Top
SUPPORT THESE BUSINESSES!

 

 

GET F'D ON FACEBOOK

SEARCH
Newsletter Sign-up
GET ON OUR EMAIL LIST IF YOU CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF FIPS
RECENT POSTS U MAY HAVE MISSED

REACH OUR AUDIENCE

GOT A TIP? EMAIL US

« F'd In March Madness: Get Your Brackets In NOW | Main | New York City Will Give You Free Shit To Help Kick That Smoking Habit »
Wednesday
Mar142012

FIPS DAILY ALMANAC: Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Posted by: AuthorJ. Charles | DateWednesday, March 14, 2012 at 12:00AM

pic by Flickr User A Crom

Rise and shine, FIPS'ters! Welcome to your day! In national news, a Doonesbury Abortion Comic Strip angers the hell out of Texas conservatives and President Obama takes British PM Cameron to a NCAA tournament game and talks the whole damn time. 

ON THIS DAY IN BK HISTORY (1895):

Wait, hold up! Brooklyn had a yacht club and it wasn't just an ironically-named bar near a severely polluted canal? Turns out this club had itself a President and a treasurer who reported "a substantial balance." The regatta committee was headed by a guy named George B. Lyons. These guys sound a lot like spoiled douches from a John Hughes movie. We're talking some real preppy shit that went down in this borough in 1895. I mean, can we just go back to the fact that they used to have regattas...in Brooklyn. 

 

[READ THE FULL ARTICLE FROM THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE ARCHIVES] 

 

ON THIS DAY IN FIPS'TORY:  

Share on Tumblr CommentPost a Comment
tagged

Reader Comments

There are no comments for this journal entry. To create a new comment, use the form below.

PostPost a New Comment

Enter your information below to add a new comment.
Author Email (optional):
Author URL (optional):
Post:
 
Some HTML allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>

Notify me of follow-up comments via email.