9 Jul

 

Flagstaff Today 93°: 55° Week 28 Day 190 Wind 9 mph Gusts 15 mph Active Fire: 283 miles away Risk of Fire: Extreme Nearest lightning: 26 miles away Air Quality: Fair Partly Cloudy Sunshine Jul Averages: Temps: 82°\51° Moisture: 8 Day

Weekly Observations

Freedom Week: 4-10                                                                     National Marijuana Facts Week: 4-10
Tour de France: 5-27  Link 
Be Nice To New Jersey Week: 6-12                               National Theraputic Recreation Week: 6-12  Link 
Nude Recreation Week: 7-13 Link                                            Running of The Bulls (Spain): 7-14
World Orienteering Days: 7-12 Link

Daily Observations

Coca Cola Day  Link                                    National No Bra Day
Cow Appreciation Day Link                         National Freezer Pop Day  Link

Fashion Day                                                National Sugar Cookie Day

International Town Criers Day                    National Video Game Day  Link

Martyrdom of the Bab Nude Recreation Week
Math 2.0 Day (Founding Day)  Link

National Don’t Put all your Eggs in One Omelet Day
SCUD Day (Savor the Comic, Unplug the Drama)

Today’s Quotes                                                             

 

Today’s Memes

 

Thoughts for the day

A very warm summer day.

Yesterday’s blood treatment was much better than expected. First, I have lost 12 lbs. of ‘fluid weight’ as my lymph nodes shrink to their normal size. Also, my next treatment will be 2 weeks after yesterday’s one. The Dr. is very pleased with my progress.

When I was a teenager my mom made a French onion with deviled ham dip. It was the ‘in-thing’ back then. Today I made some and it is a good as I remember.

 

Famous Quotes That People Have Always Misinterpreted

"Nice guys finish last" – Leo Durocher

This is the title of a book, not a quote that Leo Durocher actually said. It’s often used to refer to the New York Giants baseball team, which was the team Durocher played for. It wasn’t supposed to be life advice for a person and instead was about the competitive nature of baseball.

Famous Historical Myths That People Still Believe Today

Mark Twain Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Often celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark Twain’s wit and sharp social insight have made his works timeless. With masterpieces like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain captured the complexities of American life along the Mississippi River, blending humor with profound commentary on society and race. His influential style has inspired countless authors and remains a subject of fascination.

Random Thoughts…

Frasier and Darth Vader’s accents are ‘Mid-Atlantic’ – a dialect of American English created by aristocrats in the early 20th century.

 

The star with the most screen credits is John Carradine (1906-1988), who has been in over 230 movies.

 

The word “checkmate” derives from the Persian phrase “Shah Met” which means “the King is Dead.”

 

The airplane Buddy Holly died in was named the “American Pie.”

 

Between 1900 and 1920, Tug of War was an Olympic event.

 

There are 403,291,461,126,605,635,584,000,000 different ways to arrange the letters of the alphabet.

 

Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham uses exactly 50 words.

Historic Events

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Birthdays

81 – Richard Roundtree, American actor 80 – Dean Koontz, American author screenwriter 73 – John Tesh, American pianist, composer, television host 70 – Lindsey Graham, American politician 70 – Jimmy Smits, American actor 69 – Tom Hanks, American actor 68 – Kelly McGillis, American actress 61 – Courtney Love, American singer-songwriter, actress 50 – Jack White, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer 49 – Fred Savage, American actor, director, and producer 34 – Mitchel Musso, American actor, singer

@95 – Ed Ames (Edmund Dantes Urick), American singer and actor (d. 2023) @88 – Donald Rumsfeld, American politician (d. 2021) @81 – Brian Dennehy, American actor (d. 2020) @78 – Lee Hazlewood, American singer-songwriter, producer (d. 2007; renal cancer)   @76 – O.J. Simpson, American football player, felon, actor (d. 2024) @67 – Vince Edwards(Vincent Edward Zoine), American actor, singer, director (d. 1996; pancreatic cancer) @48 – Elias Howe, American inventor, invented the sewing machine (d. 1867)

…The End for today…