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"The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade dates as far back as the 1920's, when Macy's employees, many of whom were immigrants, began this tradition in an attempt to connect with American culture by celebrating Thanksgiving."

Via: showtimetickets.com

Balloon years, when given, come from various sources, including Wikipedia and Macy's website itself. Some have no name or date and a guess was made as to what year they may have appeared.

This is by no means comprehensive as there are most likely many balloons, especially early on that are not included.

1927 Felix the Cat

Macy's used to release the balloons after the parade was over. Tickets were attached with a reward of $100 for the return of the balloons. That was a fairly nice reward. As an example, a cost around that time period, for a new stove could range from $30 to $60. A nice radio could cost $15 or a new ice box about $30.

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Unknown Father Knickerbocker

Father Knickerbocker is a pen named used by Washington Irving, who wrote the first history of New York and was Manhattan's first best seller. The then 26-year-old, used the name Diedrich Knickerbocker, "Diedrich" meaning "father" in Dutch, and a note by Irving in the book, indicating Knickerbocker meant to nod or doze over books.

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Beavis tries to be a straight up G, Butthead puts him in his place.

Butthead - This butthole keeps saying he can dance, but he can't dance...

Is this like grudge music?

"Hey Butthead, Ozzy bit off the head of a cow once"
"Yeah that was cool, milk poured out of its neck"

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1. Fans of God are more likely to be fans of these pages than a typical Facebook user...

2. "R.I.P. Michael Jackson"

   

   Amen, brother.

3. "Mc Flurry"

   

   God created ice cream and candy for a reason!

4. The "Banana Split Show"

   

   ...I have no idea how God and a late 60's children's variety show correlate.

5. People who are fans of God are likely to be fans of...

6. "Freeze Pops"

   

   Artificial flavored goodness

7. "Starbucks"

   

   This is why MegaChurches have them!

8. "I need a vacation!!!"

   

   Sabbath resting is SERIOUS BUSINESS.

9. Check out more stats and such on Fan Page Analytics.

1. "Everybody Hurts," REM

2. 2. "Tears In Heaven," Eric Clapton

3. 3. "Hallelujah," Leonard Cohen

4. 4. "Nothing Compares 2 U," Sinead O'Connor

5. 5. "With Or Without You," U2

6. 6. "The Drugs Don't Work," The Verve

7. 7. "Candle In The Wind," Elton John

   (Really, fellas?)

8. 8. "Streets Of Philadelphia," Bruce Springsteen

9. 9. "Unchained Melody," originally by Todd Duncan, but I'm guessing you guys cry for the Righteous Bros

10. 10. "Angels," Robbie Williams

Actually, you have probably heard of Neill Blomkamp, what with being a nerd and all.

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Internet lists are more and more like navel-gazing every day.

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1. "Wassup?"

   -- From an Anheuser-Busch Budwiser beer campaign, which first aired Dec. 20 1999, but was popularized in early 2000.

2. "The Tribe has spoken."

   

   -- Jeff Probst, on "Survivor: Borneo," May 31, 2000

3. "The American people have now spoken. But it's going to take a little while to determine exactly what they said."

   

   -- Pres. Bill Clinton, Nov. 2000

4. "Holy Fucking Shit."

   

   -- The Onion, Sept. 26, 2001 (Read the whole issue.)

5. "There are known knowns... we also know that there are known unknowns… There are also unknown unknowns."

   -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Feb. 12, 2002

6. "Shock and awe."

   -- The U.S. military, all major news organizations, Jan. through March, 2003

7. "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended."

   

   -- Pres. George W. Bush, May 1, 2003

8. "Wardrobe malfunction."

   

   -- Justin Timberlake, Feb. 2, 2004

9. "He's just not that into you."

   

   -- From the book of the same title by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo, released Sept. 7, 2004

10. "Combine enough nonhits on the Long Tail and you've got a market bigger than the hits."

    

    -- Chris Anderson, Wired Magazine, Oct. 2004 (Read the whole article.)

11. "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."

