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TODAY’s “Geez”
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- 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♪♪
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Free Rambling Thoughts
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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
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- Minimum amount Quaddafi held in US banks at the time his assets were frozen: $29,900,000,000
Somewhat Useless
Information
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- 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
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- 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
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Daybook Information
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…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
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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
--
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
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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…)
1916
- Peter Finch, British actor
(Network, Windom's Way, Raid on Entebbe)
1902 - Ed Sullivan, TV variety show
host/gossip columnist (Ed Sullivan Show)
ENTREPRENEURS & EDUCATORS
--
POLITICIAL FIGURES
--
SCIENTISTS & THEOLOGISTS
--
Today’s Obits
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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
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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
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
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
a.
Richard Gere
14.
What woman achieved
the highest altitude for a woman astronaut in 1993?
a.
Kathryn Thornton
Wuzzle
The Second Time Around
Think Twice Before Speaking
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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