It was September 4, 1882, when the Pearl Street generating station in Manhattan was illuminated by Edison incandescent light bulbs.

The tag team of @JimInOz and @TasMike combined their talents to flesh out the answer. Well done! For some reason I am unable to upload the awards. Will do when I sort out the problem.

 

Time for me to stop lurking...

 

Holy crap! I think it was easier when you were lurking!



Something to do with "man-eater"?

 

loo e
Ça meal
Male lard
The
Male lard reaction

Louis Camille Maillard
The Maillard reaction

 

Ah crap!

Larder MINUS er.
I kept thinking clue plus er .
Mind blank.

Great solve Matty

 

Not bad for a Port fan, I thought that might last a little longer

Well done Matty - aced it



Go Pies!

 

Hopefully we meet in the Grand Final and I don’t feel ‘browned off’ in Maillard fashion afterwards

 

Been AWOL for awhile, but let me kick off with this:

 

To the unedified, who might they be? Google images tells me the Lovin’ Spoonful.

 

I may, of course, be completely wrong but I’m halfway through a celebratory drink. In which case being wrong won’t matter

 

Well done! I was hoping to wake up this morning to find you all scratching your heads in angst - begging for a clue. I should have known better!

 

I thought I had it early on, but the crossed out tail on the ING lion had me bamboozled.
WWTAA?

 

Not the full ING
Just IN, as in ‘lovin’?

 

A two clue rebus. Name the person, and tell something about this person.

 

Joe E Brown, American actor and comedian from the late '20's through early '40

 

@Syzygy nailed that one. Too easy! Is @Syzygy one of our Australian contingent? I don’t know. I’m certain it is common knowledge that a baby kangaroo is a Joey. As in Joe E. I’ll formulate another rebus sometime that isn’t so easy!

 

I happen to be in the Washington D.C. region, but have enough surface knowledge about enough things to bullsh*t my way through most things! So, Joey stuck out (pun intended), and my Mentor and close friend is a Brown graduate, so I recognized their crest.

 

What comes next?