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Today’s “Geez“
- 1759 - 1st music store in America opens (Phila)
- 1920 - League of Nations establishes Intl Court of Justice in The Hague
- 1938 - Los Angeles freezes at 28°F
- 1949 - Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capital to Jerusalem
- 1975 - 1st time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Richard Pryor hosts)
- 1978 - Susan B Anthony dollar, 1st US coin to honor a woman, issued
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Free Rambling
Thoughts
Let it snow, let it
snow, make it stop! OK, we got a couple of inches…that’s fine. I was still able
to run errands. But more is expected while I sleep tonight. Oh well, a nice
winter wonderland.
I got my cable bill
today and was shocked. A few weeks ago the guy came and reset my ‘dirty’
wiring. The charge…$40. Neither he nor the guy who made the appointment
mentioned this fee. I called and was told that I should have been told and that
they were sorry I wasn’t. Then she said I could pay an additional $4.95/month
for insurance, so that I wouldn’t have to pay the service fee in the future. I
asked her how I was supposed to know about this insurance and she said that the
call center and the tech should have told me. I told her they didn’t. And I
explained that they are new to the Flagstaff area and this is not a good way to
make a good impression. I went on to remind her that the service guy had told
me that he was making lots of calls with the same problem that happened when
the company switched to the new channels. I told her I didn’t think I should
have to pay since they made the problem happen. And I told her that the
insurance isn’t even listed as a choice on the web site. She said she would
split the difference and credit me with $20. I told her I thought that was
outrageous but in the spirit of the holidays I would agree. I wasn’t happy, but
was tired of arguing with an idiot. Lesson learned, I guess.
NPR Sunday
Puzzle (answers
at the end of post)
come up with items
in each of the given categories that start with the letters of the word
"Madre." For example, for the category "3-letter boys'
names," the answer would include Moe, Art, Don, Ray and Eli.
1.
Books
of the bible:
2.
First
Lady:
3.
Things
seen in a library:
Wuzzles What concept or
phrase do these suggest?
Rules of Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
- When playing ice hockey, if you are going in on the goalie 2 on 0 and your partner passes the puck across in front of the net - shoot high because the goalie will be sliding across the bottom of the net.
Hmmmmm
- Minimum percentage of mortagages in Las Vegas are currently ‘underwater’: 70
Somewhat Useless Information
- Men in America do 29% of the laundry each week. Only 7% of women trust their husbands to do it correctly.
- 21% of Americans don't make their bed daily. 5% of us never do.
Yeah, It Really
Happened
ROCK HILL, S.C. — Starting this week, students at one South
Carolina high school won't get disciplined right away for wearing saggy pants.
Instead, school officials will lend them a belt.
Administrators at
Northwestern High School in Rock Hilll, S.C., hope the change will cause
students to think about how they dress and also reduce the number of students
referred for discipline.
Previously, students
whose pants sagged below their waist could be written up and sent to the
principal's office.
Junior Joe Johnson says
he doubts that loaning a belt for the day will deter teens, because many
students already wear a belt on their sagging pants.
Principal James Blake
says the school is willing to try anything to give students the opportunity to
do the right thing.
A Laff or at
least smile
Emmitt Smith died and
went to heaven. When he got to the pearly gates, St. Peter was waiting for him
and issued Emmitt an invitation to play for the HFL- the heaven football
league. Emmitt thought about it for a minute and said, "Sure!"
As they walked out to the field, there was a
game in progress. Emmitt was stunned. There were a lot of ex-NFL players out on
that field. But what he found to be strange was that the jerseys didn't have
any numbers. Instead they had letters on them. So he turned around and questioned
St. Peter about the numbers.
St. Peter chuckled and
told him, "Up here we don't need numbers. The letters stand for the
position they are playing, QB is for quarterback, WR is for wide receiver and
so on."
Emmitt smile and nodded
his head. But as he gazed around the sidelines, he got a perplexed look on his
face. On the other side of the field, there was a man wearing a jersey that had
the letters TL. "St. Peter, as you know, I played football many years with
the Dallas Cowboys and I am familiar with all the positions. But in all my
years I have never seen the position of TL."
