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10 Things That Are (Amazingly Enough) Younger Than John McCain

by Genevieve M. Blaber

Many of the things you'd think have been around forever are actually no older than McCain. Whether it's because they weren't on the store shelves, hadn't been established, or weren't even completed, here are 10 surprising things that will always call John McCain their senior.

The Republican presidential nominee and current senator of Arizona, John McCain, has taken a lot of flack for his age whether it's from late-night comedians or casual critics. Born on August 29, 1936, the senior senator is even older than prominent Republicans like Gen. Colin Powell and current Vice President Dick Cheney, and has been a member of Congress since 1983. It's getting harder to remember a time when McCain wasn't working in the Congress, so it's not surprising that many people are hard-pressed to name something that has been around longer than him period.

In fact, many of the things you'd think have been around forever are actually no older than McCain. Whether it's because they weren't on the store shelves, hadn't been established, or weren't even completed, here are 10 surprising things that will always call John McCain their senior.

The Golden Gate Bridge - Connecting the city of San Francisco to Marin County on the mainland, the Golden Gate Bridge is anything but a “Bridge to Nowhere.” It's also not any older than McCain. Though the concept of a bridge across the San Francisco Bay had been tossed around for years, the project didn't get underway until 1933. The Golden Gate Bridge wouldn't be finished for some time, finally opening to the public in May of 1937 -- nearly a full year after McCain was born. At least the two will be happy to know they share their golden years.

Mount Rushmore - Whether McCain secretly envisions his visage added onto the Mount Rushmore National Memorial we'll never know. But we do know that for all the old-time presidents that already grace it, this national monument is still younger than McCain. Running up a bill well over $900,000, work on Mount Rushmore began in 1927 and wasn't completed until 14 years later when McCain was five years old. Seems like they weren't in a rush.

The Ballpoint Pen - As a former naval aviator accustomed to life above the clouds, McCain can truly appreciate the advent of the ballpoint pen. Though designs for ballpoint pens had been sketched out as early as 1888, the ballpoint pen we know today was only patented in 1938. It quickly gained the interest of the British Government whose air force needed a writing implement that, unlike fountain pens, wouldn't leak at high altitudes.

Marvel Comics - As the launchpad for such pop cultural and all-American heroes as Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man, and the Fantastic Four, Marvel Comics has built up a legendary presence that seems almost timeless. But this comic monolith had a very real beginning in 1939, when McCain was already three years old. It was established under the moniker “Timely Comics” and in the years that followed, would undergo two name changes and see the birth of a cavalry of superheroes.

Pepperidge Farm - While the famous “Pepperidge Farm Remembers” advertisements of the 1970s equated Pepperidge Farm with nostalgic visions of the past, we're sure McCain remembers a bit more. And why wouldn't he when he was born a year before the company was founded? Thanks to World War II rationing that forced Pepperidge Farm to cut down production, it's likely that McCain didn't get his first taste of Pepperidge Farm until the late 1940s when the company opened a new
commercial bakery in Connecticut.

The States of Alaska and Hawaii - If McCain's schoolteachers had him memorize all the states as a child, there'd be two crucial missing members of the union: Hawaii and Alaska, respectively the birthplace of his Democratic opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, and the home state of McCain's very own vice-presidential running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin. Although both the regions of Hawaii and Alaska had long been a part of the United States, they weren't awarded statehood until 1959 prompting a change to the U.S. flag that McCain, then a student at the United States Naval Academy, would have had to salute.

M&Ms - Who can imagine an early childhood without these candy-coated chocolates? McCain can. While he might have had his fair share of jelly beans, candy corn, and Snickers bars, M&Ms wouldn't hit the market until sometime after the conflict that inspired them, the Spanish Civil War, ended in 1939. Even then M&Ms were exclusively sold to the army for the duration of World War II making them unavailable to then-civilian McCain.

Bazooka Joe - Here's one Joe that hasn't been mentioned much during this election: Bazooka Joe, the colorful comic strip and its eye-patch wearing title character. Detailing the everyday lives and oneliners of a group of all-American teens with some quirky fashion choices, Bazooka Joe first wrapped its way around Bazooka bubblegum in the early 1950s. That means McCain didn't receive his first pun-laden fortune until he was at least 18. Say it ain't so, Joe.

