Behold...a King Is born!

Up Time America by Kimberly Alyn

I Like Guns

Lord Monckton adresses a Greenpeace-campaigner on global warming

The Hockey Stick vs. Ice Core Data

Hitler vs AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming, ala "Man-made climate change")

Armed Response to 'Climategate' question

Road Warrior Weekend

McGyver Cat

Bob Dylan - Must Be Santa

Santa's Christmas Present

Why Switzerland Has The Lowest Crime Rate In The World

Christmas is a sensitive time for Batman

How to Fix Health Care

Jules Winnfield: Youth Hockey Coach

Great Italian Motorbike Display

China would like their money back

Wedding Day Ruined.

God And Dog

Forklift Accident Brings Down The Warehouse

Thank you Veterans

Timelapse: Mountain Light

Timescapes Timelapse: Mountain Light from Tom @ Timescapes on Vimeo.

Now I want some bacon

Amazing Accidents

Top 5 Commercial Fails

Law & Order's First-Ever Pro-life Episode

Obama the cat discovers he's not so popular around the neighborhood anymore...

The Warrior Song

Pipe Dream

Jump!

How to Shoot an Anvil 200 Feet in the Air

Mrs. Hughes Live at the Ice House

The Stroke Of A Pen

Cat Betrayed his Girlfriend

Answering machine message all schools should have.

CO2 Bedtime Rebuttal

The Greatest Administration EVAH!

Stolen from iOwnTheWorld.com

Noisettes

Obama's Post Olympic Address

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) Interview On ACORN

Obama failure

Mom always said veggies are good for you hahahaha

FILTHY HIPPIES EVERYWHERE! (Crowder Does UCBerkeley)

Jack Off Jill - Lovesong (The Cure cover)

Leno on acorn

Alan Parsons Project - Don't Answer Me

Jack Webb Schools Barack Obama on Healthcare

Funniest Movie Line Ever

Come and Take It

Now thats a hood ornament!

"Close Encounters" (1977) - Inappropriate Soundtracks

Marty Feldman pops out to make the cocoa

Synchronized cycling

What not to say to your wife

Wow!

Not everyone thinks Obama is ... but wait!

ABC's John Stossel Destroys/Pulverizes/Crushes Obama's anti-American 'Health Care' Plan

Eric Johnson - Desert Rose

Marco's Story

Marco's Story from David Thompson on Vimeo.

Glenn Beck: Daniel Hannan (MEP) Warns America about ObamaCare

I'm not a Doctor but I play one for townhall meetings

But she is an Obama campaign volunteer.

http://lonestartimes.com/2009/08/13/obama-camp-plants-fake-doc-che-fan-at-jackson-lee-forum/

"In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes With Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect," by Ron Kessler.

GORBACHOV: THE MUSIC VIDEO

GORBACHOV: THE MUSIC VIDEO - BIGGER AND RUSSIANER from Tom Stern on Vimeo.

James May rides in a U2 spy plane

Klavan On The Culture

Democratic Congressman David Scott of Georgia Goes Berserk at Town Hall

Overpopulation: The Making of a Myth

AMERICA IS ME - Anthem for "We the People" by Mack Hayes - Tea Party salute.

Oath Keepers Declaration of Orders We Will NOT Obey

Funny Cat Kungfu!

It means... Fiery Strength...

Nick Burko

Mark Levin Tells It Like It Is

Zura Deka The Rug Cop

Black Officers Back Up Sgt. Crowley

POTD

Twits

<a href="http://www.atom.com" target="_blank">Twits</a>

Twits

Two Trillion Tons - Sung by the Ghost of Tennessee Ernie Ford

The only way out... is down.

Mike Castle on PeeBo's Birthcertificate.

Rodger posted this on his blog "Curmdgeonly & Skeptical", I just had to post it on mine too.

Your WTF moment of the day

Filipino version of Batman & Robin. Via Fark.

