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10 Things That Happened 10 Years Ago: Aug 31-Sep 6
Golden Girl sex, chugholes, c*nty crackers, President Kanye, and more. Here’s what was in the news 10 years ago this week.
Kanye announced he was running for president
He announced it during a rambling monologue while accepting the Vanguard Award for lifetime achievement at the 2015 VMAs. A poll later that week found just 6% of Americans would consider voting for him.
Kanye did appear on the ballot in a dozen states in 2020 as a member of the “Birthday Party.” A total of 66,641 people cast ballots for him in those 12 states, earning him 0.32% of the total vote.
Christina Aguilera joined a budding startup called MasterClass
The online lesson platform had launched that May, but most people didn’t hear about it until Aguilera signed on to be one the their first instructors. Other early teachers included Dustin Hoffman and Serena Williams. 10 years later, everyone from Penn & Teller to George W. Bush has led a class.
A college kid went viral for driving a Barbie Power Wheel to class
20-year-old Tara Monroe was a senior at at Texas State and lost her license that March when she got a DUI. She bought a pink Barbie Power Wheel on Craigslist and started taking it to class because “riding a bike sucks.”
Someone calculated how much sex The Golden Girls had
A writer for Refinery29 counted up how many dudes Dorothy, Blache, Rose, and Sophia had plowed in their life. The final body counts were based on men they dated on the show, and men they mentioned throughout its seven seasons.
Final Tally
Blanche: 165
Dorothy: 43
Rose: 30
Sophia: 25
Aldi had to recall crackers because the packaging spelled “c*nt”
The gourmet crackers’ ingredients featured rosemary grown “In an EngLISH CoUNTry GaRDen.” 🧐
Tim Tebow got cut by the Iggles
We were already several years removed from Tebowmania when he tried to revive his NFL career via a backup QB job with the Philadelphia Eagles. Alas, the Birds started their 2015 season with three QBs, and none of them were named Tebow. The last NFL game of his career was with the Jets in 2012.
A Marine asked Ronda Rousey to the Marine Corps Ball
She accepted the invite and made good on the promise by accompanying him to the event in North Carolina that December.
Susan Sarandon took Timothy Leary’s ashes to Burning Man
The actress left the LSD guru’s ashes inside the temporary temple that’s built to be burned at the festival each year. Several of Leary’s closest friends had received some of his ashes after he died in 1996. Most of them were sent to space in 1997, but Sarandon held onto hers. (She later admitted she also “consumed” some of his ashes at the festival.)
Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka got arrested for murder
The WWE Hall of Fame wrestler had been accused of killing his girlfriend in 1983, but didn’t face charges until 32 years later in 2015. The case was eventually dismissed 16 months later when a judge deemed him mentally unfit to face charges. He died of stomach cancer 12 days later.
The ‘official’ word for all 50 states
A writer for “Slate” asked the question, “If every state had an official word, what would it be?” Highlights included Pennsylvania (“yinz”)… Kansas (“shucky-darn”)… California (“hella”)… Texas (“hoss”)… Florida (“toad-strangler”)… Oklahoma (“quakenado”)… and Kentucky (“chughole”). (A chughole is a pothole… not whatever you were thinking, perv.)
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