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Flagstaff
Almanac…
Week: 37 / Day 253 : Today: High
75°…Low 56°
Records: High
88°(1977, ‘45)…Low 33°(1935)
Averages: High
75°…Low 45°
Wind: average: 3.9mph; Gusts:
11mph
Today’s average humidity: 74%
Quote
of the Day…
Today’s Historical
Highlights…
1997 - Sinn
Fein accepts Mitchell Principles on para-military disarmament
1993
- PLO recognizes state of Israel
1985 - President
Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa
1978
- Iraqi Ayatollah Khomeini calls for uprising in Irani army
1965
- Tibet is made an autonomous region of China
1950
- 1st use of TV laugh track-Hank McCune
1945
- 1st "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a
moth
was removed with tweasers from a relay & taped into the log
1939 - Nazi
army reaches Warsaw
1861 - Sally
Tompkins is only Confederate Army female commissioned officer
♪ Happy Birthday To: ♪..
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Free
Rambling Thoughts…
Clouds came, clouds left…only a little early morning rain.
I am getting fed up with my newspaper delivery person. I didn’t
get a paper on Wednesday or Friday. I didn’t call because I am tired of listening
to his complaints when he delivers the paper in the afternoon. Today was the
proverbial straw. I did call the paper on Friday and told them of my lack of
delivery. I told them to just deliver the paper with Saturday’s paper. When I
got the papers my carrier put a note inside that asked me: “How long do you
expect your papers to lay outside piling up when you are not home?” In the 8-10
times I haven’t got a paper, he has never once apologized…he always says that
someone took it. I go out and get the paper every morning between 7a and 7:30.
When I called the phone lady said that he was just trying to be nice and part
of their ‘security’ protocol is to let people know that it isn’t safe to leave
town and let several days papers pile up. I told her I was home and no papers
piled up. She said she didn’t appreciate me being ‘testy’ with her. In the end,
after I told her I didn’t want to talk to the carrier again, ever and related
his notes that are put in papers about saving the blue cover bags for him, so
he doesn’t have to buy them, and his twice a year note about how he reminds all
of us that he is handicapped, and the call he gave me a few months ago that he would
deliver my paper morning paper by 5pm because he was upstairs at his house and
wasn’t coming downstairs until 4pm, she decided that this complaint should be
sent to her supervisor for review. She reminded me that he is an independent
contractor but this behavior didn’t seem to fit into their guidelines. Really?!.
I tip him quite generously once a year when I pay my annual subscription and expect
better service. I’ll see if things get better.
Game Center: (answers at the end of post)
What
is the rhyming answer?
Answer
the following clue in two rhyming words (e.g. an obese feline is a fat cat) If
only one number is given, the answer is a word featuring internal rhyme (e.g.
voodoo)
MBI instead of IBM (12,9)
Rebus…
Can you figure
out what this means?
Lifestyle Substance…
Do you
remember this?
Read
This Headline Carefully!!
If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly It May Last a While
Do
you know what this word means?
What
is this not so common name of a common object?
Kerf
Whitewater
Fun…
First
Version/Hit Version…:
Elvis did not write his own music and that also in the 1950’s a lot of singers would sing the same songs so it should be no surprise that he was not the first to sing Hound Dog. The song was originally done by Big Mama Thornton and reached number one on the R&B charts with Elvis’ version coming out four years later. I would be natural to think that Elvis did a cover of Thornton’s song but that’s not exactly true. Notice how some of the lyrics are different between Thornton’s and Elvis’ and that some of the more famous lines seem to be missing from Thornton’s version? That’s because Elvis did a cover of the Freddie Bell version done in Las Vegas where Bell changed a few of the lyrics.
Harper’s
Index…
Percentage of lawyers and fast-food works, respectively, who say their jobs may make the world worse: 3.6, 42.3
Unusal
Fact of the Day…
The runner-up in career NBA assists is held by a player with the initials M.J., but surprisingly, it's neither Magic Johnson nor Michael Jordan. The playmaker in question is Mark Jackson.Found on You Tube…
Joke-of-the-day…
A policeman brought four boys before a judge.
"They were causing an awful lot of commotion at the zoo, your Honor," he said."Boys," said the judge sternly, "I never like to hear reports of juvenile delinquency.
Now I want each of you to tell me your name and what you were doing wrong.""My name is George," said the first boy, "and I threw peanuts into the elephant pen.""My name is Pete," said the second boy, "and I threw peanuts into the elephant pen.""My name is Mike," said the third boy, "and I threw peanuts into the elephant pen.""My name is Peanuts," said the fourth boy.
Rules
of Thumb…
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
FISHING FOR TROUT--If you can see the fish, the fish can see you.
