9-28-11


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TODAY’s “Geez”                                                                                            .

  • 1678 - "Pilgrim's Progress" published
  • 1957 - "Honeycomb," by Jimmie Rodgers hits #1
  • 1919 World Series (Black Sox scandal)
  • 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes king of Scotland
  • 1928 - UK passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis
  • 1971 - UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act banning the medicinal use of cannabis

♪♪ HaPpY  BiRtHdAy to♪♪                                                                   .                     

Free Rambling Thoughts                                                                              .
Good day…my allergist says I can twice as many meds as I am currently taking when I swell up. We still don’t have any idea why I do it. He says that the current med is about 1/10th of what an asthma patient takes every day. I would only be taking mine once or twice a month for one day. He says I shouldn’t have to suffer more than a couple of hours…not the 8 hours I suffer now. Got my blood drawn and had to fill four of the big vials. She had to stick both arms as the first stick stopped after three vials. Not a big deal…just that my body doesn’t like to give up blood.

I’m all set to finish up the brochure for Greg and the Sandra. We are meeting at his place on Friday afternoon. Getting excited to make the changes he wants. He has also remodeled his garage so he can work on the Sandra during the winter. He and I will be putting up some photos he has of his trips.  Should be a good afternoon.

The HOA sticks again. On Sept 10th they sent out a letter, and the same letter again on the 19th. It said that they would be putting gutters on all the residences which should help with winter snow. Don’t know how that works. Anyway the letter said that this work would start immediately. Well, it still hasn’t started. Last year we got letters telling us that they were painting the doors of all residences and putting new address numbers on the door. Well, a year later, they only painted about 2/3’s of the doors. Since the doors went from a greenish-grey to forest green we look just a little strange. I really don’t care; I am renting…I’m just amazed at the fervor the HOA letter writer has when introducing anything, and then watching to see that it is never carried through. Their favorite words in letters are ‘cease immediately’, ‘begin immediately’, ‘not responsible for…’, and ‘fine’ (as in $$) for those who ‘refuse’ to comply. One of these days the owners of the various residents are going to rise up. Until then, I’ll just read and laugh.

NPR on Diane Rehm had a great interview today…she was interviewing the Postmaster General and the President of the Postal Union. It was very enlightening about the post office. Interesting stuff: the USPS uses no Federal funding, Congress requires they pay health care benefits now for many years into the future, the USPS will be around for a long time—even the email thing, like the telephone and telegraph from years past will not end USPS, the biggest 1st class drop is caused by paying bills through the internet, FedX and UPS use the postal service for delivering many packages in rural areas, and the postal service has an emergency plan for delivering necessary medications in case of a bio-terrorism attack.

Trivia Quiz…(answers at the end of post)                                                 .
1.      In 1999 the most downloaded woman on the internet was who?
2.      What god, in classical mythology, dressed as a woman, spun wool, and performed other womanly tasks for three years to appease his fellow gods?
3.      What was the name of the movie that Dustin Hoffman made where he played an actor who pretends to be a woman?
4.      Who was the first woman in Italy to be awarded a degree in medicine?
5.      What comic book heroine was created by psychologist William Moulton Marston, inventor of the polygraph machine?
6.      A famous American actress was the first woman to run a U.S. airline, what was her name?
7.      In Shania Twain's song, Man! I Feel Like A Woman! has what as the last word?
8.      What political wife snapped: "I'm not sitting here like some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette"?
9.      Golda Meir responded to a question about how it felt to be a woman minister was what?
10.   Sacagawea, the Indian woman who helped guide Lewis and Clark on their 1804 journey of exploration was a member of which tribe?
11.   What woman's name was originally used in the old barbershop quartet favorite "Sweet Adeline"?
12.   Madeline Albright became the first woman what in the U.S. government?
13.   Who was the male star in Pretty Woman?
14.   What woman achieved the highest altitude for a woman astronaut in 1993?

Wuzzles…What concept or phrase does this suggest?                           .

Hmmmmm                                                                                                       .

  • Minimum amount Quaddafi held in US banks at the time his assets were frozen: $29,900,000,000
Somewhat Useless Information                                                                  .

