Jun 8

 

 

 

Jun 8, 2021   Week: 24    Day: 159

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 40%

Local: H 79°\ L 43°

Wind:  9mph/ Gusts:  15mph

EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  133mi Nearest Lightning: 376mi.

Jun Averages: 70°/42° (1 day w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

 

Random Tidbits

 

Only 2% of Earth population naturally has green eyes.

Having bridesmaids in a wedding wasn’t originally for moral support. They were intended to confuse evil spirits or those who wished to harm the bride.

 

Humor

 

A tough old Badlands rancher once told his grandson that the secret to long life was to sprinkle a little gunpowder on his oatmeal every morning. The grandson did this religiously, and he lived to be 93. When he died, he left 14 children, 28 grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren … and a 15-foot hole in the wall of the crematorium.

 

Real Cities

 

Booger Hole, West Virginia is an unincorporated community in northern Clay County, West Virginia. It is in the Rush Fork Valley, near the town of Ivydale.

In 1917, the community was subjected to "about a dozen" murders during a short period of time. A special grand jury was convened to investigate the incidents, and the community itself formed what they referred to as a "mob", posting notices threatening to "get bloodhounds and detectives and run [the murderer] to the ends of the earth." Although folklore has it that the community's name derived from this violence – "booger" being a local usage for the "boogieman" – a contemporary press account clearly shows that the community was already called "Booger Hole" at the time of the murders.

 

True Things

 

Oops!

Federal Judge Jesse M. Furman ruled in U.S. District Court in Manhattan on Feb. 16 that Citigroup could not expect to receive repayment of nearly $500 million of the $900 million it mistakenly wired to a group of lenders last year after a contractor checked the wrong box on a digital payment form. Intending to make only an interest payment to the lenders on behalf of its client Revlon, Citi instead wired payment in full for the entire loan, and after realizing its error, asked for the money back, but some of the lenders refused, according to The New York Times. Judge Furman found that the lenders were justified in assuming the payment had been intentional. "To believe that Citibank, one of the most sophisticated financial institutions in the world, had made a mistake ... to the tune of nearly $1 billion, would have been borderline irrational," he said in his ruling. Citi vowed to appeal. [New York Times, 2/16/2021]

 

Weekly Observations

 

National Marina Days Link

5/31-6/9  

International Clothesline Week

5-12 

National Lemonade Days Link

5-13 

Bedbug Awareness Week Link
Black Single Parents Week
End Mountain Top Removal Week 
Link   
National Automotive Service Professionals Week
National Business Etiquette Week 
National Headache Awareness Week
Link  
Pet Appreciation Week 
Link

 

 

 

 

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Today’s Observations

 


Best Friends DayCall Your Doctor Day Link  
Chicken Tetrazzini Day

Ghostbusters Day Link
Name Your Poison Day

National Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Link
National Jelly-filled Doughnut Day

Upsy Daisy Day
World APS Day 
Link
World Ocean Day Link
World Pet Memorial Day
 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Cloudy with no hint of moisture in the whole week. Sad.

The FBI has assisted in recovering the millions that Colonial Pipeline paid to stop the ransomware issue. Good for them. Great news to start the week. Now it’s time for the far-right to acknowledge this. It sure would be nice if gas prices would go down now.

I had a quick appointment with the eye doc to talk about my field of vision test a few months ago. All good. Yeah!

Mary is returning to Oregon this week for the memorial service for her brother who passed a few weeks ago. No lunch with our retiree group this week.

News I didn’t know: There is an Aluminum shortage to make AZ license plates. Those who ordered new plates or specialty plates after May 20th will start receiving said plates after June 14th. In the meantime, they will get paperwork to keep in their vehicle to show they have ordered correct plates.

 

Daily Riddle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat and didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?

 

Historical Events

 

1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments (Bill of Rights) to the United States Constitution in Congress.

1905 US President Theodore Roosevelt sends identical notes to Japan and Russia urging them to negotiate and end hostilities, offering his personal services

1912 – Universal Pictures was founded by Carl Laemmle.

1937 World's largest flower blooms in NY Botanical Garden, 12' calla lily

1938 Gert Terblanche, a local school boy, discovers fossils of an unknown 'robust-type' human ancestor, later named Paranthropus robustus by Robert Broom, at Kromdraai, Blaauwbank River Valley in South Africa1949 – George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four was published.

1953 – The United States Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.

1960 Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann

1996 Revival of the legendary procession of Lady Godiva (Godgifu) naked through Coventry, England

2017 Ex-FBI chief James Comey testifies to a US Senate committee that US President Donald Trump told "lies plain and simple"

2018 World's most powerful supercomputer, Summit, can process 200,000 trillion calculations per second, launched at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, by IBM and NVidia

2020 Former astronaut Kathy Sullivan is the first woman to reach deepest point of the ocean - Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench. Formerly the first American woman to spacewalk.

2020 Lockdowns for COVID-19 in Europe saved 3 million lives according to study by Imperial College London

 

Birthdays Today

 

@92 – Jerry Stiller, American comedic actor (d. 2020)

@92 – Barbara Bush, 1st Lady (d. 2018)

@91 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (d. 1959)

85 – James Darren [James William Ercolani ], American actor, singer

@81 – Joan Rivers, American comedian, actress, and television host (d. 2014)

81 – Nancy Sinatra, singer

70 – Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer-songwriter

64 – Scott Adams, American author and illustrator, Dilbert creator

63 – Keenen Ivory Wayans, American actor, director, screenwriter

44 – Kanye West, American rapper, producer

 

Puzzle Answer

 

He was bald.

 

 

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