TODAY’s HOLY MACKEREL: 1912 Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for NY
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MY FREE RAMBLING THOUGHTS
A day without sunshine, a day with rain, snow, wind. A day to stay inside.
What is going on? A church pastor telling his members that if you don’t bruise your child once in awhile, you aren’t spanking hard enough. He claims it is in the Bible. Not the Bible I know. What a sick group of leaders and now a sick group of followers.
Sure looks like the government is going to shut down. What a mess. Some in Congress are deconstructing our government. The issues are no longer about cutting the budget, now it is completely defunding programs. The defunding is less than 1% of the deficit, and will change our social programs. Such grandstanding.
I caught up on some mail, some emails, a little laundry, and other stuff one can do inside. We are supposed to get up to a foot of snow by tomorrow night. This storm hasn’t had any stick, but they say the next one will. Ahhhh Spring in Flag.
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DID YOU KNOW THAT…
~To keep garden peas out of the pod looking fresh and beautifully green, simply soak them over-night in a bucket of water with some ordinary baking soda mixed in. This is what many restaurants with fresh vegetable salad bars do.
~Keep salt or pepper shakers dry and free of clogging by adding a few grains of uncooked rice to them. The dry rice will absorb any moisture present. Dried peas work as well ! Also when they start rattling excessively it's a good indicator that they need topping up before they run out.
SOMEWHAT USELESS INFORMATION…
~Originally named "Baby Gays," Leo Gerstenzang invented the cotton swab in the 1920's. Nearly 3 out of 4 Americans stick cotton swabs in their ears despite the package's instructions against it.
~The fastest jet in the world is the SR-71 Blackbird, which flies more than three times the speed of sound at 2,500 mph. The first functional jet, the Messerschmitt Me 262, was built by the Germans and flew combat missions during the last two years of World War II.
PUZZLE: Trivia Quiz […answers at bottom…] General
1. How did folk singer Roy Harper catch Toxoplasmosis?
2. A fisherman in the Arral sea had his boat destroyed by what?
3. What Latin word means elsewhere?
4. Until 1819, technically you could be hung for doing what in Britain?
5. If you were eating 'fragrant meat' in Hong Kong what is it?
6. Boxer, Arnold Cream was better known by what name?
7. John Simon Richie became famous as which musician?
8. What would a Scotsman do with a spurtle?
9. Pluto, the Planet, was almost called what name?
10. According to the nursery rhyme who killed Cock Robin - who killed him?
2. A fisherman in the Arral sea had his boat destroyed by what?
3. What Latin word means elsewhere?
4. Until 1819, technically you could be hung for doing what in Britain?
5. If you were eating 'fragrant meat' in Hong Kong what is it?
6. Boxer, Arnold Cream was better known by what name?
7. John Simon Richie became famous as which musician?
8. What would a Scotsman do with a spurtle?
9. Pluto, the Planet, was almost called what name?
10. According to the nursery rhyme who killed Cock Robin - who killed him?
UNUSUAL NEWS ITEM:
AUDUBON, N.J. — A duck has chosen an odd place to lay her eggs: a fast-food drive-thru in New Jersey. The duck is nesting in landscaping near a drive-thru menu at a Chick-fil-A in Audubon.
Restaurant employee Karen Montone said Thursday that she noticed the duck a couple of days ago. Gardeners had recently replanted the area bordering the store in a suburban strip mall.
Montone thinks the duck had been hidden beneath old plants but is now exposed by the new landscaping. She's worried the fowl is too far afoul of its natural environment and has placed water and food nearby.
It's not clear how many eggs the duck has or when they might hatch.
A LITTLE LAUGH:
An archaeologist was digging in the Negev Desert in Israel and came upon a casket containing a mummy, a rather rare occurrence in Israel, to say the least.
After examining it, he called the curator of the Israel museum in Jerusalem.
"I've just discovered a 3,000 year old mummy of a man who died of heart failure!" the excited scientist exclaimed.
To which the curator replied, "Bring him in. We'll check it out."
A week later, the amazed curator called the archaeologist. "You were right about both the mummy's age and cause of death. How in the world did you know?"
"Easy. There was a piece of paper in his hand that said, '10,000 Shekels on Goliath.'"
After examining it, he called the curator of the Israel museum in Jerusalem.
"I've just discovered a 3,000 year old mummy of a man who died of heart failure!" the excited scientist exclaimed.
To which the curator replied, "Bring him in. We'll check it out."
A week later, the amazed curator called the archaeologist. "You were right about both the mummy's age and cause of death. How in the world did you know?"
"Easy. There was a piece of paper in his hand that said, '10,000 Shekels on Goliath.'"
CLOSEUP PICTURE: Can you identify this close up picture?
FOUND ON ‘YOU TUBE’:
♫ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ♫
2006 Inductee: Miles Davis is one of the key figures in the history of jazz, and his place in vanguard of that pantheon is secure. His induction as a performer into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a subtler and less obvious matter. Davis never played rock or rhythm & blues, though he experimented with funk grooves on 1972’s
Click on Song Title to see and hear it.
