Jul 10,
2021 Week: 28 Day: 191
Ave. Sky Cover: 30%\Visibility:
10 miles
Local Temp: 92°\ 57°
Wind: 1mph\ Gusts: 5mph
EXTREME risk
of fire
Active fire: 28mi. \
Lightning: 11mi.
Jul Averages: 82°\51° (9 days
w/moisture)
Today’s Quote
Random Tidbits
Spaghetti and meatballs
are not considered an Italian dish, though they were made by Italian immigrants
in the U.S. If you go to Italy you won't find spaghetti and meatballs on their
menus because they don't put meatballs in their pasta.
True Things
Awesome!
Julia Yonkowski of Largo,
Florida, only needed a $20 bill when she visited the ATM at Chase Bank on June
19, but she decided to check her balance while she was there. What she saw on
the paper slip surprised her: a balance of $995,985,856. "I was horrified,"
she told WFLA-TV. "I know most people would think they won the lottery,
but I was horrified." She's tried several times to contact Chase, but she
can't get through to anyone. "I get tied up with their automated system
and I can't get a person," she said. "I don't know what to
think." [WFLA-TV, 6/21/2021]
Idioms Origins
Let’s Get Ready To Rumble
“Let’s
Get Ready To Rumble” is all Michael Buffer. He started using the phrase in the
1980s but got the Trademark in 1992. He’s made Hundreds of Million Dollars on
this phrase; he has the perfect for making the pronouncement. He owns the
phrase and has sued over 100 times for copyright violations, and says he’s won
every one of them. I’m a little afraid to say the phrase out loud.
Weekly Observations
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Tour de
France Link |
Thru 7/18 |
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Running of The Bulls (Spain) |
6-14 |
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Freedom
Week Be Nice To New Jersey Week Nude Recreation Weekend Punxsutawney Groundhog Days |
4-10 |
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Creative Maladjustment Week Link |
7-14 |
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Sports Cliché Week: Link |
9-13 |
Today’s Observations
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National Kitten Day Nikola Tesla Day Oils & Concentrates Day Link Piña Colada Day Link
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My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
A little shower dropped the temperature from a sweltering 92 to a
pleasant 88.
I headed out early to get some essentials. Tried to beat the
traffic but was only partially successful.
There are a business model I don’t understand: cable TV. They
charge every station a fee to run on their cable, then they charge every
subscriber to watch the shows. And only rent their box to customers. They get
money from both sides. If the station won’t pay their fee, the customers lose
the channel. If the customer doesn’t pay the bill, the stations lose a viewer.
My parents didn’t get cable TV until years after my brother and I moved out. We
had over-the-air with a roof antenna. No cost, except for the TV.
Trump is suing the big tech companies that blocked him. His
personal lawyer can’t practice law. This will lead to depositions from all
sides. Trump may have added another nail to his political coffin.
At a young age, I didn’t appreciate the talent on the Ed Sullivan
Show. I watched the Top 50 music acts and the comedians. ME-TV, a cable channel
I get, how is running 30 minute composites of the talent. It is interesting and
nostalgic. Check your local listings for ME-TV on Sunday evening.
2 New Puzzles Everyday
Answer: bottom of the page
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Comfort Close Comfort Close Comfort Comfort
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Death Life |
Historical Events
1553 – Lady Jane Grey began her 9-day reign on the throne of England.
1892 – The first concrete-paved street was built on Court Avenue,
around the Logan County Court House, in Bellefontaine, Ohio.
1913 – Death Valley, California, hits 134 °F (57 °C), the highest
temperature recorded in the United States.
1921 – (Sunday) Bloody Sunday: Sixteen people were killed
and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern
Ireland.
1925 – In Dayton, Tennessee, the Monkey Trial began with John T. Scopes, a high school science teacher accused of teaching the theory of evolution in violation of the Butler Act. The law was repealed on May 17, 1967.
1938 – Howard Hughes set a record by completing a 91-hour airplane
flight around the world.
1962 – The patent (#3,043,625) was issued to Nils Bohlen, for the
three-point car seat-belt.
1962 – Telstar, the world’s first communications satellite, was
launched into orbit. An instrumental pop tune by The Tornadoes titled after the
event reached #1 on the Billboard Pop Music Chart.
1971 National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC) founded in US by women
including Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Myrlie Evers-Williams
and Gloria Steinem
1985 French foreign intelligence agents blow up the Greenpeace boat
Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor, New Zealand to prevent it interfering with
French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira
is killed.
1991 Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected President of the Russian
Federation
2020 Sixth century cathedral Hagia Sophia turned into a mosque by
decree issued by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (converted to a mosque
1453-1934)
Birthdays Today
@88 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, co-founded the Special
Olympics (d. 2009)
@86 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer
(d. 1943)
@82 – David Brinkley, American journalist (d. 2003)
@74 – Adolphus Busch, German brewer, co-founded
Anheuser-Busch (d. 1913)
74 – Arlo Guthrie, American singer-songwriter
@71 – Ron Glass, American actor (d. 2016; respiratory
failure)
@66 – Fred Gwynne, American actor (d. 1993; cancer)
@49 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player and journalist (d.
1993; AIDS)
49 – Sofía Vergara, Colombian-American actress, model
41 – Jessica Simpson, American singer-songwriter and actress
Puzzles Answer
Too Close for Comfort Life after death
