Jul 10

 

 

Jul  10, 2021 Week: 28 Day: 191

Ave. Sky Cover: 30%\Visibility: 10 miles

Local Temp:  92°\ 57°

Wind: 1mph\ Gusts: 5mph

EXTREME risk of fire

Active fire: 28mi. \ Lightning: 11mi.

Jul Averages: 82°\51° (9 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

 

 

Random Tidbits

 

Spaghetti and meatballs are not considered an Italian dish, though they were made by Italian immigrants in the U.S. If you go to Italy you won't find spaghetti and meatballs on their menus because they don't put meatballs in their pasta.

 

True Things

 

Awesome!

Julia Yonkowski of Largo, Florida, only needed a $20 bill when she visited the ATM at Chase Bank on June 19, but she decided to check her balance while she was there. What she saw on the paper slip surprised her: a balance of $995,985,856. "I was horrified," she told WFLA-TV. "I know most people would think they won the lottery, but I was horrified." She's tried several times to contact Chase, but she can't get through to anyone. "I get tied up with their automated system and I can't get a person," she said. "I don't know what to think." [WFLA-TV, 6/21/2021]

 

Idioms Origins

 

Let’s Get Ready To Rumble

“Let’s Get Ready To Rumble” is all Michael Buffer. He started using the phrase in the 1980s but got the Trademark in 1992. He’s made Hundreds of Million Dollars on this phrase; he has the perfect for making the pronouncement. He owns the phrase and has sued over 100 times for copyright violations, and says he’s won every one of them. I’m a little afraid to say the phrase out loud.

 

Weekly Observations

 

Tour de France Link	Thru 7/18
Running of The Bulls (Spain)	6-14
Freedom Week Be Nice To New Jersey Week Nude Recreation Weekend Punxsutawney Groundhog Days	4-10
Creative Maladjustment Week Link	7-14
Sports Cliché Week: Link	9-13

 

Today’s Observations

 

Bald Is In Carver Day   Link    Clerihew Day (poetry) Don't Step On A Bee Day Global Energy Independence Day  Link Grange Sale Day National Kitten Day National Pina Colada Day Nikola Tesla Day Oils & Concentrates Day  Link ‘Pick Blueberries’ Day Piña Colada Day  Link Teddy Bears' Picnic Day  Link  Note: Do not know why July 10th was chosen, because Jimmy Kennedy, who wrote the words to the song, was born on July 20. Link U.S. Energy Independence Day  Link

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

A little shower dropped the temperature from a sweltering 92 to a pleasant 88.

I headed out early to get some essentials. Tried to beat the traffic but was only partially successful.

There are a business model I don’t understand: cable TV. They charge every station a fee to run on their cable, then they charge every subscriber to watch the shows. And only rent their box to customers. They get money from both sides. If the station won’t pay their fee, the customers lose the channel. If the customer doesn’t pay the bill, the stations lose a viewer. My parents didn’t get cable TV until years after my brother and I moved out. We had over-the-air with a roof antenna. No cost, except for the TV.  

Trump is suing the big tech companies that blocked him. His personal lawyer can’t practice law. This will lead to depositions from all sides. Trump may have added another nail to his political coffin.

At a young age, I didn’t appreciate the talent on the Ed Sullivan Show. I watched the Top 50 music acts and the comedians. ME-TV, a cable channel I get, how is running 30 minute composites of the talent. It is interesting and nostalgic. Check your local listings for ME-TV on Sunday evening.

 

2 New Puzzles Everyday

Answer: bottom of the page

 

Comfort Close Comfort Close Comfort           Comfort

Death  Life

 

 

Historical Events

 

1553 – Lady Jane Grey began her 9-day reign on the throne of England.

1892 – The first concrete-paved street was built on Court Avenue, around the Logan County Court House, in Bellefontaine, Ohio.

1913 – Death Valley, California, hits 134 °F (57 °C), the highest temperature recorded in the United States.

1921 – (Sunday) Bloody Sunday: Sixteen people were killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1925 – In Dayton, Tennessee, the Monkey Trial began with John T. Scopes, a high school science teacher accused of teaching the theory of evolution in violation of the Butler Act. The law was repealed on May 17, 1967.

1938 – Howard Hughes set a record by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world.

1962 – The patent (#3,043,625) was issued to Nils Bohlen, for the three-point car seat-belt.

1962 – Telstar, the world’s first communications satellite, was launched into orbit. An instrumental pop tune by The Tornadoes titled after the event reached #1 on the Billboard Pop Music Chart.

1971 National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC) founded in US by women including Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Myrlie Evers-Williams and Gloria Steinem

1985 French foreign intelligence agents blow up the Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor, New Zealand to prevent it interfering with French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira is killed.

1991 Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected President of the Russian Federation

2020 Sixth century cathedral Hagia Sophia turned into a mosque by decree issued by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (converted to a mosque 1453-1934)

 

Birthdays Today

 

@88 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, co-founded the Special Olympics (d. 2009)

@86 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer (d. 1943)

@82 – David Brinkley, American journalist (d. 2003)

@74 – Adolphus Busch, German brewer, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (d. 1913)

74 – Arlo Guthrie, American singer-songwriter

@71 – Ron Glass, American actor (d. 2016; respiratory failure)

@66 – Fred Gwynne, American actor (d. 1993; cancer)

@49 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player and journalist (d. 1993; AIDS)

49 – Sofía Vergara, Colombian-American actress, model

41 – Jessica Simpson, American singer-songwriter and actress

 

Puzzles Answer

 

Too Close for Comfort                                                      Life after death