The Great Brinks robbery happened on January 17th, 1950. In what city did it take place?

Philly’s favorite homie, Ben Franklin, turns 300 today. Here’s everything you need to know about the baddest dude to ever rock the illadelph.
Here’s a really good bio of Franklin, not too long and not too short.
Here’s some Franklin quizzes I did last week: Who said it, Franklin or Confucius? And here’s a regular quiz on Franklin.
Here is a write up about Franklin’s famous(and not so famous) inventions.
Here’s some of Ben’s maxims.

I saw that only 14% of white americans plan to observe Martin Luther King’s holiday. Well, that’s unfortunate, though let’s be honest, it’s not like we sit around and think about George Washington all day on presidents day. I think it has more to do with us as Americans being so focused on the future that we tend to think that thinking about the past is a waste of valuable time. But I do suggest you take just a few minutes today to reflect on a man who was as flawed as the rest of us, but who was willing to risk and ultimately sacrifice his life for a beautiful ideal. And I dare you to listen to the “I have a Dream speech” and not tear up a little bit.
Related: Video of his famous speeches.
Transcript of his “I Have a Dream Speech”
Learn more about Martin Luther King
Some great Martin Luther King quotes. Check these out. There are some really great ones.

By now, everybody knows that Colt cornerback Nick Harper was stabbed in his knee by his wife. According to her, it was an accident. Now I have been in arguments with signifigant others. Plenty of them. And I don’t ever remember one time where, during the course of the argument, somebody might have been accidentally stabbed in the knee. But apparently I’m the only one: “What makes this different is who this person is,” the sheriff, quoted by the Star, said. “These things happen every day.” People are accidentally stabbed in the knee every day???? Where are the anti-knife coalitions? Where is the outrage?

Speaking of outrage, the referee overturn of Poliamalu’s interception in the fourth quarter of the Colts game was an absolute joke. In fact, it was such a bad call, it made those of us who have been around gamblers at least a little bit suspicious. It also made the Steeler’s Joey Porter suspicious, as he said that the refs cheated the Steelers. And he’s absolutely right. And this play came only a few plays after the refs called, for the first time in NFL history, a “do over”. They couldn’t figure out which team had jumped offsides, so they literally just pretended like it never happened. It was amazing.

I’m heading out to go see the McCarthy movie, but here are a few final things. First of all tickets are selling exceptionally well. In the first three days, over 60 tix were sold, and numerous teams are putting their teamas together and still plan to buy, so I think we’ll have a great crowd. And yes, things will move more swiftly than in Quizzo Bowl One. I am still in negotiations with a few different acts for a halftime show. That includes the infamous Killdozer, Jr., who sent me this unprovoked e-mail a few days ago.
Dear Johnny Goodtimes,
I graciously accept your offer to perform at Quizzo
Bowl II.
You probably will not regret this decision.
Thank you.
Killdozer Jr. (Acoustic)

Finally, we need a good slang term for Benjamin Franklin in the Urban Slang Dictionary. The ones they have so far are kind of weak. See what you can do.

The whole mess started when she told him not to do that pay per view concert. Now she wants a divorce.
This from the AP report on the Hasselhoff split: He also starred in the 1980s TV series “Knight Rider,” in which his character, Michael Knight, teamed with a talking Pontiac Trans Am sports car to fight crime.

That sentence, taken on it’s own, makes the premise of the show sound ridiculous. But those of us who were seven years old when the coolest thing our brains could have possibly conceived was a “crime fighting talking car” realize that nothing could be further from the truth. That show ruled.
FROM THE ARCHIVES: So does this Hasslehoff-KITT video. You are going to love it. Trust me.
RELATED: Did David Hasselhoff end the Cold War and single handedly reunite East and West Germany? He thinks so.

Didn’t get anything done on the site today because I was out thrift store shopping. Let’s just put it this way: last place just got even better.

This from Dan Gross’s column today:
Trattoria Prima Donna (1508 Spruce) was star-studded Monday night when dining at separate tables were former Eagles wideout Freddie Mitchell, “Rocky Balboa” actor Burt Young, and Jerry Blavat.

You know you’re in Philly when a “star studded evening” consists of a crappy former wide receiver who probably couldn’t land a job with the Soul, “Uncle Paulie”, and the Geator with the Heater (no offense to the Geator, of course). I guess Gervase couldn’t make it. God, I love this town.

The play I am giving tickets away to is called Ben Franklin: Unplugged, and it is currently showing at 1714 Delancey Street in the Plays and Players Theatre. It is a one man show, written and performed by Josh Kornbluth. Here’s the Washington Post’s review of the play. It looks pretty good.

Well, I’m about a week late on the whole O’Reilly-Letterman thing, but that’s because, uh, I’ve been uh, drinking. Anyways, if you’ve missed it too, here is the video of the battle. And here’s a piece in People magazine about it. Because People magazine is a publication you can trust. Of course, O’Reilly didn’t get served by Letterman the way he got served by Donahue a few months ago. This one is much more heated. To me, it’s not O’Reilly’s politics that piss me off. It’s his schwarmy “I used to work for Inside Edition so you can trust me” attitude, and that “the louder I scream, the more you can trust me”. Of course that is precisely what makes him and Limbaugh and Hannity (and Jim Rome, for that matter) so succesful.