Orly Taitz and Major Cook

knock knock

who's there?

kenya

kenya who?

kenya show me the birth certificate?

Oscar Mayer Wienermobile loses control, crashes into Racine home

WITI-TV, RACINE - The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile got itself into quite a pickle when it crashed into a Racine home Friday morning.

Neighbors tell FOX 6 the Wienermobile took a wrong turn and ended up on the dead-end street, Kenilworth Avenue in Racine.

While trying to get turned around, the woman driving the hot dog on wheels accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake and lodged the Wienermobile under a house.

Officials say no one was injured in the crash.

The Wienermobile was taken from the scene by tow truck.

No word on the extent of damage to either the house or the giant hot dog.



Tah Dah!!!

http://www.fox6now.com/news/witi-090717-weinermobile-crashes-into-house,0,6217102.story

Imagine Spot 3

Obamacare yay or nay? The truth about Canada!

fun with toothpaste

40 years ago

Chainsaw concept weapon

Reagan's message to Obama and his supporters

Gov Palin and the Nuge on the Michael Dukes radio show

There are five parts.

Swiss K31 in action

The Largest Disaster Porn Movie EVAR

Unfortunely the summer blockbuster won't be released until November.
http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/01/20/roland-emmerichs-2012-gets-its-release-date-pushed-back-to-november/

Meanwhile there's this;

Evian Roller Babies

We The People Stimulus Package

Redneck 911 Call

Storm

A Choir recreates the sounds of a thunderstorm using just their hands and feet......

Scrat in Africa

Benny Lava 3.0!!!

"I find a big stick works best"

Cat Shit One Trailer

Terrorist Ringtone

The End of Civilization

Every '80s movie ending cliche known to man in under five minutes.

<a href="http://www.atom.com" target="_blank">80's Ending</a>

80's Ending

POTD

Stolen from SondraK

The Astounding World of the Future

Hope n' Change

May He Poop?

Samurai

So, when did this happen Barry?

KORPIKLAANI - Vodka

Bud Light Sausage Commercial

Everyday Normal Republicans!

TV of Tomorrow

The House of Tomorrow

Super Sekrit Squirrel training

Always check your barrel

russell peters: beating your kids

Russell Peters - Chinese, Indian, Jamaican, Italians

Craig T. Nelson Shrugged

Comedy Gold

Texas Woman Told to Remove 'Offensive' American Flag From Office

Debbie McLucas comes from a patriotic family – her husband and both of her sons served in the U.S. military, and her daughter is currently deployed to Iraq on her second tour of duty as a combat medic.

So when McLucas arrived at work at a Texas hospital last Friday, she was stunned to be told that the Stars and Stripes she had hung in her office in advance of Memorial Day were offensive, and that the flag had been removed.

“I got into work, I was met by my supervisor and told that there had been multiple complaints, that people found the flag very offensive and it had been taken down," McLucas told FOXNews.com.

"I went to the office to retrieve it and found the flag wrapped around the pole, sitting in the corner on the ground. I was speechless."

McLucas, a supervisor at Kindred Hospital in Mansfield, Texas, had displayed the 3-by-5-foot flag in the office she shares with the hospital’s three other supervisors. McLucas said one of her colleagues, a woman who immigrated to the United States from Africa 14 years ago, complained about the flag to upper management, and the hospital decided to take down the flag.

"I was told that as long as my flag offended one person, it would be taken down," McLucas said.

She said the hospital told her that the American flag flying outside the building would have to suffice. "I was told, ‘There is a flag hanging out front, everyone can see that one. Is that not enough?’"

No, she said, that wasn't enough.

"It is more than I can even fathom, that you would find the American flag offensive, in America," McLucas said.

A Kindred Healthcare spokeswoman did not return calls for comment. Kindred issued a press release stating, “Kindred Hospital Mansfield has a great deal of appreciation for the service that many of our employees and their families have given to their country. We honor our veterans and active military through a variety of benefits and service programs. This was an isolated incident between two employees that we are working to resolve amicably.”

