ABC The Rest Is History Game

[Nape]

ABC any historic event, whether it happened that way or not.


A = Anne Frank leaves a diary.

[SulaDuck]

Battle of the Bulge

[Nape]

Cleopatra falls in love for the first time. :flirt:

[trinabrous]

Declaration of Independence :toot:

[Nape]

Earth Day first observed. :gvibes:

[SulaDuck]

Fall of the Roman Empire

[Nape]

George Washington invents the game, "Liar's Poker."

[SulaDuck]

Henry VIII avoids alimony by beheading his wives.

[Nape]

Ira Gershwin asks his brother, George, "Can I have a few words with you?"

[SulaDuck]

Joan of Arc feels the heat :mad2:

[Nape]

King Tut asked Pharoah to sit in for him.

[SulaDuck]

Lincoln goes to the theater

[Nape]

Making use of nonviolent methods, Mahatma Ghandi negotiates a lucrative royalty deal for rice advertising.

[SulaDuck]

Neil Armstrong leaves footprints on the moon.

[Nape]

Ocean-going vessels of Christopher Columbus are equipped with DVD players and Surround Sound.

[ked]

punched out Alice Kramden leaves footprints on the moon

[Ziggywag]

Quarters are minted for the first time 1792.

[Mike]

Rangers Win the Stanley Cup ending a 54 year drought in 1994.

[Nape]

SulaDuck's March 9th birthday becomes our newest national holiday.

[ked]

Tom Thumb endorses his typewriter

[Nape]

United States ends prohibition, mainly to torture Californians who can't enter liquor sweeps.

[ked]

voracious eaters discover a new delicacy, yak stew, known for it's aphrodisiac qualities.

[Nape]

Wyoming is divided in a divorce settlement between Jane and Ted.

[ked]

xtensive airings of basketball coverage by Dick Vitale lead to him being lynched by disgruntled fans

[Nape]

Yugoslavia perfects "straight-arm driving" in the Yugo.

[ked]

zany civil war rebs adopt Kate Smith to sing their war chant

[chancebunny]

Attila the Hun decides to reform, and changes his name to Attila the Fun.

[Nape]

Black Sea finally learns how to use the color fonts, thereby becoming the Red Sea.

[chancebunny]

Caesar develops a salad that is all the rage at the trendy Roman restaurants.

[Suann47]

Donner Party all saved and accounted for

[Nape]

Emperor Caligula, seeking a little horse sense in government, made his horse a consul.

[SulaDuck]

Delaware Water Gap opens clothing stores in every mall in America.

[SulaDuck]

oooops.... I guess I'm playing BACKWARD ABC games.... Let me try again:


Freud makes a slip.

[chancebunny]

George Washington says that he never had sexual relations with a White House intern.

[Ziggywag]

Hell's Angels go door to door selling Avon.

[chancebunny]

Idaho farmers think that potatoes are just a fad and will never catch on as a popular food, but decide to grow a few for the fun of it.

[Suann47]

Thomas Jefferson sang "Easter Bonnet" in the Easter Day Parade

[ked]

King Arthur slept on a King Coil mattress with Guinevere

[Nape]

Lancelot liked that King Coil mattress quite-a-lot.

[chancebunny]

Marriage counselor is called in after King Arthur discovers Guinevere on the King Coil mattress with Sir Lancelot.

[SulaDuck]

Newton, growing tired of watching apples fall from trees, starts experimenting with the cookie possibilities of figs.

[Nape]

Ohio becomes the #1 travel destination of OLS groupies.

[northbluffer]

Patriotism is determined by how well you dance and sing.

[Nape]

Quest for the golden fleece ends at verybestkids.com blanket giveaway.

[chancebunny]

Rembrandt developed headaches from the smell of paint, so he decided to forget about art and instead became a goatherder.

