Mar 24, 2013

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Flagstaff Almanac:  Week: 13/ Day: 83   Today: H 46°…L 27°

Averages: H  52° L 25° Records: H 67°(1990)…L -1°(1973)

Wind: ave:   10mph; Gusts:  32mph  Ave. humidity:  33%

Quote of the Day

Today’s Historical Highlights

1st religious services telecast in US►1930 

African Union deploys 5,000 strong force with the aim of catching or killing

     warlord Joseph Kony►2012

Jonesboro massacre: Two students, ages 11 and 13, fire upon teachers and

     students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are dead

     and ten are wounded►1998

King James I, of England, decides the Indians of Virginia must be educated; directs

     the Anglican church to collect funds to build churches and schools►1617

Planet Pluto named►1930

US appeals court rules novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover," not obscene►1960

Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska►1989

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

Free Rambling Thoughts   

Not exactly a nice spring day…a little chilly and wind to boot. A few degrees too cold to enjoy much time outside.

 

Getting ready today for our discussion group tonight. We are discussing Iran. I sure leaned a lot with the readings for the discussion. Persia had such an amazing history. Like so many places in the world, governments have tried with much success in turning another country in to a ‘less than human’ place. One of the biggest stumbling blocks is that both the West and the Islamic regime of Iran have told their people such horrific stories about the other side, talking is only a throwing of words between governments with both sides viewing any substantial talks being a sign of weakness against a horrific enemy. To add to this the West allowed the Iranian shah to rule the country with money and support while the Shah devastated the civilian population for decades. Not much hope in the near future for any thawing of relations with the Iranian regime. On the Iranian side one big question: How can we survive if we do not have nuclear weapons with all these countries against us? On the Western side: How can we allow such a violent government have nuclear weapons? Should be an interesting discussion.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

What is this rebus?

PinnAcLeS

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

• Praise Him, Praise Him, Jesus My Blessed Redeemer

• Dead Men's Tales - Harry Houdini

from Cracked.com

Band Names

Limp Bizkit

The story: 

Rumor has it that the name comes from the title of the masturbation game, "limp biscuit," in which a group of, no doubt, highly intelligent scholars stand around a biscuit and masturbate onto it. The last guy to ejaculate has to eat it. So in a metaphorical way, the American public has been losing this game every time Limp Bizkit released an album.

Why it's ridiculous: 

Following the naming convention of its mentor band Korn, Limp Bizkit intentionally misspelled their band name, because that's phat with the kids. Fred Durst was apparently operating under the impression that naming his band after a game in which a bunch of lonely white teenagers stand around jacking off in front of each other was just a little too intellectually haughty, and decided to "dumb it down a little" for us proles. Oh, and it's pretty much never a good idea to describe your hard rock band as "limp."

Hootie and the Blowfish

The story:

The band is named for two of singer Darius Rucker's college choir friends, nicknamed "Hootie" and "the Blowfish" because one looked like an owl and the other like a blowfish. Interesting note: That choir was named Darius the Black Guy & The Two Ugliest Dudes on Campus.

Why it's ridiculous:

In a word: "hootie." In four: "hootie," "and," "the" and "blowfish." We now know from scientific studies performed in 1998 at Cambridge that there isn't a single aspect of Hootie and the Blowfish's name that doesn't invite you, the listener, on a subconscious simian level, to punch each of them in the face until they agree to change it.

Ok, then?

Harper’s Index    

Average number of days a US vet waits for a response to a claim filed with the VA: 260

Picture of the Day: Dine’ Land [Navajo]

Unusual Fact of the Day

The highest-ranking, longest-serving U.S. officers earn over $16,000 each month. New recruits, on the other hand, earn less than $16,000 annually.

Joke-of-the-day

A middle-aged woman had a heart attack and was taken to the hospital. While on the operating table, she had a near death experience.

Seeing God, she asked, "Is my time up?"

God said, "No, you have another 43 years, two months and eight days to live." Upon recovery, the woman decided to stay in the hospital and have a face-lift, liposuction and tummy tuck. Since she had so much more time to live, she figured she might as well look even nicer. After her last operation, she was released from the hospital. While crossing the street on her way home, an ambulance killed her.