Betty and Veronica - Before America had to choose between Obama and McCain, Archie had to choose between the two comic cuties, Betty and Veronica. But for all the years they've spent being rivals in love and fashion, Betty and Veronica -- as well as the rest of the Archie crew -- only started classes at Riverdale High in 1942. If McCain read any of the Archie Comics in his youth, he's long-since outgrown them. Meanwhile, despite several redesigns and dozens of proms, Betty and Veronica remain eternally 17.

thanks to :

http://www.seniorsforliving.com/content/article/10-things-younger-than-john-mccain/128/

Stories Behind 3 Horror Classics

The Omen

I’m watching The Omen as I type this - how great is Gregory Peck? And he almost wasn’t cast in the part - the first pick was Charlton Heston, but he turned it down to make Midway. And thank God for that - just about a year earlier, Peck was contemplating retirement because he had been in a nasty string of box office bombs. But then The Omen came along and revived his career. He took a huge pay cut, but did option to get a cut of the film’s gross. The movie made more than $60 million in the U.S. alone, so it quickly became Gregory Peck’s highest-paying movie ever. On to the trivia!

The little boy who played Damien, Harvey Stephens, dyed his hair dark just to play Damien - he was actually blond. It’s the only major film role he ever had, although he did have a brief cameo in the 2006 remake as “Tabloid Reporter #3.”
I was delighted to find out that the actress who played Mrs. Baylock was in Hot Fuzz (I adore Simon Pegg). She was Joyce Cooper, the lady who ran the inn that Sgt. Angel stayed at - the one he had the “Fascist” and “Hag” verbal spat with.
Equally interesting - the girl who played the nanny who offs herself in Damien’s honor is Jack Palance’s daughter, Holly.
The scene where the baboons attack the car at the safari park really scared Harvey Stephens and Lee Remick. At first the scene wasn’t working - they tried putting a baby baboon in the backseat of the car to make the baboons angry, but much to everyone’s dismay, the baboons didn’t really care. Instead, they took the head baboon, causing the herd to go insane, rushing and pounding on the car. That terror you see on Lee Remick’s face is real. She wasn’t expecting such a violent reaction.
When the goldfish bowl falls to the floor and smashes, they’re not really goldfish. They’re just already-dead sardines painted orange, because director Richard Donner refused to kill goldfish just for the sake of the movie.
Just like the 2006 remake, marketing made a huge deal out of 666 being the sign of Satan. If you remember, the 2006 version came out on 6-6-06. The ‘76 version was sneak-previewed on June 6, 1976, and you’d better believe that date was picked on purpose. While movie patrons were in the theater watching the preview, theater employees were busy putting up posters to be seen as soon as the customers exited the theater. They read, “Today is the SIXTH day of the SIXTH month of nineteen-seventy-SIX!” THe trick worked - many customers were seriously spooked.
Maybe The Omen is cursed. Much has been made of the bizarre accidents that befell members of the cast and crew. For instance: Scriptwriter and novel writer David Seltzer’s plan was struck by lightning. Gregory Peck’s plane was struck by lightning too, on a separate occasion, and he was almost killed in a plane crash - he canceled his reservation on a flight that ended up plummeting to the ground, killing everyone on board. Director Richard Donner’s hotel was bombed. The Rottweiler trainers were attacked by the dogs they were training. Eerily, the girlfriend of the special effects coordinator who rigged up the famous decapitation scene was decapitated a couple of years later. And even people barely involved were at risk: a warden where the safari park scene was filmed was killed by a lion just a day after the scene was shot.
The scene where Lee Remick falls from the second floor of the house was done not by having her actually fall, strapped into a harness or anything. She “fell” standing upright and was pushed backward by a dolly onto a “floor” built onto a wall.
How did the unknown Harvey Stephens get the prime role of Damien? Well, during casting, director Richard Donner told all of the little boys who were auditioning to attack him like they would attack Kathy during the church scene. I mean, that’s probably fun for any little boy - but Stephens really played it to the hilt, scratching and clawing at Donner’s face and kicking him in the groin. The groin kick must have really won Donner over.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

I must admit, Texas Chainsaw isn’t one of my favorites. I have to agree with the commenter who said they aren’t really into the torture movies - Saw, Hostel and Turistas are so not up my alley. But, that doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate it for what it is - a groundbreaking movie for the genre. It was so terrifying that people actually walked out during a mere sneak preview of the movie. Like a lot of the other movies we’ve discussed, it had a tiny little budget - $60,000, although some accounts say it eventually ballooned up to as much as twice that. Doesn’t really matter, though, since it ended up making $30.8 million in the U.S.

