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Today’s “Geez”
- 1926 - Disappearance of Agatha Christie for 11 days after learning husband was unfaithful
- 1980 - "Bravo" network premieres on cable TV
- 1977 - 43rd Heisman Trophy Award: Earl Campbell, Texas (RB)
- 1895 - Battle at Amba Alagi: Ethiopian emperor Menelik II drives Italian general Baratieri's out
- 1776 - George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from NJ
- 1863 - Pres Lincoln offers amnesty for confederate deserters
- 1931 - Coaxial cable patented
♪♪ Happy Birthday To:♪♪
Free Rambling Thoughts
Got out early do some
serious gift buying…list of people…check…list of ideas…check…stores to hit…check.
I got a lot accomplished. We have three good ‘gift’ stores in a strip mall—World
Market, Marshalls, and Tuesday Morning. All got my business today. A little
shocked when the 20 something clerk asked for my birthday when I was buying
some wine at World Market. Since I don’t look under 30, under 40, under 50 I
figure it is none of their business. Besides they have my birthday in their
friggin computer as I am a ‘member’ and they send me a discount sale card every
year for my birthday. I do understand that underage drinking is a problem; I
understand that stores are just protecting themselves, but I don’t live in
fear. Some common sense needs to be taught to the computer or the clerks. The
poor guy just stood there. I finally said—that’s OK I don’t need the wine.
Suddenly, for some unexplained reason, he typed in a number, I got my wine, he
got my money. All liquor in AZ can be purchased at grocery stores, drug stores,
big box stores, and other places. I really prefer the CO way…where there are
real discount liquor stores—like Harry Hoffman’s and Apple Jacks. In CO, most
liquor is only sold in liquor stores, although I think beer and wine are now
available everywhere. They stay in business because their business is liquor and
to keep customers, they have big sales. Stores in AZ don’t ever really have
outstanding prices on liquor.
Our retirement group is
having lunch at a fancy bistro tomorrow. It is a converted turn-of-the-century
home in downtown Flag…a very nice restaurant that has great food. It should be a good time.
NPR Sunday Puzzle…(answers
at the end of post)
The four rarest
letters in the alphabet are J, Q, X and Z. You are given a familiar word and
must change one letter in it to a J, Q, X or Z to get another familiar word.
For example, given the clue "enact," the answer would be "exact."
1.
Gauge:
2.
Insure:
3.
Guest:
4.
Contest:
5.
Panamas:
6.
Coating:
7.
Tweeters:
8.
Election:
9.
Convey:
10. Empress:
11. Protector:
12. Suite:
13. Quarto:
14. Function:
15. Tenon:
16. Stargate:
Wuzzles…What concept or
phrase do these suggest?
Rules of Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
- If you are prone to car or bus travel sickness, look out preferably forward, and do not read. Car sickness happens because your brain gets confused by the discrepancy in information coming in from your eyes and your motion sensing. When both information streams match there is no travel sickness.
Hmmmmm
- Chances that a Russian believes that the sun revolves around the earth: 1 in 3
Somewhat Useless Information
- A NASCAR fan once sent over half a million e-mails to FOX Network because they aired a baseball game instead of the scheduled race.
- According to Donald Farr, editor of Super Ford Magazine, "Memory Lane Museum has the largest private collection of retired NASCAR and vintage race cars on display in existence."
Yeah, It Really Happened
NEW BALTIMORE, MI - A
Michigan woman may not have expected that new-car smell when she bought a used
vehicle but says she certainly didn't expect the odor of a dead body. In a
lawsuit filed in Oakland County Circuit Court, Margarita Salais of New Baltimore
alleges the dealership's staff sold her a 2006 Ford Expedition last March
without telling her it once held a dead body,
The Detroit News
reported Monday. "They bought the car while it was still cold out in
March," her attorney, Dani Liblang, told the News. "The warmer it
got, the worse the smell got." Salais said when she brought the car back
to the dealership someone told her the smell came from a dead animal. She said
she filed a claim with her insurance company, whose investigators determined
odor was of human origin.
The insurance company
later learned the car had been stolen three times, something Salais said the
dealer also failed to tell her. Her efforts to return the car were fruitless
and she now seeks $25,000 plus court fees, the News said.
Guffaw…or at least smile
During a robbery, one of
the robber’s mask slid down.
He looked at a man and
asked. Did you see my face?
The man said yes! The
robber shot him.
Then he asked a woman.
Did you see my face?
She said no, but my
husband over there did.
~*~ BONUS
A man and an ostrich
walk into a restaurant. The waitress asks, "What will it be?"
The man replied "a
burger and a coke." "And you?" "I'll have the same,"
the ostrich replies. They finish their meal and pay. "That will be
$4.50," The man reached into his pocket and pulled out the exact amount.
They do this every day till Friday
"The usual?"
she asked. "No, today is Friday. I'll have steak and a coke."
"Me too." says
the ostrich. They finish and pay. "That will be $10.95"
The man reached in and
pulls out the exact amount again just like all week.
The waitress was
dumb-founded. "How is it that you always have the exact amount?"
"Well," says
the man. "I was cleaning my attic and I found a dusty lamp. I rubbed it
and a genie appeared."
“Wow!" said the waitress.
"What did you wish for?"
"I asked that when I needed to pay for
something, the exact amount would appear in my pocket."
"Amazing! Most
people would ask for a million dollars. But what's with the ostrich?"
"Well," said the man. "I also asked for a chick with long
legs."
