11/21/13


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Flagstaff Almanac:
Week: 47/ Day: 325   
Today: L 34°H 44° Ave. humidity: 75%
Wind: ave:   11mph; Gusts:  23mph  
Average Low: 21° Record Low: -5 ° (1979)
Average High: 49° Record High:  70° (1950)

Quote of the Day
 
Today’s Historical Highlights
1st flight of Concorde (London to New York)…1977
1st human cannonball, Emilio Onra, is shot…1871
1st US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced…1952
British Natural History Museum announces "Piltdown skull” was a hoax…1953
China prohibits opium trade…1906
Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating (83 mill)…1980
Fire at MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84…1980
Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over Pres Ford's veto…1974
Harry Truman becomes 1st US president to travel in a submerged sub…1946
Jack Benny (violin) & Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet…1959
JFK flies to Texas…1963
Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims in Cape Cod…1620 
Spanish trader builds Fort Raymond at the confluence of Yellowstone and 
     Bighorn Rivers…1807
World's longest suspension bridge "Verrazano Narrows" opens (NYC)…1964

 Today’s Birthdays:    
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays
 
My Free Rambling Thoughts   
Dr. sez things are going well for my latest cataract surgery. I say I am doing fine, too. I hung around the house all day as it is still a little bright to spend much time outside. Tomorrow everything should be back to normal. Things are a little blurry and now my glasses only make things worse in both eyes. New glasses in about a month.
 
Of course, all these drugs and change in sleeping habits the past few days messed up my body and I got to deal with my angio-edema (swollen lip) this afternoon. I caught it early, so should be OK in a couple of hours.
 
I remembered that I also had my South Africa trip on the old hard drive, so spent some time to find those pics. Found them all, moved them to the new-er computer. Then I decided it was time to put all the pictures on CD’s. With all my international travel, it took about two hours to make the disks, but now I have everything on my computer, and a back-up on discs. I have over 20 gigabytes of pictures total. That’s one heck of a lot of pictures. Of course I took all of them at the highest resolution available on my cameras. Amazed at how many pictures I actually have.
 
I have wanted to go to Burma/Miramar for quite some time. Ellie and Focus have set up a trip, but it will probably not happen…flight from Denver to Burma, one night there then a 16 day river cruise, then one night in some town, and a return flight to Denver would be almost $10K. That is way more than any of my other trips, and I just don’t think it is worth it. I’m sure there is lots to see, but I fear that the government is charging horrific prices for tour operators to come over there. Even though they have just recently opened to Western tourists and eased some of their stranglehold on their own countrymen, I’m just not ready to give that much money for a trip., In a few more years, I’m sure things will become a little more affordable.
 
Can’t believe a US Congressman pleads guilty to purchasing cocaine and gets a year probation and keeps his job. His excuse is that he is an alcoholic and that is what made him make such a stupid purchase. I’ve heard that twice this week…Toronto’s mayor said he was ‘really wasted’ when he was videotaped smoking cocaine. I’m all for forgiveness and second chances, but these two cases seem a little strange.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Replace each word or words in parentheses with a one-word synonym to decipher a common phrase.
1. (Performances) (converse) (noisier) than (terms). 2. (More superior) (delayed) than (not at all). 3. (Sublime) (mental abilities) (contemplate) (similarly).

Lifestyle  Substance:     
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

Very Strange Laws…Oregon
  • Dishes must drip dry.
  • The “Peer Review Statute” prohibits you from finding out details of any written or oral discussion about yourmedical treatment.
  • It is illegal to whisper “dirty” things in your lover’s ear during sex.
  • Ice cream may not be eaten on Sundays.
  • It is illegal to buy or sell marijuana, but it is legal to smoke it on your own property.
  • One may not bathe without wearing “suitable clothing,” Canned corn is not to be used as bait for fishing.
  • Drivers must yield to pedestrians who are standing on the sidewalk.
  • One may not test their physical endurance while driving a car on a highway.
  • It is illegal to place a container filled with human fecal matter on the side of any highway.
  • Babies may not be carried on the running boards of a car.
  • Drivers may not pump their own gas.
  • A door on a car may not be left open longer than is necessary.
  • An adult may not show a minor any piece of classical artwork which depicts sexual excitement.
  • Eugene
  • --It is illegal to show movies or attend a car race on Sundays. /It is legal to conduct a horse race or a symphony concert.
  • Hood River--Juggling is strictly prohibited without a license.
  • Klamath River--It’s illegal to walk down a sidewalk and knock a snakes head off with your cane.
  • Marion--You cannot eat a doughnut and walk backwards on a city street.

