Shatner, fine, but there’s no way I’m searching through Bieber’s discography… :mad:
Is the song “Space Oddity?”
(Leaving out the Shatner bit.)
“Space Oddity” by astronaut Chris Hadfield on the ISS?
This has to be it. He’s Canadian, not a singer, and covered a big song on Youtube.
Yup. I was amazed when I saw “Space Oddity” mentioned for Shatner, but it wasn’t phrased as a question, so I didn’t respond then.
I guess Lord Mondegreen just knows a lot about different versions of songs.
Good one!
What are the odds! That was some far-out peculiarity in space and time…
Aside: My wife and I are looking forward to our own eleven day vacation starting September 18th through the 28th. We are going to hole ourselves up in a little house in the mountains away from all the world for a week and a half. I can’t wait.
Anyway, I like to look around for interesting facts/events in history to post in the “Today in History” thread. Here’s a fun one I came across while researching this week in September: **
True story: one year in the mid-eighteenth century, a whole bunch of people living in a European country (people who usually led normal lives) locked themselves into their homes on the night of September 2nd. They did not leave their homes again at all until September 14th or later. After that they went back to their normal routines. It would have been safe to leave their homes during the period, but these people chose not to do so. Why?
Hint: there are rumors of riots associated with this period —riots that were supposedly caused by the Government stealing something from these people while they were holed up in their homes. These rumors have been debunked.
**
Did they sleep only one night, when the calendar changed to Gregorian?
WOW. That was well done!
But welcome back to the thread, Biotop!
I thought it might have been a clan of families who locked themselves inside because they thought the Apocalypse was coming, which actually happened in the 70’s when I was living in Arkansas. But those people were forced out when their kids weren’t reporting for school.
Another true September story:
On September 10, 1945, a Colorado farmer named Lloyd Olsen, in preparation for a dinner for his mother-in law, cut the head off a chicken in his coop. Because of this he achieved much unexpected wealth. Why?
Did he find an item (or items) of value in the chicken’s body?
Did he gain the wealth quickly (say, within a day) of the butchering of the chicken?
Is World War II relevant in any way to this situation?
Could this (or something substantially similar) have happened to some other farmer in an arbitrary location in the developed world?
Could this (or something substantially similar) have happened to some other farmer on an arbitrary date in the 20th century?
EDIT:
Is it relevant that the dinner was for his mother in law?
Could something substantially similar have happened with an arbitrary farm animal?
Did he find an item (or items) of value in the chicken’s body?
No.
Did he gain the wealth quickly (say, within a day) of the butchering of the chicken?
No.
Is World War II relevant in any way to this situation?
No.
Could this (or something substantially similar) have happened to some other farmer in an arbitrary location in the developed world?
Yes.
Could this (or something substantially similar) have happened to some other farmer on an arbitrary date in the 20th century?
Yes.
Is it relevant that the dinner was for his mother in law?
No.
Could something substantially similar have happened with an arbitrary farm animal?
Maybe. Seems unlikely.
By chicken, do you mean the animal we call chicken?
Did he win the money?
Yes to chicken
No to winning money.
Had the chicken swallowed something valuable, and did the farmer discover it after the beheading?