Tuesday

~~~Free Ramblings
UPS delivered a duffle bag today. It is from HLO Travel, the provider for my trip to Africa. How cool is that? The wheeled duffle bag is big enough for my stuff, and is said to work better out in the wild than a suitcase. The trip is only three weeks away and I’m getting more excited with each passing day.

Many eyes will be on Denmark at the end of the week. Four world leaders will be in Copenhagen to bid their country’s venue as the best place for the 2016 Olympics. Chicago, Rio, Madrid and Tokyo are the front runners. This is the first time in our history that a President has gone to help a city bid. We are one of the few countries that haven’t had our chief executive schmoozing for the Olympic Games. The games are not supposed to be political, just athletes competing in the Olympic spirit. It looks to me like Obama is just leveling the playing field, as it were. With the Chief Executives from Brazil, Spain, and Japan at the final meeting before the vote, the US absence of the Chief Executive would certainly not help Chicago’s chances. Again, Obama promised change, and he continues to bring it on.

We had another 80°+ day with a low of 39°. The weather guy keeps saying that we will be getting colder. We have now broken the record for longest growing season. We are at 150 days and counting—the previous record was 147 days. I will believe freezing temperatures when they finally arrive. Longest growing season doesn’t mean good crops around here since it was also our third driest year on record.
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~~~Random Facts

75% of Honda vehicles purchased in the U.S. are manufactured in North America!

An albatross can sleep while it flies!

~~~Before They Were Famous
Danny DeVito was a formally trained hair stylist before his break on Taxi.

Leonardo DiCaprio's road to fame included an appearance on the TV show Romper Room at age five, a Bubble Yum commercial, and a 2-year stint on Growing Pains in the early 1990's as the homeless boy Luke Brower.

Vin Diesel said in an interview that he worked as a bouncer for 9 years in New York. In his teens, he also performed in a break dancing instructional video.

Walt Disney drove an ambulance for the Red Cross during World War I.

~~~Crazy News

George D. Bryson, a businessman from Connecticut, decided to change his travel plans and stop in Louisville, Kentucky, a place he’d never visited before. He went to a local hotel and made preparations to check into Room 307. Before he could do so, a hotel employee handed him a letter addressed to his exact name. It turned out the previous occupant of Room 307 was another George D. Bryson.

One three separate occasions – in the years 1664, 1785, and
1860 – there was a shipwreck in which only one person survived the accident. Each time that one person was named Hugh Williams.

Several secret code words were devised by Allied military commanders during their preparations to invade Normandy in World War II. Among them: “Utah,” “Neptune,” “Mulberry,” “Omaha,” and “Overlord.” Before the invasion could begin, however, all of these words appeared in a crossword puzzle in the London Daily Telegraph. After interrogating the puzzle’s author, an English school teacher, authorities became convinced that it was sheer, inexplicable coincidence.

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~~~September Month Long Observances

Apple Month…Be Kind to Editors & Writers Month…Children’s Good Manners Month…International People Skills Month…International Strategic Thinking Month…National Honey Month…National Preparedness Month…Pleasure Your Mate Month…Healthy Aging Month…National Hispanic Heritage Month…

~~~Week of 26 Sep

Banned Books Week

~~~29 Sep Observances

272 days so far this year…93 days remain in 2009
VFW Day
*Argentina: Inventor's Day

~~~Births on this day

~ The ARTS
1547__Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra author: Don Quixote

1908__Greer Garson North Ireland, actress
1929__Bob Newhart Oak Park Ill, actor/comedian
1931__Anita Ekberg Sweden, actress (La Dolce Vita)
1935__Jerry Lee Lewis singer (Great Balls of Fire)
1939__Larry Linville Ojai Calif, actor (Frank Burns-M*A*S*H)

~ATHLETICS

1907__Gene Autry Tioga Tx, cowpoke/singer/actor/Calif Angels owner
1923__O.A. "Bum" Phillips football coach (Houston Oilers/New Orleans Saints)
1956__Sebastian Coe England, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1980, 84)

~POLITICS/BUSINESS/EDUCATION

1758__Horatio Nelson Burnham Thorpe Britain, naval hero at Trafalgar

1848__Caroline Ardelia Yale US, educated deaf

1943__Lech Walesa Popowo Poland, leads Polish Solidarity (Nobel 1983)

~SCIENCE/RELIGION

1895__Joseph Banks Rhine Penn, parapsychologist (Extra-Sensory Perception)

~~~In Remembrance

1902__William Topaz McGonagall, British poet (b. 1825) 77 years old
1975__Casey Stengel, baseball player and manager (b. 1890) 85 years old

~~~Historical Events on this day

1806__Zebulon Pike holds a grand council with the Pawnee. Pike estimates 400 Pawnee warriors attend. He hopes to win their allegiance to the United States, rather than Spain.
1829__Scotland Yard formed in London

1907__Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral
1936__Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign

~ Holy Mackerel

1979__Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit Ireland

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Anagrams
Here are some words that can easily be anagrammed into something interesting.
1. Bad Credit
2. where moist
3. satanic moan
4. Obey god
5. poor devil
6. Man's crisis
7. Very cool talentless star
8. Real Fun
9. Microsoft
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Answers:
1. Debit card = Bad Credit
2. shower time = where moist
3. Santa Monica = satanic moan
4. goodbye = Obey god
5. ipod lover = poor devil
6. Narcissism = Man's crisis
7. Actor Sylvester Stallone = Very cool talentless star
8. Funeral = Real Fun
9. comfort is = microsoft
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