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TODAY’S QUOTE—Vince Lombardi
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
FREE RAMBLING THOUGHTS
Black Friday has become Electronics Friday. I am well set up with TVs, radios, mp3 player, computer stuff, cameras,… I did go out about 9am to see what was out there. I found Home Depot to be the best stop. I got LED lights, a poinsettia and a few new decorations for amazing prices. While there I stopped at World Market and found some more bargains. The mall and the attached strip mall had fairly full parking lots, but the stores had plenty of service people and shopping was not the hassle I had expected. The good news for them is that people were buying. Everyone was buying the loss leaders—the items that were being sold very cheaply—but every cart seemed to have other stuff too and that is why the stores do the loss leaders. I didn’t go to Best Buy, but they too looked pretty busy. All the Christmas stuff and music did put me into the Christmas mood, so sometime this weekend I will be putting away all the Fall decorations and turning the inside and outside into my own little winter wonderland. I can’t forget last Christmas, when all my outdoor lights stayed outside until almost May, due to the snow piles. I refused to dig through the ice to take the lights off the bushes or stand a ladder on the ice to remove the lights on the porch. Maybe this year will be a little easier.
Obama got elbowed during a basketball scrimmage this morning. He ended up getting 12 stitches in his lip. I’m waiting for Faux news to say something outrageous. Most all of the news commentators are on a break and by Monday it will probably not be news. I’m sure someone will see this common basketball injury as additional proof that his financial policies will fail. Heal quickly Mr. President.
Thankfully the N/S Korea mess has not led to any more gunfire. I did see on middle aged Korean man who was moving off the island after his house was destroyed by the bombing earlier this week. He told the American news reporter in Korean, “All you reporters are welcome to stay here as long as you like. I’m protecting my family and leaving. Maybe they won’t bomb you.” Such a tough time for those living there. The US and our allies are moving forward with our ‘war games’ nearby. I have to wonder what would happen if Iran or China or N Korea decided to have ‘war games’ a few hundred miles from Hawaii or Guam? Would we see that as a threat? If the other side said they were not planning any attack, but just checking to see if their ships could sail in the water near Hawaii, would we trust or believe them?
HOLY MACKEREL: 1945 C.A.R.E. (Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere) was founded
JEOPARDY PUZZLE—(SuperJeopardy Answers) from 1990 9-LETTER WORDS
It can mean to ponder on a subject or to purchase with the expectation of profit
A public officer who keeps the peace, or a British policeman of the lowest order
Semantics is the study of a word's meaning, this is the study of a word's history
The name of this children's game can serve as a verb meaning “to leap from place to place”
In ancient Greece, a politician who championed the masses; now it's one who plays on people's emotions
SOMEWHAT USELESS INFORMATION—
The first TV commercial showed a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds.
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In the original version of Cinderella the slipper was made out of fur, not glass.
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In Mel Brooks' "Silent Movie," mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.
UNUSUAL NEWS ITEM
SPARTANBURG, SC (AP) -- Some people lay flowers or notes at gravesites. A woman in South Carolina left a handgun.
Police in the northwestern county of Spartanburg say a 28-year-old woman who hadn't been feeling well consulted a spiritual adviser, who told her she needed to return something that was given to her to cleanse her soul.
So the woman left a .45-caliber handgun in a box at a man's grave at Good Shepherd Memorial Gardens. She told police the man had given her the weapon about 12 years ago and she hoped by returning it that she would feel better.
After police discovered the gun, the woman told them she wanted it destroyed.
Police are storing the gun at the sheriff's office. No charges have been filed.
A LITTLE LAUGH
I've never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, and when they're home they like to be left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat.
FOUND ON ‘YOU TUBE’
For those who see Bruce Lee is a cardboard movie icon, check this out. He would be 70 today
UP CLOSE PICTURE
This is a close up of what object?
