≈Week 20 of 2010: 138 days this year… 227 days remain≈
≈ Something To Think About
"Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time."
~Denis Waitley American writer, consultant
≈ Random Fact
A queen bee lays 1500 eggs a day.
• Holy Mackerel: On this day in 1953 ►The first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound, Jacqueline Cochran,piloted an F-86 Sabrejet over California at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour.
≈ Free Ramblings
Monday is the start of the work week, for those who are still working. The day started out very nice, but then the wind came. I’m glad I took my walk early, before the clouds and wind. I did get some things done around the house, but really wanted to be outside. Guess I will wait until tomorrow. We did make it to 66° which could have been nice without the 40mph wind.
Our local elections are finally upon us. The local paper says this is one of the dirtiest campaigns in local history. We are a small town and I have learned that this is town is much more diverse than I realized. This has not been a learning experience I have enjoyed. The election will not change the world, the state, but it could change our city quite a bit. No matter the results I don’t see the results bringing our little town closer together. The only good thing is that the robocalls on the Propositions will cease. I’ve been getting two or three a day for the last week. While I was in favor of some, the robocalls have convinced me that I’m against some. I don’t like the Phoenix people telling me what is good or not good for Flagstaff. So, by this time tomorrow, the results will be in and life will move on.
≈ A Quick Smile…
As a new paratrooper, I was struck by all the T-shirts on base emblazoned with the motto "Death from above!"
Later I noticed a submariner with a T-shirt that declared "Death from below!"
Later I noticed a submariner with a T-shirt that declared "Death from below!"
Then, standing in line for chow one day, I was served by an Army cook. His T-shirt had a skull with a crossed fork and spoon underneath and yet another warning: "Death from within!"
≈ Puzzle 1
What's so peculiar about this sentence?
I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality, counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications' incomprehensibleness.
≈ Side Show Stories
Forget Our Lady of the Highways -- the Swiss have something even better: An angel.
The heavenly vision appears along highways and local roads in a 670-mile region of western Switzerland, where highway speeds max out at 75 mph.
When he spots a driver going to fast, he gestures in the universal "slow down" gesture as part of a campaign called, aptly enough, "Slow Down. Take It Easy.
≈ Puzzle 2: Brain Food
You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
≈ Calendar Information
• Observance Weeks in May•
16-22
National Dog Bite Prevention Week
National New Friends, Old Friends Week
National Transportation Week
World Trade Week
17-23
EMS (Emergency Medical Services) Week
National Effectiveness Week
National Bike to Work Week
National Medical Transcription Week
National Backyard Games Week
• Today’s Observances—US/UN/World •
International Museum Day
Visit Your Relatives Day
World AIDS Vaccine Day
• Today’s Observances—by country •
Haiti : Flag Day/University Day
Uruguay : Battle of Las Piedras (1828)
• Today’s Number One Songs in…
For anyone interested, all these songs are available on iTunes.
"Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies." ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
1941 ►Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy); Jimmy Dorsey
1951 ►How High the Moon; Les Paul & Mary Ford
1961 ►Mother-in-Law; Ernie K-Doe
1971 ►Joy to the World; Three Dog Night
1981 ►Bette Davis Eyes; Kim Carnes
• Today’s Happenings•
In The Arts
1897 ►Irish Music Festival 1st held (Dublin)
1965 ►Gene Roddenberry suggests 16 names including Kirk for Star Trek Captain
1968 ►Tiny Tim’s warbly Tiptoe through the Tulips released.
In Athletics
1947 ►A's catcher Warren Rosar catches his 147th game without an error
In Business or Education
1830 ►Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of his invention, the lawn mower
1852 ►Massachusetts rules all school-age children must attend school
1933 ►Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) Act signed by FDR, to build dams
In Politics
1631 ►English colony Massachusetts Bay grants Puritarian voting right
1631 ►John Winthrop is elected 1st governor of Massachusetts
1642 ►Montréal Canada founded
1896 ►US Supreme court affirms "separate but equal" policy (Plessy v Ferguson)
In Science/ Religion
1974 ►India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb (other with technology: United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, China, and France)
1980 ►Mount St Helens erupts in Washington
• Today’s Births •
Artists, Writers, and Composers
Frank Capra , movie director (It's a Wonderful Life, Arsenic & Old Lace) 1897 in Palermo Sicily Italy
[Robert] Meredith Willson , composer (Music Man), 1902 in Mason City IA
Athletes
Reginald Martinez (Reggie) Jackson, 64, Hall of Fame baseball player, born Wyncote, PA
Entertainers
Chow Yun-Fat, 55, actor (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Anna and the King; Bulletproof Monk), born Lamma Island, Hong Kong
Pierino Ronald ‘Perry’ Como Grammy Award-winning singer: Catch a Falling Star [1958, his first Grammy] 1912 in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
Tina Fey, 40, writer, comedienne (“30 Rock,” Baby Mama, Mean Girls, “Saturday Night Live”), born Upper Darby, PA
Dwayne Hickman, 76, actor (“The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis”), born Los Angeles, CA
Pernell Elvin Roberts actor: Bonanza, Trapper John, M.D. 1928 in Waycross, Georgia
George Strait, 58, country singer, musician, born Poteet, TX
Business, Education Persons
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Political Persons
Leon Shenandoah, head of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy ( The Tadadaho, which made him spiritual and political spokesman), 1915 on Onondaga Nation, NY
Scientists /Religious Persons
Pope John Paul II (Karol Joseph Wojtyla) 264th pope of the Roman Catholic Church 1920 in Wadowice, Poland
• Today’s Obits •
James T Adams US historian (Pulitzer 1921) in 1949
Wilbur J Cohen 1st employee of Social Security System, @ 73 in 1987
Jill Ireland actress (Carry on Nurse, Family), cancer @ 54 in 1990
Elizabeth Montgomery actress (Bewitched), cancer @ 62 in 1995
≈ ANSWERS to Puzzle 1
Each word in the sentence is one letter longer than the word before it!.
≈ ANSWERS to Brain Food
An ear of corn or A chicken.
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