Oct 25, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac:  

Week: 43/ Day: 299   

Today: High   58°…Low 36°

Records: High   79°(1959)…Low 9°(1975)

Averages: High  59° Low 29°

Wind: average:  18mph; Gusts:  41mph

Today’s average humidity:  65%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s Historical  Highlights:

"Little Orphan Annie" comic strip 1st published—1924
Baghdad bombings kills 155 and wounds at least 721—2009Charge of Light Brigade (Battle of Balaklava, Crimean War), 409 die—1854
Cuba nationalizes all remaining US businesses—1960
Erie Canal opens, linking Great Lakes & Atlantic Ocean—1825
International Red Cross ousted from South Africa—1986
Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom—1951
Tappan sells 1st microwave oven—1955
US invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population (US Wins!) —1983
Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday & Clanton engage in "Shootout at OK Corral"—1881

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

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

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

The Post Office is pissing me off. When I mailed my brother his package they said it would be there on Monday. It’s Thursday and the package just left the New Jersey Sort Facility where it has been sitting since Monday. I called the PO here and was told that ‘media’ mail takes an average of 10 days. That’s not what they said when I mailed it. I asked about why the web site tracker says the package will be delivered the 21^st. The answer, “that’s just an average”. I can call back on the 27^th, if the package hasn’t been delivered. I knew that ‘media’ was slow, but when the nice lady said ‘5 days’ for $3.50 or Priority for $48.95 (3 days) I decided to go with ‘media’. I’m keeping my brother appraised, as he lives in a place where packages are just put on a table in the front lobby for pickup. If it sits there more than one day it usually disappears. I should have used Amazon, paid ½ the bookstore price and had them ship it. Live and Learn.

 

OMG, another Conservative candidate comes out with an outrageous statement…when a woman becomes pregnant during a rape “that’s something God intended.” That’s not the God I learned about in Sunday school. These conservatives seem to also believe in a Devil. Why, I have to wonder, don’t they say that a pregnancy from rape is an act of the devil? I also wonder how these candidates end up on a ballot.

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

Anagram Sentences:

What are the missing words?

The wolf and its ____ were quite ____ and ate ____ from our hands.

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Guinness World Records:

Chad Fell (USA) blew a bubblegum bubble with a diameter of 50.8 cm (20 in) without using his hands at the Double Springs High School, Winston County, Alabama, USA on 24 April 2004.

Ok, then?

Commercial Jingles you may remember:

Cracker Jack

Read This Headline Carefully!!

Puerto Rican Woman named Mistress of the Universe

Campaign Buttons:

Flash Mobs:

Denver Airport Holiday Flash Mob

Harper’s Index:         

Number of workdays it would take the average American to read the privacy policy of every website khe or she visits in a year: 30

Unusual Fact of the Day:

There really was a Captain Morgan. He was a Welsh pirate who later became the lieutenant governor of Jamaica.

Found on You Tube: 

• The Canterbury Tales Prologue in Middle English

• Roger Miller singing King Of The Road

• Top Twenty Pablo Picasso Paintings

Joke-of-the-day:

A lawyer died and arrived at the pearly gates. To his dismay, there were thousands of people ahead of him in line to see St. Peter. To his surprise, St. Peter left his desk at the gate and came down the long line to where the lawyer was, and greeted him warmly. Then St. Peter and one of his assistants took the lawyer by the hands and guided him up to the front of the line, and into a comfortable chair by his desk. The lawyer said, "I don't mind all this attention, but what makes me so special?" St. Peter replied, "Well, I've added up all the hours for which you billed your clients, and by my calculation you must be about 193 years old!"

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

 SELLING LOTTERY TICKETS…If you walk into a bar where a lot of people wear baseball caps, it's a good place to sell lottery tickets.   

Yeah, It Really Happened

LAHORE, Pakistan - Attendees at a Pakistani youth fair broke seven world records during the weekend. New global marks were set in most martial arts kicks in 3 minutes, plug wiring, fastest chess set up, cooking the most number of chapattis (bread), pulling a truck by a mustache and most football headers at the the Punjab Youth Festival in Lahore on Sunday, Geo News reported. On Saturday, attendees to the festival broke the record for most people singing a national anthem. Ahmad Amin Bodla broke the record for most kicks, while the record of chess setup was broken by Mehar Gul and Mohammad Mansha broke the chapatti making record. Noman Anjum set the world record in plug wiring and Mohammad Sadi set the world record of pulling a truck by a mustache. The record for football headers was set by Daniyal Gill and Qamar Zaman. A team from Guinness World Records was at the festival to verify the records.  

