Pantomime Horse of the Year Show, 1980

In 1980, the world’s first Pantomime Horse of the Year Show was held in Basingstoke, Hampshire. The Tweseldown and Wellington Horse Trials are held nearby. England has excelled in breeding these high-spirited Panto Horses for over a century. In recent times, the London Pantomime Horse Race has run a point-to-point pub-to-pub course in Greenwich.

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100 Years: Evolution of the Car Chase

“How Car Chase Scenes Have Evolved Over 100 Years,” a video by Movies Insider.

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No Tipping

“Let’s get this out of the way: Cow tipping, at least as popularly imagined, does not exist. Drunk young men do not, on any regular basis, sneak into cow pastures and put a hard shoulder into a cow taking a standing snooze, thus tipping the poor animal over.

While in the history of the world there have surely been a few unlucky cows shoved to their side by boozed-up morons, we feel confident in saying this happens at a rate roughly equivalent to the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series.”

— “Cow Tipping: Fake or Really Fake?” Jake Swearingen, Modern Farmer

Space Shuttle Lands

The space shuttle Endeavour landed in Florida early this morning. The 20-year-old space heap was cobbled together out of spare parts from the 1984-model Discovery and 1985 Atlantis shuttles. Endeavour’s next trip? It’s going to a museum.

So is another spacecraft. George Clinton’s Parliament Funkadelic Mothership is  headed to the Smithsonian. Not the original 1976 stage prop — it went to a junkyard in Maryland — but a mid-Nineties version. That’s right, Endeavour is about the same age as the Mothership.

Space shuttle Atlantis is even older.  First launched in 1985. it will fly again on NASA’s last space shuttle mission in July.

Related:

“Spaceport Opens for Tours,” Monica Drake, New York Times

“Australians create ‘space beer’ for intergalactic tourists,” The Telegraph

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