  • The Egyptian Arab historian al-Maqrizi, writing in the 15th century AD, attributes the loss of the nose of the Great Sphinx in Egypt to iconoclasm by Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr, a Sufi Muslim from the khanqah of Sa'id al-Su'ada. In AD 1378, upon finding the Egyptian peasants making offerings to the Sphinx in the hope of increasing their harvest, Sa'im al-Dahr was so outraged that he destroyed the nose, and was hanged for vandalism. A story claims that the nose was broken off by a cannonball fired by Napoleon's soldiers and that legend still lives on today.
  • Despite many people's beliefs, the flu shot does not infect you with the virus. In fact, the influenza viruses in a flu shot are inactivated, or killed, and they cannot cause an infection. Some people experience soreness or redness near the injection site after vaccination, but it does not cause flu illness.
Yeah, It Really Happened                                                                              .            

  • After Julia Sullivan, 16, failed three tryouts for her high school cheerleading squad, her parents asked the Aurora, Neb., school board to correct what they called “scoring errors” during her third tryout. Following school administrators’ advice to evaluate all participants the same, the three judges gave Sullivan, who cheers from a wheelchair and was born without legs and with arms that stop short of her elbows, a low score in the jumps/kicks category. (Omaha World-Herald)
Bonus:

  • Bakery workers David Mayes, 47, and Ian Erickson, 44, were baked alive while cleaning a giant oven at a bread factory in Leicester, England. The men were crawling along a conveyer belt that carries bread trays slowly through the 75-foot-long oven because managers at the Harvestime Bakery decided it would cost too much to remove the oven’s side panels to easier access. Prosecutor Anthony Barker told Leicester Crown Court the machine should have been allowed to cool for 12 hours before the men went inside, but it had cooled for only two hours because the company lost 1,120 pounds ($1,750) for every hour the oven was idle. (Britain’s Daily Mail)

Guffaw…or at least smile                                                                               .
Jeb and Jethro live in the hills, about 5 miles outside of town. Jeb asks Jethro to go in to town to pick up some lumber. Jethro walks the 5 miles to town to the local lumberyard.
"Jeb says we're gonna need some 4 x 2's" Jethro tells the yardman.
 "Do you mean 2 x 4's?" asks the yardman.
 "Well, I don't rightly know, I better go ask Jeb" says Jethro and walks the 10 miles to the hills and back to town.
"Jeb says we're gonna need 2 x 4's" Jethro tells the yardman.
 "Now, how many 2 x 4's will you need?" asks the yardman.
"Well, I don't rightly know, I better go ask Jeb." says Jethro, and again walks the 10 miles to the hills and back to town.
 "Jeb says were gonna need about 40 of 'em" Jethro tells the yardman.
 "Now, how long will you need them?" asks the yardman.
"Well, I don't rightly know, I better go ask Jeb" says Jethro and yet again walks the 10 miles to the hills and back to town.
 Upon returning Jethro says to the yardman, "Jeb says you better give 'em to us for a while . . . we're gonna build a barn."

Searchin’ “You Tube” I found                                                                        .     

Daybook Information                                                                                    .
…Happening This Week:
24-10/1 
Banned Books Week 

Fall Astronomy Week

National Chimney Safety Week

National Keep Kids Creative Week
27-10/2

Remember to Register to Vote Week 

Great American Beer Week


TODAY IS                                                                                                         .

  • Ask A Stupid Question Day
  • Fish Tank Floorshow Night
  • National Good Neighbor Day
  • National Women's Health and Fitness Day
  • Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year)
Today’s Events                                                                                                .
ARTS
1928 - 1st recording session in Nashville ( Warmack's Gully Jumpers)
1944 - 1st TV Musical comedy (The Boys from Boise)
1949 - "My Friend Irma" is 1st of 12 films starring Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis
1953 - KOAT TV channel 7 in Albuquerque, NM (ABC/PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 - "Hennesey," debuts on CBS-TV
1960 - "Millionaire," last airs on CBS-TV
1960 -  "Queen For A Day," moves to ABC-TV
1961 - "Doctor Kildare," debuts on NBC-TV
1961 - "Hazel," starring Shirley Booth debuts on NBC-TV
1962 - "I'm Dickens, He's Fenster," debuts on ABC-TV
1963 - "Shari Lewis Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1963 - "Tennessee Tuxedo," cartoon debuts on CBS-TV
1994 - "Cats" 5,000th Broadway performance (joins Chorus Line & Oh! Calcutta!).
ATHLETICS
1919 - Fastest major league game (51 mins), Giants beat Phillies 6-1
1930 - Lou Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive games
1986 - Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City)
BUSINESS
1701 - Divorce legalized in MD
1879 - Sydney Australia inaugurates steam motor tram route
1904 - Woman arrested for smoking a cigarette in a car on 5th Avenue, NYC
EDUCATION
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1867 - In the final day of a three day fight, the First Cavalry, Twenty-Third Infantry and Boise Indian scouts, fight with a combined force of Paiute, Pit River and Modoc Indians in Infernal Canyon, near Pitt River, south of modern Alturas, California. A total of one officer, six soldiers, and one civilian are killed. Eleven soldiers are wounded. Indians losses are twenty killed, twelve wounded and two captured.
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
1528 - Spanish fleet sinks in Florida hurricane; about 380 die
1785 - Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51)
1970 - Anwar Sadat replaces Egyptian President Nassar
RELIGION
935 - Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia
SCIENCE
1889 - The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice
1982 - 1st reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules
US POLITICS
1850 - US Navy abolishes flogging as punishment
1974 - 1st Lady Betty Ford undergoes a radical mastectomy

