taking https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/comments/1w0zaxi/baby_its_cold_outside/ one absurd step further.
9 year old girl dressed as a boy plays banjo in Nome, Alaska in 1898. --> 9/11.
- 9 year old Marjorie Rambeau's mother dresses her as a boy to shield her from the rowdy, drunken environment of the gold rush outposts. This rugged, improvisational performing environment serves as the foundational backdrop for her formal stage career, which she officially launched at the age of 12.
- She made her official Broadway debut in 1913 and quickly grew into one of the era's most prominent leading ladies.
- in 1908, Louis Williams and Bula Myrtle eloped from their farms in rural Kansas, headed West and ran out of money in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- 1919, Marjorie Rambeau performs Eyes of Youth where a Louis Williams painting a theatrical sign for the show had his son, Stanton, with him. Stanton catches the attention of Marjorie who casts him in the show, and eventually convinces the family to follow the show to California.
- In California, the family has another child, Esther Williams, in 1921. While still a child, the teenage Stanton dies unexpectedly. Esther would describe his death as devastating and having a major effect on her childhood sense that she needed to become the family's successful child.
- Throughout the 1930's Esther takes up a passion for swimming, learning "male only" swimming styles from male life guards on California's Manhattan Beach. Esther eventually plans to try and qualify for the 1940 Summer Olympics national team.
- Because the 1940 Summer Olympics are cancelled due to WWII Esther Williams joins Billy Rose's Aquacade, a synchronized swimming show where she caught the attention of MGM scouts.
- Esther, who had been become a pin up for soldiers and would goes on to star in Neptune's Daughter, a 1949 romcom that captured the light hearted zeitgeist post WWII.
- The movie would popularize the song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" by Frank Loesser.
- In 1949, a young Sayyid Qutb was studying educational administration in Greely Colorado, when he was invited to church social and dance. What he saw there was too much for the young conservative from Egypt; During the dance the pastor of the church put on the song Baby, It's Cold Outside,'
- He was scandalised by the words. He also observed the couples dancing. In his view, from his background, he saw this behaviour and activity as inappropriate for the context of a church.
- Upon returning to Egypt, Sayyid became an influential religious and political theorist and became a leader within the Muslim Brotherhood. Before he was executed by Gamal Abdel Nasser's government, he became a professor of Islamic Studies. One of his students and enthusiastic followers was none other than Ayman Al-Zawahiri, who would go on to be a mentor to Osama bin Laden and a leader in al-Qaeda, bringing Qutb's influence into the foundations of the terrorist organization.
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