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TODAY’s “Geez”
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- 1892 - 1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa's band (NJ)
- 1972 - American Museum of Immigration dedicated
- 1960 - Longest speech in UN history (4 hrs, 29 mins, by Fidel Castro)
- 1892 - Diamond Match Co patented book matches
- 1991 - 2 year experimental Biosphere 2 in Oracle Arizona begins
- 1984 - Pres Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa
Free Rambling Thoughts
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While
I am certainly enjoying this fall weather I was disheartened to read in the
local paper that the drought that started in 1999 is now going to go on and be
recorded in decades instead of years. It’s not just Flag, it’s almost the whole
friggin state. La Niña, El Niño, climate change, global warming…call it what
you will, our state will remain a tinder box for years to come. I say years but some of the people are saying
decades. I have to wonder when the City Council will listen and stop selling
any of our water…we need every drop.
You
know you are getting old-er when you know about retronyms. This is a word that
was used a while back that has changed when something else took it’s place and
makes for confusion. Huh? Here are some
retronyms: corn used to mean
corn-on-the-cob as that is all there was, now corn means the little pieces and
if it I on the cob, you need to specify that; watch used to mean the thing you wear on your arm to tell time with
3 hands, now you have to say analog watch as the digital readout has taken
over. An oven has changed to
conventional oven with the onslaught of microwave ovens; the Great War became
World War I when WWII began. We used to meet people but now have to delineate if
it face-to-face or online. M&M’s
were that ‘not in your hand’ candy until 1954 when peanut M&M’s were
introduced and we now had Plain M&M’ and Peanut M&M’s. In the early
days of the internet, text files were
sent around. As fonts, style, color were added, it had to become plain text. Coffee was around a long time until there
was decaffeinated coffee and coffee had to become regular coffee. Guitar had to change to acoustic guitar
with the invention of the electric guitar. Radio
had to become AM radio when FM took to the air. Soap like what you wash with had to become bar soap with the
introduction of liquid and gel soaps. Diaper
had to become cloth diaper with the advent of disposable diapers. Glasses (for vision correction) had to
become eyeglasses to distinguish them from sunglasses, safety glasses, and 3D
glasses. Written had to become handwritten with the invention of the
typewriter. Phone service had to become land line service with the advent of
cell phones. Headlights had to become low beam headlights with the invention of
high beams. The transmission on your vehicle—if you use a clutch—had to become
a standard or manual transmission with the growth of automatic transmissions.
Judaism had to become Orthodox Judaism with the beginnings of Reform and
Conservative Judaism. Our nation’s capital was called Washington until the
Oregon Territory divided and the state of Washington got the short version and the
capital became DC or Washington DC. The list goes on and on, and continues to
grow every day.
Trivia Quiz…(answers at
the end of post) .
1.
Who was once put in
jail for her obscene stage play "Sex"?
2.
Sex Kittens Go To
College, Platinum High School and College Confidential are three teen movies
that a famous country music star appeared in in 1960. Who was the country
artist?
3.
What does blonde sex
symbol of the 90s, Sharon Stone, claim her IQ is?
4.
Crocodile embryos
sex is determined by which factor, temperature, humidity, or genetics?
5.
The name of the
machine in Woody Allen's 1973 comedy sleeper that replace sex was what?
6.
To create her sexy
walk, what did Marilyn Monroe do?
7.
What woman accused
Bill Clinton of sexual harassment after an incident in a hotel in 1991?
8.
In the epic films,
Live Nude Girls and Porky's, before Sex and the City beckoned, what actress
appeared in them?
9.
Which sexy French
actress and sex symbol later in life became an animal rights campaigner?
10.
Mae West was how old
when she starred in the movie Sextet?
11.
What was the theme
song for the Oscar-nominated film, The Full Monty?
Wuzzles…What concept or
phrase does this suggest? .
Hmmmmm
.
- Average amount NATO spends each week enforcing the no fly zone over Libya: $1,930,000
Somewhat Useless
Information
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- Sperm Whales have the heaviest brain of any living animal. The average Sperm Whale's brain weighs more than 20 pounds (9 kilograms) which is about 4 times heavier than the average human brain.
- Of these animals, the Freshwater Oyster has the longest recorded life span at 80 years. The longest recorded life span for a termite is 50 years; for a chimapanzee, 50 years; and for an Indian elephant, 70 years.
- In 1983, the first genetically engineered organism, a tobacco plant designed to be resistant to certain herbicides, was grown in Wisconson.
Yeah, It Really Happened
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EDMONTON,
Alberta - A Canadian woman claims chewing gum that stuck to her dentures
sparked short-term depression and she's suing the manufacturer over the ordeal.
The lawsuit filed last week in Edmonton, Alberta, by lawyers for Elsie Pawlow
seeks $100,000 from the manufacturer of Stride chewing gum, the QMI Agency
reported.
Pawlow,
who said in her suit she is "still holding" at age 49, is suing Kraft
Canada, the parent company of Cadbury Adams, the manufacturer of the gun widely
advertised as "ridiculously long-lasting."
"Over
a period of five minutes the gum falls apart into little pieces and sticks to
the dentures," her claim says. "As a result, the plaintiff has
suffered depression for approximately 10 minutes."
Her
suit says she finds the process of "digging out" small bits of gum to
be "disgusting," the report said. The suit, which cost her $200 to
file, also is seeking to recover her legal costs and interest, QMI said. There
was no immediate response from Kraft, which hasn't yet filed a statement of defense.
Guffaw…or at least smile .
Okay,
so a Texan rancher comes upon a farmer from Maine.
The
Texan looks at the Mainer and asks, "Say, how much land you think you got
here?"
Mainer:
'Bout 10 acres I'd say."
