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Flagstaff Almanac: Week: 15/ Day: 100 Today: H 42°…L 30°
Wind: ave: 11mph; Gusts: 29mph Ave. humidity: 66%
*Averages: H
56° L 27°
Records: H 75°(199)…L 9°(1953)
Quote of the Day
Today’s Historical Highlights
1st ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in specific area of Venice…1516
1st hotel in Hawaii opens…1825
1st human cannonball act performed in London…1877
Belfast Agreement is signed…1998
Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9…1869
Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to Brit
Parliament…1981
Magicians Penn & Teller 1st meet…1974
Robert Gray is 1st American to circumnavigate the Earth…1790
US Patent system forms…1790
US table tennis team arrives in China PR…1971
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How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Free Rambling Thoughts
Cloudy, a little windy, awoke to snow on the
ground, but that was soon gone. I didn’t spend a lot of time outside. I did
pick up my taxes from the preparer. I am getting a refund, so that beats last
year’s bill I owed. As a single person, I’m still paying what I consider more
than my fair share of tax. I am not complaining exactly, as after visiting so
many 3rd world nations in Africa and living on the Rez for my
career, I am glad to be able to live in a country that still has so many
freedoms. It certainly could be better, but after looking around, it could be
so much worse. I will continue to try to make this a better country, but I won’t
complain about paying my share.
While sitting around today, I started looking
over my many trips pictures. Still looking for the ones from my first international
trip to Scotland, and my first African trip to Egypt. They are on a disc,
somewhere in my office, just haven’t found them yet. I did find some cool CD’s
for others who traveled with me, and enjoyed looking at them. I am amazed how pictures
can take me right back to the trip. Maybe it’s the computer screen size, or
maybe my ol’ brain is still holding those memories for me to recall whenever
something stimulates it.
Glad to announce that the wild birds have
returned to my back area. Usually during the winter I have had quite a few stay
around, but this year, there were basically none. Nice to have them back. I
hope they know the food will keep coming as long as they eat what is there.
Finally a vote is coming up on gun control. It
isn’t as strong as many wanted…but at least there will be a vote. The
filibuster threat should not be a threat to anyone. I still remember when the
Civil Rights Act of 1964 was finally passed after good ol’ boy Strom Thurmond and
others filibustered for days to stop the vote. They lost out, and by the way,
looked out of touch back then, and history has shown they were wrong. People
remember and if the politicians who filibustered didn’t change their rhetoric,
they were soon gone from Congress. The NRA doesn’t represent most Americans.
When I was a kid growing up, I took several NRA classes on gun safety and was
glad I did. As an adult, I took an NRA gun safety class and was glad I did.
That should still be the main emphasis of the NRA. They have no business in
politics where they represent a very small minority of America, and even a
small minority of their membership. I’m still wondering how they got such a
voice in politics…it has to be more than the ‘my cold dead hand’ comment of an
actor. Check out this Jim Carrey Parody
Game
Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain Teasers
Decipher the following rebus:
GOT
GOT
GOT
GOT
HEROES
HEROES
HEROES
HEROES
HEROES
HEROES
HEROES
HEROES
HEROES
HEROES
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Origins of Phrases
A good man is hard to find
Meaning A modern-day proverb,
bemoaning the difficulty of finding a suitable male partner.
Origin
This phrase was coined by Eddie Green,
as the title of his song A Good Man Is Hard To Find. This was
composed in 1918 and first offered for sale as a piano roll in the Fort
Wayne Journal-Gazette, on 12th December that year (just in time for
Christmas - a bargain at 90 cents):
A good man is hard to find
You always get the other kind
Just when you think that he is your pal
You look for him and find him fooling 'round some other gal
Then you rave, you even crave
To see him laying in his grave
So, if your man is nice, take my advice and hug him in the morning, kiss him ev'ry night,
Give him plenty lovin', treat him right
For a good man nowadays is hard to find, a good man nowadays is hard to find.
You always get the other kind
Just when you think that he is your pal
You look for him and find him fooling 'round some other gal
Then you rave, you even crave
To see him laying in his grave
So, if your man is nice, take my advice and hug him in the morning, kiss him ev'ry night,
Give him plenty lovin', treat him right
For a good man nowadays is hard to find, a good man nowadays is hard to find.
A similar though more general outlook
was expressed in the Bible, Micah 7:2 (King James Version):
The good man is perished out of the
earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood;
they hunt every man his brother with a net.
We don't know if Eddie Green was an
Old Testament scholar, but it seems unlikely that he got the line from Micah.
The best-known version of the song was
recorded by Sophie Tucker, who adopted it as a signature tune. She was a little
more charitable in her delivery of the lyric and sang the second line as
"You may get the other kind".
Sophie Tucker was born Sophie Kalish;
she changed her name and adopted Tucker as a stage name, following a brief
marriage to Louis Tuck. It is interesting to speculate whether she was
influenced to use Tucker by the style of dress she often wore on stage - see best
bib and tucker.
In the good man/good woman stakes, men
got in a pre-emptive strike in the 17th century. Abraham Darcie's workThe
originall of idolatries, or the birth of heresies, 1624, includes this
opinion:
"There is nothing more hard to
find in this world than a good woman, a good Mule, and a good Goat, being three
vnhappie beasts."
More recently, and in what must be one
of the most convoluted titles ever to grace a bookstand, we have Jo Lynne
Pool's 1995 book title - A Good Man Is Hard To Find Unless You Ask God
To Be Head Of Your Search Committee.
Ok, then?
Harper’s Index
Factor by which employees claims of wage and hour violations increased in the past decade: 3.5
Picture of the Day: Rainforest Medicines
Unusual Fact of the Day
The woman wearing nothing but dessert topping on the cover of Herb Alpert’s classic album Whipped Cream and Other Delights was actually wearing shaving cream because of the hot lights.