[Nape]

Smelling the goats wasn't pleasant either, so he developed an overpriced toothpaste. :D

[northbluffer]

Tiny Tim marries Miss Vicki, but won't tiptoe through the tulips with her.

[Nape]

Uganda's murderous dictator Idi Amin died quietly at age 80.

[JanMarie]

V-Day was born in 1998 as an outgrowth of Eve Ensler's Obie-Award winning play, "The Vagina Monologues."

[Nape]

Washington built a Space Needle, which was immediately lost in a haystack.

[Carla]

X-ray machine invented

[Nape]

Yarn spun by Martha Stewart now available in jumpsuit orange.

[Carla]

Zookeepers decide it's a good idea to carry sticks.....or tranquilizers.....

[songcat]

Appleseed (Johnny) starts spreading his seed :laugh:

[Carla]

Brad Pitt takes off his shirt in Thelma & Louise.....cinema is never the same again.

[Nape]

Chicago fire is caused by Mrs. O'Leary's bovine in what appears to be the first U.S. case of mad cow.

[northbluffer]

David challenges Goliath for best two out of three.

[JanMarie]

Everest is mounted successfully for the 1st time on May 29, 1953, by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay :dance:

[chancebunny]

Freud passed his talent for head shrinking down to his daughter Anna.

[Carla]

Grand Canyon seen as more than just a big ditch

[JanMarie]

Harry Houdini first starts turning tricks in front of an audience on October 28, 1883.

[Carla]

Ice now comes in cubes :smile9: :smile9:

[chancebunny]

Jackson Pollock spills some paint on the floor, and becomes a famous artist.

[Nape]

"Kitchen cabinet," President Andrew Jackson's advisers, tells Old Mother Hubbard to pull herself up by her bootstraps.

[JanMarie]

Leonardo da Vinci's father apprentices his son to Callimaco the Comedian in 1467, but Leo mistakenly steps into Andrea del Verrochio's shop next door and the rest is history.

[Nape]

Medici family becomes a patron of the arts, resulting in early prototypes of the happy face smiley. :)

[Suann47]

Newton invents the fig newton

[Nape]

OLS declared a sovereign nation.

[chancebunny]

Patriotism abounds at OLS nation.

[JanMarie]

Queen Elizabeth II wakes to find a strange man in her bed asking for a cigarette on July 9, 1982. :wink2:

[SulaDuck]

Reign in Spain of Isabella and Ferdinand~~a very "inquisitive" pair.

[Nape]

Sherman has a burning desire in Georgia.

[Carla]

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is filled

[Nape]

Uncle Sam, in a severe breach of manners, points accusingly.

[Carla]

V.D. gains new meaning

[Nape]

Washington crossed the Delaware because most sweeps were void in his state.

[Carla]

"X" marks the spot for the first time

[JanMarie]

Yahoo, created in 1994, was at first known as "Filo's Yang Bang Bong That Finds Things," but the name just didn't catch on with the guys at Stanford.

[pantherpaw]

Zippers replaced the codpiece

[Carla]

Anaconda now used to call what was previously "that big freakin' snake"

[JanMarie]

Bluto gets his arse kicked by Popeye for the first, but not last, time in 1933.

[Carla]

Cooking is changed forever in 1960....Emeril Lagasse is born

[Nape]

Dick Nixon was kicked around.

[JanMarie]

Evolution theory by Darwin was almost published as "Monkey Business" in 1859.

[northbluffer]

Farrah Fawcett-One small poster, one giant step backwards for womankind.

[Carla]

Grapes are stepped on-Wine is born

[northbluffer]

Grapes are stepped on-Wine is born Viva la Vino!!!

Howard Hughes designs an aerodynamic brassiere.

[pantherpaw]

insane asylums are overrun with OLSers who are pushed over the edge from getting one too many "Sorry" messages in instant win sweeps.

[SulaDuck]

Julius Caesar asked, "Be where the Ides of March?"

