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January 28

28 The Roman Emperor Nerva names Trajan, an army general, as his successor.

1915 The U.S. Coast Guard is founded to fight contraband trade and aid distressed vessels at sea.

1921 Albert Einstein startles Berlin by suggesting the possibility of measuring the universe.

1936 A fellow prison inmate slashes infamous kidnapper, Richard Loeb, to death.

1955 The U.S. Congress passes a bill allowing mobilization of troops if China should attack Taiwan.

1986 The space shuttle Challenger explodes just after liftoff.

Born on January 28


1912 Jackson Pollock, influential abstract expressionist painter.


JOTD

A guy goes to Las Vegas to gamble And he loses all his money. He doesn't even have enough for a cab, but he flagged one down anyway. He explained to the driver that he would pay him back next time and gave him his phone number, but the driver told him, "Get the frick out of my cab." So he walked all the way to the airport and got home. Some times rolls by and he decides to go back to Vegas again and this time he wins BIG. He gets his bags and is ready for the airport with all his new winnings. There are a line of cabs and at the very end he sees the driver from last time that kicked him out. He stood for a moment thinking how can he get his revenge on that driver. So, he gets in the first cab. "How much is it to the airport?" He asks. The driver says, "$15" "Great, how much is it for a blowjob on the way there?" The cab driver says, "Get the frick out of my cab." So he goes to the next one and asks the same thing. "How much to airport?" "$15" "Great, how much for a blowjob on the way there?" And that cab driver also tells him to get the frick out of his cab. He does this all the way down the line of drivers, each one kicking him out. He finally gets to the last driver, the one from his last trip. He asks, "hey how much to the airport?" Driver responds, "$15" The guy hands him $15 and says "great let's go" And so the driver leaves, slowly passing all the other drivers who are staring out their window while the guy in the back smiles back with a thumbs up.