...police cleared a path through a cheering crowd for reporter Nellie Bly as she stepped off a train in New York just 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes, and 14 seconds after setting sail east to prove she could circle the globe in less than 80 days.
Bly, born Elizabeth Cochrane, challenged the fictional record of Phileas T. Fogg, hero of Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, at the suggestion of her employer, the New York World. [...]
UPDATE! Dr. Smith sends along this bit of information about the indomitable Nellie Bly:
Ms. Bly reported that the rest of the world hates us and that she would have made the trip sooner if not for President Bush.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at January 25, 2007 10:13 AMThanks that spam thing was fighting me.
Posted by: jim at January 25, 2007 11:12 AMI thought she was just busy setting up her amusement park.
Posted by: skinnydan at January 25, 2007 11:16 AMY'know, I don't think if I was a lady, I'd want a rollercoaster named after me. Too many double entendres...
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at January 25, 2007 11:18 AM