Arriving in front of God, she demanded,

"I thought you said I had another 40 years? Why didn't you pull me out of the path of that ambulance?" God replied, "Girl, I didn't recognize you”

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

CHOOSING A BARBER

 Between two barbers in a shop, choose the one with the worst haircut. They cut each other's hair.   

Yeah, It Really Happened

PITTSBURGH - American Eagle Outfitters, based in Pittsburgh, said a fake ad for spray-on skinny jeans was a way of having "fun with our fans." Bob Holobinko, vice president of brand marketing, said the company has been pleased with the response to the YouTube video for the fake "Skinny Skinny Jeans" product, KNBC-TV, Los Angeles, reported Friday. The video, which depicts young people wearing spray-painted jeans, had been viewed more than 420,000 times as of Friday afternoon. "We wanted to have fun with our fans," Holobinko told NBC's "Today" show. "And the response has been incredible."  

Somewhat Useless Information   

 Our Lifetime in Numbers

Life expectancy – 78.5 years or 2,475,576,000 seconds Words Spoken in Lifetime - 123,205,750 Friendships – 1,700   Baths – 7,163  Dreams – 104,390 Beef and Veal consumed – 4.5 cows per person Chickens consumed – 1,201 per person Potatoes consumed – 5130 pounds Chocolate – 10,354 bars Baked Beans – 845 cans Farts – 35,815 liters of wind Soap – 656 bars  Toothpaste – 276 tubes Deodorant – 272 cans Shampoo – 198 bottles Beer – 10,351 pints Wine – 1,694 bottles Vomit produced – 149 liters Sex – 4,239 times Holidays - 59 trips

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

18-24

Act Happy Week
American Chocolate Week
Flood Awareness Week
Wellderly Week
Wildlife Week
World Folktales & Fables Week
21-27

Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination
24-30 

Tsunami Awareness Week
Pediatric Nurse Practioner Week
National Protocol Officer's Week
National Cleaning Week
Termite Awareness Week

Today Is                                                                      

Houdini Day

National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day

Palm Sunday

World Tuberculosis Day

Today’s Events through History  

1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service►1955

ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline"►1980

Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761) ►1958

Kennedy half-dollar issued 1976 - Argentine Pres Isabel Peron deposed by country's military►1964

Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms 1898 - 1st automobile sold►1868

Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio►1832

Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island►1664

Three Dozen SIOUX make off with 30 horses belonging to CROW scouts, at Fort Custer,

     in south-central Montana. Captain John Mix, and 44 soldiers from Troop C, Second 

     Cavalry, cover 65 miles in 11 hours to catch the SIOUX. During a skirmish, 

     16 of the stolen horses are recovered►1880

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 70’s

Bob Mackie, Monterey Parks California, designer (Streisand, Cher) is 73

In their 60’s

Tommy Hilfiger, fashion designer is 62

In their 50’s

Star Jones, attorney/TV hostess (NBC, Inside Edition) is 51

In their 30’s

Peyton Manning, Colt’s football player is 37

Remembered for being born today

Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, San Jose CA, actor (Keystone comedies) [1887-1933]

Fanny Crosby, American hymnist [1820-1915]

Thomas E Dewey, 1st Catholic Pres candidate 1944, 1948 (R) [1902-1971]

Norman Fell, actor (Mr Roper-3's Company, The End, Graduate) [1924-1998]

Harry Houdini, [Erich Weiss], Budapest, magician/escape artist [1824-1926]

John Wesley Powell, US, geologist/explorer/ethnologist [1834-1902]

Dorothy Stratton, organizer (SPARS-women's branch of US Coast Guard) [1899-2006]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Robert Culp, American actor►heart attack►2010►at 79

Sam Jaffe, actor (Dr Zorba-Ben Casey) ►cancer►1984►at 93

William Leddra, last Quaker hanged in Boston►1661

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (Song of Hiawatha) ►peritonitis►1882►at 75

Elizabeth I Tudor, [Virgin Queen], of England and Ireland►unremovable melancholy►1603►at 69

Jules Verne, sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days) ►diabetes►1905►at 77

Answer: Brain Teasers

Friends in high places. The word is "pinnacles", which is another word for high places. The capitalized letters spell "pals", another word for friends. The pals are in the pinnacles!

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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