8/15/13

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Almanac: Flagstaff:  Week: 33/ Day: 227   

Today: H 83°…L 47°

Wind: ave:   6mph; Gusts:  23mph  Ave. humidity:  49%

Average Low      Average High

50°                        80°    

Record Low        Record High

33° (1976)           89° (2002)

Quote of the Day

Today’s Historical Highlights

"Wizard of Oz" premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood…1939

1st full length cartoon (Sinking of Lusitania)…1918

Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims…1620

Panama Canal opens (under cost)…1914

Procter & Gamble unveils its Crisco shortening…1911

United Lutheran Church of US organized…1748

US law removes Sioux from Black Hills after gold find…1876

Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in NY State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm)…1969

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   

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

My Free Rambling Thoughts   

A lazy day for me, just did some much needed laundry…and a little straightening of bedroom. I have a small TV in the room, that I use to catch some news and sometimes to use to fall asleep. When our not too cool cable company went digital, they gave me a free small box so I could get TV in the bedroom without having to pay a monthly charge for a full blown cable box. It has become a very weird little thing. First, at certain undermined times on channel will not have any sound. At the same time another channel will come transmit in Spanish and another channel will have the sound channel used for the blind…where I hear the regular dialog along with the stage directions. Then after a few minutes, everything goes back to ‘normal’. The help line had no explanation and will come to my house for $40 or I can take the tiny box back for another one. I’m choosing the second one when it becomes a real problem. Right now, it adds excitement to little time I have that TV on.

 

So difficult to understand what is going on in Egypt. First they voted and elected the Muslim Brotherhood then they arrested the President and won’t release him. Now the ‘people’s government’ who said that the Muslim Brotherhood was leading them to becoming another Iraq has started arresting and now killing protestors. So sad to see this in a country that has so much history and has such nice people. When I was visiting there a few vendors were too aggressive for my taste, but overall they were nice. The poor worked in every public restroom and a mandatory tip of about 5 cents had them helping you with towels. In cafes and restaurants, even the ones not for tourists, everyone was very nice and wanted everyone to have a good time. Of course every Egyptian is aware of how much money pours into their country from the US and in the past have not wanted to have those dollars stop. I am a believer that the aid to Egypt and Israel has allowed there to be a co-existence that has not led to an all out regional war. When a country is basically unemployed  or minimally employed youth, it is hard to have them embrace a democracy they have never seen. Every democracy has a dark history where people didn’t have a have a real democracy…look at the US treatment of the Natives, the Blacks, the Irish, the Asians and others.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

In each group below, the three words end in the same three letters, so they look like they should rhyme, but they don't. See if you can figure out the missing letters in each group.
Example: plo___, tho___, to___ would be plough, though, tough.

1. c___, forw___, rew___ 2. cr___, p___, sk___ 3. b___, d___, g___

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

• The Wisdom of Will Rogers

• Schlafly on Feminism

• Jefferson Airplane -Somebody to love , White rabbit (live at Woodstock)
                     

• Crisco TV add (1960)

Hmmmm…Tongue Twisters

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The ochre ogre ogled the poker. ^^^ Of all the felt I ever felt, I never felt a piece of felt Which felt as fine as that felt felt, When first I felt that felt hat's felt. ^^^ Old oily Ollie oils old oily autos. ^^^ Once upon a barren moor There dwelt a bear, also a boar. The bear could not bear the boar. The boar thought the bear a bore. At last the bear could bear no more Of that boar that bored him on the moor, And so one morn he bored the boar - That boar will bore the bear no more. ^^^ One-One was a racehorse; Two-Two was one, too. When One-One won one race, Two-Two won one, too. On mules we find two legs behind And two we find before. We stand behind before we find What those behind be for.

Not a Fan of Faux News, but this is crazy.

Ok, then?

Harper’s Index    

• Percentage of state-owned land in the West Bank allocated by the Israeli government for Palestinians: 0.7

• For Israeli settlers: 51

Songs with Double Meanings:

• Walkin' the Dog
 Covered by various artists (written by Rufus Thomas) - Key Quadruple Lyric of song: "If you don't know how to do it, I'll show you how to walk the dog" (1) Taking your pet for a walk; (2) A common yo-yo trick; (3) Masturbation; (4) Main/real meaning: Oral sex (fellatio).

• You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC
 Key Double Lyric of song:"She told me to come but I was already there" (1) The gal wants him to drop by and see her; (2) The word "come" is being spelled in this way to confuse, as it should really be spelled "c u m", as in getting off sexually.

Unusual Fact of the Day

It took George Eastman, the inventor of Kodak film, four years to come up with a name for his product. He worked with his mother on it, and had a few rules for what he wanted: something short, something impossible to mispronounce, something unique, and something that included his favorite letter, K.

Joke-of-the-day

The boss of a big company needed to call one of his employees about an urgent problem with one of the main computers. He dialed the employee's home phone number and was greeted with a child's whispered, "Hello?"

Feeling put out at the inconvenience of having to talk to a youngster the boss asked, "Is your Daddy home?"

"Yes," whispered the small voice.

"May I talk with him?" the man asked.

To the surprise of the boss, the small voice whispered, "No."