The statement went on to explain: “The disagreement was over the size of the flag and not what it symbolized. We have invited the employee to put the flag back up.”

And it will go back up and stay up, McLucas said.

"I do think they're trying to do the right thing. I have no reason to believe the flag won't remain there as long as I'm employed."

Figure skating at it's best

Krauthammer body slams Obama's anti-American comments in Europe

A Real Life Bolt

Bill Clinton Library

The Dildo Song

Obama & Live Birth Abortion

Rejected by NBC and CNN

As Luck Would Have It ...

Wake up America!

Happy Prayer Day

Electra Woman

electra woman-Glitter rock MK2.mov

Great Commercial

TAGR "Bethany" (Commercial)
by SimonAubert

Muslim Demographics

No Doubt about to go on tour again

Wolverine the Musical

Wolverine Movie Leaked The Musical : BFX : Original Short
Uploaded by indymogul

Plotting Sin

Geographers from Kansas State University have mapped the seven deadly sins using various statistical data by county. Lust, for example, was calculated using the number of reported STDs per capita (red is above average, blue below)

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/05/mapping-sin.html

I'm a man

Inspired Bicycles - Danny MacAskill

And you thought you were having a bad day!

POTD

Attention Veterans

The Second American Revolution Has Begun

My favorite sign from one of the tea parties; Don’t blame me, I voted for the American.

Why Jesus Folded the Napkin.......

My friend Ken sent this to me a couple months back. I have been saving it for Easter.



Why did Jesus fold the linen burial cloth after His
resurrection? I never noticed this....

John (20:7) tells us that the napkin, which was placed over the face of Jesus,
was not just thrown aside like the grave clothes. The Bible takes an entire verse to tell us that the napkin was neatly folded, and was placed at the head of that stony coffin.

Early Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene
came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the
entrance. She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one
whom Jesus loved. She said, 'They have taken the Lord's body out of the
tomb, and I don't know where they have put him!'

Peter and the other disciple ran to the tomb to see. The other
disciple outran Peter and got there first. He stooped and looked in and
saw the linen cloth lying there, but he didn't go in. Then Simon Peter arrived and went inside. He also noticed the linen wrappings lying there, while the cloth that had covered Jesus'
head was folded up and lying to the side.

Was that important? Absolutely! Is it really significant? Yes!

In order to understand the significance of the folded napkin,
you have to understand a little bit about Hebrew tradition of that day.
The folded napkin had to do with the Master and Servant, and every
Jewish boy knew this tradition.

When the servant set the dinner table for the master, he made
sure that it was exactly the way the master wanted it. The table was furnished perfectly, and then the servant would wait, just out of sight, until the master had finished eating, and the
servant would not dare touch that table, until the master was finished.

Now if the master were done eating, he would rise from the table, wipe his fingers, his mouth, and clean his beard, and would wad up that napkin and toss it onto the table. The servant would then know to clear the table. For in those days, the wadded napkin meant, 'I'm done'. But if the master got up from the table, and folded his napkin, and laid it beside his plate, the servant would not dare touch the table, because..........The folded napkin meant, 'I'm coming back!'

He is Coming Back!!

Talented Girls

Shooting the .557 Tyrannosaur

This rifle is made by A-Square, Inc. based upon their Hannibal rifle platform, and it fires a .557 cal. cartridge. The 750 grain Barnes Solid Projectile moves at 2,460 feet/second, generating over 10,180 foot-pounds of energy (just for comparison, a .44 Magnum firing a 240 grain bullet generates approximately 1,180 fps. of muzzle energy). And 1 round for this beast will set you back about $40.

http://www.ammo-one.com/A-Square577Tyrannosaur.html

Dog overboard found four months later

SYDNEY (AFP) – A pet dog that fell overboard in rough seas off Australia has been reunited with its owners after surviving alone on an island for four months, reports said.