    -- Pres. George W. Bush, Sept. 2, 2005

12. Later That Same Night: "George Bush doesn't care about black people."

    -- Kanye West, Sept. 2, 2005

13. "I wish I knew how to quit you."

    

    -- Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal), in "Brokeback Mountain," released Dec. 16, 2005

14. "What are you doing?"

    

    -- Twitter, July 2006

15. "F---ing Jews... The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world."

    

    -- Mel Gibson, July 28, 2006

16. "An iPod, a phone, and an internet communicator: These are not three separate devices, this is one device, and we are calling it iPhone."

    -- Steve Jobs, Jan. 9, 2007

17. "Leave Britney alone!"

    -- Chris Crocker, Sept. 10, 2007

18. "Yes, we can."

    -- Barack Obama, Jan. 9, 2008

19. "I drink your milkshake."

    -- Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), in "There Will Be Blood," released Jan. 11, 2008

20. "The difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick."

    -- Gov. Sarah Palin, Sept. 3, 2008

21. "The fundamentals of our economy are strong."

    -- Sen. John McCain, Sept. 25, 2008

22. "You lie!"

    -- Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), Sept. 9, 2009

23. "Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you, and Imma let you finish, I'm sorry, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time."

    -- Kanye West, Sept. 19, 2009

For the person who hates humanity, here are all the many specimens of cocksuckers of the world.

Here is a helpful list of every line said by Tracy Jordan in season three of 30 Rock .

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Ever wonder which of your favorite movie stars are killed off the most? It might not surprise you that Robert DeNiro tops the list with 14 deaths, but did you know that in 2 of Bruce Willis' 11 movie deaths the killer was his ex-wife Demi Moore?

The Best Links:

1. The 20 Best Horror Movie Death Scenes
2. Listology: Best Movie Death Scenes
3. Best Film Deaths Scenes
4. Movie Stars Who Die the Most - Premiere.com

Don't quite understand why your friends on Facebook keep writing these lists with '25 Random Things' about themselves? I don't either. But The New York Times is now alerting the masses about how much fun it is!

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Because you know you were curious and I guess you could even call this safe-for-work porn?

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Try not to judge me too much on this, but these were, legitimately, my favorite things that happened on the Internet this year.

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1. I have to admit - part of me was a little disappointed that we didn’t get sucked into a black hole when they turned this thing on.
2. I will not miss the endless talk about Twitter’s scalability issues in 2009, but I will miss the Fail Whale very much indeed. I even have the T-shirt.
3. Terrorist fist jab. ‘Nuff Said.
4. I’m aware that I’m the only person alive who loves Chris Matthews. But this was legitimately awesome.
5. Hitler subtitle mashups were hilarious. That said, I hope I don’t ever see another one.
6. Ze Frank’s Color Wars was like being in a virtual summer camp for nerds. I liked that.
7. I was at the conference when this happened, and it made me realize how awesome Twitter is. Or that I need to get a life. I can’t remember which.
8. To be fair, I would happily watch a video of a cat just sitting there. But it’s more or less sublime when they ride things.
9. This concept never actually caught on, but I still think about it sometimes.
10. Literal music videos were so fucking funny until around the time they suddenly stopped being funny. But here’s where it all started.
11. The pairing of robocops and unicorns made me happy in a way that I can’t even really describe. Is that weird?

Our subjective (yet authoritative!) list of the best Top 10 lists of the year, from Worst People to Best Flash Games.

The Best Links:

1. Popular Mechanics’ Top 10 Gadgets of 2008
2. Politico’s Top 10 Worst Political Ads of 2008
3. GigaOm’s Top 10 Flash Games of 2008
4. Epicurious’ Top 10 Food Trends of 2009
5. Spin’s Top 10 Overlooked Albums of 2008
6. Salon’s Top 10 Books of 2008
7. Time’s Top 10 Magazine Covers of 2008
8. Roger Ebert’s Top 10 Foreign Films of 2008
9. Videogum’s Top 10 Worst People of 2008
10. The New Yorker’s Top 10 Buildings of 2008