Oct 4, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac:  

Week: 40/ Day: 278   Today: High  78°…Low 41° Records: High   83°(1980)…Low 21°(1902) Averages: High  67°…Low 36°

Wind: average:   4mph;  Gusts:  20mph Today’s average humidity:  35%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s  Historical  Highlights:

1976 - Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke

1931 - Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould debuts

1927 - Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mt. Rushmore

1883 - Orient Express' 1st run, linking Turkey to Europe by rail

1675 - Christian Huygens patents pocket watch

1537 - The first complete English-language Bible (the Matthew Bible) is printed, 

            with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale  

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

Another prescribed burn near Flagstaff and another day of smoke settling in around town. I went for a walk late this morning, and returned home with my eyes burning a little. Not a pleasant feeling, even though the burns are supposed to help out on our fire danger in the future.

The debate is being held at the University of Denver, a beautiful campus with a great private university reputation. Some friends in Denver have posted that traffic is a mess on several freeways. Some talking head just said that both men will be talking to the people at home, since many don’t know what is going on. Really? I do know enough of what’s going on and I want to hear each candidate speak on specific topics with specific answers. NPR ran a great piece this morning about how debates work…informative and interesting.

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

What is the rhyming answer?

Answer the following clue in two rhyming words (e.g. an obese feline is a fat cat) If only one number is given, the answer is a word featuring internal rhyme (e.g. voodoo)

Returns tomorrow

Rebus:

Can you figure out what this means?

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Dedication: Guinness World Records:

Charlotte Lee (USA) has 5,631 different rubber ducks, as of 10 April 2011, which she has been collecting since 1996.

Ok, then?

Commercial Jingles you may remember:

I Am Stuck on Band-aid

Read This Sign Carefully!!

At an optometrist's office, "If you don't see what you're looking for, you've come to the right place."

Do you know what this word means?

What is this not so common name of a common object?

retrophilia

Iconic Photographs:

Great Melodies:

Feels So Good / Chuck Manglone 1978

Harper’s Index:         

Percentage of independent political spending on TV advertising in the past year that came from anonymous doners: 91

Unusual Fact of the Day:

Dartmouth College is older than the United States and was granted its original charter by the King of England. When the then governor of New Hampshire tried to amend the charter, and the College brought suit against the state of New Hampshire, the Supreme Court upheld the original charter, thereby limiting the power of states to interfere in private enterprises.

Found on You Tube: 

• The Great Buster Keaton

• What's my Line? Charlton Heston

Joke-of-the-day:

A young executive was leaving the office late one evening when he found the CEO standing in front of a shredder with a piece of paper in his hand.

"Listen," said the CEO, "this is a very sensitive and important document here, and my secretary has gone for the night. Can you make this thing work for me?"

"Certainly," said the young executive. He turned the machine on, inserted the paper, and pressed the start button.

"Excellent, excellent!" said the CEO, as his paper disappeared inside the machine. "I just need one copy..."  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

BUYING CHEESE FOR A PARTY…For a wine and cheese party, count on having one pound of cheese for every five guests.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

LANSING, Mich. - A Michigan State University professor who stripped off his clothes in class was taken to a hospital and is not being charged with a crime, the school said. The university said police received a call just after 1 p.m. Monday about a man shouting in the hallway of the school's engineering building and they soon discovered the man, a professor, had stripped all of his clothes off in front of his calculus class, ABC News reported Tuesday. "MSU police responded and took the man, a university professor, into protective custody and transported him to a local hospital," the school said. "No one was injured and the professor is not being charged with a crime." Students described the professor, whose name was not released, as "eccentric."  

Somewhat Useless Information   

•  In 2001, after hearing deterioration in his voice, listeners learned that conservative radio voice Rush Limbaugh was suffering from near-complete hearing loss. 

• Cochlear implant surgery at year's end helped to improve both his hearing ability and thus his ability to enunciate properly.

• Best known as red-haired, freckle-faced Danny on TV's The Partridge Family, Danny Bonaduce has found a second career as a radio personality. The job has sent him on a tour of the country, with stops in Philadelphia, Phoenix, Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Los Angeles, in that order.

• Long-time Los Angeles disc jockey Jim Ladd provided the voice of the DJ for the 1987 album Radio KAOS by former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters. He also appeared in videos for the album's singles and traveled with Waters on tour, performing the role in concerts from a radio booth high above the stage.