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DAYBOOK INFORMATION
«THIS WEEK
3-9
Explore Your Career Options
Hate Week
The Masters Tournament: Golf
National Networking Week
National Public Health Week
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week
The Masters Tournament: Golf
National Networking Week
National Public Health Week
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week
7-10
International Whistlers Week
«TODAY IS
All Is Ours Day
Baby Massage Day
Jenkins Ear Day: started a battle between Spain and Britain
National Cherish an Antique Day
National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day
National Pie Day
Winston Churchill Day
§ § § §
Tunisia: Martyr's Day
Iraq: National Day
Tunisia: Martyr's Day
Iraq: National Day
… ARTISTS: AUTHORS: COMPOSERS…
Antal Dorati 4/9/1906 - 11/13/1988 Hungarian-born American conductor
Frank King 4/9/1883 - 6/24/1969 American comic-strip artist; created "Gasoline Alley"
…ATHLETES
Curly Lambeau 4/9/1898 - 6/1/1965 American football coach and founder of the Green Bay Packers
…BUSINESS & EDUCATION
Hugh Hefner, Playboy magazine founder, turns 85
…ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS…)
Michael Learned, Actress ("The Waltons"), turns 72
Hal Ketchum, Country singer, turns 58
Jesse McCartney, Actor, singer, turns 24
Dennis Quaid, Actor, turns 57
Paul Robeson 4/9/1898 - 1/23/1976 American singer, actor and black activist
…POLITICIANS
Leon Blum 4/9/1872 - 3/30/1950 French politician; first Socialist and Jewish premier of France (1936-37)
Leon Blum 4/9/1872 - 3/30/1950 French politician; first Socialist and Jewish premier of France (1936-37)
J. William Fulbright 4/9/1905 - 2/9/1995 American senator
…SCIENCE & RELIGION
John Bacon 4/9/1738 - 10/25/1820 American clergyman, legislator and judge; advocate of civil and religious liberty
Gregory Pincus 4/9/1903 - 8/22/1967American endocrinologist; helped develop the birth control pill.
Today’s Obits:
1747 Simon Fraser, 12th baron Lovat Jacobite, last man beheaded in England
2001 Willie "Pops" Stargell, baseball great/humanitarian, dies at 61
1959 Frank Lloyd Wright, U.S. architect (Guggenheim Museum New York), dies at 89
Today’s Events:
… ARTS
1667 1st public art exhibition (Palais-Royale, Paris)
1939 Black singer Marian Anderson performed at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., after she was denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because of her race.
1950 Bob Hope's 1st TV appearance
… ATHLETICS
1945 NFL requires players to wear long stockings
1947 Baseball suspends Bkln Dodger Leo Durocher for 1 year
… BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1872 Samuel R Percy patents dried milk
1833 The nation's first tax-supported public library was founded in Peterborough, N.H.
… INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1772 Whites can now buy Indian land in Indian territories without government approval in New England.
1884 A woman, identified by local missionaries as Sacajawea, dies today in Wyoming. If this is the Sacajawea of the Lewis and Clark expedition, she would be almost 100 years old.
… International POLITICS
1682 French explorer Robert La Salle reached the Mississippi River.
1991 Georgia SSR votes to secede from USSR
2003 Jubilant Iraqis celebrated the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime, beheading a toppled statue of their longtime ruler in downtown Baghdad.
2005 Britain's Prince Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles, who took the title Duchess of Cornwall.
… SCIENCE & RELIGION
1816 African Methodist Episcopal Church organizes (Phila)
… US POLITICS
1865 General Robert E Lee and 26,765 troops, surrender at Appomattox Court House in Virginia to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant
1866 Civil Rights Bill passes over Pres Andrew Johnson's veto
1947 Atomic Energy Commission confirmed
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ANSWERS:
Quiz
1. How did folk singer Roy Harper catch Toxoplasmosis?
Kiss of life, to a sheep
2. A fisherman in the Arral sea had his boat destroyed by what?
A Cow - USA air force dumped it
3. What Latin word means elsewhere?
Alibi
4. Until 1819, technically you could be hung for doing what in Britain?
Cutting down a tree
5. If you were eating 'fragrant meat' in Hong Kong what is it?
Dog
6. Boxer, Arnold Cream was better known by what name?
Jersey Jo Walcott
7. John Simon Richie became famous as which musician?
Sid Vicious
8. What would a Scotsman do with a spurtle?
Eat (it's a spoon)
9. Pluto, the Planet, was almost called what name?
Zeus
10. According to the nursery rhyme who killed Cock Robin - who killed him?
Sparrow
Close Up Picture
Kiss of life, to a sheep
2. A fisherman in the Arral sea had his boat destroyed by what?
A Cow - USA air force dumped it
3. What Latin word means elsewhere?
Alibi
4. Until 1819, technically you could be hung for doing what in Britain?
Cutting down a tree
5. If you were eating 'fragrant meat' in Hong Kong what is it?
Dog
6. Boxer, Arnold Cream was better known by what name?
Jersey Jo Walcott
7. John Simon Richie became famous as which musician?
Sid Vicious
8. What would a Scotsman do with a spurtle?
Eat (it's a spoon)
9. Pluto, the Planet, was almost called what name?
Zeus
10. According to the nursery rhyme who killed Cock Robin - who killed him?
Sparrow
Close Up Picture
VCR Tape
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