Marc Dion: Cruz and Christ, the Split Ticket (Creators Syndicate)
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Felix Clay: The Search for Meaning in a Shitball's Existence (Cracked)
This will be the worst article I have ever written. Some would argue that that's a tall order, as I get a decent amount of hate mail assuring me that every article I write is the worst article I have ever written. The majority of you feel the opposite way, however, and I thank you for that. I am pretty awesome, and I could probably drop-kick a tree so hard that it releases delicious nuts and berries filled with money and alcohol so that every time I'm in a forest we will always be having a party.
Tiny Tim (born Herbert Khaury; April 12, 1932 - November 30, 1996) was an American singer, ukulele player, and musical archivist. He was most famous for his rendition of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" sung in a distinctive high falsetto/vibrato voice.
On December 17, 1969, with 40 million viewers watching, Tiny Tim married Victoria Mae Budinger (aka "Miss Vicki") on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. A daughter, Tulip Victoria, was born in 1971. During their marriage, Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki mostly lived apart, and divorced eight years later in 1977. He then subsequently married Jan Alweiss (1984) and Susan Marie Gardner (1995).
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Lois Of Oregon was first, and correct, with:
The wedding of Tiny Tim to Miss Vicki. They said it
wouldn't last. It didn't. All of nature turned and wept.
mj said:
Tiny Tim
Tiptoed through the nuptial tulips with his beloved, Miss Vicki.
Charlie wrote:
The marriage of Tiny Tim. I think I was among the viewers, but hey, that was a long time ago.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Tiny Tim's wedding to Miss Vicki was broadcast nationwide on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" (1962) and seen by 35 million viewers.
Adam answered:
Last appearance of The Beatles? No...the marriage of Miss Vicki and Tiny Tim.
Marian responded:
Tiny Tim married Miss Vicki
Sally said:
40-million viewers tuned in to The Tonight Show, Starring Johnny Carson, on December 17, 1969 for the on-air wedding of eccentric, ukulele-playing singer Tiny Tim to Miss Vicki, which drew a record audience (at the time) for the show.
Thank God I was living abroad back then, and missed this big event.
PS: The last days of Tiny Tim | Balder and Dash | Roger Ebert
Came across this, has a link to TT in his coffin, and has some interesting tid-bits such as; Elton John attended his funeral, but kept in the background, and that his only daughter was a Jehovah's Witness and would not attend the funeral. Be sure to read all the way down for readers entries at the end...
The Death of Tiny Tim
Dale of Diamondy Springs, Nordaffodillycali, took the day off.
DJ Useo, responded:
I know this because I have a copy of that very episode.
They tuned in to watch Tiny Tim's wedding to Miss Vicki.
I was just speculating last week about where the old Tonight Shows with Johnny
are being shown. I found some on Youtube, but they charge to watch.
MAM wrote:
Johnny Carson hosted the marriage of Tiny Tim to Miss Vicki in NYC; I was one of those 40 million viewers.
BttbBob replied:
Oh, I dunno... How's 'bout "Tiny Tim" marryin' what's-her-name (Miss Vicki?)
Besides, I was, like, 16 then an' "The Tonight Show" was fer geezers, dontcha know. I'm talkin' 'bout 'old-people'... older'n dirt, I'm sayin'. Ya know, 'uptight' 'flat-top' 'squares' who didn't know 'what's happenin'... Fogies... Sure am glad I didn't grow up to be like them... Right on!
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Photo Comments - Yo, Pharrell! Ya gots yer hat on sideways, dude!... and, sorry, but that Barry Manilow shot creeped me out... Seriously
(60) I was, I'm tellin' ya now an' I mean it, SO hot fer this lady when this came out...
Rufus & Chaka Khan - Tell Me Something Good - YouTube
Oh, man...
(great slide show of her with the video) I still use that line with the ladies...
(64) Lead singer for what I consider to be the definitive East Coast rock band
(minus NYC)
THE CARS ? (My) Greatest Hits 1978-1987 - YouTube
If you play this, do me a favor, eh, and play it loud, okay? I am doing that very thing right this very minute... cuz it deserves it.