• When DJ Robert Smith first adopted the professional name Wolfman Jack, he shied away from public appearances because he couldn't decide how the Wolfman should look.

• The Rest of the Story's radio legend Paul Harvey is credited with coining the words "guesstimate" and "Reaganomics."

• Iva Ikuko Toguri was born in Los Angeles but found herself stranded in Tokyo while visiting relatives in 1941 after Pearl Harbor was bombed. She was drafted into work as a disc jockey for Radio Tokyo, and while the rest of the world called her Tokyo Rose, she only ever referred to herself as Orphan Ann.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

1-7Customer Service Week
Financial Planning Week
National Newspaper Week
Spinning & Weaving Week
Universal Children's Week
World Dairy Expo

3-10No Salt Week
World Space Week

Today Is                                                                      

Blessing of The Animals Day (aka Blessing of the Pets Day, World Pet Day)   Improve Your Office Day   Kanelbullens Dag (Cinnamon Roll Day)    Ten-Four Day
World Animal Day  National Golf Day
~Lesotho (Africa): Independence Day (1966 from UK)

Today’s Events through History  

2000’s

2003 - Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and 

            Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded

1900’s

1992 - The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique

1959 - 1st World Series game played west of St Louis (in LA)  set World 

            Series attendance record at 92,394

1957 - "Leave It to Beaver," debuts on CBS

1922 - For 1st time, entire World Series broadcast over radio 

1915 - Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado & Utah is established

1800’s

1883 - First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland

1881 - Edward Leveaux patents automatic player piano

1864 - New Orleans Tribune, 1st black daily newspaper, forms

1854 - Abraham Lincoln made his 1st political speech at Illinois State Fair

1838 - Elijah Hicks, and 748 Cherokee will be the second group of Cherokee to leave 

            the Tennessee Cherokee Agency area under their own supervision. They are

           part of the forced removal of the Cherokee to the Indian Territory. They will 

           arrive on January 4, 1839.

1600’s

1636 - 1st code of law for Plymouth Colony  

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 30’s

 Alicia Silverstone, SF California, actress (Clueless, Batman Forever) is 36

In their 40’s

Liev Schreiber, actor [X-Men Origins] is 45

In their 50’s

David W Harper, Abilene Tx, actor (Jim Bob-Waltons) is 51

In their 60’s

 Armand Assante, NYC, actor (Private Benjamin, Unfaithfully Yours) is 63

Susan Sarandon, actress [Thelma & Louise, Dead Man Walking] is 66

In their 70’s

Jackie Collins, London, British author (The Stud, Lucky) is 75

Anne Rice, New Orleans LA, author (Interview with a Vampire) is 71

In their 80’s

 Leroy Van Dyke, Spring Fork Mo, country singer (Walk on By) is 83

Remembered for being born today

Richard Cromwell, lord protector of England b. 1626

Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Delaware Ohio, (R) 19th pres b. 1822

Charlton Heston, Ill, actor (10 Commandments, Ben Hur, Planet of Apes) b. 1923

Buster [Joseph F] Keaton, actor (Navigator, Steamboat Bill, Jr) b. 1895

John B Kelly, Olympic champion rower/father of Grace Kelly b. 1889

Jan Murray, Bronx NY, comedian (Treasure Hunt, Who Killed Teddy Bear) b. 1916

Sidney Paget, British illustrator (Sherlock Holmes) b. 1860

Dottie West, country singer ["Here Comes My Baby"] b. 1932

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Gordon Cooper, American astronaut—heart failure—2004—at 77

Catherine Booth, the Mother of The Salvation Army—1890—at 61 

Sarsa Dengel [ሠረጸ ድንግል śarṣa dingil], Emperor of Ethiopia—food poisoning

     —1597—at 47

Janis Joplin, rock singer (Down on Me)—drug overdose—1970—at 27

Secretariat, Triple Crown horse— laminitis—1989—at 19

Anne Sexton, US poetess (Pulitzer 1967)—sucide—1974—at 45

Al Smith, American politician—heart attack—1944—at 70 

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Do you know what this word means?

Love of all things past; a nostalgic enthusiasm for past fashions, trends, attitudes, and objects ("retro objects") (from the Latin retro = behind, back, backwards, i.e. in times past)

What is the rhyming answer?

 Returns tomorrow

Rebus

Green with envy

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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