CALENDAR INFORMATION
♦ Weekly Observances ♦
19-25:National Farm-City Week
21-28: National Bible Week, National Family Week, National Game & Puzzle Week, National Teens Don't Text and Drive Week, Better Conversation Week, Church/State Separation Week
♦ Today’s Observances ♦
Pins And Needles Day
National Native American Heritage Day
International Aura Awareness Day
National Day of Listening
Yawm Arafat: Islamic Festival—day 9 of Hajj at the plain of Arafat, near Mecca, to remember others in prayer
Burma: National Day
Cuba: Martyrs' Day
India, Sri Lanka: Maaveerar Day—Hero’s Day to the Tamil People
Israel: Weizmann Day—birthday of Chaim Weizmann, Israel’s first President
♫ One Hit Wonders—1960’s ♫
Click on Song Title to see and hear the original
♦Today’s Births♦
╥ THE ARTS
1942 Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist (Jimi Hendrix Experience-Purple Haze Along the Watchtower )
1912 David Merrick, Broadway producer (Hello Dolly)
1912 David Merrick, Broadway producer (Hello Dolly)
1944 Eddie Rabbitt, country singer (I Love a Rainy Night)
Gail Henion Sheehy, 73, author (Passages)
1917 "Buffalo" Bob Smith, TV host (Howdy Doody) Smith on What's My Line
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Robin Givens, 46, actress (“Head of the Class,” A Rage in Harlem)
1940 Bruce Lee (Lee Jun Fan), actor: martial arts cult star
Jaleel White, 34, actor (Steve Urkel : “Family Matters”)
╥ ATHLETICS
Jimmy Rollins, 32, baseball (Phillies)
Nick Van Exel, 39, basketball (Lakers, Nuggets, Mavericks, Warriors, Blazers, Spurs)
╥ BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1874 Charles A Beard, American historian (American Continentalism)
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, 53, JFK's daughter
╥ POLITICS
1874 Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman (1st President)
╥ SCIENCE & RELIGION
1857 Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, 1932 Nobel Laureate in Medicine & Physiology; coined "neuron" and "synapse"
♦Today’s Obituaries♦
John Carradine, actor, @ 82 in 1988
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Latin poet & satirist, @ 57 in 8BCE
Baby Face Nelson (Lester Joseph Gillis), bank robber, murderer, shot by FBI agents @ 25 in 1934
Eugene O'Neill, playwright, alcoholism / Parkinson’s @ 65 in 1953
♦Today’s Events♦
╥ THE ARTS
1967 Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour"
╥ ATHLETICS
1870 NY Times dubs baseball "The National Game"
1960 Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHLer to score 1,000 points
1961 Gordie Howe becomes 1st to play in 1,000 NHL games
╥ BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1779 The College of Pennsylvania became the University of Pennsylvania and the first legally recognized university in America.
1839 American Statistical Association organizes in Boston
╥ INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1817 US soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War
1915 Private Albert Mountain Horse is buried in Fort Macleod, Alberta. He is the only Blood Indian to go to the front lines in World War One. He dies due to exposure to poison gas on the battlefield.
╥ POLITICS (US)
1926 Restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins
╥ POLITICS (International)
1815 Cracow (Poland) declared a free republic
1985 Republic of Ireland gains consultative role in Northern Ireland
╥ SCIENCE & RELIGION
1895 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize
1951 1st rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM
1970 Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest
ANSWERS
∞ JEOPARDY
It can mean to ponder on a subject or to purchase with the expectation of profit
What is speculate?
A public officer who keeps the peace, or a British policeman of the lowest order
What is a constable?
Semantics is the study of a word's meaning, this is the study of a word's history
What is etymology?
The name of this children's game can serve as a verb meaning “to leap from place to place”
What is hopscotch?
In ancient Greece, a politician who championed the masses; now it's one who plays on people's emotions
What is a demagouge?
∞ PICTURE
An ink jet printer cartridge
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