Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

June 20, 1687: Captain Blood set some basic ground rules, before he and his men start a life of piracy.




June 20, 1970: USS Tautog (SSN-639) collided with Soviet sub K-108. Chunks of K-108's propeller became embedded in Tautog's sail. The U.S. was convinced that K-108 had been sunk in the accident but later learned that the sub managed to return to port. The incident was kept secret till 1991 and the full details were finally made public in 1999 in the book Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story Of American Submarine Espionage.




June 20, 1975: Steven Spielberg's shark classic JAWS was released becoming the first movie to make $100 million... in just 38 days... creating the summer blockbuster, changing cinema (and sharks) forever. To say Jaws was a success is an understatement. Costing $9 million, it grossed $470 million.




R.I.P. Donald Sutherland



To quote a line from one of his films:

"For as they say in Ireland, 'We have known the days.'"





Happy 72nd birthday John Goodman...




Gifts exchanged by Putin and Kim revealed...and a road trip around the palace...



Putin and Rocketman spin around the palace:
https://x.com/RT_com/status/1803811170492506202

West has plan to replace Zelensky – Russian intelligence - It believes Zelensky will be used as a scapegoat “once Russia solidifies its successes on the battlefield, and exhausted and demoralized Ukrainian troops find themselves with no way out.”


Meanwhile, on FOX...


Surreal Griffing Amnesiac Media Idiots

Doomsday Machines is a new Substack newsletter from Alex Wellerstein that is launching in July 2024 which will explore the post-apocalyptic imagination in fact and fiction.


Wut???


French first lady transgender libel case goes to trial





Four wooden chests are presented before you.

Each contains a collection of 19th-century novels.

But which one do you choose?




Filmed on the beach last July in Washington and Oregon...