ABC The Rest Is History Game

[Nape]

Captain Courageous had to see the Wizard of Oz to overcome his cowardice.

[ThinLizzy]

Danny Thomas decides to take a chance on a tv show about a sleepy little town called Mayberry.

[Nape]

Ella Fitzgerald tells the cat, "Scat!" and then thinks, "Hmm-m-m-m...."

[northbluffer]

Fuzzy logic is conceived and developed by Lotfi Zadeh, a professor at the University of California at Berkley.

[ThinLizzy]

Geronimo, at age 3, finds an unexplainable comfort when he yells his name any time he happens to fall.

[chancebunny]

Hannibal Lechter invites his in-laws over for dinner.

[northbluffer]

Indigestion causes Hannibal Lector to re-evaluate his protein-rich diet.

[maleatir]

Jaws the shark has oral surgery.

[Nape]

Kentucky poets picket to change the state name to anything easier to rhyme.

[Kimberly Kay]

:gvibes: :halo: :love: Luckily - Desi really Did Love Lucy.... :love: :halo: :gvibes:

[ThinLizzy]

Mick Jagger wanted to form a band.

[chancebunny]

Online-Sweepstakes sounded like a good name for a new website.

[SulaDuck]

Purple sounded like a good color for a people-eater.

[northbluffer]

Queen Mum says "that girl Dianna has spunk".

[ThinLizzy]

Rutherford B. Hayes' (the B. stands for Birchard) parents get drunk and decide to look through baby-names books.

[Nape]

Sylvia Plath turns down a job recording her guffaws and giggles for a TV laugh track.

[Nape]

Time Magazine names Northbluffer Man of the Year

[1bmore]

Urban legend deems Febreze as being dangerous to household pets.

[ThinLizzy]

Vincent Van Gogh's parents absolutely refuse to buy their young son a paint-by-numbers set at the local Woolworth's.

[northbluffer]

Woody Allen writes funnier than he looks.

[Nape]

X-rated version of Reader's Digest doesn't do well in their over-70 demographic group.

[1bmore]

"Yes" men become popular.

[kingmiller]

Zero Tolerance.

[Nape]

Anwar Sadat's hit record, "Walk Like An Egyptian," goes Platinum.

[ThinLizzy]

Bob Newhart invents a new campus drinking game by having everyone in his sit-com say "Hi, Bob".

[laura264]

Calvin Klein hires Kramer to model his jeans because his buttocks are sublime.

[northbluffer]

Dan Rather stomps off, leaving 7 minutes of dead air time.

[Nape]

Edward G. Robinson invents gansta rap.

[northbluffer]

Greg Kinnear gives up his late night tv show.

[Nape]

Hermann Hesse organizes the rock band, Steppanwolf.

[pechuna]

Ira Gershwin and his brother George decide they need Someone To Watch Over Me.

[Nape]

Jane Fonda's workout tape contained an 18 1/2-minute gap.

[northbluffer]

Kitchener took too long to get to besieged General Gordon in Khartoum.

[Nape]

Lawrence of Poland, half-brother to Lawrence of Arabia, couldn't get no respect.

[ThinLizzy]

Mothra hears the cries of two women who are no more than a foot tall...

[Marinalane]

Nemo was found.

[laura264]

Only people who eat chocolate while sweeping online win Grand Prizes.

[northbluffer]

"Peter Gunn" sounds like a dumb name for a TV show, but.......

[Nape]

Queen Camilla steps aside to allow for QUEEN SULADUCK's sultry tango moves. :royal:

[ThinLizzy]

Richard Petty starts making boodin, boodin sounds during his first diaper change, or pit stop as his daddy used to say.

[chancebunny]

Steve Martin was advised never to sing, but decided to make a record about King Tut anyway.

[ThinLizzy]

Thomas Edison is allergic to candle wax and afraid of the dark.

[jesren]

Usher makes his debut.

[chancebunny]

voting irregularities occur in Florida during the presidential election

[northbluffer]

Whitewater investigation is a massive waste of taxpayers money.

[Nape]

X-tra cable TV stations make us all healthy, wealthy, and wise. (Is this the Fantasy Island thread?)

[jesren]

Your father bought the first TV set on the block.

[baxcar]

Zambia wins independence from the British Empire.

[jesren]

A member invents games to play in the forums :jump:

[Nape]

Betsy Ross engages in seamstress activism.

[northbluffer]

Carrie Fisher accepts the role of Princess Leah.

[jesren]

Darth Vader gets paternity test results.

[kingmiller]

Elizabeth Taylor marries Nicky Hilton, her first husband............

[ThinLizzy]

Frankenstein hires Igor as his lab assistant.

[VOWL]

Garson Kanin was born 24 November 1912 in Rochester, New York

[ThinLizzy]

Harry Carrey's sister-in-law becomes an optician.

[chancebunny]

Imelda Marcos demanded dozens and dozens of pairs of baby booties as soon as she learned to talk.

[ThinLizzy]

Jezebel, in a rush to catch the school camel, forgets to wear her panties to class one day in the third grade.

[chancebunny]

Kevin Kline is bombarded with letters from nape, and lobbies for Congress to pass anti-stalker laws

[VOWL]

Llama is now the official OLS mascot

[ThinLizzy]

Mulligan, nervous to be playing in his first golf tournament, duck hooks his initial tee shot into an open kettle of simmering stew, but tournament officials decide to give him another swing without penalty.

[northbluffer]

Naughty Marietta? Please! Is that the best title you guys can come up with?

[chancebunny]

Orville Redenbacher wonders if people really like popcorn enough to make him a little profit.

[northbluffer]

"Pretty thing" Geraldine is unleashed on the unsuspecting world by Flip Wilson.

