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Old 06-24-2015, 11:39 AM   #564
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On this 9day in 1949 the fledgling NBC network in the equally youthful TV industry began airing Hopalong Cassidy films recut to fit the necessary length for broadcast, despite their strong misgivings that there would be an audience for Westerns with their viewers. NBC executives remain as insightful today as then. In 1986 Maryland star forward Len Bias died from a cocaine overdose, just two days after being drafted by the Boston Celtics. Whether he indulged in celebration or commiseration of this remains unknown. And in 1997 the US Air Force released its report on the controversial Roswell incident fifty years earlier. What the report failed to address is the question as to why advanced interstellar beings would travel dozens or hundreds of light years merely to probe the lower gastric tracts of drunken meth-heads in Arkansas trailerparks.
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