3-24-11 Thursday

TODAY’s HOLY MACKEREL:  1989 At four minutes past midnight, the Exxon Valdez, a 987-foot supertanker loaded with 1,264,155 barrels of North Slope crude oil, ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska

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MY FREE RAMBLING THOUGHTS

Another friend had her computer hacked. That is two in less than two months. This time it was a Mac. A little while ago she got an AOL IM from someone she hadn’t seen for years. She answered the IM and got no answer. A little later she got another question. She answered that and again no answer. This continued for about an hour. Three questions just rotated through with nothing else. She finally closed the message and deleted the name. Too late. Several of her friends got either spam emails from her about Canadian Viagra or phone txt messages with the same site. We worked on setting up new passwords for everything, a new email account, and she will still have to take it in for service. A reminder to all of us…if you get an email or IM from anyone you aren’t expecting, delete and don’t open. If you need to use the old telephone and call them and see if they sent you something. If they did, they can send it again, if not, they have an infected computer and need to know. There are so many evil people out there, and in her case, it wasn’t her ‘friend’ doing it…someone had gotten into his computer and used IM to get into her address book. Lesson: Safety First…even with Macs.

It is a sad anniversary today. It was 8 years ago that Lori Piestewa was captured and probably killed. I knew her, her parents, and her brother. I was in Pine Ridge at the time, but the Native outpouring was amazing. Her two children were students at the boarding school at the time and her brother was a teacher at the school. A lot has changed in those 8 years, but the pain is still there for those who knew her. RIP Lori.

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DID YOU KNOW THAT…
>A wonderful way to clean your teeth. Brush with soda, don't rinse then put about a TB of cider vinegar in your mouth.   Feel the frizzling--when done, rinse thoroughly and see how clean your teeth feel!!
>If you've lost your bathtub plug, use a golf ball as a substitute. It stays in place and rolls back if dislodged.
>Use a wide dandle as a pincushion. The wax helps pins and needles slide in and out of the fabric more easily..

SOMEWHAT USELESS INFORMATION…

Dr. Seuss was the pen name chosen by Theodor Geisel. Before his first children's book was published, he drew cartoons for Vanity Fair, Saturday Evening Post, Judge and PM.
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Dr. Seuss derived the idea of writing about "The Cat in the Hat" from a word list given to him by a publisher. When "The Cat and the Hat" was first published, it sold 12,000 copies per week.
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Dr. Seuss' penchant for rhyming was inherited from his mother, who used chants to memorize pie recipes as a child in her father's bakery.


PUZZLE:   Trivia Quiz […answers at bottom…]
1. What film won the 1943 Best Movie Oscar?
2. What actress said "I acted vulgar, Madonna is vulgar"?
3. What hotel hosted the first Oscar ceremony?
4. In the 'wacky races' what were the gang of criminals called?
5. What was the name of the plantation in movie 'Gone with the Wind'?
6. Who owned the newspaper on the TV show Lou Grant?
7. Who starred as Daisy in the movie 'The Great Gatsby'?
8. What was Norman Bates’ hobby in the movie 'Psycho'?
9. In the Flintstones, what was Betty Rubbles maiden name?
10. Margarita Carmen Casino became famous using what stage name?

UNUSUAL NEWS ITEM:

BOISE, Idaho — Chalk it up to instant karma.
An Idaho man suspected of stealing a wallet from the desk of a prospective employer has been arrested after calling police to report that his wallet was missing.
The Idaho Statesman reports Boise police realized the man who reported the missing wallet matched the description of the suspected wallet thief and arrested 25-year-old Daniel Damico on suspicion of burglary and grand theft.
Police say they believe Damico disposed of the stolen wallet, but used a credit card to buy tobacco at two stores. It was when he was leaving the second store Tuesday that he thought he may have dropped his own wallet.
Police recovered the credit card and the stolen wallet. Officers suspect someone else found Damico's wallet. It has not been recovered.

A LITTLE LAUGH:

Mary was married to a something of a chauvinist. They both worked full time, but he never did anything around the house and certainly....not any housework. That, he declared, was 'woman's work.'
One evening Mary arrived home from work to find the children bathed, a load of wash in the washing machine and another in the dryer, dinner on the stove and a beautifully set table, complete with flowers. She was astonished, and she immediately wanted to know what was going on.
It turned out that her husband Charley had read a magazine article that suggested working wives would be more romantically inclined if they weren't so tired from having to do all the housework in addition to holding down a full-time job. The next day, she couldn't wait to tell her friends in the office. "How did it work out?" they asked.
"Well, it was a great dinner," Mary said. "Charley even cleaned up, helped the kids with their homework, folded the laundry and put everything away."
"But what about afterward?" her friends wanted to know.
"Oh, that part didn't work out," Mary said. "Charley was too tired."

