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Todays Geez

  • 1759 - 1st music store in America opens (Phila)
  • 1920 - League of Nations establishes Intl Court of Justice in The Hague
  • 1938 - Los Angeles freezes at 28°F
  • 1949 - Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capital to Jerusalem
  • 1975 - 1st time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Richard Pryor hosts)
  • 1978 - Susan B Anthony dollar, 1st US coin to honor a woman, issued
♪♪ Happy Birthday To:♪♪                        
 
Free Rambling Thoughts   
Let it snow, let it snow, make it stop! OK, we got a couple of inches…that’s fine. I was still able to run errands. But more is expected while I sleep tonight. Oh well, a nice winter wonderland.

I got my cable bill today and was shocked. A few weeks ago the guy came and reset my ‘dirty’ wiring. The charge…$40. Neither he nor the guy who made the appointment mentioned this fee. I called and was told that I should have been told and that they were sorry I wasn’t. Then she said I could pay an additional $4.95/month for insurance, so that I wouldn’t have to pay the service fee in the future. I asked her how I was supposed to know about this insurance and she said that the call center and the tech should have told me. I told her they didn’t. And I explained that they are new to the Flagstaff area and this is not a good way to make a good impression. I went on to remind her that the service guy had told me that he was making lots of calls with the same problem that happened when the company switched to the new channels. I told her I didn’t think I should have to pay since they made the problem happen. And I told her that the insurance isn’t even listed as a choice on the web site. She said she would split the difference and credit me with $20. I told her I thought that was outrageous but in the spirit of the holidays I would agree. I wasn’t happy, but was tired of arguing with an idiot. Lesson learned, I guess.

NPR Sunday Puzzle (answers at the end of post)
come up with items in each of the given categories that start with the letters of the word "Madre." For example, for the category "3-letter boys' names," the answer would include Moe, Art, Don, Ray and Eli.
1.     Books of the bible:
2.     First Lady:
3.     Things seen in a library:

Wuzzles  What concept or phrase do these suggest?
   
Rules of Thumb   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

  • When playing ice hockey, if you are going in on the goalie 2 on 0 and your partner passes the puck across in front of the net - shoot high because the goalie will be sliding across the bottom of the net.
Hmmmmm           

  • Minimum percentage of mortagages in Las Vegas are currently ‘underwater’: 70
Somewhat Useless Information   

  • Men in America do 29% of the laundry each week. Only 7% of women trust their husbands to do it correctly.
  • 21% of Americans don't make their bed daily. 5% of us never do.
Yeah, It Really Happened                 
ROCK HILL, S.C.  — Starting this week, students at one South Carolina high school won't get disciplined right away for wearing saggy pants. Instead, school officials will lend them a belt.
Administrators at Northwestern High School in Rock Hilll, S.C., hope the change will cause students to think about how they dress and also reduce the number of students referred for discipline.
Previously, students whose pants sagged below their waist could be written up and sent to the principal's office.
Junior Joe Johnson says he doubts that loaning a belt for the day will deter teens, because many students already wear a belt on their sagging pants.
Principal James Blake says the school is willing to try anything to give students the opportunity to do the right thing.
A Laff or at least smile     
Emmitt Smith died and went to heaven. When he got to the pearly gates, St. Peter was waiting for him and issued Emmitt an invitation to play for the HFL- the heaven football league. Emmitt thought about it for a minute and said, "Sure!"
 As they walked out to the field, there was a game in progress. Emmitt was stunned. There were a lot of ex-NFL players out on that field. But what he found to be strange was that the jerseys didn't have any numbers. Instead they had letters on them. So he turned around and questioned St. Peter about the numbers.
St. Peter chuckled and told him, "Up here we don't need numbers. The letters stand for the position they are playing, QB is for quarterback, WR is for wide receiver and so on."
Emmitt smile and nodded his head. But as he gazed around the sidelines, he got a perplexed look on his face. On the other side of the field, there was a man wearing a jersey that had the letters TL. "St. Peter, as you know, I played football many years with the Dallas Cowboys and I am familiar with all the positions. But in all my years I have never seen the position of TL."
St. Peter laughed and said, "Oh yeah, I forgot. That's just God, he likes to pretend that he is Tom Landry."
Found on YouTube          

