Posted on 08/06/2012 4:34:58 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
This is my first post in "10 Things You Don't Know About." I am starting this blog because I really enjoyed the CONCEPT of the History Channel show by the same name..."10 Things You Don't About." I enjoyed much, but not everything, about that show and this blog is an attempt to hopefully convince the History Channel to do more episodes of "10 Things You Don't Know About" because I haven't seen any information about any more shows they have planned in addition to the episodes they produced several months ago.
One suggestion is to ditch interviewing people on the street to ask if they knew about this or that as well as to give the percentage of people who didn't know about a certain fact. To me that was just a waste of time and cut into the meat of the show. Also some of the episodes tried to play to sensationalism and were inaccurate such as how Abraham Lincoln enjoyed going to taverns and drinking. Yes, Lincoln did sell liquor but was himself (unusual for his time) a teetotaler.
I will soon begin posting my own version of "10 Things You Don't Know About" on events and people from history that I hope you will find informative and interesting. And, of course, I will concentrate on researching things that most of you don't know about.
Stay tuned...And History Channel---I sure hope you resurrect "10 Things You Don't Know About." And if everybody notices something inaccurate in what I post in "10 Things You Don't Know About," please feel free to correct me. Hey, even your humble correspondent can be fallible.
Oh, the one thing I did find one VERY enlightening (and entertaining) thing from the History Channel show which was in the episode about the Rat Pack. It was the first time I found out that Joey Bishop scripted the Rat Pack show at the casino and that he was the brains behind the Rat Pack. Joey Bishop? Who knew?
Joey was probably the only one that wasn’t totally smashed or doing some hot dancer.
Posting your version or excerpting your version?
The two are not the same.
I will be posting my findings of “10 Things You Don’t Know About” topics that did not appear on the History Channel show.
I will be posting my findings of “10 Things You Don’t Know About” topics that did not appear on the History Channel show.
This will be interesting if you can do it without making crap up as you’re going along, as the History Channel does.
I’ll try to stick to the facts but if anybody finds inaccuracies, please post corrections. I think you will find my post tomorrow to be interesting and, hopefully, provide you with information you didn’t know before.
If you have a ping list for this, please put me on it.
Late to the party as always, but I’m on to your first post (Guadalcanal)...
Just a typo, but in the lead paragraph, you have “19” instead of “10”. Fascinating nevertheless.
No I don't. PJ does, but not me :) I saw it too but decided not to call him on it.
OOps, had meant to send it to PJ, thanks for the correction. I wouldn’t have called him on it either, but I figured he’d want to know about it. I make that typo all the time.
While they sometimes stray into vulgar and profane territory that wouldn't be welcome on FR, they do seem to have a pretty good formula for presenting information in an entertaining way.
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