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Charlie Daniels was from Wilmington. Ric Flair was on Crockett promotions flight that nearly crashed into the Cape Fear on its way to Wilmington.

 

The amazing thing about Uneasy Rider was radio stations in the 1970s didn't have issues with "toking on a number" but bleeped out "asses was catching."

Of course, "One Toke Over The Line" was sung on the Lawrence Welk Show, so I guess anyone over 30 had no idea what that meant in 1971.

 

Trump threatening not to pay a bill or sue someone? We may have to kick Phil Collins off A1 for that!

 

Going down the Iuka hole ...

However, Missouri slaveholders resorted to shipping their emancipated slaves to other state to be sold. In 1864, General Rosecrans banned the exportation of enslaved persons from Missouri in order to stop the practice. By 1864, Bruns’s husband had died, and one son was killed fighting for the Union at the Battle of Iuka in Mississippi. Bruns took in boarders, legislators and their staffers, who were often of German extraction. Brun’s boarding house was referred to as the Radical Corner, certainly a nod to their Republican tendencies.​

https://cms4files.revize.com/jeffersoncitymo/Jefferson City Historic Context Final.pdf

 

Iuka is the county seat of Tishomingo County, where a man will pay you for singing in a can.

 

911? I'd like to report a murder.

 

Lawrence Welk barely spoke English.

Ed Sullivan, on the other hand, was hyper-sensitive to drug references even in the abstract. I think the Beatles got away with singing "high" in 1964 but not Jim Morrison 4 years later.

 

They were all out there stepping’ and fetching’
Like their heads were on fire and their asses were catchin’

 

One of my favorite clips of anything, ever. Worth what I’m sure is a repost:

 

"A modern spiritual."

 

Trump's ability to convince his cult he is the greatest president/dealmaker/manliest man ever, yet also all his work from four years immediately vanished, yet he is also the victim of deep-state maneuvering by stupid people is amazing.

 

The plane did crash. Flair severely injured his back and it was thought that his career was over. The pilot eventually died of his injuries. Several other wrestlers were also injured.

There were a couple of nutty stories after the crash that illustrate how kayfabe was super-important in pro wrestling back then. When Wahoo McDaniel found out about the crash, he rushed to the hospital to see Flair, and security was called because Wahoo and Flair were having an on-screen feud and the hospital thought Wahoo was there to attack Flair in the hospital.

Mr. Wrestling Tim Woods was also on the plane, and when he was being taken away, he gave the medical personnel his real name because he was a babyface and it would have looked bad to the fans if it was known that he was on a plane with heels. Even though he was badly injured, he checked out of the hospital shortly after, and had a very short match with Superstar Graham so the fans wouldn’t think that he had been on the plane.

Flair told a funny story about his comeback. When he appeared on TV, the fans didn’t really want to boo him, so the announcers had Wahoo there, pretending to let bygones be bygones. They gave Flair a bunch of get-well cards from fans. Flair looked through the cards, picked a couple out that he said were from famous actresses, and threw the rest of the cards away. Wahoo was outraged, they started going at it, and their feud picked up right where it left off.