Texan
(boasting): Well, on my lot, it takes me all day to drive completely around my
property!"
Mainer:
"Yep, I got one of them trucks too."
Searchin’ “You Tube” I
found
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Daybook Information
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…Happening
This Week:
24-10/1
Banned
Books Week
Fall Astronomy Week
National
Chimney Safety Week
National Keep Kids Creative Week
TODAY IS
.
Family
Day - A Day To Eat Dinner With Your Family
Johnny
Appleseed Day
National
Comic Book Day
Shamu
the Whale Day
World
Heart Day
World
Maritime Day
~*~
Yemen: National Day (1962)
Today’s Events
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ARTS
1957
- Musical "West Side Story," opens on Broadway
1962
- TV comedy series "Beverly Hillbillies"premieres
1968 - 1st broadcast of "Hawaii Five-O"
1986
- RUN-DMC is 1st rap group to hit
top 10 (Raisin' Hell)
ATHLETICS
1926
- Shortest double header, Yanks
lose 6-1 in 72 minutes & lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to Browns
1962 - LA Dodger Maury Wills becomes 1st to
steal 100 bases
BUSINESS
1872 - The first Shriners Temple (called
Mecca) was established in New York City
1995 - "George" magazine premieres,
published by John F Kennedy Jr
EDUCATION
--
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1675 - Troops under Virginia Colonel John Washington
and Maryland Major Thomas Trueman surround the main base of the Susquehannock
Indians. They are there to discover if the Indians are responsible for
attacking colonial settlements. Trueman calls out the Susquehannock for a
conference under a flag of truce. Five Chiefs come out of their fortified
position to talk. They deny being involved in the attacks. Trueman has them led
away and killed. Trueman gets off with a minor fine from the Maryland Assembly
for this act.
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
1580 - Francis Drake with Spanish treasure
returns to England
1687 - Acropolis in Athens attacked by
Venetian army trying to eject Turks Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks
& Venetians
1687
- The city council of Amsterdam
votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the
Glorious Revolution
1901
- Great Britain annexes Gold Coast
(Ghana)
1980 - Bomb attack on Octoberfest in Munich,
12 killed
RELIGION
--
SCIENCE
1772 - New Jersey passes bill requiring a
license to practice medicine
1970
- The Laguna Fire starts in San
Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²)
2009 - Typhoon Ketsana (2009) hit the
Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700
fatalities.
US POLITICS
1789
- Jefferson appointed 1st Sec of
State; John Jay 1st chief justice
1890 - US stops minting $1 & $3 gold coin
& 3 cent piece
Today’s Birthdays
.
ARTISTS: (AUTHORS,
COMPOSERS,…)
1888 - T S
Eliot, St Louis poet/dramatist/critic (Waste Land-Nobel 1948)
ATHLETES
Serena
Williams, tennis turns 30
ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS…)
1926
- Julie London, actress (Nurse
McCall-Emergency)
1924 - Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor
Kent McCord, actor (Officer Jim Reed-Adam 12) turns 69
ENTREPRENEURS & EDUCATORS
1914 - Jack LaLanne, exercise mogul (Juice
Tiger)
POLITICIAL FIGURES
Winnie Mandela-Madikizela, South African anti-apartheid protestor turns 77
SCIENTISTS & THEOLOGISTS
1181 - Saint
Francis of Assisi, Italian founder of the Franciscan Order
1774 - John
Chapman, [Johnny Appleseed], frontier nurseryman
1897 - Pope Paul
VI, [Giovanni Montini], 262nd Roman Catholic pope (1963-78)
Today’s Obits
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1820 - Daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies in
Missouri at 85
1965 - Clara Bow, actress (It, Red Hair,
Wings), dies of heart attack at 59
1979
- John Cromwell, actor/director
(Of Human Bondage), dies at 91
1917 - Edgar H G Degas, French painter
(ballerina), dies at 83
1868 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German
mathematician and astronomer dies at 78
2008 - Paul Newman, American actor, salad
dressing brand dies at 83
2003 - Robert Palmer, English singer dies of
heart attack at 54
1952 - George Santayana, US philosopher/poet
(Last Puritan), dies at 88
1937 - Bessie Smith, singer, dies of injuries
sustained in car crash at 43
1902 - Levi Strauss, American clothing
manufacturer dies at 73
1991 - Billy Vaughn, American bandleader dies of
mesothelioma at 72
ANSWERS
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Trivia Quiz
1.
Who was once put in
jail for her obscene stage play "Sex"?
a.
Mae West
2.
Sex Kittens Go To
College, Platinum High School and College Confidential are three teen movies
that a famous country music star appeared in in 1960. Who was the country
artist?
a.
Conway Twitty
3.
What does blonde sex
symbol of the 90s, Sharon Stone, claim her IQ is?
a.
154
4.
Crocodile embryos
sex is determined by which factor, temperature, humidity, or genetics?
a.
Temperature
5.
The name of the
machine in Woody Allen's 1973 comedy sleeper that replace sex was what?
a.
The Orgasmatron
6.
To create her sexy
walk, what did Marilyn Monroe do?
a.
She sawed off part
of the heel of one shoe
7.
What woman accused
Bill Clinton of sexual harassment after an incident in a hotel in 1991?
a.
Paula Jones
8.
In the epic films,
Live Nude Girls and Porky's, before Sex and the City beckoned, what actress
appeared in them?
a.
Kim Cattrall
9.
Which sexy French
actress and sex symbol later in life became an animal rights campaigner?
a.
Brigitte Bardot
10.
Mae West was how old
when she starred in the movie Sextet?
a.
85
11.
What was the theme
song for the Oscar-nominated film, The Full Monty?
Wuzzle
Abandon Ship
Choose up sides
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] the dates may not be
totally accurate.
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