The 2,000,000th post game

Started by riv667252,234 pages

A KNIGHT’S TALE:
Heath Ledger/The Joker

Alan Tudyk/The Joker, Mr. Nobody, Green Arrow, Psimon, Captain Cold, Jor-El, Superman, The Flash, Shipwreck, Resident Alien

Paul Bettany/ The Vision

James Purefoy/Solomon Kane

TODAY IS

57 bottles of beer on the wall.
57 bottles of beer.
Take one Down, pass it around,
56 bottles of beer on the wall.

I had non refundable tickets...

...and she was running late.

Like it would have killed her to get a C-section.

And if monkeys had walked into the ocean...

...we would be showing them monkey porn right now.

So yes I know the difference between apes and monkeys.

And

Leave it to our great neighbors to the north to invent one of the most popular push-up bras ever. Montreal's Canadian Lady Corset Company first licensed the trademark "Wonder-bra" in 1939, and then renamed the company Wonderbra in 1961.

The paint roller has a messy history. Canadian Norman Breakey invented it in 1940, but an American inventor named Richards C. Adams tweaked the design and filed the first patent.

With stretchy, waterproof polyethylene at their disposal, Harry Wasylyk of Manitoba and Larry Hansen of Ontario invented the first plastic garbage bag for commercial use in 1950. Union Carbide Company bought the idea and brought Glad trash bags into homes.

CBC Television producer George Retzlaff used a kinescope when he created the first-ever Instant Replay in 1955. Not surprisingly, it was during a broadcast of Hockey Night in Canada.

Here's one for the orange category: What board game was invented in 1979 by Scott Abbott, a Montreal sports editor, and Chris Haney, a photo editor, when they couldn't find all their Scrabble tiles? That’s right. Trivial Pursuit.