On this day

Maybe exchange phone numbers

No use, VR is too cowardly to call.

@kegge said
No use, VR is too cowardly to call.

LOL...Kegge I bet you are one tough SOB on the phone!!!

I bet you really give good lip service!!! 😛 😉

-VR

On this day a long tome ago Byzantium was renamed.
No ... NOT to Constantinople ... but to Nova Roma!
Now there's a good bit of trivia for you all!

May 10 in Sport
1970 Stanley Cup Final, Boston Garden, Boston, MA: Bobby Orr scores famous OT winner as Boston beats St. Louis Blues, 4-3 for 4-0 series sweep; Bruins its first title since 1941.

On this day in:

- 1984 Mark Zuckerberg was born.

- 1926 Eric Morecambe was born

On this day in:

1796 Edward Jenner carried out the first ever vaccination. It was against smallpox.

1796! I wonder what he would think about all this anti-vax stuff in 2019

On This Day May 14

1969 - Canada Drink Driving Laws
1969 : Drink Driving laws are introduced as past of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968-69 making it an offence to drive with a blood alcohol content (BAC) in excess of 80 mg/100 ml of blood (0.08😵.

Joe Cocker would have been 75 today...

@very-rusty said
May 10 in Sport
1970 Stanley Cup Final, Boston Garden, Boston, MA: Bobby Orr scores famous OT winner as Boston beats St. Louis Blues, 4-3 for 4-0 series sweep; Bruins its first title since 1941.

And St Louis may finally make it to the Stanley Cup finals for first time since that year.

And against no other than the Boston Bruins !!

@mghrn55 said
And St Louis may finally make it to the Stanley Cup finals for first time since that year.

And against no other than the Boston Bruins !!

Yes, Ironic isn't it.

I am pulling for the Blues as they have 19 Canadians on their Rooster, Bruins have only 3, but very good ones who have been the top line in Hockey all this season. Can't count those Sharks out yet, despite the score in the last one.

-VR

On September 11, every good chess players rating goes down.

@executioner-brand said
On September 11, every good chess players rating goes down.

It's September already! 😲

I gotta stop drinking...

@wolfgang59 said
It's September already! 😲

I gotta stop drinking...

No your fine.

You got months left until September!!! 😉

-VR

200 years ago today (22nd)
SS Savannah leaves US to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.

Hell of a lot of progress in those 200 years!

Today is Wednesday, May 22, the 142nd day of 2019. There are 223 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On May 22, 1992, after a reign lasting nearly 30 years, Johnny Carson hosted NBC's “Tonight Show” for the final time (Jay Leno took over as host three days later).

-VR