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‡ TODAY’s “Geez”:
¬ 1932 - George Washington quarter goes into circulation
¬ 1953 - Dept of Health, Education & Welfare created
¬ 1958 - Anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet
¬ 1961 - Israel welcomes its 1,000,000th immigrant
‡ Free Rambling Thoughts…
I went to lunch with a couple of Tuba friends. They are headed back to work for another exciting year. We ate at La Fonda, which was very crowded. Nice to catch up, but not sorry I don’t have to get ready for the new school year. They were surprise I had done the Grand Canyon, but were very interested in the trip. I don’t think they believed all of my stories or the fact that we were on a non-motorized trip. It rained a lot on the west side of town, a little at La Fonda, but my area stayed dry. It’s still very cloudy and the weatherman says we are still in for rain until Monday. I sure hope so.
Still no deal in the Congress. I’m hoping my retirement check comes in on the first. I have bills to pay and I hate to delve into my savings to do it. That money is earning 7% minimum and that can become quite an amount if I have to withdraw. I’m sure Congress doesn’t really care, and will not pay me the interest on any money I withdraw, or even interest on the money when my check is late. I keep remembering a statement from the Republicans after the last election: Our number one priority is to elect a Republican in 2012. Well, they are sure trying to make Obama look bad. Of course, they also look really bad.
I also caught up on laundry from the trip. I learned that white swim suits and socks that were in the river will never be white again. So much for light colored clothes on a river trip. Everything else came out smelling and looking like new. As most can tell, my feet have healed, with virtually no pain. Still using the cream as there are a few spots of very stubborn fungus. I quickly learned that a Q-tip is the best way to get the cream between the red toes with no pain. I’ll keep it up for the two weeks suggested….I sure don’t want it back.
My other blog is coming along with the write up of my trip. I’ll take the film in on Monday so I can start adding pictures. Will let you know when it is up. Tomorrow will be catching up on a sack of mail. I picked it up today, but didn’t even look at it. The Havasupai Post Office is one of the many on the chopping block. It should work out, as they will just move the post office to the store or a government building. Yeah, they won’t be able to get their mail after 5p or on weekends, but the mail will still come down on mule. I dealt with a substation PO at Shonto, Kaibeto, Navajo Mountain, and Red Lake. My mom dealt with one in Lakewood. The only difference is that my mom had her mail delivered to the Independent Living facility, so it was only a small hassle to mail something.
‡ Trivia Quiz…(answers at the end of post)
1. Which 90s rerun of a 60s series had the promotion line" It's not stupid... it's surrealism?"
2. Who was the producer creator of Gilligan's Island?
3. Ed Sullivan was Broadway gossip columnist on which newspaper?
4. Which 1968 cop show was the brain child of Aaron Spelling?
5. Which series was based on the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin?
6. Who hosted The Match Game on its original run on NBC?
7. Who first asked contestants to "come on down" on The Price Is Right?
8. Who played the theme music on The Dating Game?
9. What was Desi Arnaz's real first name?
10. Who hosted The Texaco Star Theater in the 1940s?
11. What was the name of the cook in Bonanza?
12. Which comedy show was originally called You'll Never Get Rich?
13. What was Hanna and Barbera's first TV show?
‡ Zoom-ed in Picture…Can you Identify what this is? (Answer at end of post)
‡ Hmmmmm…
¬ Chances that an American will say his or her diet is ‘healthy’: 9 out of 10
‡ Somewhat Useless Information…
¬ Gamblers in ancient Greece made dice from the ankle bones and shoulder blades of sheep.
¬ Sir Miles Partridge once played at dice with Henry VIII for the bells of St. Paul's church, won, and collected the bells.
¬ In 18th century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.
¬ At Brooks, an 18th century English gambling club, the faro table had a large semicircular section cut out of one of its sides in order to accommodate the enormous stomach of the famous statesman Charles James Fox.
¬ In poker a pair of aces and a pair of eights is known as a "dead man's hand." The odd name originated in 1876, when Wild Bill Hickok was shot down by Jack McCall during a card game in a saloon in Deadwood, South Dakota. As Wild Bill slumped over the table he exposed his hand for all to see-it showed a pair of eights and a pair of aces.
¬ The receipts from illegal gambling each year in the United States surpass the total revenues of America's 75 largest industrial organizations combined.
‡ Yeah, It Really Happened…
TORONTO - Bringing a cockatoo or handcuffs to a job interview is a guaranteed failure, an international job placement company in Toronto said. The Robert Half firm published a summary of worst-case scenarios from hiring managers around the world about interviews gone wrong.
Among the managers' bad memories was an applicant who "came in for an interview with a cockatoo on his shoulder."
Other managers recounted interview shocks when a candidate sent his sister to apply for him.
"One candidate sang all of her responses to interview questions," one manager said.
Another manager said he was taken aback by an apparent show of determination by a job candidate who "handcuffed himself to the desk during the interview," the agency said in a release.
Another applicant doomed his job chances by saying too much about his plans.
"One individual said we had nice benefits, which was good because he was going to need to take a lot of leave in the next year," a manager told the firm.
‡ Guffaw…or at least smile…
George Bush met with the Queen of England. He asked her, "Your Majesty, how do you run such an efficient government? Are there... any tips you can give to me?"
"Well," said the Queen, "the most important thing is to surround yourself with intelligent people." Bush frowned, and then asked, "But how do I know the people around me are really intelligent?"
The Queen took a sip of tea. "Oh, that's easy; you just ask them to answer an intelligent riddle." The Queen pushed a button on her intercom. "Please ... See More send Tony Blair in here, would you?"