[JanMarie]

Koko the gorilla communicates for the 1st time in 1972, thereby bolstering Darwin's Monkey Business theory.

[Nape]

Lindy crosses the Atlantic, accumulating more frequent-flyer miles than anyone in prior history. :jet:

[Ziggywag]

Martha Stewart creates her first centerpiece.

[Nape]

Normally, her centerpieces didn't conceal files and saws.

[JanMarie]

"Origami Tsuki" is first created in the 10th century by a very bored Japanese dude and not, as some believe, invented by Martha Stewart.

[ked]

Priscilla Presley had a fling with Tiny Tim, but said his uke was too small.

[Nape]

Quaint country inn opens under the name, "Trump Towers."

[JanMarie]

Ronald Reagan snags another acting job in 1980 as "Mr. President"

[JanMarie]

Sarah Jessica Parker is considered sexy

[Nape]

Thomas Jefferson considers two job offers: (A) Statesman, or (B) NASCAR driver.

[northbluffer]

U. S. Government embraces pre-emptive strike policy; more bad news at 11 tonight, and every night.

[ked]

Volvo launches a car that runs on diet lemon Coke and Dad's root beer.

[SulaDuck]

Whistler turns his mother into a supermodel.

[Nape]

X-cessive need for cream sauces and pastry causes Germany to invade France

[ked]

Yankees win the 1866 World Series over the Dixie Chicks.

[Nape]

Zebra prison stripes flatter Nixon's cabinet members.

[SulaDuck]

Arbor Day planting of trees makes it impossible to see the forest.

[Nape]

Buffalo worried that the back of the nickel made her thighs look fat.

[chancebunny]

Christopher Columbus got violently seasick and returned home, never to set foot on a ship again.

[Ziggywag]

Dodgers stayed in Brooklyn.

[Nape]

Ethan Allen lost his furniture business due to the Patriot Act.

[northbluffer]

Friar Tuck embraced the Atkins Diet

[JanMarie]

George gets lost in 1998

http://www.wheresgeorge.com/

[chancebunny]

Hitchcock, at a young age, was unreasonably terrified by his pet parakeet, resulting years later in "The Birds".

[ked]

Ivan the Terrible turned to wrestling to make a few extra bucks

[northbluffer]

Jack Kramer quit golfing.

[chancebunny]

King Tut had a resurgence in popularity after Steve Martin wrote a song about him.

[SulaDuck]

Las Vegas, once a vast wasteland, lures tourists with cheap buffets. The result: a vast waistband.

[JanMarie]

Marky Mark from the Funky Bunch quits music in 1995 and starts acting . . . thank goodness.

[biliter2]

Napoleon retires to south Atlantic island after disappointing second place finish in the Waterloo Open.

[Alimar]

Opie from the Andy Griffith show becomes an award-winning movie director, but can't stop whistling Andy Griffith theme song.

[Nape]

Pat Paulson was finally elected President.

[biliter2]

Queen Latifah renounces title after learning she must share throne with King of Pop. Returns when she gets own bathroom.

[Nape]

Really have waited a long time for trickle-down economics to trickle down to me. :drip:

[biliter2]

"She axed for it," said Henry VIII.

[Nape]

Then JFK paraphrased him: "Axe not what your country can do for you...."

[northbluffer]

Tonya Harding, barred from competition, wants to re-start Roller Derby circuit.

[JanMarie]

"Udder disbelief. How dairy they make a mockery of our kind. It's extremely bullish and cowedly," Clara the Cow, spokesbovine for UCA (United Cows of America), says of the new game, "Fling the Cow."

http://www.flingthecow.com/

[northbluffer]

Very,very quickly the cows banded together and formed......

www.cowswithguns.com/

[JanMarie]

Within hours of the bovine uprising, the government issued a "Mad Cow" alert. Bessy, a member of the MCC (Mad Cow Coalition) responded with an emphatic plea to stop labeling angry cows as mad:

http://www.sweatshopnews.com/mad_cows_angry.htm

[biliter2]

"Xenophobia must not get in the way of our goals. Holstein, Guernsey, or Jersey; we are all cows. We must band together to defeat the evil sheep clones" --Dan the Angus, Commander of the Bovine Liberation Army, addressing his troops before battle, April 7, 1968 BCE (before cow era).

also

Xerses the Great leads the Persians to victory over the Greeks.

