Did you know.....

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This is a redux of the other 'Did you know' thread that's lost to history...

Did you know...

The Republican candidate got no votes in Florida in 1892.

Cleveland - 85.01%
James Weaver (Peoples Party) - 13.65%
John Bidwell (Prohibition) - 1.34%
Benjamin Harrison - 0% (May not have even been on the ballot)

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This is a redux of the other 'Did you know' thread that's lost to history...

Did you know...

The Republican candidate got no votes in Florida in 1892.

Cleveland - 85.01%
James Weaver (Peoples Party) - 13.65%
John Bidwell (Prohibition) - 1.34%
Benjamin Harrison - 0% (May not have even been on the ballot)

Ballots were printed and distibuted by parties back then not printed by the state. I guess the Republicans saw no point to distribute ballots in Florida.

Never knew that! Thanks. I learn something new everyday! He was on the ballot in 1888 though.

[Cashcow]

I don't think Truman was on the Alabama ballot in 1948. Not that it matters, Thurmond would have killed him anyway.

[PBrunsel]

Theodore Roosevelt may have invented the slogan for Maxwell House Coffee. He drank a cup of it in December 1904 and said, "Why this coffee is good to the last drop!"

[Erc]

And Cleveland wasn't on the Ballot in ID, WY, KS, or CO.

[PBrunsel]

Today in 1985, Bill Waterson's comic strip Calvin and Hobbes was first published, but only in 15 newspapers (not even in his home town's newspaper).

[ilikeverin]

WOOOO HAPPY CALVIN AND HOBBES DAY!

[Vincent]

Jimmy Carter reported a UFO sighting in 1969.

[PBrunsel]

Jimmy Carter reported a UFO sighting in 1969.

Only President to ever report something that dumb.

In 1952 the U.S. Airforce reported that 3 Unidentified Flying Objects were seen flying over the White House on September 11, 1948. That's a strange one.

[Platypus]

A UFO doesn't mean an alien spacecraft :rolleyes:

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Only President to ever report something that dumb.

In 1952 the U.S. Airforce reported that 3 Unidentified Flying Objects were seen flying over the White House on September 11, 1948. That's a strange one.

Nothing dumb about it. Though I have no proof of to what UFO's are their has to be some truth to their existence. Many many newspapers reported on them all the time through the 50's.

[J. J.]

Jimmy Carter reported a UFO sighting in 1969.

Only President to ever report something that dumb.

In 1952 the U.S. Airforce reported that 3 Unidentified Flying Objects were seen flying over the White House on September 11, 1948. That's a strange one.

Jimmy Carter saw Venus (I'm not making it up).

The very well documented sights in Washington, DC, which nearly caused a panic, were caused by a temperature inversion and reflected lights.  While there are currently unexplainable sightings, neither of these are. 

I've seen many strange things in the sky (including a U-2), I've never seen anything unidentifed.

[DanielX]

Theodore Roosevelt was the Republican candidate for President in South Dakota in 1912 (Taft wasn't on the ballot there). He won the state.

Also...

Waffle cones were invented by an ingenious waffle salesmen during one of the World's Fairs in New York (i think 1900), whose stand was right next to an ice-cream-man's on a hot summer day.

The World's Fair in 1900 also starred Campbell's Tomato Soup.

[PBrunsel]

When the U.S.S. Monitor took sail on January 30, 1862, it had over 200 patonable inventions, inculding the flush toilet. This toilet was used so the ship would not become to unbearable to sit in due to in being nearly submerged under water.

[Schmitz in 1972]

This is a redux of the other 'Did you know' thread that's lost to history...

Did you know...

The Republican candidate got no votes in Florida in 1892.

Cleveland - 85.01%
James Weaver (Peoples Party) - 13.65%
John Bidwell (Prohibition) - 1.34%
Benjamin Harrison - 0% (May not have even been on the ballot)

That's nothing! In 1832 Andrew Jackson got 100% percent of the votes in 3 or 4 Southern States (and was only 5 votes short of unanimity in another I believe). One wonders why those states even bothered to print up the ballots if they knew Andrew Jackson would get every vote.

[Vincent]

A UFO doesn't mean an alien spacecraft :rolleyes:

In my book it says he reported it to the International UFO Bureau.
After reading J.J.'s post googled "International UFO Bureau" and this was the first result.

http://www.debunker.com/texts/carter_ufo.html

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A UFO doesn't mean an alien spacecraft :rolleyes:

In my book it says he reported it to the International UFO Bureau.
After reading J.J.'s post googled "International UFO Bureau" and this was the first result.

http://www.debunker.com/texts/carter_ufo.html

For the record I don't believe UFO's are aliens. I believe they could be time travelers.

[ilikeverin]

A UFO doesn't mean an alien spacecraft :rolleyes:

In my book it says he reported it to the International UFO Bureau.
After reading J.J.'s post googled "International UFO Bureau" and this was the first result.

http://www.debunker.com/texts/carter_ufo.html

For the record I don't believe UFO's are aliens. I believe they could be time travelers.

And I believe they are explained stuff.

I mean, why would aliens come over to Earth and then hide from us?

[Storebought]

A UFO doesn't mean an alien spacecraft :rolleyes:

In my book it says he reported it to the International UFO Bureau.
After reading J.J.'s post googled "International UFO Bureau" and this was the first result.

http://www.debunker.com/texts/carter_ufo.html

For the record I don't believe UFO's are aliens. I believe they could be time travelers.

About time travel and UFO's I'm a complete "atheist": Aliens have never visited Earth; time travel is nonsense; life even at the level of slime and bacteria is nonexistent on other planets, etc.

Take the universe for what it is--a cold (4 K), empty (the number of electrons is far smaller than 100^100), dark (we can see billion year old blips of light just by looking at a night sky) physics laboratory.

[Platypus]

Why is it that crop circles only ever occur in western countries?

[J. J.]

Because the rest is hungry enough not to trample food.

[J. J.]

An article from the Washington Post on t50th anniversery of the Washington sitings can be found here:

http://ufologie.net/press/washingtonpost21jul2002.htm

While intially reported as being due to weather condition, that explanation has been found to be suspect.  Of course, perhaps the saucer flyers heard that the new president (in 1953) was an expert strategist and decided not to invade.

[minionofmidas]

What do Rep. Joe Wilson (Rep-SC) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) have in common?
(Apart from the obvious, like, being current members of Congress, Southerners, Republicans, White Males etc)?

[minionofmidas]

Both men's given first name is Addison.
Addison Mitchell "Mitch" McConnell.
Addison Graves "Joe" Wilson.