Daybook Information        
Happening This Week:
10-17

  • Human Rights Week 
Today Is                                                                       

  • Cocoa Day
  • Ice Cream Day: 1903 - patent for molded ice cream cups
  • Pick a Pathologist
  • Pal Day
  • Violins Day
  • Malta: Republic Day (1974)
Today’s Events                                                              
Arts
1843 - "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published, 6,000 copies sold
1913 - Mona Lisa stolen in Aug 1911 returned to Louvre
1928 - George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres (NYC)
1950 - James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial
1961 - Jimmy Dean's Big Bad John album is country music 1st million $ seller
1969 - Arlo Guthrie releases "Alice's Restaurant"
1995 - Christopher Reeves released from physical rehab center
Athletes
1922 - Charles Ebbets proposes putting numbers on players' sleeves or caps
1977 - 14 University of Evansville basketball players die in plane crash
2007 - The Mitchell Report is publicly released listing the names of 89 Major League Baseball players that have presumably used anabolic steroids and human growth hormones.
Business
1924 - KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
Education
1769 - Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter
Indigenous People
1636 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard.
1801 - In treaty negotiations which begin today at Fort Adams, MS, between the Choctaw and the United States, the U.S. agrees to provide training in the spinning of cotton and spinning wheels.
Politics [International]
1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around world
1642 - New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman
1918 - Wilson, becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as president (France)
1944 - Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138
1966 - 1st US bombing of Hanoi
1991 - Both Koreas sign an accord calling for reconciliation
1996 - Kofi Annan is elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Politics [US]
Religion
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Science
1903 - Wright Bros make 1st flight at Kittyhawk

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
Artists: [Authors, Composers]
1585 - William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet
1835 - Phillips Brooks, Episcopal bishop/composer (Little Town of Bethlehem)
Athletes
1913 - Archie Moore, light-heavyweight boxing champ (1952-60)
Entertainers [Actors, Singers…]
John Davidson, singer, actor, tv host is 70
Jamie Foxx, actor, comedian (In Living Color)is 44
1910 - Van Heflin, actor (Great Adventure, Madame Bovary)
Wendie Malick, actress (Just Shoot Me, Hot in Cleveland) is 61
1903 - Carlos Montoya, Madrid Spain, guitarist (Farruca)
Ted Nugent, guitarist (Cat Scratch Fever, Damn Yankees) is 63
Christopher Plummer, Toronto actor (Sound of Music, Doll's House) is 82
Taylor Swift, singer is 22
Dick Van Dyke, actor, comedian is 86
Richard Darryl Zanuck, film producer/executive is 77
Entrepreneurs & Educators
1899 - Harold Guinzburg, publisher (founder of Literary Guild)
Political Figures
1818 - Mary Todd Lincoln, 1st lady 
George P Schultz, US Secretary of State (1982-89) is 91
Scientists & Theologians
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Today’s Obits                                                           
1924 - Samuel Gompers, organizer (American Federation of Labor), dies at 74
1784 - Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer dies at 75
1993 - Myrna Loy, actress (Thin Man, Vanity Fair), dies at 88
1958 - Tim Moore, actor (Kingfish-Amos 'n' Andy), dies of TB at 70
1934 - Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell dies at 80
2007 - Floyd Red Crow Westerman, American actor dies of leukemia at 71

Answers                                                                                                                                            
NPR Sunday Puzzle—many other words also work
1.     Books of the bible: Mathew, Acts, Deuteronomy, Ruth, Ezekiel
2.     First Lady: Mamie, Abigail, Dolly, Roslyn Eleanor
3.     Things seen in a library: maps, atlas, dictionary,  reference, encyclopedia
Wuzzle

  • No two ways about it
  • We belong together
  • A big write off

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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