Top 10 In The World:

CLOSEUP PICTURE: Can you identify this close up picture?

FOUND ON ‘YOU TUBE’: "The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss"

♫ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ♫ 2009 Inductee: Jeff Beck

Click on Song Title to see and hear it.
♪…Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Induction Ceremony
Over the Rainbow
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DAYBOOK INFORMATION
►THIS WEEK◄
20-26►  American Chocolate Week  ♣  Consider Christianity Week  ♣  National Agriculture Week  ♣  National Animal Poison Prevention Week  ♣  National Inhalant and Poisons Awareness Week  ♣  National Poison Prevention Week  ♣  Act Happy Week  ♣
21-27► Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week  ♣  Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination  ♣   World Folk Tales & Fables Week  ♣  ‘Wellderly’ Week   (for elderly who don’t act their age)  ♣  Yo-Yo and Skill Toys Week  ♣
►TODAY IS◄
Houdini Day
National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day
World Tuberculosis Day
♣ ♣ ♣ ♣
Argentina: Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice 
Laos: Army Day 
Philippines: Independence Day

  
■…AUTHORS/COMPOSERS/ARTISTS
1907 Lucia Chase US ballerina/co-founder (American Ballet Theater) 
Byron Janis, 83, pianist
■…ATHLETES
Chris Bosh, 27, basketball player
Peyton Manning, 35, football player
■…BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1909 Clyde Barrow bank robber (of Bonnie & Clyde fame) 
1906 John Cameron Swayze news correspondent, Timex spokesman 
Bob Mackie, 71, costume and fashion designer
1797 Antonio Rosmini-Serbati philosopher: founded Institute of Charity
■…ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS)
1887 Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle actor (Keystone comedies) 
1910 Richard Conte actor (Four Just Men, 13 Rue Madeleine, Hotel, Jean Arthur Show) 
1924 Norman Fell (Feld) actor: Three’s Company, The Graduate, Pork Chop Hill
1874 Harry Houdini [Erik Weisz] Budapest Hungary, magician/escape artist 
Star Jones, 49, television personality, lawyer
1930 (Terence Steven) Steve McQueen actor: The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, Papillon, Towering Inferno, The Sand Pebbles
■…POLITICIANS
1855 Andrew W Mellon founder (Mellon Bank)/US Secretary of Treasury 
1902 Thomas E Dewey 1st Catholic Presidential candidate 1944, 1948
■…SCIENCE & RELIGION
1834 John Wesley Powell US, geologist/explorer/ethnologist 
Today’s Obits:
1603 Elizabeth I Tudor [Maiden Queen] UK queen (1558-1603), "settled and unremovable melancholy" @ 69 
1984 Sam Jaffe actor (Dr Zorba-Ben Casey), cancer @ 93 
1909 John Millington Synge Irish dramatist/playwright/poet, cancer @ 37 
1905 Jules Verne sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), @ 77 
1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow US poet (Song of Hiawatha), @ 75 
Today’s Events:
■…ARTS
1792 Benjamin West became first American artist to be selected president of the Royal Academy of London
1958 Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761) 
■…ATHLETICS
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■…BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1883 1st telephone call between New York & Chicago 
1898 1st automobile sold 
1980 ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline with Ted Koppel" 
■…INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1617 King James I, of England, decides the Indians of Virginia must be educated. Today he directs the Anglican Church to collect funds to build churches and schools.
■…POLITICS (International)
1603 Scottish king James VI becomes King James I of England 
1837 Canada gives Blacks the right to vote 
1955 British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years 
1997 Australian parliament overturns world's 1st & only euthanasia law 
■…POLITICS (US)
1664 Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island 
1964 Kennedy half-dollar issued 
■…SCIENCE & RELIGION
1832 Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio 
1930 Planet Pluto named 
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ANSWERS:
Quiz
1.   What film won the 1943 Best Movie Oscar?
Casablanca
2. What actress said "I acted vulgar, Madonna is vulgar"?
Marlene Dietrich
3.   What hotel hosted the first Oscar ceremony?
Roosevelt Hotel
4.   In the 'wacky races' what were the gang of criminals called?
The Ant Hill Mob
5.   What was the name of the plantation in movie 'Gone with the Wind'?
Tara
6. Who owned the newspaper on the TV show Lou Grant?
Mrs Pyncheron
7. Who starred as Daisy in the movie 'The Great Gatsby'?
Mia Farrow
8. What was Norman Bate's hobby in the movie 'Psycho'?
Stuffing birds
9. In the Flintstones, what was Betty Rubbles maiden name?
Betty Jean McBricker
10. Margarita Carmen Casino became famous using what stage name?
Rita Heyworth
Close Up Picture
Juke Box

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