1955: Rosa Parks refuses to relinquish her bus seat to a white MAN (no gent) in Montgomery, AL. - Her arrest sets off a year-long bus boycott by African-Americans...
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| ... AND it set the stage for the modern civil rights movement! And in her memory, today - I am boycotting your products now... sorry! | |
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| Too bad, sister - today was the last day of our special two for one deal on piercings and crack... | |
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1988: Benazir Bhutto becomes PM of Pakistan - the first woman to ever lead a Muslim nation...
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| And this comes about exactly four months after the plane-crash death of Lt. Gen. Muhammad Zia ul-Haq... we are the "bhutt" of the jokes in all Arab nations now! | |
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| We have to do something radical... this cannot continue... I know - let's blow up something! In memory of Lieutenant General Zia ul-Haq! Praise Allah! | |
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1999: Self-proclaimed 2,000-year-old vampire Joshua Rudiger (who by conventional calculations is 22) is found guilty of murdering a homeless woman in San Francisco.
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| I am The Vampyre, I tell you! That peasant vagrant woman simply HAD to give me sustenance... I needed the blood... | |
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| You ain't no Dracula and you ain't Blackula either, kid - you look more like Count Chocula t'me! And now you're gonna do some choking hard time... | |
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