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MY FREE RAMBLING THOUGHTS
A nice Saturday around Flag. I try to stay out of the weekend traffic and shopping hassles. I did make a quick run to the Marketplace…picking up a few things at World Market and Home Depot. Thankfully I went early or late enough to miss any crowds. Home Depot can be quite busy on Saturday morning and World Market on Saturday afternoon. I was a little surprised at World Market. During the holidays there was very little room to walk around with tons of Christmas decorations, gift wrap, boxed gifts etc throughout the store. Today it almost looked like a store that was closing. It still has lots of stuff, but there is plenty of open space. For me, that makes it much easier to shop. They aren’t closing, just waiting for new shipments…at least that’s what they say. They have a very good selection of wines from around the world. I couldn’t resist another bottle of chocolate wine.
What a nice change in DC. Many of the freshman congressmen are going to live in their offices and not rent. Most of them are Tea Party people who say they mean business in saving money. Our own congressman showed off his ‘crib’. He has a Futon in a caged storage room across from his office. He has a toaster and a crock pot and a small refrigerator there too. He says he showers and cleans up in the house gym somewhere nearby. I get the money-saving thing. After working for the Feds, I wonder how this will all work out. Every year I had one or two employees who would stay in their classrooms until midnight, go back to their apartments and sleep, clean up and come back to work. One lady was caught sleeping In her classroom many times. One time I had an employee who lived in her car, which she parked in the school parking lot. All those employees had a good story, but somehow it was just a little over the top. Anyway, I can’t help but picture the late night bathroom use in the congress. How far is it to the nearest restroom? What are they wearing—their PJ’s and a robe? Finally, what about all the security cameras? I’m waiting for something to show up on You Tube. I should add that it was pointed out that only male members of Congress have taken to this money saving adventure.
Still no word has leaked on Keith’s departure from MSNBC. Lots of rumors, but nothing substantiated, yet. All the news organizations agree that he was the one on air man who made MSNBC what it is today. Yes he was controversial. Yes he was opinionated. A small organization can deal with all that, especially when it brings in viewers and revenue. As the network grew, it appears they didn’t want the hassles associated with controversy. Sure will be interesting to see how this all plays out.
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DID YOU KNOW THAT…
○ Candles will last a lot longer if placed in the freezer before you use them.
○Potatoes will take food stains off your fingers. Just slice and rub raw potato on the stains and rinse with water.
SOMEWHAT USELESS INFORMATION…
○Homosexuality stayed on the list of mental illnesses of the American Psychiatric Association until 1973.
○Segregation in public services was legal until 1964 (The Civil Rights Act of 1964).
¤… Who Wants to be a Millionaire PUZZLE
…answers at bottom…
1. In basketball, a shot made outside of the arc is worth how many points?
3 1 2 4
2. In what century was the War of 1812 fought?
36th 18th 19th 17th
3. In cartoons and comic strips, what is commonly displayed on a gravestone?
Me Ander I'm dead Remember me RIP
4. According to superstition, how many years of bad luck will you get if you break a mirror?
5 4 6 7
5. As of May 2001, which of the following is not a color of an M and M candy?
Green Brown Blue Tan
6. In which time period did the dinosaurs mainly live?
Cenozoic Mesozoic Precambrian Paleozoic
7. Who became the ultimate survivior in 'Survivor 2: Australian Outback'?
Elisabeth Colby Tina Keith
8. Who invented dynamite?
Alfred Nobel Charles Plunk Thomas Edison Ernest H. Verwiler
9. How many letters are in Richard Nixon's middle name?
7 9 6 8
10. According to Arthurian legend, where did Sir Bedivere throw the Excalibur when King Arthur died?
A lake T+hrough himself Through King Arthur The ground
11. The Latin word 'cygnus' means what when translated into English?
Swan Creature Hawk Shark
12. What Major League Baseball player once said, "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."
Lou Gehrig Babe Ruth Joe DiMaggio Jackie Robinson
13. Which of the following states' zip code's first number is not 8?
Wyoming Utah Arizona Oklahoma
14. The people who made the computer language BASIC created it where?
Honeywell IBM Dartmouth College MIT
15. Which political figure was born with the name Lev Davidovich Bronstein?
Leon Trotsky Joseph Stalin Vladimir Lenin Nikolai Bukharin
UNUSUAL NEWS ITEM… EDMONTON, Alberta
- The jeans a University of Alberta student wore daily for 15 months without washing them tested normal for bacteria levels at the end of the experiment. In Edmonton, student Josh Le, 20, told Postmedia News he bought the denim jeans in September 2009 and wore them daily -- and sometimes slept in them -- until last December. He said he used paper towels and napkins to dab away food spills and maintained his normal personal hygiene routine during the 15 months.
Every two weeks, he said he put the jeans in a freezer overnight and there never was a trace of odor. At the conclusion of the experiment, he and assistant human ecology Professor Rachel McQueen ran tests on the pants and found bacteria levels were the same as any other samples, the report said.
A LITTLE LAUGH…
A young man is reported to have approached the renowned composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (one of the great musical prodigies of all time), and asked, "Herr Mozart, I have the ambition to write symphonies and perhaps you can advise me how to get started."
Mozart said, "The best advice I can give you is to wait until you are older and more experienced, and then try your hand at less ambitious pieces."
The young man looked astonished. "But, Herr Mozart, you yourself wrote symphonies when you were considerably younger than I."
"Ah," said Mozart, "but I did so without asking advice."