[biliter2]

---------(uh oh, I think I killed it.)

Yugoslavia decides war is not the answer, gives everyone a big hug.

[northbluffer]

Zen aerobics become the "In" thing.

[SulaDuck]

Acid Rain falling like cats and dogs :drip:

[JanMarie]

biliter2 is accused of being a serial thread killer and a cow lover on 3-15-04, but I'm the real killer and the real cow lover (evil LOL)

[biliter2]

Cow-loving of a different kind becomes illegal (http://www.state.ma.us/legis/laws/mgl/272-34.htm) in Massachusetts.

[Nape]

Dung build-up tilts the tower of Pisa.

[biliter2]

Elephants refuse to traverse the Alps, Hannibal crosses mountains by Chihuahua instead.

[Nape]

Fatima develops a tourist trade when The Virgin Mary makes an appearance.

[chancebunny]

Genghis Khan was really quite a nice fellow.

[JanMarie]

Hypochondriac Howard Hughes hides himself.

[Nape]

India develops telemarketing centers to snag our "outsourced" jobs.

[JanMarie]

Justin Timberlake makes "Malfunction" history on 2-1-04.

[Nape]

Kite + string + key + Benjamin Franklin = monthly electric bill

[biliter2]

"Looks like rain," said Noah.

[Nape]

Muriel and Hubert Humphrey were "pleased as punch" to be playing the ABC games.

[JanMarie]

Nerds took over the world in 1982. Anyone without a pocket protector and glasses was considered an anarchist, and they were hunted down and tied to a chair in front of a computer until they capitulated to nerdism.

[biliter2]

Oedipus kills father, marries mother, goes on Springer.

[Suann47]

Pompeii dug up..found waldo

[biliter2]

Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates throne in favor of career as puppeteer.

[northbluffer]

Rosa Parks won't go to the back of the bus.

[biliter2]

Southern rockers the Allman Brothers sing "I was born in the back seat of a greyhound bus
..." It wasn't true though, they were actually born in the back seat of the Star Trek Voyager.

[Nape]

Tammany Hall married Monte Hall, creating "Let's Make A Crooked Deal."

[Txsweeper]

Underwater explorers find Jimmy Hoffa in Lake Placid

[biliter2]

Vikings discover North America, decide to return to the more pleasant climate of Iceland.

[SulaDuck]

Winkin and Blinkin nod off. :sleep2:

[Nape]

X-tra bizarre testimony by Ollie North was highlighted by talking about himself in third person.

[biliter2]

Yalta meeting of Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt end with a conga line.

[JanMarie]

Zipper-gate: Monica and Bill, 1998.

[Nape]

Armies of Napoleon were kept in his sleevies.

[chancebunny]

Beethoven decided that the piano was for sissies, and took up the drums instead.

[Ziggywag]

Clinton's cigar makes headlines.

[JanMarie]

Dudley Do-Right Does Wrong: Brendan Fraser, 1999

[chancebunny]

Edgar Allen Poe took Zoloft, and started writing happy little children's stories.

[Nape]

Forrest Gump really was involved in all those historical events.

[biliter2]

Gandhi did work in a convenience store.

[SulaDuck]

Helen of Troy got botox injections and was named "The Face That Launched A Thousand Ships" (of course, all the ships sank a few years later, but....)

[Nape]

I always wondered why her face launched a thousand ships in the OPPOSITE DIRECTION.
:cruise: :cruise: :cruise:

[biliter2]

John Paul Jones says, "I have not yet begun to file," when his mother asks how his secretarial school classes are going.

