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What is it about this time of year and coincidences?

Cyclist Lance Armstrong, Astronaut Neil Armstrong

- In late August, Lance decided to quit fighting allegation of drug doping
- In late August, Neil lost his fight with heart disease

- Neil was the first man on the Moon
- Neil was just buried under a Blue Moon

- Lance trained for his comeback in North Carolina, home of Salem...home to witches
- Lance claims that he's the victim of a doping witchhunt

- When piloting the Lunar Lander, Neil had to keep the gyroscopic guidance system steady by focussing on 'the ball'
- Lance had testicular cancer and now only has one...

ZZ's - Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the Moon
ZZ's - Neil's family requested that, in Neil's memory, that they Wink at the Moon
ZZ's - Ozzie Osbourne sings Bark at the Moon

Tims, Hockey Player Bill Barilko

- Toronto Maple Leafs won 4 Stanley Cups in 5 years
- On Aug 26, Barilko died in a plane crash going on a fishing trip
- no cups for 11 years, and they won the Cup the year they found his body
- listen to The Tragically Hip's 50 Mission Cap for details

Creepy Double-H part:
 - Bill Barilko's pilot-friend was Henry Hudson
- A person named Henry Hudson* was mutineed against and set adrift just 200 miles north of Barilko's crash site

Creepy Double-Tims Double-Double part:
- Barilko crashed between Timmons, ON and Cochrane, ON
- Barilko was born in Timmons
- Timmons has a Tim Hortons coffee/doughnut shop
- Tim Hortons restaurant is named after Tim Horton, the hockey player, who also played for the Leafs
- Horton played in the NHL starting the year after Barilko disappeared
- Horton also died in a crash (car)

* named after Henry Hudson: Hudson Bay, Hudson River, Hudson Strait, Hudson County NJ, the Henry Hudson Bridge, and the town of Hudson, NY

Hockey Player Pelle Lindbergh, Aviator Charles Lindbergh

- Pelle died Aug 26 in an auto accident near an elementary school in New Jersey
- Charles's infant son was kidnapped in New Jersey

- Charles helped invent the precursor to the heart pump
- Pelle's heart was harvested after his accident

- before the war, Charles got to pilot a high-performance Bf 109 German fighter aircraft
- Pelle died in a high-performance Porsche 930 German sports car

- Charles believed in eugenics, which eliminates weaker people from the human race
- Pelle played on Philadelphia, who later eliminated Evgeni Malkin and the Penguins from the playoff race

- Charles's plane was called The Spirit of St Louis
- Pelle played with a lot of spirit in St Louis

- Charles was the first person to fly solo across the waters of the Atlantic; which is now common
- Pelle was the first goalie to take a water bottle to his net; which is now common