Yeah,
It Really Happened…
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - A Florida teenager who admitted to posing as a police officer as part of a scheme to shoplift from a Walmart with a friend described himself as "stupid." The 17-year-old, whose name was not released, admitted to WPBF-TV, West Palm Beach, Fla., he wore a pellet gun on his hip and flashed a badge Monday at the Walmart in Port St. Lucie to "arrest" a 14-year-old friend he described to employees as a shoplifting suspect. However, an employee was suspicious and followed the boys to the parking lot, where the older teenager was seen releasing the younger boy. Police said the younger teen had taken several packages of Yu-Gi-Oh trading cards from the store. "I mean, everybody's stupid, just not like this," the 17-year-old told WPBF-TV. He has been charged with shoplifting, impersonating a police officer and resisting arrest without violence. The 14-year-old was arrested on charges of shoplifting and resisting arrest without violence.
Somewhat
Useless Information…
Returns tomorrow
Calendar
Information…
Happening This Week:
9-13: Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week / National
Assisted Living Week / National Historically Black Colleges &
Universities Week / Suicide Prevention Week / Line Dance Week
Today Is…
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Day
International Lace Day
National Grandparent's Day
National Hug Your Hound Day
Teddy Bear Day (1902--T. Roosevelt, he refused to
shoot a small bear and toy business picked up the story and started making
Teddy Bears for children.)
Wonderful Weirdoes Day
~Japan: Chrysanthemum Day (since 910)
~Tajikistan: Independence Day (1991 from Soviet
Union)
~US: California: Admission Day (1850—31st
state)
Today’s
Events Through History…
2000’s
2002 - Pitcher
Randy Johnson reaches 300 strikeouts for the fifth consecutive
season,
extending his major league record
1900’s
1987 - Gary
Hart admits on "Nightline," to cheating on his wife
1971 - 1,000
convicts riot & seize Attica, NY prison
1963 - Alabama
Gov George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders
of state police
to bar black students from enrolling in white schools
1955
- Elvis Presley's 1st appearance on Ed Sullivan's Show
1942 - 1st
bombing on continental US soil, Mount Emily Oregon (WW II)
1940 - 28
German aircraft shot down above England
1924 - Hanapepe
Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii
1912 - J
Verdrines becomes 1st to fly over 100 mph (107 mph/172 kph)
1904 - Mounted
police 1st used in NYC
1800’s
1850
- Territories of New Mexico & Utah created
1850 - The
"Robinson Treaty with the Ojibewa Indians of Lake Huron Conveying
Certain
Lands to the Crown" is signed in Canada.
1836 -
Alexander Le Grand is appointed by Texas leader David Burnet as Indian
Commissioner. He is charged with negotiating a peace treaty with the
Comanches
and the Kiowas.
1700’s
1753 - 1st
steam engine arrives in US colonies
1600’s
1675 - New
England colonies declare war on Wampanoag Indians
1500’s
1543 - Mary
Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the
central Scottish town of Stirling
Today’s
Birthdays…
In their 30’s
Michael Bublé, Canadian singer and actor is 37
In their 40’s
Adam Sandler, actor/comedian (Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, SNL)
will be 46
Goran Visnjic, Croatian actor is 40
In their 50’s
Hugh
Grant, London England (4 Weddings & a Funeral, 9 Months) is 52
In their 60’s
Angela
Cartwright, England (Make Room for Daddy, Lost in Space) is 60
Michael
Keaton, actor (Batman), is 61
Dee Dee
Sharpe, [Dione Larue], US singer (I Love You Anyway) is 67
Joe
Theismann, NFL QB (Redskins)/sportscaster is 63
Tom Wopat,
actor (Luke-Dukes of Hazzard) is 61
In their 80’s
Yusuf
al-Qaradawi, prominent Egypt Muslim cleric is 86
Remembered for
being born today
William
Bligh, nasty ship's captain (HMS Bounty) b.1754
Arthur
Freed, American songwriter and film producer b.1894
Alf
Landon, American politician b.1887
Otis
Redding, Dawson Ga, rock bassist (Sitting on the Dock of the Bay) b.1941
Cliff
Robertson, La Jolla California, actor (Charly)/spokesman for AT&T b.1925
Harland
Sanders, Henryville Ind, colonel/CEO (Kentucky Fried Chicken) b.1890
Jimmy
"the Greek" Snyder, gambler/sportscaster b.1918
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian writer (War & Peace, Anna Karenina) b.1828
Today’s
Historical Obits…
Larry
Hovis, American actor (Hogan’s Heros)-- esophageal cancer—2003—at 67
Catfish
Hunter, American baseball player—fall—1999—at 53
Bill
Monroe, bluegrass vocalist (created bluegrass music), --1996--at 84
Patrick
O'Neal, US actor (King Rat, Night of the Iguana), --TB / cancer—1994-- at 66
Albert
Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods
manufacturer—1965—at 65
Jack L
Warner, US movie production (Warner Bros), --1978—at 86
Mao Zedong,
Chinese communist party chairman (1949-76), --1976—at 82
Answers…
Do you know what
this word means?
the notch made by a cutting tool such as a saw. The size and number of teeth determines the smoothness of the kerf. Most saws have five to ten teeth per inch. For fine work, as many as 20 points will work best,
What is the answer?
Abbreviation deviation
Rebus
Once in a blue moon
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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