1982 – After meeting President Reagan, soul legend James Brown declared, “The man looks great – he could still act if he wanted too. Just think of your grandfather coming back from the rest home and running the country.”

1980 -  Jodi Stuz is fired from her job in Moline, IL after she put her bare bottom on a Xerox machine and it the print key. “A lot of people were taking pictures of their hands and their faces and fooling around, so I decided I would take a picture of my bottom, thinking it would be kind of fun just to see what it would look like.”

1982 – Singer David Bowie tells an interviewer that his son Zowie Bowie has changed his name to Joe Jones.

1983 – Abilene TX – A judge orders a cable-television franchise to run a line to a single home in a remote section of Abilene at an estimated cost of $57,000. The company says its like pouring money down a rat hole, but the judge contends the company, United Cable, must provide “prompt and reasonable service” to any resident of Abilene upon request.