Somewhat Useless Information   

• The maximum speed limit you'll see on US highway signs depends on the state. In Iowa, New Mexico, and North and South Dakota, 75 mph is posted on some stretches of interstate highways. But in Hawaii, 60 mph is the maximum statewide, and in the District of Columbia, 55 mph is still the law.

• The criteria vary from state to state, but as a rule, each area works closely with the Department of Natural Resources to review reported automobile/deer accidents. A "Deer Crossing" sign is generally erected whenever a deer has been hit within the previous 12 months.

• Forty-nine states participate in the "Adopt a Highway" program. The lone holdout is Vermont, whose anti-billboard laws prohibit the necessary road adoption signage.

• In 2004, the Federal Highway Administration approved the use of a new font, Clearview, on federal road signs after tests showed that drivers found Clearview easier to read than the current Highway Gothic font.

• The large blue signs on freeways indicating that there's a Shell station or a McDonald's at the next exit are called "interstate logo boards." A business must meet strict criteria, such as restrooms, telephones, no cover charge, and so on, in order to get its name posted.

• The Federal Highway Administration has adopted certain shapes for the various types of road signs in hopes that drivers will recognize them reflexively. A round sign indicates a railroad crossing; a pentagon stands for a school crossing; and diamond-shaped signs alert us to a particular potential hazard.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

21-27

Bullying Bystanders Unite Week
Kids Care Week
National Character Counts Week 
National Chemistry Week 
National Forest Products Week 
National Friends of Libraries Week
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week 
National Massage Therapy Week
National Respiratory Care Week 
National Save For Retirement Week
National School Bus Safety Week 

Pastoral Care Week
Red Ribbon Week
YWCA Week without Violence 2

24-30

Disarmament Week
International Magic Week

Peace, Friendship and Good Will Week
Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week
World Hearing Aid Awareness Week

Today Is                                                                       

Punk For A Day Day

Chucky, The Notorious Killer Doll Day

Sourest Day- Reserve the right to be grumpy, irritable and sour about 

      the world and everything in it

World Pasta Day  

~Taiwan- Retrocession Day (to commemorate the end of 50 years 

      of Japanese colonial rule of Taiwan in 1945)

Today’s Events through History  

110th member of UN admitted (Uganda) —1962
1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC—1960
1st scheduled transcontinental air service began—1930
1st trial against Nazi war criminals (Nuremberg) —1946
Air Force fires 1st ICBM—1974
Battle of Agincourt, Welsh longbow defeat armored knight—1415
Cherokee sign a treaty today with Return Meigs on the Duck River covering      land north of the Tennessee River in Kentucky and Middle Tennessee      (7 stat. 93) —1805Emperor Charles V bans wooden buildings in Amsterdam—1521
Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, announces that transactions using the       American Dollar will be banned by November 8—2004
Giovanni Cassini discovers Lapetus, satellite of Saturn—1671
Hepatitis virus is discovered—1984
John Adams marries Abigail Smith (marriage lasts 54 years) —1764
John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature—1962
Postcards 1st used in US—1870
Rolling Stones release "Get Off of My Cloud"—1965
Windows XP first became available—2001

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Under 30

Katy Perry, pop singer (I Kissed A Girl, Waking Up In Vegas is 28

In their 40’s

Tracy Nelson, California, American actress (Glitter, Square Pegs, Father Dowling) is 49

In their 70’s

Bobby Knight, college basketball coach (Indiana, Olympic-gold-1984) is 72

In their 80’s

Marion Ross, actress (Marion-Happy Days, Bkln Bridge) will be 84

Remembered for being born today

James Beattie, Scotland, poet/philosopher (Essay on Truth) (1735-1808)

Richard E Byrd, Virginia, admiral/polar explorer (1888-1957)

Leo G. Carroll, English actor (1892-1972)

John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (1864-1920)

Tony [Anthony] Franciosa, [Papaleo], NYC, actor (Jeff-Name of the Game) (1928-1996)

Minnie Pearl, [Sarah Ophelia Colley], Tenn, (Grand Old Opry, Hee-Haw)(1912-1996)

Pablo Picasso, Malaga Spain, artist (3 Dancers, Guernica), (1881-1973)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Lisa Blount, actress [An Officer and a Gentleman], producer—blood disease—2010—at 53

Geofrey Chaucer, author (Canterbury Tales)—unknown causes—1400—at 56 or 57

Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison, 1st lady (1889-1892)—TB—1892—at 60

Roger Miller, country singer (King of the Road)—lung cancer—1992—at 56

Vincent Price, actor (Raven, Fly)—lung cancer—1993— at 82

Bobby Riggs, tennis star—prostate cancer—1995—at 77

Forrest Tucker, actor (O'Rourke-F Troop, Dusty Trail) emphysema—1986—at 67

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Anagram sentence

The wolf and its mate were quite tame and ate meat from our hands.

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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