And, Joe S said:
I know! I know! Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki got married. Carla and I watched it on our very own, first color TV. I'm pretty sure that was the date. I won the TV in a raffle from the Fraternal Order of the Eagles Club. The members of the club were kind of pissed at me when I went to pick up my prize, I think because I wasn't a member. Maybe they weren't pissed but they weren't happy. I could tell.
Moving on the assumption that I have provided the correct answer I present the following picture of the happy couple. I wanted to show a picture of the two talking to Johnny at his desk, but I couldn't find any in color, and I would want that to honor my first color TV. But as I think about it, I don't remember if Johnny Carson was in color back then, I can't remember. Some of the show at that time were in color and some weren't.
I really liked Tiny Tim, I thought he was a hoot. Most people seemed to think he was serious.
So, Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki, about to Tiptoe through the Tulips.
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The largest private collection of nonsense poems, doodles and comic drawings by the Beatles singer John Lennon will be sold in New York in June, auctioneer Sotheby's said on Friday.
Ranging from gibberish descriptions of Lennon's native city Liverpool, in northern England, to a drawing of a "National Health Cow" in an apparent jab at Britain's national health service, the collection reveals a lesser known side of the celebrated British singer, who was shot dead in 1980.
The drawings and original manuscripts are part of the collection of publisher Tom Maschler, creator of the prestigious literary award the Booker Prize, who published them in two books, "In His Own Write" (1964), and "A Spaniard in the Works"(1965).
The collection, named "You Might Well Arsk", has a pre-sale estimate of around 800,000 dollars over 89 lots, Sotheby's said.
Left to right, honorees Mike Shinoda and Chester Bennington of the band Linkin Park, U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman and producer Lawrence Bender pose together at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability's An Evening of Environmental Excellence on Friday, March 21, 2014 in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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President Barack Obama does not call the oldest surviving former president for advice.
That's according to former president Jimmy Carter, who told NBC News' Andrea Mitchell in an advance clip of Sunday's "Meet the Press" that he and the current president have a fractured relationship over Middle East policy.
"That's a hard question for me to answer, you know, with complete candor," Carter said in response to Mitchell's question about why Carter's other successors - Clinton, both Bushes, and even Reagan - called upon him, but not Obama.
"I think the problem was that - in dealing with the issue of peace in between Israel and Egypt - the Carter Center has taken a very strong and public position of equal treatment between the Palestinians and the Israelis. And I think this was a sensitive area in which the president didn't want to be involved," he added.
Carter famously brokered the 1978 Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel. He said that Obama's policy toward the area, which he delivered in his 2009 Cairo Speech, may be at odds with Carter's approach.
Police across the country may be intercepting phone calls or text messages to find suspects using a technology tool known as Stingray. But they're refusing to turn over details about its use or heavily censoring files when they do.
Police say Stingray, a suitcase-size device that pretends it's a cell tower, is useful for catching criminals, but that's about all they'll say.
For example, they won't disclose details about contracts with the device's manufacturer, Harris Corp., insisting they are protecting both police tactics and commercial secrets. The secrecy - at times imposed by nondisclosure agreements signed by police - is pitting obligations under private contracts against government transparency laws.
Even in states with strong open records laws, including Florida and Arizona, little is known about police use of Stingray and any rules governing it.
A Stingray device tricks all cellphones in an area into electronically identifying themselves and transmitting data to police rather than the nearest phone company's tower. Because documents about Stingrays are regularly censored, it's not immediately clear what information the devices could capture, such as the contents of phone conversations and text messages, what they routinely do capture based on how they're configured or how often they might be used.
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George Washington ate here, but not nearly as much as we first thought.
The keepers of Washington's Mount Vernon estate on Friday announced a major reinterpretation of the largest room in the Founding Father's riverfront mansion. For decades, interpreters showed the room to tourists as Washington's large dining room, complete with a dining room table front and center.
Upon further review, historians at Mount Vernon have concluded that the room Washington referred to as the "new room" - added to the mansion at the start of the American Revolution - was actually more of a multi-purpose salon to impress and entertain visitors. It was only rarely used as a dining room, historians say.
Mount Vernon arrived at the new interpretation following extensive research on multiple fronts. A word search of Washington's online papers found 27 references to the New Room but only one instance in which he called the space a "large dining room."
