4-10-11 Sunday

TODAY’s HOLY MACKEREL:  1858 - The original Big Ben, a 14.5 ton bell for the Tower of London is cast in Stockton-on-Tees by Warner's of Cripplegate. This however cracked during testing and was recast into the 13.76 ton bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry and is still in use to date.

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MY FREE RAMBLING THOUGHTS

While it doesn’t sound that cold, the wind chill dropped our temps by about 10° so it was not a day to be outside. I did clean off the vehicle and run an errand. Tomorrow should be much better. I let my brother know my pain…and he texted back “82° poolside…sorry.”

I am glad the government didn’t shut down, as it sure looked like it would. Because I was inside most of the day I had news on for noise. One thing hit me…we have two major political parties here—the Dems and the GOP. All the news channels talk about the Tea Party. It is not a political party. It is a loud but small group on GOP. A couple of times I heard the Tea Party Caucus. That is what it is…a group within the GOP. It is something the GOP should be dealing with. It is like a spoiled child with parents who are afraid to do much discipline. The Tea Party talks big thoughts but when push comes to shove the members will not ever talk about how they will do it. I saw a rerun of an interview with seven Tea Party members on CNN. CNN is still fairly unbiased. The moderator asked each on to name programs that each saw as in need of cutting. None of them would name a program. Who would follow anyone who won’t talk specifics? I think we saw a little of their agenda during the past few weeks. They don’t want the government involved in daily life. They used false figures about Planned Parenthood to cut the Federal money. Jon Kyl, our senator, said on the Senate floor, in a speech, that 90% of Planned Parenthood money was spent on abortion. First, using Federal $$ for abortions is illegal. Second, all figures that are available show that PP spends less than 3% of its total budget on abortion. The rest is spent of offering wellness programs for women in this country. About three hours after Senator Kyl made his speech, his office said “…he is sorry if he gave the impression that the things he says in public are factual.” It was so much more than ‘in public’; it is now in the congressional record. What??? Citizens who lie to a Congressional Committee are put on trial when the lie is discovered. Grandstanding at its worst.   

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DID YOU KNOW THAT…

~Add a cup of apple cider vinegar to your bath water to sooth itchy, dry, or cracked skin.

~When you fill muffin pans with batter, fill one of the cups with water and the other muffins won't scorch during baking.

SOMEWHAT USELESS INFORMATION…

Many different cultures have had days of foolishness around the start of April, give or take a couple of weeks. The Romans had a festival named Hilaria on March 25, rejoicing in the resurrection of Attis. The Hindu calendar has Holi, and the Jewish calendar has Purim.
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The French call April 1 Poisson d'Avril, or "April Fish." French children sometimes tape a picture of a fish on the back of their schoolmates, crying "Poisson d'Avril" when the prank is discovered.
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In Poland everyone takes part in April Fool's Day activities, including the media and sometimes public institutions. All serious activities are completely avoided for the day. A favorite prank includes pouring water on people.

PUZZLE:   Trivia Quiz […answers at bottom…]

1. What does an aronophobe fear?
2. The average male loses a lb (weight ) of what in 10 years?
3. What do you call a group of owls?
4. Broccoli belongs to which family of plants?
5. What was invented by Dr. Edward Land in 1947?
6. Segmental, Primitive, Doucine and Elliptical are all types of what?
7. A bind is a group of what type of fish?
8. Karl Lienstater discovered what medical breakthrough in 1901?
9. Whats the difference between fog and mist?
10. A tittiliomaniac has a compulsion to do what?

UNUSUAL NEWS ITEM:

ROME, Ga. - A Georgia man who pleaded guilty to tattooing his 2-year-old son has been fined $300 and sentenced to a year's probation. Eugene Ashley, 26, was arrested in 2009 after the Department of Family and Children Services made a home visit and saw the letters "DB" tattooed on the toddler's shoulder, the Rome (Ga.) News-Tribune reported Tuesday. When arrested, Ashley told police "DB" stood for "Daddy's Boy." The boy was three at the time, but District Attorney Leigh Patterson said the tattooing had occurred a year earlier. In Georgia it is illegal to tattoo a child younger than 18. Patterson called the crime egregious but said it would have been impossible to go to a jury with the case because of the victim's age. "I don't know if we would be able to elicit a testimony from a child," Patterson said.

A LITTLE LAUGH:

A FAMILY IS AT THE DINNER TABLE. THE SON ASKS HIS FATHER,
"DAD, HOW MANY KINDS OF BOOBS ARE THERE?"
THE FATHER, SURPRISED, ANSWERS--- "WELL, SON, THERE ARE THREE KINDS OF
BOOBS: IN HER 20'S A WOMAN'S ARE LIKE MELONS, ROUND AND FIRM. IN HER 30'S
AND 40'S THEY ARE LIKE PEARS, STILL NICE BUT HANGING A BIT. AFTER 50,
THEY ARE LIKE ONIONS."
"ONIONS??"
"YES, YOU SEE THEM AND THEY MAKE YOU CRY."
THIS INFURIATED HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER SO THE DAUGHTER SAID,
"MUM, HOW MANY KINDS OF WILLIES ARE THERE?"
THE MOTHER, SURPRISED, SMILES AND ANSWERS, "WELL DEAR, A MAN GOES THROUGH
THREE PHASES. IN HIS 20'S HIS WILLY IS LIKE AN OAK TREE, MIGHTY AND
HARD. IN HIS 30'S AND 40'S IT IS LIKE A BIRCH, FLEXIBLE BUT RELIABLE.
AFTER HIS 50'S IT IS LIKE A CHRISTMAS TREE."
"A CHRISTMAS TREE??"
"YES-- THE TREE IS DEAD AND THE BALLS ARE JUST FOR DECORATION.