[ThinLizzy]

Quisp crash-lands his flying saucer not 15 feet from Quake's orange grove.

[jesren]

Rosa Parks sat in the front of the bus.

[chancebunny]

Samuel Clemens thought that Mark Twain would be a catchy pen name.

[jesren]

Terrorists planned to use planes as weapons in the United States.

[Cahaba Lily]

Under the cover of darkness, Paul Revere rides through the streets warning "The British Are Coming!"

[jesren]

Vili Fualaau becomes a student of Mary Kary Letourneau

[Cahaba Lily]

William Tell's last arrow kills the son of a king. He is drawn and quartered to cheers of many crippled children who were his "practice" victims..

[northbluffer]

X-actly who's brilliant idea was the "Mission Accomplished" sign on May 2, 2003?

[Cahaba Lily]

Yelling and Screaming wildly on V-Day! Let the "Baby Boom' begin...

[Nape]

Z-z-z-z-z-ing through yet another asinine vote on flag-burning :mad2:

[northbluffer]

Andrew Jackson took a little trip in 1814...

[Cahaba Lily]

Buying into the disinformation on WMDs, Americans approve the Invasion of Iraq

[ThinLizzy]

Cooter Brown, oftentimes completely dumbfounded by unfolding events, continuously mutters "Well, I'll be" under his breath.

[northbluffer]

Davey Crockett is "the king of the wild frontier", according to Disney Studios.

[Nape]

Edgar Allen Poe wins the local "NAME OUR FOOTBALL TEAM!" contest.

[northbluffer]

"Fonzie" becomes the ultimate example of bad boys succeeding.

[Nape]

Grace Kelly finally resorts to plastic surgery to become more beautiful than I. (Oh wait--Is this the Fantasy Island thread?)

[northbluffer]

Harvey (the pookah) lives in the hearts of gentle eccentrics.

[northbluffer]

Interesting statement by Donald Rumsfeld on National Public Radio, November 15, 2002: "I can't say if the use of force would last five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last any longer than that."

[ThinLizzy]

Jesse James can't find a decent paying job at Civil War's end.

[Cahaba Lily]

Khufu dreams of building a tomb in Giza...

[Nape]

Lady Byrd Johnson takes on a highway beautification project.

[northbluffer]

Mel Gibson stars in Gallipoli (1981)

[Cahaba Lily]

Northbluffer joins OLS in March of 2003 and discovers the Let's Play Forum! :gvibes:

[ThinLizzy]

Otis loves the view from the top but can't seem to teach his pet cow, Ellie, to climb stairs.

[northbluffer]

politicians find the title "centrist" repugnant, even though that's what the majority of the country wants them to be...

[Cahaba Lily]

Queries into the mysterious crash at Roswell began a whole new chapter in conspiracy theories.

[northbluffer]

Rosie O'Donnell comes out of the closet.

[Cahaba Lily]

Synchronized Swimming became accepted as an Olympic Event

[Nape]

Thomas Alva Edison's inventions pave the way toward the lava lamp.

[ThinLizzy]

Umpteen and eleventy didn't make the final cut, though they are still widely used.

[Cahaba Lily]

Villans in Silent Films and TV shows are easily recognizable, which paves the way for Serial Killers like Ted Bundy (preppy) and Gace (Clown) to easily fool their victims...

[northbluffer]

wine in a box doesn't meet the needs of those who drink wine from a bottle in a paper bag.

[Cahaba Lily]

wine in a box doesn't meet the needs of those who drink wine from a bottle in a paper bag.
Xavier Hollander decides to write a book about her exploits...

[ThinLizzy]

Yelling at a bunch of barbed wire breaking cows to get the Hell out of the road, amyshulk, her heavily reinforced front bumpered vehicle floorboarded in reverse, suddenly slams the gear shift into L2 and bowling balls her way into the cafe business.

[Nape]

Zeus stars in Thunder Road.

[jesren]

Anne Frank writes in her diary

[Cahaba Lily]

Berkeley Breathed finds humor in Penguins...

[northbluffer]

Carl Perkins records "Blue Suede Shoes" in 1956.

[jesren]

David Koresh formed a cult in Waco, Texas.

[angelfish]

Evel Knevel attempted to jump Snake River Canyon

[northbluffer]

Fats Domino found his thrill on Blueberry Hill.

[ThinLizzy]

Graucho Marx finds a black magic marker.

[YMJ71]

Hiroshima is bombed.

[chancebunny]

Imelda Marcos buys her first pair of shoes.

[jesren]

Jarod eats a Subway sandwich.

[northbluffer]

kinky communication reaches new heights (or depths) thanks to anonymity of the internet.

[jesren]

Lenny & Squiggy become roommates.

[northbluffer]

Maury Povich meets Connie Chung

[MRatt]

northbluffer makes his 10,000th post and becomes Grand Master Sweeper

[jesren]

Oprah Winfrey introduced Dr. Phil, who appeared on several of her shows.

[ThinLizzy]

Public concern over newly discovered "flesh-eating bacteria" prompts worried citizens to watch a special report on 20/20, but the broadcast is interrupted by live footage of LA police chasing a white Bronco down the freeway.

[jesren]

Questions are raised about Bill Clinton & Monica Lewinsky and the nature of their relationship.

[Cahaba Lily]

Rush Limbaugh receives his first prescription for pain killers...

[MRatt]

Sally Struthers discovered Twinkies!!!!

[ThinLizzy]

Telly Savalas revitalizes his career by accidentally changing his hair style while preparing Baked Alaska in a drunken stupor.

[CleDvy]

Ursula Andress walks out of the surf in Dr. No.