Today’s Birthdays                                                                                          .
ARTISTS:  (AUTHORS, COMPOSERS,…)
1909 - Al Capp, [Alfred Gerald Caplin], cartoonist (Li'l Abner)
551 BC - Confucius, Chinese philosopher
ATHLETES
1887 - Avery Brundage, CEO (Intl Olympic Committee, 1952-72)
1905 - Max Schmeling, German boxer 
1919 - Tom Harmon, sportscaster/NFL tailback (Heisman)
ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS…)
Brigitte Bardot, actress is 77
1953 - Jim Diamond, Scottish singer/songwriter (I Should Have Known Better) turns 58
Hilary Duff, actress, author is 24
1916 - Peter Finch, British actor (Network, Windom's Way, Raid on Entebbe)
1902 - Ed Sullivan, TV variety show host/gossip columnist (Ed Sullivan Show)
Naomi Watts, actress. Is 43
ENTREPRENEURS & EDUCATORS
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POLITICIAL FIGURES

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SCIENTISTS & THEOLOGISTS
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Today’s Obits                                                                                                  .
2004 - Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer dies at 80
1966 - Eric Fleming, actor (Gil-Rawhide), drowns while filming High Jungle in Peru at 41
2003 - Althea Gibson, American tennis player dies of circulatory failure at 76
1953 - Edwin P Hubble, astronomer, designer of telescopes, dies of brain blood clot at 63
1964 - Harpo [Arthur] Marx, comedian (Marx Bros), dies after surgery after heart attack at 75
1891 - Herman Melville, writer (Billy Budd, Moby Dick), dies of cardiac dilation at 72
1914 - Richard Sears, (Sears, Roebuck and Company) dies of Bright’s Disease at 51

ANSWERS                                                                                                        .    
Trivia Quiz
1.      In 1999 the most downloaded woman on the internet was who?
a.      Cindy Margolis
2.      What god, in classical mythology, dressed as a woman, spun wool, and performed other womanly tasks for three years to appease his fellow gods?
a.      Hercules
3.      What was the name of the movie that Dustin Hoffman made where he played an actor who pretends to be a woman?
a.      Tootsie
4.      Who was the first woman in Italy to be awarded a degree in medicine?
a.      Maria Montessori
5.      What comic book heroine was created by psychologist William Moulton Marston, inventor of the polygraph machine?
a.      Wonder Woman
6.      A famous American actress was the first woman to run a U.S. airline, what was her name?
a.      Maureen O'Hara
7.      In Shania Twain's song, Man! I Feel Like A Woman! has what as the last word?
a.      Woman
8.      What political wife snapped: "I'm not sitting here like some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette"?
a.      Hillary Clinton
9.      Golda Meir responded to a question about how it felt to be a woman minister was what?
a.      "I don't know - I've never been a man minister”
10.   Sacagawea, the Indian woman who helped guide Lewis and Clark on their 1804 journey of exploration was a member of which tribe?
a.      Shoshone
11.   What woman's name was originally used in the old barbershop quartet favorite  "Sweet Adeline" ?
a.      Rosalie. The song didn't sell well so they renamed it.
12.   Madeline Albright became the first woman what in the U.S. government?
a.      Secretary of State
13.   Who was the male star in Pretty Woman ?
a.      Richard Gere
14.   What woman achieved the highest altitude for a woman astronaut in 1993?
a.      Kathryn Thornton

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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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