Tony Blair walked into the room and said, "Yes, Your Majesty?" The Queen smiled and said, "Answer me this please, Tony, your mother and father have a child. It is not your brother and it is not your sister. Who is it?"
Without pausing for a moment, Tony Blair answered, "That would be me."
"Yes! Very good," said the Queen.
Bush went back home to ask Dick Cheney, his vice presidential choice the same question. "Dick, answer this for me. Your mother and your father have a child. It's not your brother and it's not your sister. Who is it?"
"I'm not sure," said Cheney. "Let me get back to you on that one..." He went to his advisors and asked every one, but none could give him an answer.
Finally, he ran into Sarah Palin out eating one night. Cheney asked, “Sarah, can you answer this for me? Your mother and father have a child and it's not your brother or your sister. Who is it?"
Sarah Palin answered back, "That's easy, it's me!"
Cheney smiled, and said, "Thanks!" Then, he went back to speak with Bush. "Say, I did some research and I have the answer to that riddle. It's Sarah Palin!"
Bush got up, stomped over to Cheney, and angrily yelled into his face, "No! You idiot! It's Tony Blair!"
‡ Searchin’ “You Tube” I found…
‡ Daybook Information…
…Happening This Week:
¬29-31 Garlic Days
World Lumberjack Championships
‡ TODAY IS
¬ Ramadan (Islamic - begins at sunset)
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‡ Today’s Events:
· IN ARTS
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· IN ATHLETICS
1922 - 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's 1st water skis (Minn)
1928 - 1st woman to win a track and field Olympic gold medal, Halina Konopacka of Poland
1981 - 42 day old, 2nd major league baseball strike ends
· IN BUSINESS
1751 - Fire in Stockholm destroys 1,000 houses
1809 - 1st practical US railroad track (wooden, for horse-drawn cars), Philadelphia
1948 - Pres Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport), NY
· IN EDUCATION
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· FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1763 - Captain James Dalyell, and 280 soldiers attack Pontiac's village at 2:30 am this morning. Pontiac is informed of Dalyell's plans, so he sets up an ambush at the Parent's Creek bridge with 400 Indians. When Dalyell's troops approach the bridge, the Indians attack. Twenty soldiers, including Dalyell, and seven Indians are killed in the fighting. The creek, near Detroit, is now called Bloody Run
· IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
1498 - Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad
1588 - English fleet beats Spanish Armada
1970 - Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy
1994 - UN votes 12-0 (2 abstentions) to authorize use of force against Haiti
· IN RELIGION
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· IN SCIENCE
781 - The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji
1774 - Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen
1790 - 1st US patent granted, to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process
2006 - Fidel Castro hands over power temporarily to brother Raúl Castro.
· IN US POLITICS
1792 - Cornerstone laid for 1st US govt building: US Mint in Philadelphia
1876 - US Coast Guard officers' training school established (New Bedford MA)
1912 - US govt prohibits movies & photos of prize fights
1960 - Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state
1972 - Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic VP candidate
1991 - Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft
· ARTISTS: AUTHORS: COMPOSERS
1883 - Fred Quimby, American film producer: Tom and Jerry Cartoons
J. K. Rowling, British writer turns 46
· ATHLETES
· Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Australian tennis player (Wimbledon 1971) turns 56
1904 - Arthur Daley, sportswriter (NY Times-Pulitzer 1956)
1919 - Curt Gowdy, sportscaster (ABC)
· ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS…)
Michael Biehn actor turns 55
1932 - Ted Cassidy, American actor (Lurch-Addams Family)
Wesley Snipes actor/director turns 49
Barry Van Dyke actor, turns 60
· ENTREPRENEUR & EDUCATORS
1803 - John Ericsson, US, inventor (screw propeller)/shipbuilder-USS Monitor
1912 - Milton Friedman, economist (Nobel 1976)
1724 - Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer
· POLITICIANS
--· SCIENTISTS / THEOLOGISTS
1702 - Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter
1858 - Richard Dixon Oldham, British geologist
‡ Today’s Obits:
1997 - Bo Dai, Last emporer of Vietnam, dies at 85
1556 - St Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Society of Jesus dies of Roman Fever at 65
1875 - Andrew Johnson, 17th pres, dies of a stroke at 66
1964 - Jim Reeves, US country singer, dies in air crash at 39
1953 - Robert Taft, (Sen-R-Oh) "Mr Republican", dies of brain hemorrhage at 63
‡ ANSWERS:
Trivia Quiz
1. Which 90s rerun of a 60s series had the promotion line" It's not stupid... it's surrealism?"
a. Green Acres
2. Who was the producer creator of Gilligan's Island?
a. Sherwood Schwartz
3. Ed Sullivan was Broadway gossip columnist on which newspaper?
a. New York Daily News
4. Which 1968 cop show was the brain child of Aaron Spelling?
a. The Mod Squad
5. Which series was based on the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin?
a. The Six Million Dollar Man
6. Who hosted The Match Game on its original run on NBC?
a. Gene Rayburn
7. Who first asked contestants to "come on down" on The Price Is Right?
a. Johnny Olden
8. Who played the theme music on The Dating Game?
a. Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
9. What was Desi Arnaz's real first name?
a. Desiderio
10. Who hosted The Texaco Star Theater in the 1940s?
a. Milton Berle
11. What was the name of the cook in Bonanza?
a. Hop Sing
12. Which comedy show was originally called You'll Never Get Rich?
a. The Phil Silvers Show
13. What was Hanna and Barbera's first TV show?
a. Ruff and Ready
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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree. All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] may not be totally accurate.
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