Thanks for putting me on to this guy, Brilliant. i went on youtube. There was a long documentary about 90 minutes. It was the history of his joke telling, with a smattering of an autobiography mixed in. He is a brilliant comic, definitly one of the best, top 3. He had me rolling with laughter for 90 minutes. the 1 when he talks about taking a shit when he worked in the shipyard and beating out his flaming pubic hair with a hammer: so funny ...here's a link to the first bit. . Thanks again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF_bFPMZy6Q

Rolling Stone(d): yet another in a long, long line of ultra-liberal publications posing as an objective news source. Kind of like MSDNC, ABC, NBC and CNN, only in paper form.

The only people who would trash obama are fox and talk radio, a hell of a lot less than the people who hear McCain being trashed.

I wouldn't go so far to say Fox and Conservative talk radio ever "trashed" Obama, rgroom1.

They've simply reported on Obama's ultra-liberal voting record, his TWO self-serving autobiographies, his suspicious, detestable circle of f(r)iends like "Rev" Wright, Ayers and Rezko, his lack of experience (so McCain has the big ego...how 'bout the hubris of believing you're Presidential material after 143 do-nothing days in the Senate)?

the strong who exploit the weak are not heroes in my book.

In reply to this comment by thinker247:
He wasn't a mass murderer; his followers committed the crimes. And if you blame him for provoking them, you're really blaming their gullibility and desire to leave behind their cookie-cutter lifestyles for his brand of anti-society rhetoric. He's the Pied Piper, leading the king's children away.

In reply to this comment by laura:
are you sure you don't mean Marylin Manson?
This guy (Charles Manson) was a mass murderer, you know...
sure hope you're joking about lovin' the dude...


In reply to this comment by thinker247:
Can I please upvote this again? And again? And once more?

I'll say it again...

I heart Charlie.

His autobiography is excellent, by the way. But don't take my word for it. Check it out!

He wasn't a mass murderer; his followers committed the crimes. And if you blame him for provoking them, you're really blaming their gullibility and desire to leave behind their cookie-cutter lifestyles for his brand of anti-society rhetoric. He's the Pied Piper, leading the king's children away.

In reply to this comment by laura:
are you sure you don't mean Marylin Manson?
This guy (Charles Manson) was a mass murderer, you know...
sure hope you're joking about lovin' the dude...


In reply to this comment by thinker247:
Can I please upvote this again? And again? And once more?

I'll say it again...

I heart Charlie.

His autobiography is excellent, by the way. But don't take my word for it. Check it out!

Can I please upvote this again? And again? And once more?

I'll say it again...

I heart Charlie.

His autobiography is excellent, by the way. But don't take my word for it. Check it out!

"Although McCain suggested in his autobiography that months passed between his divorce and remarriage, the divorce was granted April 2, 1980, and he wed Hensley in a private ceremony five weeks later.

McCain obtained an Arizona marriage license on March 6, 1980, while still legally married to his first wife."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_tar_incident

From Wikipedia:

"In Major League Baseball lore, the Pine Tar Incident (also known as the Pine Tar Game) refers to a controversial incident that took place in an American League game played between the Kansas City Royals and New York Yankees on July 24, 1983.

Playing at New York's Yankee Stadium, the Royals were trailing 4-3 with two outs in the top of the ninth and U. L. Washington on first base. In the on deck circle, George Brett was heard remarking to a teammate, "Watch this baby fly" as he shook his bat. He then came to the plate and connected off Yankee reliever Rich "Goose" Gossage for a two-run home run and a 5-4 lead.

As Brett crossed the plate, New York manager Billy Martin approached home plate umpire Tim McClelland and requested that Brett's bat be examined. Earlier in the season, Martin and other members of the Yankees (most notably, third baseman Graig Nettles who, as a member of the Minnesota Twins, recalled a similar incident involving Thurman Munson) had noticed the amount of pine tar used by Brett, but Martin had chosen not to say anything until the home run. According to Nettles' autobiography, "Balls," Nettles claims that he actually informed Martin of the pine tar rule, as Nettles had previously undergone the same scrutiny with his own bat while with the Minnesota Twins.

With Brett watching from the dugout, McClelland and the rest of the umpiring crew inspected the bat. Measuring the bat against the width of home plate (which is 17 inches), they determined that the amount of pine tar on the bat's handle exceeded that allowed by Rule 1.10(b) of the Major League Baseball rule book, which read that 'a bat may not be covered by such a substance more than 18 inches from the tip of the handle.'

McClelland signaled that Brett's home run was nullified and the game over. An enraged Brett stormed out of the dugout to confront McClelland, and had to be physically restrained by Kansas City manager Dick Howser and his teammates. (As one commentator stated, 'Brett has become the first player in history to hit a game-losing home run.') Despite the furious protests of Brett and Howser, McClelland's ruling stood. The Royals protested the game ('TAR WARS!' blared a New York Post headline), and their protest was upheld by American League president Lee MacPhail. MacPhail (who coincidentally had once been the Yankees' chief executive) ruled that while the bat was illegal, it didn't violate the 'spirit of the rules.' He added that the bat was not 'altered to improve the distance factor,' and that the rules only provided for removal of the bat from the game, not calling the batter out. Baseball writer Bill James concurred, saying that, unlike other sports, 'in baseball, when you hit a double, that's a double.'

MacPhail ordered the game resumed with two out in the top of the ninth inning with the Royals up 5-4. He also ruled that Brett was to be ejected for his outburst.