Sophie Tucker, apparently named after a late US entertainer, fell overboard as Jan Griffith and her family sailed through choppy waters off the northeast Queensland coast in November.

The dog was believed to have drowned and Griffith said the family was devastated.

But out of sight of the family, Sophie Tucker was swimming doggedly and finally made it to St Bees Island, five nautical miles away, and began the sort of life popularised by the TV reality show "Survivor."

She was returned to her family last week when Griffith contacted rangers who had captured a dog that had been living off feral goats on the largely uninhabited island, in the faint hope it might be their long-lost pet.

When the Griffiths met the rangers' boat bringing the dog to the mainland they found that it was indeed Sophie Tucker on board.

"We called the dog and she started whimpering and banging the cage and they let her out and she just about flattened us," Griffith told the national AAP news agency.

"She wriggled around like a mad thing."

Griffith said that when the dog was first spotted on the island she had been in poor condition.

"And then all of a sudden she started to look good and it was when the rangers had found baby goat carcasses so she'd started eating baby goats," she said.

Sophie Tucker, a member of the Australian cattle dog breed, had been quick to readjust to the comforts of home, complete with airconditioning, Griffiths said.

"She surprised us all. She was a house dog and look what she's done, she's swum over five nautical miles, she's managed to live off the land all on her own," Griffiths said.

"We wish she could talk, we truly do."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090406/od_afp/australiaanimaldogoffbeat

"Make Mine Freedom"

Reading Test

The Truth About the Left's Favorite Polar Bear Photo

The Fleetwoods - Come softly to me

Red Envelope Project- March 31st

There is a movement going across our nation to have a "Red Envelope Day" on MARCH 31st

Now this is going to take a bit of work on your part, but because you value life, I think you'll be glad you took the time and effort.

For everyone in your household, go buy a RED envelope for each person (Hallmark, Stationary stores, Kinkos, at party supply stores, all have them).

On the front of an empty SEALED and stamped red envelope write: (be sure to include a return address or it might not get delivered.)

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20500

On the back write the following message:

"This envelope represents one child who died because of an abortion. It is empty because the life that was taken is now unable to be a part of our world."

It is important that both the address and the statement be in each person's handwriting, please do not type.

Together we hope to change the heart of our president and save millions of future babies.

Please forward this to everyone who you think might join our "March of Red Envelopes" in time for the MARCH 31st day. Time is of the essence.

Experts say that for every one person who gives their time to this cause, there are 10 to 15 others who share the same convictions about this subject but won't take the time to join us.

With this in mind, we are hoping for 50 million or more Red envelopes to hit the White House at about the same time. Please consider being part of this 50+ million by participating and asking others to do the same thing. This would be historic and you could be a part of history.

Thank you on behalf of those who were silenced.

Remember to mail it on Tuesday March 31st, 2009.

*Visit RedEnvelopeDay.com for more info.

Abortion is SUPER FUN!!

UroClub

Walk Hard - Lets Duet

Funny,funny movie!

Extreme Sheep

Torture and Gitmo!

Look around you water

Lake Superior is freezing over

Lake Superior last froze over in 2003. It has now, again, frozen over. The frequency of freeze overs has historically been around once every 20 years. Now, in the last decade, we have seen two freeze overs.

The picture above is a beautiful satellite photo of Lake Superior from yesterday. With the well below freezing temperatures seen over the region Thursday night (-20 F), any isolated open water could have frozen.

The NWS in Marquette MI writes:

Due to the recent cold spell and below normal temperatures for much of the winter of 2008-2009, ice covers nearly all of Lake Superior. Only small areas of open water remain. This image was taken on Tuesday, March 3rd. If arctic air does not return in the next couple of weeks, it is likely that this will be the day of maximum ice cover on Lake Superior for this winter as warmer weather and periods of stronger winds through the end of this week will cause open water areas to expand.