Joke-of-the-day
Rules of Thumb:A man asked his wife what she'd like for her birthday. "I'd love to be eight again." she replied. On the morning of her birthday, he arose early, made her a nice big bowl of Coco Pops, and then took her off to the local theme park. What a day! He put her on every ride in the park: the Death Slide, the Wall of Fear, the Screaming Monster Roller Coaster, everything there was. Five hours later she staggered out of the theme park. Her head was reeling and her stomach felt upside down. Right away, they journeyed to a McDonald's where her loving husband ordered her a Happy Meal with extra fries and a refreshing chocolate shake. Then it was off to the movies: the latest Star Wars epic, a hot dog, popcorn, all the Coke she could drink, and her favorite M&M's. What a fabulous adventure! Finally she wobbled home with her husband and collapsed into bed exhausted. He leaned over his precious wife with a big smile and lovingly asked, Well, Dear, what was it like being eight again?" Her eyes slowly opened and her expression suddenly changed. "I meant my dress size!!!!!!!The moral of the story: Even when a man is listening, he's gonna get it wrong.
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
CHOOSING A TIE
It is more important for the color of a man's necktie to agree with the color of his shirt and trousers than with his jacket.
Yeah, It Really Happened
A woman has been detained in San Diego after attempting to steal a 120-foot research vessel while scientists were sleeping aboard the boat.The woman, whose name has not been released, was seen untying the dock lines of a research ship called "New Horizon" around 2 a.m. on Tuesday by a security guard, KNSD-TV reported. The guard detained her until police arrived on the scene.“The female had gone over the fence and was attempting to untie the dock lines from one of their research vessels,” San Diego police Lt. Mark Bennett told UT San Diego. “She was apparently suffering from mental distress and was looking to get back to South Carolina."The 120-foot vessel is owned by Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and docked on property owned by the agency. Despite the presence of guards, the woman was able to access it by jumping over a fence, KGTV-TV reported.The woman has not been charged. Instead, officers turned her over to County of San Diego Mental Health, KSWB-TV reported.
Somewhat Useless Information
- A "Blue Moon" is the second full moon in a calendar month (it is rarely blue).
- A bibliophile is a collector of rare books. A bibliopole is a seller of rare books.
- A ghost writer pens an anonymous book.
- A magic potion or charm thought to arouse sexual love, especially toward a specific person, is known as a "philter."
- A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called an epithalamium.
- A speleologist studies caves.
- Anagrams amused the ancient Greeks, Romans and Hebrews, and were popular during the Middle Ages.
- "Aromatherapy" is a term coined by French chemist René Maurice Gattefossé in the 1920's to describe the practice of using essential oils taken from plants, flowers, roots, seeds, etc., in healing.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
4-10
Testicular Cancer
Awareness Week
Hate Week
7-13
National Animal
Control Appreciation Week
National Blue
Ribbon Week
National Public Health Week
National Public Health Week
Today Is
ASPCA (American
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) Day
Commodore Perry Day
Commodore Perry Day
Golfers Day
National Farm Animals Day
National Sibling Day
Salvation Army Founder's Day
Safety Pin Day 1849 patent
National Sibling Day
Salvation Army Founder's Day
Safety Pin Day 1849 patent
Today’s Events through History
1st hotel in Hawaii opens…1825
1st law regulating copyright is issued in Great Britain…1710
APACHEs raid the San Xavier mission, south of Tucson, and steal
livestock…1871
Dr Jonas Salk successfully tests Polio vaccine…1955
"House of Wax," 1st 3-D movie, released (NYC)…1953
Last automat (coin operated cafeteria) closes (3rd & 42nd St, NYC)…1991
Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in major league baseball (Dodgers)…1947
Synthetic rubber 1st produced…1930
Today’s Birthdays
In their 80’s
Omar Sharif, [Michael Shalhoub], Egypt, actor
(Dr Zhivago, Top Secret) is 81
In their 70’s
John
Madden, NFL coach (Oakland Raiders)/sports commentator (CBS, FOX) is 77
In their 60’s
Steven Seagal, Detroit MI, actor (Above the
Law, Hard to Kill) is 61
Under 30
Mandy
Moore, singer, actress is 29
Remembered
for being born today
James Bowie, American pioneer and soldier [1796-1836]
Chuck Connors, actor (Rifleman, Branded,
Cowboy in Africa) [1921-1992]
Don Meredith, NFL QB (Cowboys)/Mon Night
Football [1938-2010]
Harry Morgan, actor (December Bride, M*A*S*H,
Dragnet) [1915-2011]
Matthew Calbraith Perry, Commodore, opened Japan [1794-1858]
Frances Perkins, 1st woman to hold
cabinet-level position (Labor), [1880-1965]
Joseph Pulitzer, Hungary, publisher (St Louis
Post-Dispatch, NY World) [1847-1911]
"Alvin" Junior Samples, country
singer (Hee Haw) [1926-1983]
Lewis Wallace, Major General (Union
volunteers)/author (Ben Hur) [1827-1905]
Sheb Wooley, Erick Oklahoma, vocalist (Purple
People Eater, Hee Haw) [1921-2003]
Today’s Historical Obits
Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet…1601…at 39
Dixie Carter, actress, [Designing Women]…cancer…2010…at
70
Simon Fokke, book illustrator…1784…at 71
Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and painter…TB/cirrhosis…1931…at
48
Larry Linville, actor [MASH]… Pneumonia…2000…at 60
Little Eva, American singer…cancer…2003…at 59
Marjorie Main, actress (Ma & Pa Kettle)…1975…at
85
Answer: Brain Teasers
Forgotten Heroes! Four "got" ten "heroes"
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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