Searchin’ “YouTube” I found
Daybook Information
…Happening This Week:
4-10
- Clerc-Gallaudet Week:
- National Handwashing Awareness Week
Today Is
- Catholic: Feast of the Immaculate Conception [1854 - Pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate Conception, makes Mary, free of Original Sin]
- Take It In The Ear Day
~*~
- Uzbekistan: Constitution Day (1992)
Today’s Events
Arts
1813 - Ludwig von
Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A, premieres
1952 - 1st TV
acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
1965 - Abe Burrows'
"Cactus Flower," premieres in NYC
1967 - Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" album is released
Athletes
1951 - AL alters its
restrictions on night games, adopting NL's suspended game rule & lifting
its ban on lights for Sunday games
1955 - Brooklyn
catcher Roy Campanella wins his 3rd MVP Award
1956 - 16th Olympic
games close at Melbourne, Australia
1988 - Knick's set
NBA record of 11 3-pointers & sink Bucks, 113-109
1994 - Darryl
Strawberry indicted on tax evasion charges
Business
1792 - 1st cremation
in US, Henry Laurens
1962 - 114-day
newspaper strike begins in NYC
Education
1936 - NAACP files
suit to equalize salaries of black & white teachers
Indigenous People
1780: John Sevier, and
volunteers from North Carolina, soundly defeat the Chickamauga Cherokee in a
fight at Boyd's Creek, TN
1829:In his first
"State of the Union Address, President Andrew Jackson will state his goal
to remove all Indians in the southeastern part of the United States to lands
west of the Mississippi. A law to that effect would pass Congress on May 28, 1830.
Politics [International]
1659 - Mexican
border town Ciudad Juárez is founded by Fray García de San Francisco
1948 - Jordan annexs
Arabic Palestine
1987 - Occupied
Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel
1998 - Tadjena
massacre: 81 people are killed by armed groups in Algeria
2004 - The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco,
Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations
2008 - Kirsty
Williams elected as Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, first female leader
of a political party in Wales
Politics [US]
1863 - Abraham
Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction of South
1902 - Oliver
Wendell Holmes Jr became Associate Justice on Supreme Court
1953 - Dwight D.
Eisenhower gives the Atoms for Peace speech
Religion
1863 - Jesuit church,
Church of La Compana, Santiago Chile catches fire, 2,500 die in panic
1935 - The Japanese
military police launches a violent suppression of the religious sect Oomoto,
and arrest its leader Onisaburo Deguchi
Science
1909 - Bird banding
society found
2010 - With the
second launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first privately held
company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft
Today’s Birthdays
Artists: [Authors, Composers]
1832 - Bjørnstjerne
Bjørnson, Norwegian author and Nobel laureate
65 BC - Horace, Roman poet
1906 - Richard
Llewellyn, Welch novelist (How Green Was My Valley)
1943 - Jim Morrison,
American poet, singer (The Doors: Light My Fire, The End)
1894 – Elzie C.
Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye)
1894 - James
(Grover) Thurber, humorist (Men, Women & Dogs)
Athletes
Garvin Alston, pitcher
(Colorado Rockies) is 40
Entertainers [Actors, Singers…]
Gregg Allman,
guitarist/vocalist (Allman Brothers Band) is 64
Kim Basinger, actor is 58
1936 - David
Carradine, actor (Kung Fu, Mean Streets)
1911 - Lee J Cobb, actor
(Virginian, 12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront)
1925 - Sammy Davis
Jr, singer/dancer/actor (Ocean's 11, Candy Man)
Teri Hatcher, actor is 47
1937 - James
MacArthur, actor (Danny Williams-Hawaii 5-0)
Nick Nolte, actor
(Teachers, 48 Hours, North Dallas 40) is 71
Maximilian Schell,
Austrian actor/director (Odessa File, Julia) is 81
Sinéad O'Connor, Irish
musician is 45
1928 - James E
"Jimmy" Smith, US jazz/organist (Walk on the Wild Side)
1933 - Flip Wilson,
[Clerow], comedian (Flip Wilson Show)
Entrepreneurs & Educators
1903 - Adele
Simpson, fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1946)
Political Figures
1626 - Christina,
queen of Sweden who abdicated after becoming Catholic
Ann Coulter, American
author, political commentator, and attorney is 50
Scientists & Theologians
1765 - Eli Whitney,
inventor (Cotton Gin)
Today’s Obits
1995 - Mikki Doyle,
journalist, dies at 79
1980 - John Lennon,
assassinated by Mark David Chapman at 40
1978 - Golda Meir,
Israel's PM (1969-74), dies in Jerusalem at 80
1983 - Slim Pickins,
actor (Blazing Saddles), dies after brain surgery at 64
1982 - Marty
Robbins, country singer, dies after heart surgery complications at 57
1988 - Anne Seymour,
actress (Misty, Chevy Mystery Show), dies at 79
1992 - William
Shawn, US editor-in-chief (New Yorker, 1952-87), dies at 85
1903 - Herbert
Spencer, British engineer/philosopher, dies at 83
Answers
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.
Gauge:
gauze
2.
Insure:
injure
3.
Guest:
quest
4.
Contest:
context
5.
Panamas:
pajamas
6.
Coating:
coxing
7.
Tweeter:
tweezers
8.
Election:
ejection
9.
Convey:
convex
10. Empress: express
11. Protector: projector
12. Suite: quite
13. Quarto: quartz
14. Function: junction
15. Tenon: xenon
16. Stargate: stargaze
Wuzzle
- Bored stiff
- Eyed up and down
- Dead Sea Scrolls
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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