Microsoft Corp., which has skewered rival Google Inc. for going through customer emails to deliver ads, acknowledged Thursday it had searched emails in a blogger's Hotmail account to track down who was leaking company secrets.
John Frank, deputy general counsel for Microsoft, which owns Hotmail, said in a statement Thursday that the software company "took extraordinary actions in this case." In the future, he said, Microsoft would consult an outside attorney who is a former judge to determine if a court order would have allowed such a search.
The case involves former employee Alex Kibkalo, a Russian native who worked for Microsoft as a software architect in Lebanon.
Besides the email search, Microsoft also combed through instant messages the two exchanged that September. Microsoft also examined files in Kibkalo's cloud storage account, which until last month was called SkyDrive. Kibkalo is accused of using SkyDrive to share files with the blogger.
Frank said in his statement that no court order was needed to conduct the searches.
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A couple who collected food stamps and other public assistance from Minnesota while living on a yacht in Florida were being sought on fraud charges, prosecutors said on Friday.
Colin Chisholm III and his wife, Andrea Chisholm, accepted more than $165,000 in public assistance between 2005 and 2012 before benefits were terminated, according to prosecutor Mike Freeman in Hennepin County, Minnesota.
Charges against Colin Chisholm were filed in February but they were kept sealed while police searched for the couple, Chuck Laszewski, a spokesman for Freeman, said on Friday. "They know by now we are looking for them."
They bought a $1.2 million yacht, The Andrea Aras, in 2005 shortly after applying for welfare benefits in Minnesota, according to complaints against them. They have been accused of living on the yacht in the area of Palm Beach, Florida, for 28 months while lying about living in Minnesota.
Colin Chisholm was the chief executive officer of a satellite television and broadband services company, his wife bred and sold championship dogs, and over a seven-year period the couple deposited more than $2.6 million in bank accounts they did not report on applications for welfare benefits, according to the complaint.
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A French man has claimed responsibility for the theft of a Rembrandt painting worth millions that was stolen from a French museum in 1999 and recovered this week, a source close to the investigation said on Friday.
The 43-year-old from Lot-et-Garonne in southwest France told police he had stolen the Dutch master's "Child with a Soap Bubble" from a municipal museum as "a challenge" and had never earned any money from it.
He handed himself in on Wednesday night on the advice of his lawyer, a day after the painting was recovered.
After admitting the theft, the man was allowed to leave while further investigations are carried out, the source told AFP.
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Kenya's parliament has passed a bill allowing men to marry as many women as they want, prompting a furious backlash from female lawmakers who stormed out, reports said Friday.
The bill, which amended existing marriage legislation, was passed late on Thursday to formalise customary law about marrying more than one person.
The proposed bill had initially given a wife the right to veto the husband's choice, but male members of parliament overcame party divisions to push through a text that dropped this clause.
Female MPs stormed out of the late-night session in fury after a heated debate.
Women are not allowed to marry more than one man in Kenya.
A man, his wife and their child use a zip-line to cross the Nujiang River in Lazimi village of Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture March 22, 2014. Residents have been using the zip-line for years to cross the river as there is no bridge nearby, local media reported.
Photo by Wong Campion
A Norwegian art museum on Friday returned a precious Matisse painting looted by the Nazis in the Second World War to the American heirs of the French art dealer Paul Rosenberg.
The 1937 painting by Henri Matisse -- "Woman in Blue in Front of a Fireplace" -- worth an estimated $20 million (14.5 million euros), was claimed by the Rosenberg family after it appeared in a temporary exhibition at the Paris Pompidou Centre in 2012.
The piece -- which has been returned by the Henie Onstad art centre near Oslo -- was seized in France by the Nazis in 1941, and was briefly part of the personal collection of Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering.
In 1950, a wealthy Norwegian shipowner Niels Onstad bought the painting from the Parisian dealer Henri Benezit without knowing how he had acquired it.
This undated photo provided by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History on March 18, 2014 shows a reconstruction of the skeleton of the dinosaur Anzu wyliei. The birdlike animal, about 7 feet tall, weighed an estimated 500 pounds when it roamed western North America around 66-68 million years ago. Nicknamed the "chicken from hell," the creature was formally introduced with an official name to the scientific community Wednesday, March 19, 2104 as scientists published a description and analysis of its anatomy.
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