV show.

[northbluffer]

Patty Duke stars in "The Miracle Worker" as Helen Keller.

[Nape]

Quiz show only pretended to be corrupt in order to make history.

[northbluffer]

Raymond Burr thought the "Perry Mason" role might have career potential.

[Nape]

Slapping a soldier ruined General Patton's military career, particularly when he kept repeating, "She's my sister! She's my daughter! She's my sister! She's my daughter!"

[northbluffer]

Telly Savalas puts away his toupe and shaves his head

[Nape]

Umpteen Faberge eggs don't save the Russian empire.

[northbluffer]

Pavloff got a dog

[ThinLizzy]

V for Victory hand gesture made by Churchill during WWII is adopted by a couple of marijuana farming, tie-dying, long haired, VW microbus driving activists in California.

[northbluffer]

Warren Beatty fell for Annette Benning during the filming of "Bugsy".

[Nape]

X-cellent poppy crop ("Poppies! Poppies!" ~ Wicked Witch of the West) in Afghanistan was destroyed by the Taliban.

[funkyrunt]

Yellow River is named.

[Nape]

Zimbabwe residents came up with its name hoping the lack of rhymes would keep country singers from writing barfy patriotic songs about them.

[desertflower7]

Amy Fisher met a guy....

[ThinLizzy]

Benjamin Franklin's wife gets pissed off and tells her husband to go fly a kite...

[Suann47]

Captain Cook sailed the high seas

[ThinLizzy]

Dorothy and her little dog, Toto, get caught in a tornado in Kansas.

[mommamia]

Earhart, Amelia gets her first glipse of an airplaine.

[Nape]

Franklin Roosevelt fears not only fear, but also heights, public speaking, germs, closed spaces, bodies of water, and the entire state of Utah.

[chancebunny]

George Washington crossed the Delaware in the world's first thong, that Martha lovingly knitted for him.

[ThinLizzy]

Hugh Hefner, aged 3, sees his 17 year old cousin, Bunny, naked.

[Nape]

George Washington crossed the Delaware in the world's first thong, that Martha lovingly knitted for him.

I remember seeing that thong in the famous painting.

[desertflower7]

Jane Austen got dumped by her boyfriend.

[Nape]

Kennedys sat on the lawn with their laptops playing video touch football.

[ThinLizzy]

Lance Armstrong asks Santa to bring him a bicycle for xmas.

[northbluffer]

Marco Polo had to get away from home for awhile.

[chancebunny]

Neiman Marcus got rich off of their Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe scam.

[Nape]

Orangemen were originally the Aquamen, until they had their colors done by an Amway representative.

[ThinLizzy]

Paul Revere decides he doesn't like his piano teacher, so he starts taking riding lessons instead.

[Nape]

Quirky Rasputin worked out his issues after only ONE VISIT to Dr. Phil's show.

[northbluffer]

Rosa Parks sits in the front of the bus.

[Nape]

Sherman, hard of hearing, thought the minister told him to offer TANKS rather than THANKS.

[northbluffer]

Tony Danza auditions for a role in "Taxi".

[ThinLizzy]

Unser brothers, Al and Bobby, find a Hot Wheels set at a local thrift shop.

[chancebunny]

Veronica decides that she wants Archie for a boyfriend.

[ThinLizzy]

Wendy, Dave's daughter, doesn't like any of the local restaurant's hamburgers.

[angndon]

X marked the spot

[northbluffer]

Yellow rose survives in Texas

[Nape]

ZERO fans realized that the Boston Red Sox were once the White Sox, until that unfortunate laundry accident when the Santa suit went in with the white clothes.

[ThinLizzy]

Adam, unfortunately, becomes hungry and horny at the same time.

[Nape]

Blarney Stone, often kissed and therefore liable to spread disease, stands first in line for a flu shot.

[chancebunny]

Custer found out the hard way that he never should have told those disparaging jokes about Indians.

[Nape]

Dairy farmers dump thousands of gallons of milk to protest use of Nair on "Got milk?" moustaches.

[northbluffer]

Eve Arden auditions for "Our Miss Brooks".

[chancebunny]

Fabio goes for a ride on a roller coaster.

[kaynes]

Gorilla found in the mist.

[northbluffer]

Hal March forsakes Bob Sweeney to host a quiz show.

[kaynes]

Icicles hanging from Jack Frost's nose

[angndon]

Janet Jackson sings with Justin Timberlake at the superbowl.

[northbluffer]

King Cole was a merry old soul

[kaynes]

Linberg picks up his plane in St. Louis

[flyer98122]

Monet paints a bunch of flowers

[cowleyh]

Narcissus bought a mirror

[Nape]

Oscar Hammerstein II found a jolly Rodgers

[chancebunny]

Paul McCartney thought that he would form a rock n roll band.

[Nape]

Quick-thinking forefathers corrected a typo so we would not be called "The Untied States."

[ThinLizzy]

Rocky Raccoon met a girl everyone called Nancy.

[Nape]

Sober String, under the influence of laughing gas, becomes Silly String.

[northbluffer]

Ticky-tacky becomes socially acceptable, and eventually coveted (I feel soo bad for Pete).

[Nape]

Urban sprawl developed immediately after removing the urban panty-girdle.

[Kimberly Kay]

:frown3: :worry: ...Very saddened by the fact that Kimberly Kay's eMac is incapable of producing Smileys in her E-Mails - She attempts to join her Mother (who "Voluntarily" :smile9: locked herself in the Coat Closet - due to Kimberly's constant ramblings on and on about "But Smiley This" or "But Smiley That") - Kimberly Kay is now horrified :shock: to find that her Mother has wiggled free :gvibes: from her Straight Jacket - and is now on the loose...somewhere in Mesa, Arizona.... :frown3: :bhead:

[Nape]

Wall built around the city of Hershey, Pennsylvania, melts in your mouth and in your hand.

[northbluffer]

XVIII is made the legal age for voting, but you still can't drink until you are XXI.

[Suann47]

Yodeling is the new rock craze

[Nape]

Ziggywag's new Seabiscuit DVD runs faster than all the others.

[ThinLizzy]

Audie Murphy decides to enlist in the US military.

[northbluffer]

Bill Hickock sees his first buffalo.