A woman named Marijuana Pepsi Jackson
Sawyer’s aunt, Mayetta Jackson of Chicago, clearly remembers when the name was picked in 1972. The newborn’s mother and father were products of the post-Woodstock era when reefer was rampant.
“And they would cool off with a Pepsi,” she said, which makes you think it’s lucky for Sawyer that it wasn’t Coke instead. “I thought it was crazy,” her aunt said about the name, “but they were such fun-loving people that it suited them.”
She gives a surprising amount of credit to her mother for making her resilient and resourceful. “She instilled in me that fighting attitude – never take no, you can do anything,” Sawyer said.
By high school, her name was cool to many. “They were like, ‘Oh yeah. Man, I wish I had your name. I love that. I’m going to name my kid after you.’ I hear that so much and I go, Lord, please don’t do that to that child.”
I first read "Bing Crosby" as "Bill Cosby" and wondered that he had a wine cellar back in 1960....
I first read "Bing Crosby" as "Bill Cosby" and wondered that he had a wine cellar back in 1960....
Heh.
Now a
pudding
cellar I could see....
Happy 50th birthday!
Sept. 24, 1960: First Nuclear Carrier, USS Enterprise, Launched
1960: USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched in Newport News, Virginia. CVN-65, nicknamed Big E, was the first carrier of its kind, powered solely by its eight nuclear reactors.
Oddly, the picture in the article is of the WWII carrier
Enterprise
(CV6), not the nuclear-powered one.
The Enterprise is the eighth ship to bear the name Enterprise — not counting the ones in the fictional Star Trek universe. (Sorry, fanboys. Those are fictional.) The real Enterprise became the oldest active ship in the U.S Navy when USS Kitty Hawk was decommissioned May 12, 2009.
The Enterprise is currently slated to be decommissioned in 2013, according to the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2010. This comes on the heels of a $662 million refurbishing in April 2010 — 46 percent over budget. Only two more 6-month deployments are planned for the Enterprise.
So sorry for your loss, sarameg
I'm still on the verge of tears (night time, why must you do me so?), but it's not like I have a choice of going in or not.
Many sympathies, sarameg and family.
Robbers clean up with vacuum
A GANG of thieves armed with a powerful vacuum cleaner that sucks cash from supermarket safes has struck for the FIFTEENTH time in France.
The burglars broke into their latest store near Paris and drilled a hole in the "pneumatic tube" that siphons money from the checkout to the strong-room.
They then sucked rolls of cash totalling £60,000 from the safe without even having to break its lock.
Police said the gang — dubbed the Vacuum Burglars — always raid Monoprix supermarkets and have hit 15 of the stores branches around Paris in the past four years.
A spokesman added: "They spotted a weakness in the company's security system and have been exploiting it ever since.
Some very pretty close-up photos of carnivorous plants: [link]
Many pictures of trapped insects, and one of a mouse trapped in a pitcher plant.
