Showing posts with label Birthdays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Birthdays. Show all posts

Tuesday, 12 January 2010

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY....

It's my friend Vic's birthday today. We have much in common; we're both Capricorns and both delight in the made-up boast that it's a scientific fact that Capricorns are the most sexually skilled of all the star signs. We're both pretty nifty at cooking especially of the Italiano variety. We're both mad about football - probably as a consequence of the pair of us being the only girl in households of brothers. Vic, bless her is a fully paid up fanatic of the Arsenal although I don't hold it against her. It could have been worse - it could have been Liverpool.

Anyway, having too much time on my hands at the moment means that I can look through the annuls of history and find out what other monumental facts happened on January 12th alongside Vic's prolonged and painful departure from her mum's birth canal....

1959 - Berry Gordy creates the Motown Record Label in Detroit (and I will be forever grateful for giving us Diana Ross & the Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye et al)

1976 - Crime writer Agatha Christie dies (it was the spurned lesbian lover on a Saga cruise using poison dispensed from a secret compartment within her Argos gold sovereign ring into Agatha's Malibu and Coke)

2001 - Sven Goran Ericsson starts the England job (the ladies at the FA start leg waxing regimes. Ulrika Jonson seen humming ABBA tracks and buying new underwear in Agent Provocateur)

2003 - Bee Gee Maurice Gibb dies from coronary problems during a stomach op (Barry Gibb steadfastly refused to consider the proposed funeral tribute music of 'Staying Alive' and 'How Can You Mend a Broken Heart'. He's always been a bit touchy since that time Clive Anderson called him a tosser)

Famous people sharing Vic's birthday:-

Lady Heather Mills - Charity fundraiser and ex-fan of the Beatles
Melanie C - Sporty Spicegirl
Joe Frazier - boxer famous for 'the Thrilla in Manila' with Ali.