[ked]

King Arthur hangs Lancelot for messing around with his wife, then beheads his wife Guinevere for being a slutty tramp

[northbluffer]

Lassie came home, slept for two days, and took off again.

[Nape]

Milk thrown out by farmers to protest (A) low prices and (B) endlessly losing at the Hershey keychain game.

[biliter2]

Nebuchadnezzar builds the hanging gardens of Babylon.

[Nape]

Old English evolves into Middle English, then to Retro English.

[chancebunny]

Paul McCartney decides that he'll never make it in the music biz, and goes to work at the Post Office instead.

[songcat]

Quasimodo rings the bells for the first time. Paris and Notre Dame will never be the same again.

[northbluffer]

Rythym & Blues begets Rock & Roll

[Suann47]

Stars and Stripes Forever national anthem

[biliter2]

Troy trashed by hollow horse.

[Txsweeper]

Unclaimed Mega Millions ticket found on street by Donald Trump

[chancebunny]

Van Gogh had surgery to re-attach his ear.

[northbluffer]

Walter Raleigh gets knighthood as reward for kickbacks on Halliburton contract.

[biliter2]

Xenophon writes the Anabasis.

[Nape]

Yellow ribbons 'round the old oak tree usually mean the city is about to chop it down.

[ked]

Zoo of Eden is where Noah amassed his herd

[Nape]

Abigail Van Buren gave Martin Van Buren sound advice.

[SulaDuck]

Boston Tea Party horedourves got a little damp.

[Nape]

Coliseum of Rome first to serve low-carb concessions.

[biliter2]

Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived - the fates of Henry VIII's wives.

[Nape]

Everest climbed, then razed for space to build an Office Depot.

[northbluffer]

Ferry captains demand their vessels be re-classified as "Aquatic Transporters".

[ked]

Geronimo marries Anna Nicole Smith and suffocates during an embrace

[chancebunny]

Hiawatha suffered the same fate. Do men never learn?

[Nape]

Iceland was last in line when names of countries were handed out.

[biliter2]

Joan of Arc becomes French toast.

[Nape]

Ken Burns made up the entire Civil War. Really. It never happened.

[Ziggywag]

London Bridge was built and kids sing about it falling down.

[Nape]

Moon Unit Zappa was named U.S. Ambassador to China.

[Ziggywag]

Noriega is driven from hiding after being forced to listen to Twisted Sister music being blasted for hours by the US government.

[Nape]

"Old Europe" sounds like a great trip win to me.

[Ziggywag]

Plato's Republic is a best-seller

[Nape]

Queen Victoria criminalized homosexuality for males, but not for females. It never occurred to her that females could be homosexual, and no one had the courage to inform her otherwise. (For a change, I'm not making this up.)

[biliter2]

Roswell is invaded by weather balloons.

[chancebunny]

Shakespeare flunked English lit.

[Nape]

Thursday of last week, OS was invaded by weather balloons.

[biliter2]

Ulysses was banned in the U.S. from 1918-1933.

[Nape]

Vast wealth of the Rockerfellers was accumulated through less-than-admirable practices of Standard Oil. But you didn't see what I did last year to accumulate many Oscar Mayer keychains. It wasn't pretty, either.

[northbluffer]

Walt Disney thought a mouse could star in movies. Geez, what a nut cake!

[Ziggywag]

X-ray glasses became the worlds greatest invention.

[Nape]

Yellowstone made a national park because of some old geysers spouting off.

[northbluffer]

Zero Mostel gets a plum roll in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"

[pechuna]

Adolf Hitler, an Austrian, migrates to Germany.

[northbluffer]

Benny Goodman takes clarinet lessons.

[pechuna]

Charleton Heston's father gives his son a gun for his birthday.

[northbluffer]

Dan Quayle cuts back on his golfing to be Vice-president.