On August 18 (a scheduled off day for both teams), the game was resumed from the point of Brett's home run, with about 1,200 fans in attendance. Martin symbolically protested the continuation of the game by putting pitcher Ron Guidry in center field and first baseman Don Mattingly at second base. Mattingly, a lefty, became the majors' first southpaw second baseman since Oakland's Gonzalo Marques [1] a decade earlier; there has been one only lefty middle infielder in a big-league game since (Thad Bosley, in 1987).[2]

Before the first pitch to Hal McRae (who followed Brett in the lineup), Martin challenged Brett's home run on the grounds that Brett had not touched all the bases, and maintained that there was no way for the umpires (a different crew than the one who worked July 24) to dispute this. But umpire Davey Phillips was ready for Martin, producing an affidavit signed by the July 24 umpires stating that Brett had indeed touched all the bases. An irate Martin continued to argue with the umpires and was ejected from the game. Yankees reliever George Frazier struck McRae out to finally end the top of the ninth, twenty-five days after it had begun. Dan Quisenberry then got New York out 1-2-3 in the bottom of the ninth to preserve the Royals' 5-4 win.

The bat is currently on display in the Baseball Hall of Fame, where it has been since 1987. During a broadcast of Mike & Mike in the Morning, ESPN analyst Tim Kurkjian stated that Brett used the bat for a few games after the incident until being cautioned that the bat would be useless if broken. Brett sold the bat to a collector for $25,000, had second thoughts, repurchased the bat for the exact same amount from the collector and then donated the bat to the Hall of Fame.


The winning pitcher for the Royals was reliever Mike Armstrong, who went 10-7 that year in 58 appearances, notching career highs in wins and games. In a 2006 interview, Armstrong said a angry Yankees fan threw a brick from an overpass at Kansas City's bus cracking the windshield as the Royals were leaving for the airport after the make up game. 'It was wild to go back to New York and play these four outs in a totally empty stadium' Armstrong said. 'I'm dressed in the uniform, and nobody's there'. Mike was still pitching baseball as recently as 2006 at age 52 in the Athens Area Men's Baseball league in Athens Ga, where he still has a fastball in the mid 80's."

Basically, this was a totally unprecedented event, in that (a) a super-old, completely outdated rule was dug up by an opposing manager, (b) it was upheld by the umpire, (c) the ruling was overturned and the game was resumed later on in the year. This has become the most famous event in George Brett's career, something he doesn't mind at all, considering that before this, he was most famous for suffering with hemorrhoids during the playoffs.

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congrats, doc!

a recent favorite from your queue:

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Right-Stuff-the-crash-of-the-NF-104

If you ever want to feel like a true whimp, read "Yeager" the autobiography. I get nervous merging into freeway traffic.

"Hello, air-traffic control. I'm in a flat spin and falling like a rock. Would you order a pizza and have a beer ready when I get down. I ate a light breakfast. Hang on, I see the ground now, I'd better eject. Don't come get me, I'll catch a cab back to the airfield."

But you do all know that Hillary Clinton was named after Sir Edmund Hillary of Mt Everest Fame, right?

For more than a decade, Sen. Clinton’s informal biography repeated the story, and it was recounted in Bill Clinton’s 2004 autobiography, My Life.

The problem with the story, however, is one of timing. Sir Edmund became known to the world only in 1953, after becoming the first men to reach Everest’s summit. Sen. Clinton was born in 1947.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52477 (World Net Daily)

Senator Clinton finally issued a correction on the matter on March 17th.

I heard a CSpan interview with Nixon dated around the same time, in which he insisted the war was a great idea and not at all a waste of human life. In his autobiography, I believe it was, Nixon argued that America had "won the war" but "lost the peace"--which seems to demonstrate his own confusion, about the possibility of "winning" a pointless contest of mass-killing.

The dominoes never fell. Vietnam went right to war with its ancient enemy China, shortly after the departure of the Quixotic, merciless Americans. And now right-wing scum celebrate the Cambodian Genocide as a gift to vile revisionism, ad infinitum. George W used it not so long ago, in contending that the USA never should have left Vietnam--you can guess what argument he was making with that pretzel logic.

marvelous autobiography too!

In reply to this comment by UsesProzac:
That was a great story. Fuck swords.

Thanks. I think I read it in Flynn's autobiography "My Wicked Wicked Ways."

Pretty good read.

I read somewhere that some people sent him money for working devices and he never even sent them anything. I read Tesla's autobiography and I understand where your coming from choggie but I'm doubtful about this one... in one scene of this video - a sponge from across the room ended up slamming against the ceiling and falling to the floor while it had no effect on anything else in the room. This would be easily reproduced by having fishing wire on one end of the sponge and could be pulled from the location he was in easily.. when the sponge hit the ceiling it would have broken it's connection with the sponge explaining it's immediate fall to back to the ground.

I do believe that antigravitic devices could eventally be made.. and someone may have made some already but I am skeptical about this individual and his methods. If he has it patented I'd like to see the specs.

Sting has an interesting story to tell about taking ayahuasca. The account is in his autobiography "Broken Music". Basically after feeling extremely ill, he starts 'seeing' the life of an unknown soldier who is executed for anti-authority, yet humanitarian actions during combat.

He's left wondering if he saw a glimpse of one of his ancestor's experiences, or that of a past-life.

So you believe in free speech as long as i don't ask QM a question?
He must hide his hate but you can post insults against him?

I want QM to explain what the Patriot Act is for, in his view. According to your analysis, QM's answer will be a pathetic apologist rant easily disprovable with about 3 clicks on google. But you don't want me to ask, let alone read the answer. Who's playing Hitler now?

Dammit! if you want to oppose lunatic extremist bullshit oppression, try and be nice. Jesus, of all people, had a point here, about prejudice and tolerance and all that. He's got an autobiography out, you should give it a read.