Source:
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mqt/?n=lake_superior_ice

Everyone Against Abortion Please Raise Your Hand

Our long national nightmare is over. TV converter box coupons flowing again

I'm sure he'll remember to say thank you after he finishes his cheesy poofs.

Via FARK

Stimulusol XR

As the Dow keeps dropping, the President is running out of people to blame.

As 2009 opened, three weeks before Barack Obama took office, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 9034 on January 2, its highest level since the autumn panic. Yesterday the Dow fell another 4.24% to 6763, for an overall decline of 25% in two months and to its lowest level since 1997. The dismaying message here is that President Obama's policies have become part of the economy's problem.

Americans have welcomed the Obama era in the same spirit of hope the President campaigned on. But after five weeks in office, it's become clear that Mr. Obama's policies are slowing, if not stopping, what would otherwise be the normal process of economic recovery. From punishing business to squandering scarce national public resources, Team Obama is creating more uncertainty and less confidence -- and thus a longer period of recession or subpar growth.

The Democrats who now run Washington don't want to hear this, because they benefit from blaming all bad economic news on President Bush. And Mr. Obama has inherited an unusual recession deepened by credit problems, both of which will take time to climb out of. But it's also true that the economy has fallen far enough, and long enough, that much of the excess that led to recession is being worked off. Already 15 months old, the current recession will soon match the average length -- and average job loss -- of the last three postwar downturns. What goes down will come up -- unless destructive policies interfere with the sources of potential recovery.

And those sources have been forming for some time. The price of oil and other commodities have fallen by two-thirds since their 2008 summer peak, which has the effect of a major tax cut. The world is awash in liquidity, thanks to monetary ease by the Federal Reserve and other central banks. Monetary policy operates with a lag, but last year's easing will eventually stir economic activity.

Housing prices have fallen 27% from their Case-Shiller peak, or some two-thirds of the way back to their historical trend. While still high, credit spreads are far from their peaks during the panic, and corporate borrowers are again able to tap the credit markets. As equities were signaling with their late 2008 rally and January top, growth should under normal circumstances begin to appear in the second half of this year.

So what has happened in the last two months? The economy has received no great new outside shock. Exchange rates and other prices have been stable, and there are no security crises of note. The reality of a sharp recession has been known and built into stock prices since last year's fourth quarter.

What is new is the unveiling of Mr. Obama's agenda and his approach to governance. Every new President has a finite stock of capital -- financial and political -- to deploy, and amid recession Mr. Obama has more than most. But one negative revelation has been the way he has chosen to spend his scarce resources on income transfers rather than growth promotion. Most of his "stimulus" spending was devoted to social programs, rather than public works, and nearly all of the tax cuts were devoted to income maintenance rather than to improving incentives to work or invest.

His Treasury has been making a similar mistake with its financial bailout plans. The banking system needs to work through its losses, and one necessary use of public capital is to assist in burning down those bad assets as fast as possible. Yet most of Team Obama's ministrations so far have gone toward triage and life support, rather than repair and recovery.

AIG yesterday received its fourth "rescue," including $70 billion in Troubled Asset Relief Program cash, without any clear business direction. Citigroup's restructuring last week added not a dollar of new capital, and also no clear direction. Perhaps the imminent Treasury "stress tests" will clear the decks, but until they do the banks are all living in fear of becoming the next AIG. All of this squanders public money that could better go toward burning down bank debt.

The market has notably plunged since Mr. Obama introduced his budget last week, and that should be no surprise. The document was a declaration of hostility toward capitalists across the economy. Health-care stocks have dived on fears of new government mandates and price controls. Private lenders to students have been told they're no longer wanted. Anyone who uses carbon energy has been warned to expect a huge tax increase from cap and trade. And every risk-taker and investor now knows that another tax increase will slam the economy in 2011, unless Mr. Obama lets Speaker Nancy Pelosi impose one even earlier.