Director Tobe Hooper says he was standing in the hardware section of a store, getting angry because the crowd was so huge. Then he saw the chainsaws and a lightbulb went off in his head.
Edwin Neal, who played the hitchhiker, said that filming his scenes with John Dugan (he played the grandfather) was the worst experience of his entire life. It took 36 hours to film his scenes in temperatures that were consistently over 100 degrees. The room was filled with rotting animal carcasses and food. Neal has emphasized just how horrible it was by saying, “I had been in Vietnam, with people trying to kill me, so I guess that shows how bad it was.”
There’s no way the film is a true story. The opening says that the events took place on August 18, 1973, but the movie was actually shot from July 15, 1973, thought August 14, 1973. However, urban legends still persist that the horrifying events actually did happen near Poth, Texas, a town about 50 miles south of San Antonio.
The dude who played Leatherface, Gunnar Hansen, could easily run faster than Marilyn Burns (Sally). He employed lots of little tricks to slow himself up - if you watch when he is chasing her through the woods, at one point in the background, he starts to randomly slice up branches.
Gunnar Hansen had to wear the same shirt for the entire month of filming. It couldn’t be washed, because the color might change and provide an inconsistency. So he wore it for four weeks in the same conditions noted above - Texas heatwave, lots of fake blood and gore, etc. By the end of the shoot, no one would eat lunch with Hansen when he was in costume because he smelled so bad.
Supposedly, the film never would have been made if it wasn’t for the porn Deep Throat. The financing for Texas Chainsaw came from the profits of the Linda Lovelace flick.

Poltergeist

Let’s just keep the Tobe Hooper train rolling - he directed Poltergeist, which is maybe the best ghost movie of all time. And unlike our others, this was a Spielberg flick – it had a budget and a crack marketing crew. But like Texas Chainsaw, being involved with the movie comes with its downfalls. I’m talking about the Curse, of course.

Both actresses who played the daughters in the movie died at very young ages – Dominique Dunne, who played the older daughter, was murdered by her abusive ex-boyfriend in 1982, the same year Poltergeist was released. She was only 22. The actress who played little Carol Anne in the entire series died in 1988 at the age of 12 – the cause is a little murky. First it was called an extreme case of the flu, then changed to septic shock, and is now thought to be attributed to acute bowel obstruction. Two of the actors from Poltergeist II also died, one from stomach cancer and one from post-operative kidney failure.
But it’s not just deaths – lots of other odd things happened as well. The house that served as the exterior of the Freeling home was damaged in a 1994 earthquake; JoBeth Williams (she played the mom) would come home after filming every day to find that all of the pictures on the wall in her house were crooked; and in the scene where the son, Robbie, is choked by the clown, something went wrong with the mechanical prop and the actor was actually being choked. These are just a few – a quick Google for “Poltergeist curse” will lead you to all sorts of interesting stories. Some of them are a stretch, to be sure, but it definitely makes for some creepy reading. Snopes has a good article about it, too. A few more tidbits:

