Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

November 27, 1924: The Thanksgiving cover of humor magazine Life. "So! You won't be home to dinner then, huh, Papa?" says the child Pilgrim. Illustration by Percy Crosby.




November 27, 1924: Macy's stages its first Thanksgiving Day Parade, an event that is soon to become a New York tradition. The march from Harlem 6 miles south to 34th Street, seen by 250,000 people, is at first called the "Christmas Parade" to explicitly promote holiday shopping.

The "Marathon of Mirth" features animals from the Central Park Zoo, stilt walkers, clowns, bands and a series of floats ending with one that features Santa Claus. Once the procession reaches 34th St., Santa scales a ladder and sits on a throne atop Macy's newly built marquee.





November 27, 1835: James Pratt (1805–1835) and John Smith (1795–1835) became the last 2 people executed for "sodomy" in England. Neither Pratt nor Smith were allowed to give evidence at their trial. They pleaded not guilty but the jury returned a guilty verdict.


Some modern human rights activists have cast doubt on the facts and legality of the conviction. In January 2017, Pratt and Smith were among those who were posthumously pardoned by the Alan Turing law which pardoned those who had been convicted of same-sex carnal offences which no longer exist in the UK.

In April 2024, Southwark Liberal Democrat councillor Victor Chamberlain proposed a rainbow plaque be unveiled on Blackfriars Road to commemorate Pratt and Smith.


November 27, 1942: Rock icon Jimi Hendrix was born in Seattle, Washington. Quite simply the greatest rock guitarist of all time. He was also the first rock star commemorated with a blue plaque at 23 Brook Street, London.




Nov 27, 1968: Probe of American Foreign Service Association CIA's Occult - The Temple of Understanding (sanitized clipping)
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP75-00001R000100050017-4.pdf]PDF




2017 flashback: China’s People’s Daily reported on November 27 that “Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and chairman of TerraPower, has been elected as a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), one of the country’s top academic institutions.”




Hello, the British are going so woke that they’re reverse engineering the Penal Laws. Soon to deny Jesus was a messenger from the Lord will have you sent to the Tower of London. Back to the medieval ages...freedom of speech is hereby banned! This will not end well. Too nutty to believe.


https://x.com/RobertJenrick/status/1861771115686773227


Mr. President & First Lady...






Mid-week words....Whutterick-Fuffing party causing tenebrific outrage in the UK. I shall now pendwmpian to dream of rema seas of bygone days before tomorrow's great pantophagous feast!



Stormy Starmer Warning
The hornywink hollers, disturbing still air,
A whutterick-fuffing convenes in a lair.
The rema, unsettled, trembles and churns,
Tenebrific twilight as the starm cloud returns.


Snowy Durdle door in Dorset:




UK #1 on this day in 1968: Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.