Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Welp, in fact I did get semi buried and it's still snowing hard at the moment. Didn't have the energy to do anything about it today so tomorrow is going to be another brutal day. Mailbox is fully buried so will have to find it if I want any mail delivered. The wind whipped up so now have 4 foot snow drifts across the driveway. Probably be 6 feet by morning. 2025, coming in extra white & heavy. Does look like a winter fantasyland.


January 4, 1890: The Daily Graphic was launched. It was Britain’s 1st daily illustrated paper. It was originally illustrated with line drawings and was published until October 16, 1926 when it was incorporated with the Daily Sketch.

The Daily Graphic: An Illustrated Evening Newspaper was the first American newspaper with daily illustrations. It was founded in New York City in 1873 by Canadian engravers George-Édouard Desbarats and William Leggo, and began publication in March of that year. It continued publication until September 23, 1889.




Residents outside their frozen flats in Birmingham, during the big freeze of 1963...


The fun part about lake effect snowstorms in that part of the country is that you NEVER know how much is going to fall until it's over.



'Protection ... against spray attack' — American illustration from the Second World War (1943) showing a woman shooting at a plane during a gas attack.



The illustration featured in a 1944 calendar - illustrated by William G. Day - showing pin-up girls with messages reminding personnel to take care of their equipment and be wary of the smells of different gases. The publisher/distributor is named in full at the bottom as 'Training Aids Division - Office of the Assistant Chief of Air Staff Training Headquarters Army Air Forces'.


William Day also designed a few other gas-themed posters (bottom two) during the war.


Jan 3, 1967: Jack Ruby - Dallas nightclub owner and murderer of Lee Harvey Oswald - died of complications from pneumonia and cancer. The Texas Court of Appeals had overturned his death sentence two months earlier and a new trial was set to begin in February.




Did You Know the FBI used to put out a monthly company magazine called "The Investigator", which included a centerfold of their hot employee of the month. Also from a copy of The Investigator from the month J Edgar Hoover died...a tribute cartoon and the weird poem on the back cover.


FBI Memorial Issue = "The Investigator" on J. Edgar Hoover


MOVIE DATES::
Jan 4, 1967: An archival film featuring Darryl Revok, leader of the underground ring of Scanners was recorded.

Jan 4, 1978: While on the launch pad ready for take-off, the crew of the Capricorn One were removed from the spacecraft. The launch then continued, with the public unaware the ship was empty. The crew were later forced to stage a fake Mars landing.




Special agent seductress Noreen Patricia Riols passed away Jan 2, 2025 at age 98.


A former Special Operations Executive (SOE), a British espionage and sabotage organisation as a member of the French section during WWII. One of her jobs as a honey trap was to deceive British spies for their final test on home soil. If they spilled secrets to her pretty face, that was the end of their career as a spy!

Noreen Riols | The Spy Who Loved Me (2015) tells her story:




Strategic Chaos Engine for Planning, Tactics, Experimentation and Resilency (SCEPTER)


Charles River Analytics Acquires DARPA Contract for SCEPTER program


All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for the daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head, I wanna drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take...

UK #1 on this day in 2004: Gary Jules - Mad World