Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Just a chillin Sunday.




July 27, 1949: USS Recruit at the San Diego Naval Training Center became the first U.S. Navy ship to be commissioned yet never reach water. As a commissioned ship, "Miss Neversail" had to observe morning and evening colors as well as fly a commission pennant. Decommissioned in 1967 due to the inability to classify the unique ship in a computerized registry of Navy vessels (believe it or not), and recommissioned in 1982, she was in continuous service from 1949 until the base closed in 1997. Finally being opened to the public as a museum ship in 2023.


I remember USS Recruit from boot camp. I was in a drill company so we never did anything with Miss Neversail.


Today is National New Jersey Day! USS New Jersey (BB-62) is the most decorated battleship in U.S. Navy history, earning 19 battle stars for service in WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War, Lebanese Civil War and the Persian Gulf. "The Big J" is now a museum in Camden, NJ.






July 27 1973: tens of thousands of people hit Watkins Glen, New York, for the "Summer Jam" one day before the music festival is scheduled to begin. The crowd is already so large and so raucous that The Band turn their sound-check into a mini-set. The Allman Brothers Band follows in similar character by rocking through "One Way Out" and "Ramblin' Man." The Grateful Dead come next with a two-set explosion. This impromptu jam tires them not at all, and the next day is the official start of the event July 28th. And it WAS LARGER than Woodstock by a couple hundred thousand people! It was wet, wild, nuts, crazy, insane, fun, good, hot, loud, muddy, smelly, drunks, dopers, freaks, hippies, kids, vendors, naked women, and every walk of life.








R.I.P. Tom Lehrer (April 9, 1928 – July 26, 2025) musician, singer-songwriter, satirist, and mathematician.


Tom Lehrer Dies at 97

The SAC (Strategic Air Command) Song by Tom Lehrer

Here at SAC we're filled with pride.
There's just one thing we can't decide:
Which we'd rather get clobbered by,
An enemy attack or an O.R.I.

Our wing commander's got a racket,
Though sometimes it's hard to hack it.
Whenever he gets his wife alone ...
Ding-a-ling-a-ling goes the little red phone.

Oh, we love the seven-day alert.
For a week we will not see a skirt.
But we know it's part of SAC's main goal:
To test our positive control.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Whatever became of the wild blue yonder?
How we wish the good ol' days were back. In SAC!


What a banger headline. lol




A medieval wizard accidentally summons a Grey Alien Power Ranger, what happens next may surprise you!




John Lennon with his "Nothing Box" UFO detector...


While in the U.S. (presumably) in 1965 John purchased several “Nothing Boxes” from inventor and associate Magic Alex, one of which is featured here. These boxes did just as they promised, nothing. Other than blink of course, until their battery runs out. The Beatles released, Help!, the soundtrack from their film of the same name, that same year, featuring the iconic singles “Ticket to Ride” and “Yesterday”. Full story with photos here.


LOL