OK Then…


Harper’s Index 
Projected height in feet, of a Saudi skyscraper financed by the bin Laden family that will be the tallest in the world: 3,281000
Unusual Fact of the Day
The average album length has increased from 40 minutes in the LP era to well over an hour in the CD era. Most double-album LPs can fit onto a single CD.


Joke-of-the-day
Teacher: " George Washington not only chopped down his father's Cherry tree, but also admitted doing it. Now do you know why his father didn't punish him?"
One Student: " Because George still had the axe in is hand."
Rules of Thumb:   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
OFFERING HELP
Some people aren't really looking for help. If someone responds to three valid suggestions with a "yes, but..." he or she is more interested in playing games than solving problems.    
Yeah, It Really Happened
WAUKESHA, Wis. - Police in Wisconsin said a man called 911 to demand officers remove a snoring woman whose name he didn't know from his bed. Waukesha police said local man Benjamin Duddles called 911 around 4:21 a.m. Nov. 10 and said he needed officers to remove a woman who was "snoring like a train" in his bed, the Chicago Tribune reported Thursday. Duddles, who admitted he had been drinking, told the dispatcher he could not remember the woman's name and he had brought her home because they had been "talking." Duddles held the phone up in his bedroom to give a sample of the snoring sounds to the dispatcher, who sent officers to the home. The officers woke the woman, who told police she suffers from sleep apnea, a condition that can cause loud snoring. The police report said officers told Duddles they would not forcibly remove the woman from his apartment. "He was advised this was not a police matter because he allowed her in. He was provided the comfort of his couch for the evening and to work out the 'issue' in the morning," the report said.  
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • In a period when there were no smartphones, soldiers from the U.S. invented a practical way to see pictures of their wives or girlfriends during the WWII. They used to put pictures on shaped pieces of plexiglass from downed planes into pistol grips.
  • Through ‘Germanization’ the Nazis used to take Polish children, mentally bombing them with the racial superiority of the Germans and finally Germanize them. After the WWII only 10-15% did ever returned and in many cases they did not remember neither their biological parents nor their native language.

Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
17-23: American Education Week / National Book Awareness Week

Today Is                                                                       
·        Alascattalo Day (About Alaska & humor)
·        Beaujolais Nouveau Day (used to see heavy marketing, with races to get the first bottles of wine to different markets around the globe)
·        Great American Smokeout
·        Use Less Stuff Day
·        World Hello Day
·        World Television Day
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·        US: North Carolina: Ratification Day (1789; 12th state)

Today’s Events through History  
HMHS Britannic sinks in the Aegean Sea after a mine explodes, killing 30 people..1916
General Motors workers go on strike
…1945
TV cameras permitted in British House of Commons…1989

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
Joseph Campanella, NYC, actor (Lou-Mannix) is 86
Marlo Thomas, [Mrs Phil Donahue], (That Girl!) is 76
Earl "the Pearl" Monroe, Phila Pa, NBA Guard (NY Knicks, Balt Bullets) is 69
Goldie Hawn, actress (Laugh-in, Private Benjamin) is 68
Nicollette Sheridan, Worthing England, actress (Desperate Housewives) is 50
Troy Aikman, NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys - Superbowl 1992) is 49

Remembered for being born today
Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], France, writer, essayist, philosopher, 
     playwright [1694- 1778]
Tom Horn, Old West lawman [18660-1903]
Stan Musial, outfielder (St Louis Cardinal, 7 times NL bat champ) [1920-2013]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, American artist and writer…2010…@95
Harry Von Zell, TV announcer (Burns & Allen)…cancer…1981…@75
Robert Stroud, "bird man of Alcatraz"…in solitary…1963…@73
Florence Harding, American First Lady…renal failure…1924…@64  
Max Baer, US, heavyweight boxing champ (1934)…heart attack…1959…@49

Brain Teasers
1. Actions speak louder than words. 2. Better late than never. 3. Great minds think alike.
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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