30 Years Ago Today
 

Nov 18 1978

Congressman Leo Ryan is slain at the People's Temple compound in Guyana, after which over 900 members of the cult led by the Reverend Jim Jones drank cyanide laced Flavor Aid (a Kool Aid knockoff), their bodies bloated by the sun when they are discovered several days later.

Today would have been my friend Leif's 38th birthday had he not died after high school in a tragic auto accident in England when a very large truck coming his way sheared off half of the car he was driving in with his mother.

Happy Birthday Leif. You are still missed all this time later.

Which* allows me to drag out this old joke:

Have you heard the Jim Jones joke?




* "Which" referring to the OP, not Leif.