• According to both Craig T. Nelson (the Freeling dad) and JoBeth Williams, the skeletons used in the swimming pool scene near the end were the real thing due to a mistake by the prop company. I feel like there are probably some bio-hazard issues there – I wonder if the cast was just told that he props were the real thing to elicit real terror during filming the scene.
• Like Texas Chainsaw, director Tobe Hooper had some real-life inspiration: a previous encounter with a poltergeist. When he was a teen, his father passed away. For weeks afterward Hooper says random dishes would fly of their own accord around the house.
• You know the scene where the researcher is looking in the bathroom mirror and starts hallucinating that he’s tearing the skin off of his own face? The hands actually ripping the flesh off belong to Steven Spielberg.
• Look close at the kids’ rooms – they’re packed with Star Wars toys.
• Drew Barrymore audtioned for the Carol Anne part.
• Steven Spielberg and I have something in common: a fear of clowns. In the movie, both of Robbie’s fears – the clown and the tree outside of his room – are things Steven was scared of as a child.
• Apparently the MGM lion roar is the same roaring noise the Beast makes when it attacks the house at the end of the movie. I’m going to have to go pull out my copy of Poltergeist and check that one out.
• When JoBeth Williams is in the kitchen cleaning, turns to get some more supplies, and then turns back around to find the chairs stacked up on the table – that was all done in one smooth shot. While the camera is following her over to her cleaning supplies, crew members quickly removed the single chairs and set an already-constructed stack on top of the table. IMDB says if you watch the toaster on the counter while JoBeth is assembling her cleaning stuff, you can see the crew members stacking the chairs in the reflection. Another thing I’m definitely going to check out.

thanks to

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/the-stories-behind-three-more-horror-classics/

Dear Tech Support....

Im At a Wendys using thier WiFi

a friend sent me this thought you might enjoy

Dear Tech Support,

Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slow down in overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.
In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as;
- Romance 9.5 and
- Personal Attention 6.5,
And then installed undesirable programs such as
- NBA 5.0,
- NFL 3.0 and
- Golf Clubs 4.1.
Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and Housecleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system.
Please note that I have tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail.
What can I do?
Signed,
Desperate.

************ ********* ********* **

DEAR DESPERATE,

First, keep in mind,
· Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while
· Husband 1.0 is an operating system.
Please enter command:
ithoughtyoulovedme. html and try to download
Tears 6.2 and do not forget to install the
Guilt 3.0 updates.
· NOTE: If that application works as designed, Husband1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5.
However, remember, over use of the above application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0 or Beer 6.1.
Warning:
- Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will download the Farting and Snoring Loudly Beta.
- Whatever you do, DO NOT under any circumstances install Mother-In-Law 1.0 (it runs a virus in the background that will eventually seize control of all your system resources.)
- In addition, please do not attempt to reinstall the Boyfriend 5.0 program. These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0.

In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly. You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance. We recommend:
- Cooking 3.0 and
- Hot Lingerie 7.7
Good Luck!
Tech Support

Wal-Mart????

So i bought the newest DesertNews newspaper (it covers Mojave, cal city, boron, Rosamond) and there was an interesting editorial in there. It was about the possibility of a walmart coming to Cal-City or Mojave, they said that there were rumors of electing certain city officials would deter the operation and prevent Walmart from building in the area. So they continued to say that all officials want walmart to come and would relieve the commute to Bakersfield or Lancaster for all the people in those areas.

BUT at the end of the article it said that the officials were more willing to accept WalMart then those people up in Tehachapi.

So does that mean that there are people up here in Tehachapi that don't want it to come?? If he said this then there mustve been some kinda preconceived notion that there is an anti walmart stance in the City Officials. Now i know that there is research to be done before a big box company is built, but the walmart rumor has been around for a long time and i thing Home Depot went up faster with less rumor time :P

I don't know i could be crazy.

BUT i just read in the Ridgecrest Paper that Walmart just submitted for a SuperCenter in Tehachapi

http://www.ridgecrestca.com/news/business/x1780972736/Hopes-fade-for-2009-Wal-Mart-Supercenter-opening

Going on a short road trip!!!!

Im leaving on saturday morning, and im gonna drive for the distance of 1 tank of gas, which is roughly 450-500 miles. I love driving to new places and seeing the strange, popular and familiar. And since its supose to be gloomy weather this weekend why not escape.

Anyone have an idea where to go, im up for anything and im gonna spend the night there and take in the local faire. Packed with my camera and laptop, sooo north east south west????

Something to make you laugh or go WTF!!!!

Hi-5: The Hottest Muppets

As young men we were constantly bombarded by images of beautiful, fictional women on TV and in movies. But what about the hand-operated ones? Muppets: a taboo subject to be sure. What if it was socially acceptable to take a felt-covered female in loving embrace? These would be the top 5 choices.

The Mahna Mahna Girls

While lacking the physical beauty of other female Muppets, the Mahna Mahna Girls have something special about them.

