Ironic Incidents
5-21-14
The "Hundred Year War" lasted 116 years.
5-7-14
4-23-14
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, had deaf parents.
4-16-14
3-26-14
3-19-14
“Nine-one-one, what’s your emergency?”
“Can’t breathe… Heart pounding… Need an ambulance…”
“Where are you, sir?”
“Payphone, 10th and Grand… Please hurry!”
“Are you injured?”
“No.”
“Do you have health problems? Asthma?”
“No.”
“Has this happened before?”
“No.”
“What were you doing when the breathing problems started?”
“Running from the cops.”
“Can’t breathe… Heart pounding… Need an ambulance…”
“Where are you, sir?”
“Payphone, 10th and Grand… Please hurry!”
“Are you injured?”
“No.”
“Do you have health problems? Asthma?”
“No.”
“Has this happened before?”
“No.”
“What were you doing when the breathing problems started?”
“Running from the cops.”
3-12-14
In the Pony Express, there were no ponies. There were only horses.
3-5-14
In 1976, Barry Manilow sang a hit song called "I write the songs." He didn't write the song.
2-26-14
2-12-14
There is a man named Frank Beard in a band called ZZ Top and he is the only member of the band who doesn't have a beard.
1-29-14
A sixty year old violinist named Martin Stoner was rejected from a competition for twenty year old violinists because he was too old and he sued the hosts of the competition for ageism. His lawsuit was turned down and out of rage, he told the eighty-eight year old judge that he was too old to be a judge and that he was not functioning well.
1-15-14
A Segway is a self-balancing electric scooter sort of thing. The owner of the company, Jimi Heseiden, was killed when testing out a new version of the Segway.
1-8-14
The song "Take me out to the Ball Game" was written by two men who have never been to a baseball game.
12-11-13
John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Abraham Lincoln all worked for the sake of peace. However, they were all eventually assassinated violently.
12-4-13
There was a man who created a language so convenient that the whole world used it. A few days after he released the language into public, he fell and hit his head on a rock. At the hospital, the doctors announced that he had damaged his brain so badly that he forgot how to speak, read, write, and communicate altogether.
11-13-13
There was once a poor woman who was infected with a deadly disease. One day, she discovered that she won the lottery and was now able to buy the medicines that could help her get well. Happily, she drove to the pharmacy to pick it up. On the way there however, she got into a car accident and died.