Wanting to talk with an adult, the boss asked, "Is your Mommy there?"

"Yes", came the answer.

"May I talk with her?"

Again the small voice whispered, "No".

Knowing that it was not likely that a young child would be left home alone, the boss decided he would just leave a message with the person who should be there watching over the child.

"Is there anyone there besides you?" the boss asked the child.

"Yes" whispered the child, "A policeman."

Wondering what a cop would be doing at his employee's home, the boss asked, "May I speak with the policeman?"

"No, he's busy," whispered the child.

"Busy doing what?" asked the boss.

Talking to Daddy and Mommy and the fireman," came the whispered answer.

Growing concerned and even worried as he heard what sounded like a helicopter through the ear piece on the phone the boss asked, "What is that noise?"

"A hello-copper," answered the whispering voice.

"What is going on there?" asked the boss, now alarmed.

In an awed whispering voice the child answered, "The search team just landed the hello-copper."

Alarmed, concerned and more than just a little frustrated, the boss asked, "Why are they there?"

Still whispering, the young voice replied along with a muffled giggle, "They're looking for me."  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

BUYING A HAT

 Your wedding ring size is the same as your hat size.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

SYDNEY - A New South Wales, Australia police investigation revealed a police officer had sex while on duty and romanced 33 women at the same time. Marc Osborn, 42, a married father of two, saw as many as four women per day, as far apart as the cities of Sydney and Newscastle (98 miles), and had sex with at least one woman while a police partner was asleep in the squad car parked outside her home, the New South Wales police Professional Standards Command was told after an inquiry. The police force is now facing a claim for damages from one and possibly more of Osborn's lovers, who claim police did not intervene to protect them when he showed his fellow officers photographs and videotapes of himself engaging in sex with some of the women, the Sydney Daily Telegraph reported Monday. The investigation that uncovered the scope of Osborn's sex life led to a charge in court he filmed a person in a private act for the purpose of sexual gratification. He has admitted secretly filming himself with three women and showing the results to other officers, but said it was not for sexual gratification, just "boys being boys," the newspaper said.  

Somewhat Useless Information   

• Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour. That works out to about 1.5 pounds each year, so the average person will lose around 105 pounds of skin by age 70.

• Humans get a new stomach lining every three to four days. Otherwise, the strong acids your stomach uses to digest food would also digest your stomach.

• The small intestine is about four times as long as the average adult is tall. If it weren't looped back and forth upon itself, its length of 18 to 23 feet wouldn't fit into the abdominal cavity.

• A pair of feet have 500,000 sweat glands and can produce more than a pint of sweat a day.

• Laid end to end, there are about 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.

• The nails that get the most exposure and are used most frequently grow the fastest. Fingernails grow fastest on the hand that you write with and on the longest fingers.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

10-16

Elvis Week
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week

Weird Contest Week
15-21

National Aviation Week

Today Is                                                                      

·        Best Friends Day

·        Chauvin Day for Nicholas Chauvin…A chauvinist is someone who loudly and aggressively says blindly patriotic things—the things that boil down to “my country is always right.” A chauvinist may also be unreasonably enthusiastic about military glory. –

·        National Relaxation Day

^^^

·        Congo: Independence Day (1960 from France)

·        India: Independence Day (1947 from UK)

·        Korea: Independence Day (1945 from Japan)

·        Liechtenstein: National Day (2004)

·        Pakistan: Independence Day (1947 from UK)

Today’s Events through History  

Nolan Ryan, 324th & final victory, Rangers 4, Indians 1…1993

Panama City founded…1519

Pres Sukarno proclaims unity of Indonesia…1950

Riot ensued in SF while the city was celebrating the end of WW II…1945

Transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado…1870

US no longer allowed exclusive rights in Bering Sea…1893

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Ben Affleck, actor (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor) is 41

Mike Connors, [Krekor Ohanian], actor (Mannix) is 88

Abby Dalton, actress (Joey Bishop Show) is 78

Linda Ellerbee, newscaster (Weekend, NBC Overnight) is 69

Joe Jonas, singer (Jonas Brothers) is 24

Rose Marie, actress/comedienne (Sally Rogers-Dick Van Dyke Show) is 90

Debra Messing, actress (Will & Grace) is 45

Phyllis Schlafly, right-winger/Eagle Forum president is 89

Jimmy Webb, songwriter (MacArthur Park, Up Up & Away) is 67

Remembered for being born today

Ethel Barrymore, actress (Constant Wife, Corn is Green) [1879-1959]

Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France 1804-13, 1814-15) [1769-1821]

Julia Child, chef (French Chef) [1912-2004]

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, London, composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast) [1875-1912]

Walter Crane, England, painter/illustrator (Beauty & Beast) [1845-1915]

Bartol Kašić, Croatian writer and linguist [1575-1650]

Walter Scott, Scotland, novelist/poet (Lady of Lake) [1771-1832]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Harry [Maxwell] Harrison, author (Make Room! Make Room!)…2012…at 87

Wiley Post, aviation pioneer…plane crash in Alaska…1935…at 36
Will Rogers, humorist…plane crash in Alaska…1935…at 55

Brain Teasers

1 . card, forward, reward
2. crier, pier, skier
3. bone, done, gone

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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