Maybe it’s their singing or their perfectly choreographed moves. Possibly even their slutty eye make-up, but there is definitely a certain feature about these otherworldly creatures that attracts beyond the implications of rationality. The answer is probably right in front of me, but I can’t quite figure out what is so sexy about these ladies.

Red Fraggle

Red Fraggle is the jailbait of the bunch. Like the “Hit Me Baby, One More Time” Britney Spears of the Muppet world, Red likes to flaunt her stuff in a short skirt and pigtails.

Most likely a meth addict and raver, this Fraggle will try anything once -- as long as it keeps the party going.

Janice

This chick rocks, literally. The lead guitarist for the Muppet band “Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem”, Janice is all about the rock star lifestyle.

Most likely under the influence of many psychotropic drugs and probably reeking of patchouli oil, she is still all about Free Love. Getting some backstage action with Janice is as easy as sharing a needle with Animal.

Camilla the Chicken

Either Gonzo the Great knows something we don’t about this party fowl or he’s just a chicken f*cker. Camilla the Chicken is an enigma wrapped in a riddle, shrouded by mysterious sex appeal. Whatever she has beneath those feathers will probably always remain a secret, because it’s a known fact that she is simply a cock tease.

Miss Piggy

It’s been thought that Miss Piggy is only about the green, usually compared to the white chick that only dates black guys. But the truth is, Piggy is a star fucker and a gold digger.

She will loan out those pork tenderloins for anyone with the green-backs. With that in mind, it is conceivable that for the right amount of money, you too can have yourself a night in hog heaven.

thanks to http://www.doubleviking.com/hi-5-the-hottest-muppets-9618-p.html

HAHA i laughed when i saw this........

Designed by artist Francesca Lanzavecchia, NightMates are "soft anthropomorphic pillows and warming lamps" that are supposed to keep you company (and comfy) at night. They come in different sizes, depending on how much anthropomorphic love you need, but you might wanna stick with the smaller ones that are more like Glo-Worms—the full sized ones are more than a little creepy, like something that slithered off the cover of one of my roommate's NSFW manga collection to do wrong things to you while you sleep.

McSame??? more like McChange

Mccains motto was change, he did not mention Bush, he mentioned Lady bush more than him.

Noteable Quotes

"That's how I will govern as president," he said. "I will reach out my hand to anyone to help me get this country moving again. I have that record and the scars to prove it. Sen. Obama does not."

"I found just the right partner to help me shake up Washington, D.C.," he said, adding that he "can't wait" to introduce her to Washington. "And let me offer an advance warning to the old big spending, do nothing, me first, country second Washington crowd," McCain said. "Change is coming."

My fellow Americans, when I'm president, we're going to embark on the most ambitious national project in decades. We are going to stop sending $700 billion a year to countries that don't like us very much. We will attack the problem on every front. We will produce more energy at home. We will drill new wells offshore, and we'll drill them now. We will build more nuclear power plants. We will develop clean coal technology. We will increase the use of wind, tide, solar and natural gas. We will encourage the development and use of flex-fuel, hybrid and electric automobiles.

pros and cons????

Palin is a tough cookie

Defending her record as a “chief executive” in Alaska, she teased Obama for describing himself as a “community organizer” before joining the Illinois senate and warned, “The American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.”

“I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town,” she said. “Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess, I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.”

Some of her Quotes

"The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all,"

"While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens
should have to pay for.
That luxury jet was over the top. I put it on eBay.
I also drive myself to work.
And I thought we could muddle through without the governor's personal chef - although I've got to
admit that sometimes my kids sure miss her. I came to office promising to control spending - by
request if possible and by veto if necessary."

Great speech and a classic move by her youngest daughter to put her brothers hair down by spit :)

Hockey Moms Unite :P

cmon pros and cons you know you wanna say them......

Family Guy for Alien rights

hehehe i saw this and thought i should show this to Gube hehehehe

http://www.hulu.com/watch/2711/family-guy-padre-de-familia#x-0,vepisode,1

Peter starts an anti-immigration group after being caught up in the pro-American sentiment at a Veterans Day parade, but later learns that he was born in Mexico.

Even Pop culture is falling to saving the immigrants