CLOSEUP PICTURE: Can you identify this close up picture?

FOUND ON ‘YOU TUBE’:  Dixie Carter in Julia Sugarbaker Role

♫ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ♫

2006 Lifetime Achievement Inductees: Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss founded A&M Records, one of the most successful independent labels of the rock and roll era. Over the decades a number of independents changed music history - including Sun, Asylum, Chrysalis, Island, Stiff, I.R.S., Arista, Geffen and A&M. The last of these had one of the longest runs of all, functioning as an independent label from 1962 to 1989 and lasting ten more years, after Alpert and Moss sold it, under the corporate aegis of PolyGram and Universal. More

Click on Song Title to see and hear it.

♪…Lonely Bull

♪…Whipped Cream

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DAYBOOK INFORMATION

«THIS WEEK

4-10

Hate Week
The Masters Tournament: Golf
National Networking Week
National Public Health Week
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week

7-10

International Whistlers Week
10-16

Consider Christianity Week
Health Information Privacy and Security Week

National Animal Control Appreciation Week
National Environmental Week

National Inspirational News Week
National Library Week
National Volunteer Week
Pan American Week
Passion Week
Week of The Young Child

«TODAY IS

Baby Massage Day

Commodore Perry Day

Golfers Day

National Farm Animals Day

National Sibling Day

Salvation Army Founder's Day

Safety Pin Day

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UK: Care Sunday  

… ARTISTS:  AUTHORS:  COMPOSERS…

Joseph Pulitzer 4/10/1847 - 10/29/1911 American editor and journalist

Lewis Wallace 4/10/1827 - 2/15/1905 American soldier, lawyer and author; wrote "Ben-Hur"
…ATHLETES

Mel Blount, Football Hall of Famer, turns 63

John Madden, Sportscaster, turns 75

Don Meredith, Sportscaster, turns 73

…BUSINESS & EDUCATION

Benjamin H. Day 4/10/1810 - 12/21/1889 American printer and journalist; founded The New York Sun

…ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS…)

Harry Morgan, Actor ("Dragnet," "M*A*S*H"), turns 96

Steven Seagal, Actor, turns 60

Omar Sharif, Actor ("Doctor Zhivago," "Lawrence of Arabia"), turns 79

Max von Sydow, Actor, turns 82

…POLITICIANS
Vladimir Lenin 4/10/1870 (OS) - 1/21/1924 Russian Communist leader of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917)

Frances Perkins 4/10/1880 - 5/14/1965 American Secretary of Labor (1933-45)

Matthew Calbraith Perry 4/10/1794-3/4/1858, Commodore, opened Japan

…SCIENCE & RELIGION

Frank Baldwin 4/10/1838 - 4/8/1925 American inventor; known for the Monroe calculator

William Booth 4/10/1829 - 8/20/1912 English minister and founder of the Salvation Army

Robert Burns Woodward 4/10/1917 - 7/8/1979 American Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1965)

Today’s Obits:

2010 - Dixie Carter, an American actress dies at 71 of cancer

1784 - Simon Fokke, book illustrator, dies at 71

1931 - Khalil Gibran (بران خليل جبران), Lebanese poet and painter dies at 48 of cirrhosis

2003 - Little Eva (Eva Narcissus Boyd), American singer dies at 60 of cervical cancer

2000 - Larry Linville, American actor dies at 61 of cancer

1966 - Evelyn Waugh, British writer (Black Mischief), dies at 62 of heart failure

1958 - Chuck Willis, rocker (The Stroll), dies at 30 of peritonitis

Today’s Events:

…  ARTS

1925 "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald was published.

1953 - "House of Wax," 1st 3-D movie, released (NYC)

1974 - Magicians Penn & Teller 1st meet

…  ATHLETICS

1877 - 1st human cannonball act performed in London

1992 - NHL strike ends after 10 days

…  BUSINESS & EDUCATION

1825 - 1st hotel in Hawaii opens

1841 - NY "Tribune" begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley

1930 - Synthetic rubber 1st produced

1989 H. J. Heinz, Van Camp Seafood and Bumble Bee Seafood say they would not buy tuna caught in nets that also trap dolphins

…  INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

1871 - Apaches raid the San Xavier mission, south of Tucson, and steal livestock.

1837 - As part of the treaty signed on March 6th, the Seminoles were to report to Tampa Bay no later than today for transport to the Indian Territory.

…  International POLITICS

1710 - The first law regulating copyright is issued in Great Britain.

1972 Some 70 nations, including the United States and the Soviet Union, signed an agreement banning biological warfare.

1981 - Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands won election to the British Parliament.

1986 - Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan

1998 - The Belfast Agreement is signed.

…  SCIENCE & RELIGION

1790 - Robert Gray is 1st American to circumnavigate the Earth

…  US POLITICS

1790 - US Patent system forms

1869 - Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9

1960 - Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill

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ANSWERS:

Quiz

1. What does an aronophobe fear?
Internet
2. The average male loses a lb (weight ) of what in 10 years?
Beard
3. What do you call a group of owls?
Parliament
4. Broccoli belongs to which family of plants?
Cabbage
5. What was invented by Dr. Edward Land in 1947?
Polaroid instant developing camera
6. Segmental, Primitive, Doucine and Elliptical are all types of what?
Arch (in construction)
7. A bind is a group of what type of fish?
Salmon
8. Karl Lienstater discovered what medical breakthrough in 1901?
ABO Blood Groups
9. Whats the difference between fog and mist?
Seeing Distance under 1000 yards
10. A tittiliomaniac has a compulsion to do what?
Scratch 
Close Up Picture

Wheel

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