¤…CLOSEUP PICTURE
Can you identify this close up picture
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DAYBOOK INFORMATION
¤…THIS WEEK…¤
17-23
National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week
18-25
Week of Christian Unity
20-30
Sundance Film Festival
22-25
Kid Film Festival
23-29
National Handwriting Analysis Week ◘ National Nurse Anesthetists Week ◘ World Leprosy Week
¤…TODAY IS…¤
National Handwriting Day
National Pie Day
Measure Your Feet Day
Snowplow Mailbox Hockey Day
Bulgaria: Babin Den (Midwives Day)
Luxembourg: Grand Duchess' Birthday: Charlotte: (reign--1919-64)
Pitcairn Island: Bounty Day, celebrate the burning of the HMS Bounty in 1790
Today’s Births
dd○ AUTHORS
1582 John Barclay Scottish satirist/Latin poet (Argenis)
1869 Herbert David Croly US author (Promise of American Life)
○ ATHLETES
Tito Ortiz, 36, mixed martial artist
○ BUSINESS & EDUCATION
Don Whittington, 65, American businessman, car & airplane racer
○ ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS/…)
Richard Dean Anderson, 61, actor (“Stargate SG-1,” “MacGyver”)
1899 Humphrey Bogart actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny, African Queen)
1907 Dan Duryea actor (Pride of the Yankees)
Gil Gerard, 68, actor (“Buck Rogers,” “Sidekicks”)
Mariska Hargitay, 47, actress (“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”)
1919 Ernie Kovacs comedian (Ernie Kovacs' Show)
1930 Ken Errair singer (Four Freshmen)
Chita Rivera (Conchita del Rivero), 78, singer, actress (The Kiss of the Spider Woman)
1898 Randolph Scott actor (Last of the Mohicans, Western Union)
Tiffani Thiessen, 37, actress (“Beverly Hills 90210,” “Saved by the Bell”)
○ POLITICIANS
Princess Caroline, 54, born Monte Carlo, Monaco
1737 John Hancock statesman and patriot
Antonio Villaraigosa, 58, Hispanic-American 52nd Mayor of Los Angeles
○ SCIENCE & RELIGION
1840 Ernst Abbe German physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company)
¤…Today’s Obituaries…¤
1997 Richard Berry lyricist (Louie Louie), heart failure @ 61
1990 Albert Collins guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), pneumonia @ 57
1989 Salvador Dalí Spanish Surrealist painter, @ 84
1976 Paul Robeson athlete/lawyer/singer, stroke @ 77
¤…Today’s Events…¤
○ ARTS
1975 "Barney Miller" premieres on ABC TV
1977 Miniseries "Roots" premieres on ABC
1986 1st induction of Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Domino, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis & Elvis Presley)
○ ATHLETICS
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○ BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1789 Georgetown, 1st US Catholic college, founded
1793 Humane Society of Philadelphia (first aid society) organized
○ INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1812 After Tecumseh visited the Creeks, he told them to wait for a sign which would tell then it was time to begin their uprising against the Europeans. Tecumseh said he would stamp the ground and make every house in Tuckabatchee fall down. Today, the Creek Nation will be shaken by an earthquake. Many of the younger braves will feel this is the awaited for sign. They will be cautioned by calmer heads to wait for a less ambiguous event.
1870 173 Blackfoot Indians (140 women & children) killed in Montana by US Army (Marias Massacre)
1907 Charles Curtis of Kansas began serving in the United States Senate. He was the first American Indian (Kaw, Osage and Pottawatomie) to become a U.S. Senator. He resigned in March of 1929 to become President Herbert Hoover’s Vice President.
○ POLITICS (US)
1845 Uniform US election day for President & Vice President authorized
1961 Supreme Court rules cities & states have right to censor films
1964 24th Amendment ratified, barring poll tax in federal elections
○ POLITICS (International)
1968 North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo (AGER-2), claiming the ship had violated their territorial waters while spying.
○ SCIENCE & RELIGION
0638 Start of Islamic calendar
1492 "Pentateuch" (Jewish holy book) 1st printed
1552 2nd version of Book of Common Prayer becomes mandatory in England
1930 Clyde Tombaugh photographs planet Pluto
1941 Ground breaking for NACA (now NASA) Lewis Research Center
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ANSWERS
¤…Millionaire ANSWERS…¤
1. In basketball, a shot made outside of the arc is worth how many points? 3
2. In what century was the War of 1812 fought? 19th
3. In cartoons and comic strips, what is commonly displayed on a gravestone? RIP
4. According to superstition, how many years of bad luck will you get if you break a mirror? 7
5. As of May 2001, which of the following is not a color of an M and M candy? Tan
6. In which time period did the dinosaurs mainly live? Mesozoic
7. Who became the ultimate survivior in 'Survivor 2: Australian Outback'? Tina
8. Who invented dynamite? Alfred Nobel
9. How many letters are in Richard Nixon's middle name? 7 (Milhous)
10. According to Arthurian legend, where did Sir Bedivere throw the Excalibur when King Arthur died? A lake
11. The Latin word 'cygnus' means what when translated into English? Swan
12. What Major League Baseball player once said, "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth." Lou Gehrig
13. Which of the following states' zip code's first number is not 8? Oklahoma
14. The people who made the computer language BASIC created it where? Dartmouth College
15. Which political figure was born with the name Lev Davidovich Bronstein? Leon Trotsky
¤…Close up Picture…¤
Scrubbing Sponge
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