Meanwhile, Congress demands more bank lending even as it assails lenders and threatens to let judges rewrite mortgage contracts. The powers in Congress -- unrebuked by Mr. Obama -- are ridiculing and punishing the very capitalists who are essential to a sustainable recovery. The result has been a capital strike, and the return of the fear from last year that we could face a far deeper downturn. This is no way to nurture a wounded economy back to health.

Listening to Mr. Obama and his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, on the weekend, we couldn't help but wonder if they appreciate any of this. They seem preoccupied with going to the barricades against Republicans who wield little power, or picking a fight with Rush Limbaugh, as if this is the kind of economic leadership Americans want.

Perhaps they're reading the polls and figure they have two or three years before voters stop blaming Republicans and Mr. Bush for the economy. Even if that's right in the long run, in the meantime their assault on business and investors is delaying a recovery and ensuring that the expansion will be weaker than it should be when it finally does arrive.


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123604419092515347.html

Barbie turns 50 on March 9

Change has been a constant for Barbie's 50 years
By Kathy Flanigan of the Journal Sentinel

What aging really would have done to Barbie, according to Paula Papanek, associate professor of physical therapy, who studies issues related to aging and the body at Marquette University:



She would have back pain from the high heels she has worn all these years and may have tight Achilles tendons.
She would be in danger of having osteoporosis from not consuming enough calcium.
She would likely wear glasses or have had Lasik surgery.
Her hair would be graying.
She might have gotten a little shorter.
She would likely have trouble standing up, given the size of her breasts and her small waist.
Sources: www.barbie.com; "Barbie and Ruth" by Robin Gerber (Collins Business; $24.99); www.dolls4play.com, New York Times.

By The Numbers
Barbie on eBay:

In the past three months, 217,736 Barbies have been sold.
The average selling price of a Barbie on eBay is $24.45.
45,422 vintage Barbies (those produced before 1973) have been sold (average vintage price is $39.06).
The most expensive Barbie sold for $7,999.99. It was a No. 1 1959 Ponytail Barbie.
To be like Barbie?
According to Frank Papay, plastic surgeon and chairman of the Dermatology and Plastic Surgery Institute at Cleveland Clinic, to look like Barbie, a typical 50-year-old woman would need to:

Have a chemical peel and use Retin A. "That should help the texture of her skin and get rid of the blotchiness and some of the pigment changes."
Get an eye uplift where ligaments have loosened and maybe a mid-face lift.
Get a brow lift and Botox in the furrows between the eyebrows.
Have Botox injections in the laugh lines. If they're severe, have a chemical or laser peel.
Have a face lift to help raise the area where the jowls sag.
Have a neck lift for sagging under the chin.
Schedule a breast augmentation or a breast lift.
Schedule surgery to alleviate the saddlebags that settle in hips and thighs due to hormonal changes.
Little girls worship her; adult women want to be her.

Iconic fashion model and doll Barbie turns 50 on March 9. Does that make Barbie over the hill? Before you answer, consider this: She still has the supple skin of a teenager, the idealized body of a woman in her 20s and no crow's feet to be found. To this day, Barbie wears the smallest of sizes.

Then again, she's sporting more plastic than one of "The Real Housewives of Orange County."

Turning 50 is reason enough to celebrate Barbie. But for more incentive, we offer 50 details about Barbie's life so far:

1  She was born Barbara Millicent Roberts.

2  Barbie is 11½ inches tall.

3  If Barbie were 5 feet, 6 inches tall, she would have a 39-inch bust, a 21-inch waist and 33-inch hips.

4  Barbie is the brainchild of Ruth Handler, one of the founders of Mattel.

5  Handler was inspired by a European doll called Bild-Lilli, a doll for adults that Handler said she saw in Vienna or Lucerne.

6  Handler named the Americanized doll after her daughter, Barbara.

7  In a series of novels published by Random House in the 1960s, Barbie's parents were George and Margaret Roberts who lived in the fictional town of Willows, Wis.

