FTA-TV First Dates - Part 7

[74561347]

That's nothing, they turned poor dr who into a woman.

imagine subjecting yourself to doctor who — cringe dialogue, villains that look like they were designed in someones basement, and plot twists that feel like they were cobbled together on a meth fueled all nighter

 

[74561347]

the bad guys are basically oscar the grouch if his trash can had wheels

 

[Kram]

imagine subjecting yourself to doctor who — cringe dialogue, villains that look like they were designed in someones basement, and plot twists that feel like they were cobbled together on a meth fueled all nighter

You have just highlighted what makes it so good!

 

[Kram]

Chicago1 Katy is onboard!

 

[Kram]

 

[HomerThompson]

On this day.... November 8th

1519 1st meeting of Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II and Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés in Tenochtitlan, Mexico

1895 German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays

1923 Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party stage "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich, Germany

1957 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island

1965 US soap opera "Days of Our Lives" premieres

1974 British peer the Earl of Lucan disappears and is never seen again after his nanny is found murdered in London

1980 Voyager 1 space probe discovers 15th moon of Saturn

1987 11 are killed in an IRA bomb attack in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland

1990 Darryl Strawberry signs 5-year contract with LA Dodgers

1999 Tenor Andrea Bocelli releases his "Sacred Arias" album, the world's best-selling classical album by a single artist

2005 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia, the first woman to lead an African country

2014 Mikhail Gorbachev warns that tensions between America and Russia over Ukraine have put the world on the brink of a new Cold War

2017 Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa breaks the world record for surfing the biggest-ever wave at
24.4m at Nazaré, Portugal

2020 Global recorded cases of COVID-19 pass 50 million, with known death toll at 1,245,240 (Johns Hopkins data)



Birthdays

1431 Vlad the Impaler, Wallachian prince, born in Sighișoara, Transylvania, Romania (d.1476)

1847 Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager and author (Dracula), born in Dublin, Ireland

1875 Qiu Jin, Chinese revolutionary, feminist, and writer considered a national heroine in China, born in Shanyin, Shaoxing, Qing Dynasty

1881 Robert Esnault-Pelterie, French engineer and aviation pioneer who contributed to early heavier-than-air flight in Europe, born in Paris

1884 Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, born in Zürich, Switzerland

1901 Szymon Laks, Polish composer (head of prisoners orchestra at Auschwitz), born in Warsaw

1922 Christiaan Barnard, South African cardiac surgeon who performed the 1st heart transplant, born in Beaufort West, Union of South Africa

1938 Dick Ritger, American ten-pin bowler (Tournament of Champions 1970, 79 runner-up; 20 career PBA Tour titles), born in River Falls, Wisconsin

1952 Alfre Woodard, American actress (Primal Fear, Cross Creek), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma

1954 Jeanette McGruder, American singer (P-Funk; Brides of Funkenstein), born in Detroit, Michigan.
Also founded martial art championed by Moe Szyzlak

1956 Richard Curtis, British screenwriter (Blackadder, Four Wedding and a Funeral), born in Wellington, New Zealand

1960 Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor (Girl with A Dragon Tattoo), born in Stockholm, Sweden

1966 Gordon Ramsay, British chef and reality television personality, born in Johnstone, Scotland

1968 Parker Posey, American actress (Tess Shelby-As the World Turns), born in Baltimore, Maryland

1972 Gretchen Mol, American actress, born in Deep River, Connecticut



Deaths

1674 John Milton, English poet and puritan (Paradise Lost), dies at 65. It's always in the last place you look.

1887 Doc Holliday, American dentist, gambler, and gunfighter (Gunfight at the O.K. Corral), dies of tuberculosis at 36

1935 Charles Kingsford-Smith, Australian pioneering aviator (1st transpacific flight), disappears on a flight over the Andaman Sea at 38

1960 Otto Frederick Rohwedder, American engineer (invented the bread-slicing machine), dies at 80

1986 Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1939-49, 1953-6), dies at 96

2004 Eddie Charlton, Australian snooker player (World #3 1976-81; Pot Black 1972, 73, 80), dies at 75

2020 Alex Trebek, Canadian-American Emmy Award-winning TV game show host (Jeopardy, 1984-2020; High Rollers, 1974-80), dies of pancreatic cancer at 80



Weddings & Divorces

1997 Bluegrass musician Alison Krauss marries Pat Bergeson

1968 Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from The Beatles member John Lennon

1975 NBA legend Larry Bird (18) weds highschool sweetheart Janet Condra

1970 American "The Mamas & the Papas" singer Michelle Phillips (26) divorces American "Easy Rider" director and actor Dennis Hopper (34) after only 8 days of marriage

 

[Kram]

 

[Kram]

Prison Break gets better towards the end of s1, still cheesy as hell though.

But alas nothing else to watch though.

 

[Voula]

Prison Break gets better towards the end of s1, still cheesy as hell though.

But alas nothing else to watch though.

Season 1 was good. It got a bit ridiculous during the later seasons.

 

[Chicago1]

Prison Break gets better towards the end of s1, still cheesy as hell though.

But alas nothing else to watch though.

My brother watched that religiously on FTA TV when it came on in the states in 2005. I never got into it. Parts of it were filmed at Joliet State Prison(after it closed) which is about 39km from my family home.

On SM-A135F using BigFooty.com mobile app

 

[Kram]

Surely Holly Vallance is a contender for the worst actress ever.

 

[Kram]

 

[HomerThompson]

Surely Holly Vallance is a contender for the worst actress ever.

Clearly you're not familiar with her work in DOA

 

[Kram]

My sister's cat Jasper climbed up to get into the special kitty treats lmao.

 

[Kram]

Picture she also took of stray cats in Greece, apparently people are nice enough to feed them but they still have many medical problems.