Sandbox Turns Twelve!
Twelve years. That’s a long time. It’s three World Cups, the full compliment of public education, and the amount of time you’ll serve in prison if convicted of second degree aggravated assault. So in order to celebrate this momentous thursday, we all* piled into the Sandbus and headed over to Hot Doug’s for a lunch of fancy encased meats.
Here are a few other notable events that have happened on this day:
1606: The painter Rembrandt was born in Leiden, Netherlands. The teenage mutant ninja turtle, Rembrandt, was born in a sewer in the late eighties. Big difference.
1838: Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage. Outrage!
1870: Vladimir Nabokov, the Russian writer was born. Evgeni Nabokov, the Russian ice hockey goaltender, was born on another day.
1934: Continental Airlines commences operations. They’ve since merged with United to create the largest airline in the world. “Conited” is now the Wal-Mart of the sky.
1946: Linda Ronstadt, the American singer was born. She’s won seventeen Grammies! That’s seventeen more than you have.
*Unfortunately, due to scheduling conflicts, Andrea was unable to accompany the rest of us to Hot Doug’s. She’s on press today. But don’t worry, we got her chili-cheese dog to-go.
If sausages slathered in condiments make you queasy, then you're overly dramatic.
