1790: Rhode Island arrives fashionably late to become the last of the original 13 colonies to ratify the United States Constitution. Typical Rhode Island. It thinks it's soooo cool.
1990: After a wild, week-long, vodka-soaked bender, Boris N. Yeltsin woke up to find he had been elected president of the Russian republic. Some crazy shit, comrade. Crazy shit.
1848: Following years of vociferously preaching the pressing importance of discount fireworks and higher quality cheese to the legitimacy of the fledgling democracy, President James Polk welcomed Wisconsin as the 30th state of the union.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
3 comments:
Seriously, Rhode Island?? You're not even an island!!
You are effing hysterical. That is all I really have to add to this. End transmission.
Was Congress filing home after voting in Wisconsin basically doing one big walk of shame?
Post a Comment