8  Barbie attended Willows High School but graduated from Manhattan International High School.

9  Barbie's boyfriend is Ken. He's named after Handler's real-life son, who, incidentally, hated the comparisons.

10  Barbie and Ken split up in 2004. They reunited in 2006.

11  Barbie has had more than 40 pets in her lifetime, including a panda, a lion cub and a zebra.

12  Barbie, who started her professional life as a teenage model, has had several careers.

13  Barbie has a pilot's license and can operate a commercial airliner. She has also been a flight attendant.

14  Barbie found a best friend in Midge, who was part of the Barbie lineup from 1963 to 1966.

15  Doctor Barbie debuted in 1988.

16  NASCAR Barbie came out in 1998.

17  There are more than 500 groups related to Barbie on Facebook, including one called Tequila Barbie.

18  Another group is called Divorce Barbie. "Divorce Barbie comes with Ken's boat; Ken's house; Ken's car; Ken's money;" and, well, you get the idea. Last time we checked, there were eight members.

19  In homage to Sarah Palin, there are two different Facebook groups called Caribou Barbie.

20  The first Barbie cost $3.

21  Barbie Collector Doll Pink Label 50th Anniversary Barbie Doll costs $49.99; the most expensive Barbie sold on eBay to date fetched $7,999.99.

22  Barbie had her own show with clothing from 50 fashion designers at Fashion Week last month.

23  Mattel estimates that three Barbies are sold every second.

24  Barbie has had more than 1 billion pairs of shoes.

25  Barbie is on Twitter (although inconsistently) @BarbieStyle.

26  The year Barbie was born is the same year that Xerox debuted a commercial copier.

27  Barbie dolls were sealed in a time capsule in 1976 as part of the Bicentennial celebration to be opened in 2076.

28  Malibu Barbie was introduced in the 1970s. "The Simpsons" parodies Barbie by having Lisa own a Malibu Stacy.

29  The first annual Barbie convention was held in 1980.

30  The first commercials for Barbie ran on "The Mickey Mouse Club."

31  The first Barbie doll dress designed by Bob Mackie was called "Gold."

32  Totally Hair Barbie is the best-selling Barbie of all time.

33  In 1965, the only club for children whose membership exceeded Mattel's was the Girl Scouts of America.

34  In 1967, Mattel offered a Twist 'n Turn Barbie to girls who turned in their Ponytail Barbie dolls.



35  Sidepart American Girl Barbie is considered the rarest of the tan-tone vinyl bendable leg Barbie dolls.

36  Twiggy, the model, was Barbie's first celebrity friend.

37  Early market research suggested Barbie would never sell because she had breasts; little girls wouldn't like her and parents wouldn't buy her.

38  Barbie met Ken in 1961.

39  Barbie has five baby sisters. The first, Skipper, debuted in 1964.

40  A 1959 Barbie in mint condition is estimated to bring $27,450.

41  The first Barbies had white irises. The eye color was changed to blue in 1960.

42  The 1988 Happy Holidays Barbie is considered the first non-porcelain "collectible Barbie." When the 1988 Happy Holidays Barbie flew off the shelves and began commanding high values on the secondary market, Mattel realized there was a huge market for adult collectors.

43  In 1986, Andy Warhol was commissioned to paint a portrait of Barbie.

44  The 1999 "Generation Girl" series was considered controversial because one doll had a nose ring and another had an ankle tattoo.

45  Teacher Barbie was recalled in 1995 because she wasn't wearing panties.

46  The first black and Hispanic Barbies were introduced in 1980. (Barbie's African-American friend, Christie, had been introduced in 1968.)

47  There was a Miss Astronaut Barbie in 1965.

48  Barbie made a brief appearance in the movie "Toy Story 2."

49  Sales of Barbie were outlawed in Saudi Arabia in 2003.

50  In 1997, Barbie was redesigned and given a bigger waist.



http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/40381612.html