St. Peter laughed and
said, "Oh yeah, I forgot. That's just God, he likes to pretend that he is
Tom Landry."
Found on YouTube
Daybook
Information
…Happening This Week:
10-17
- Human Rights Week
- Cocoa Day
- Ice Cream Day: 1903 - patent for molded ice cream cups
- Pick a Pathologist
- Pal Day
- Violins Day
- Malta: Republic Day (1974)
Today’s Events
Arts
1843 - "A
Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published, 6,000 copies sold
1913 - Mona
Lisa stolen in Aug 1911 returned to Louvre
1928 - George
Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres (NYC)
1950 - James Dean
begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial
1961 - Jimmy Dean's
Big Bad John album is country music 1st million $ seller
1995 - Christopher
Reeves released from physical rehab center
Athletes
1922 - Charles
Ebbets proposes putting numbers on players' sleeves or caps
1977 - 14
University of Evansville basketball players die in plane crash
2007 - The
Mitchell Report is publicly released listing the names of 89 Major League
Baseball players that have presumably used anabolic steroids and human growth
hormones.
Business
1924 - KOA-AM
in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
Education
1769 - Dartmouth
College in New Hampshire received its charter
Indigenous People
1636 - The
Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony
against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the
founding of the United States National Guard.
1801 - In treaty
negotiations which begin today at Fort Adams, MS, between the Choctaw and the
United States, the U.S. agrees to provide training in the spinning of cotton
and spinning wheels.
Politics [International]
1577 - Sir
Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around world
1642 - New
Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman
1918 - Wilson,
becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as president (France)
1944 - Japanese
kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138
1966 - 1st US
bombing of Hanoi
1991 - Both
Koreas sign an accord calling for reconciliation
1996 - Kofi Annan is
elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Politics [US]
Religion
--
Science
1903 - Wright Bros
make 1st flight at Kittyhawk
Today’s Birthdays
Artists: [Authors,
Composers]
1585 - William
Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet
1835 - Phillips
Brooks, Episcopal bishop/composer (Little Town of Bethlehem)
Athletes
1913 - Archie
Moore, light-heavyweight boxing champ (1952-60)
Entertainers [Actors,
Singers…]
John Davidson, singer,
actor, tv host is 70
Jamie Foxx, actor, comedian
(In Living Color)is 44
1910 - Van Heflin, actor
(Great Adventure, Madame Bovary)
Wendie Malick, actress
(Just Shoot Me, Hot in Cleveland) is 61
Christopher Plummer,
Toronto actor (Sound of Music, Doll's House) is 82
Taylor Swift, singer is 22
Dick Van Dyke, actor, comedian
is 86
Richard Darryl Zanuck,
film producer/executive is 77
Entrepreneurs &
Educators
1899 - Harold
Guinzburg, publisher (founder of Literary Guild)
Political Figures
1818 - Mary
Todd Lincoln, 1st lady
George P Schultz, US
Secretary of State (1982-89) is 91
Scientists &
Theologians
--
Today’s Obits
1924 - Samuel
Gompers, organizer (American Federation of Labor), dies at 74
1784 - Samuel
Johnson, English writer and lexicographer dies at 75
1993 - Myrna Loy,
actress (Thin Man, Vanity Fair), dies at 88
1958 - Tim Moore,
actor (Kingfish-Amos 'n' Andy), dies of TB at 70
1934 - Thomas
A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell dies at 80
2007 - Floyd
Red Crow Westerman, American actor dies of leukemia at 71
Answers
NPR Sunday Puzzle—many
other words also work
1.
Books
of the bible: Mathew, Acts, Deuteronomy, Ruth, Ezekiel
2.
First
Lady: Mamie, Abigail, Dolly, Roslyn Eleanor
3.
Things
seen in a library: maps, atlas, dictionary,
reference, encyclopedia
Wuzzle
- No two ways about it
- We belong together
- A big write off
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.