[pechuna]

Edie Gorme has her first date with Steve Lawrence

[biliter2]

Falklands War. Why?

[chancebunny]

Goodyear Tire Company comes up with the idea of using a blimp for advertising.

[SulaDuck]

Hannibal invades Missouri, inspiring Mark Twain to "never forget."

[northbluffer]

Ireland's potato crop fails, and countless thousands emigrate.

[pechuna]

Jan meets Dean

[biliter2]

King Edward VIII chooses Mrs. Simpson over throne.

[pechuna]

Lucille Ball interviews for a sitcom where she would play a housewife.

[eskhaton]

Moses becomes president of the NRA.

[pechuna]

Nancy Davis, actress, has a date with the President of the Screen Actors Guild, Ronald Reagan

[northbluffer]

Oral Roberts has a conversation with God about building a medical center.

[pechuna]

Paula Jones is escorted by an Arkansas State Trooper to the hotel room of Bill Clinton.

[northbluffer]

Oliver Stone messes with history in "J.F.K.".

[pechuna]

Peter Yarrow(Peter, Paul and Mary) invites a boy to his room. The pedophile is a log time supporter of John Kerry. He sang with him on stage during the Iowa primary.

[Nape]

Queen Elizabeth II dances on Laugh-In in a bikini and asks, "Sock it to me?"

[biliter2]

Rasputin still refuses to die & is believed to have relocated to Florida.

[pechuna]

Sammy Sosa, a 165 pound banjo hitting outfielder, discovers steroids will help build his body. Suddenly, he's 230 pounds.

[chancebunny]

Taft forgot to watch his carbs, and wound up being the fattest US president.

[pechuna]

Ulysses S Grant decides to march through Georgia.

[eskhaton]

Verne pens "Around the World in Approximately Two and Two/Thirds Months" but second-guesses the title.

[Nape]

William Howard Taft is gentlemanly enough to stand next to me in photographs to make me appear thin.

[biliter2]

Xizang, more commonly known as Tibet, is now an "autonomous" region of China. Uh huh, right.

[northbluffer]

Yeti emigrate without passports, and are affectionately nicknamed Sasquatch by Native Americans who are pleased to see anything new to America that comes without weapons.

[Nape]

Zurich watchmakers petition the Swiss government to make the OS smiley clock the officially recognized measure of time.

:clock:

[northbluffer]

Andy Williams sings "Moon River" so beautifully we don't realize the lyrics make no sense at all.

[Txsweeper]

Bundy family introduced to shocked audiences on new series, "Married with Children"

[northbluffer]

Chinese laborers build most of the trans-continental railroad, and get very little recognition in U.S. history books.

[Nape]

Doughboys in WWI really didn't appreciate being poked in the stomach, thank you very much.

[chancebunny]

Elephant Man fervently sought a cure for his affliction, so that his bones wouldn't end up on display in Michael Jackson's house.

[northbluffer]

Frank Sinatra gets out of his lifetime contract with Tommy Dorsey.

[pechuna]

George Herman Ruth was asked to play baseball by the Catholic missionaries at
St Mary's Industrial School for Boys.

[Nape]

Hannibal struck it rich on royalties when his elephants appeared in Dumbo.

[northbluffer]

Ice age wiped out some desireable species, but our ancestors survived to find other ways to wipe out species.

[Nape]

John Dean, like his brother, Jimmy Dean, made sausage out of Watergate conspirators.

[biliter2]

Kimberly Kay's smilies turn evil and start attacking bystanders, causing "Beware of Smilies" signs to sell out across the country.

[northbluffer]

Kimberly Kay's smilies turn evil and start attacking bystanders, causing "Beware of Smilies" signs to sell out across the country.
I really expected this. You can only abuse smilies for so long, and then they turn violent.


Labor union representing smilies is issuing "Beware of Kimberly Kay" buttons to members.