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Flagstaff Almanac: Week: 17/ Day: 111 Today: H 61°…L 21°
Wind: ave: 11mph; Gusts: 31mph Ave. humidity: 36%
*Averages: H
60° L 29°
Records: H 78°(1989)…L 8°(1966)
Quote of the Day
Today’s Historical Highlights
Alexander Douglas patents the bustle…1857
Ashes of Timothy Leary & Gene Roddenberry
launched into orbit…1997
Donehogawa (Ely Samuel Parker) a SENECA IROQUOIS, trained as a lawyer
and
a civil engineer is appointed as the first Indian to be Commissioner of
Indian
Affairs…1869
Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on TV
& finds nothing…1986
John Adams sworn in as 1st US VP (9 days
before Washington)…1878
Noah Webster publishes 1st American dictionary…1828
NYC formally declares coast of Ellis Island
publically owned, so they can build forts
to protect NYC from British…1794
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Birthday To: ♪. ♪
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Free Rambling Thoughts
Two spring days in a row…really…can this be true?Sure glad the Boston Bomber has been captured. I am a little surprised that there is no information coming from the hospital regarding his condition. Considering the massive coverage of the capture, it just seems off that the hospital is not continuing with at least the occasional update. None of the law enforcement people are giving updates on his condition either. Another strange twist is that the FBI interviewed the older brother a couple of years ago and the mother of the brothers said that the FBI was very aware of his radical leanings. So much more to learn.
Game
Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain Teasers
The first is needed to make quotes you see, And it often sticks up when it's time for noon tea.
The second's biggest distinction is found Bearing the symbol of love that is bound.
The third should be biggest but that can depend, Never standing alone or it may offend.
The fourth is oft used when making a selection Or if you should need a gun for protection.
The fifth is the fattest and oddest by far, And can sometimes be found in a wrestling war.
What are they?
*****
Hint
A hint would just be handing it to you.
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Origins of Phrases
Cut to the chase
Meaning
Get to the point - leaving out unnecessary preamble.
Origin
This phrase originated in the US film industry.
Many early silent films ended in chase sequences preceded by obligatory
romantic storylines. The first reference to it dates back to that era, just
after the first 'talkie' - The Jazz Singer, 1927. It is a script
direction from Joseph Patrick McEvoy's novelHollywood Girl, 1929:
"Jannings escapes... Cut to chase."
There's quite a distance from a single
citation in a script direction to a phrase that is part of the language. It
doesn't appear again in print for some years and we can be fairly sure that
McEvoy wasn't the source of the figurative use of the phrase as we now know it.
That figurative use, i.e. the generalized 'get to the point' meaning emerged in
the 1940s. The Winnipeg Free Press, March 1944 ran an article about
screen writing that included this:
Miss [Helen] Deutsch has another motto, which
had to do with the writing of cinematic drama. It also is on the wall where she
cant miss seeing it, and it says: "When in doubt, cut to the chase."
That does imply getting to the point but isn't
quite the current meaning as it relates specifically to film chases. The more
general usage comes soon afterwards, for example, in this piece from the New
England newspaper The Berkshire Evening Eagle, February 1947:
"Let's cut to the chase. There will be no
tax relief this year."
The precept as it applies to films is as
prevalent now as it was in the silent film days. Many, in fact it is not too
strong to say most, films aimed at a young male audience involve plot devices
that allow for car/boat/spacecraft chases. There is usually a token love
interest storyline before everything in sight ends up in pieces.
There is a similar phrase 'cut to Hecuba',
which is reported by Michael Warwick in 'Theatrical Jargon of the Old Days',
a piece in an October 1968 edition of Stage. Warwick explains
the phrase as a "relic from Shakespeare and was an artifice employed by
many old producers to shorten matinees by cutting out long speeches".
The allusion is to a speech in which Hamlet refers to Hecuba, which appears
late on in Act 2 of Shakespeare's play. The need for such a phrase is evident,
as Shakespeare apparently produced several versions of Hamlet, some of which
would have taken more than five hours to perform and which were seemingly
intended for private reading rather than performance. A need to 'cut to
Hecuba', in order to get to the end in a timely fashion seems reasonable.
Warwick doesn't include any evidence to prove the existence of the phrase prior
to 1968 though and it is hardly a part of everyday language - I can find no
citation of it in print other than in Warwick's article. There's also nothing
to link 'cut to Hecuba' with 'cut to the chase'. It is quite possible, indeed
likely, that the two phrases were coined independently.
Ok, then?
Harper’s Index
- Percentage change since 1988 in US teen pregnancy rates: -36
- In abstinence rates among white teen: +21
- Among Black teens: +56
Ruminations:
Loving the power of the disapproving head shake
Picture of the Day: Signs of Spring
Unusual Fact of the Day
Brett Favre's first completed pass as a Green Bay Packer was to himself.Joke-of-the-day
A
young man tutored his sweetheart maths,
he thought of it as his mission,
he kissed her once then once again and said
"There, that's addition!"
She took it upon herself to return the pleasant action,
she kissed once and once again,
smiled and said "and that's subtraction!"
Now she'd learned the basics without too much complication,
they kissed each other once, then twice,
and said "that must be multiplication!"
Meanwhile the young lady's father
had this 'lesson' in his vision,
he kicked that boy ten foot out the door and said
"Then that is long division!"
he thought of it as his mission,
he kissed her once then once again and said
"There, that's addition!"
She took it upon herself to return the pleasant action,
she kissed once and once again,
smiled and said "and that's subtraction!"
Now she'd learned the basics without too much complication,
they kissed each other once, then twice,
and said "that must be multiplication!"
Meanwhile the young lady's father
had this 'lesson' in his vision,
he kicked that boy ten foot out the door and said
"Then that is long division!"
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
CHECKING A FIRE LADDER
To check a fire ladder for proper lean, stand perfectly erect with the toes against the ladder beam and the arms straight out. If your hands fall on the rung in a comfortable grasping position, the ladder is set properly for climbing. If only the fingertips touch the rung, the base of the ladder is too far from the building. If the heel of the hand touches the rung, the base of the ladder is too close to the building.
Yeah, It Really Happened
MARSEILLE, France - Bus drivers in a French city said they will go on strike because, among other grievances, the uniform pants they are required to wear are too tight. The drivers, who work for the public transport authority in Marseille, said Friday the company's 1,600 employees will strike for 24-hours June 3 because they don't approve of "the quality, the color or the fit" of their new uniform pants, The Local.fr reported Friday. "I won't be wearing them," a Marseille bus driver told the La Provence newspaper. "You'd think we work for [car repair company] Speedy! The shirts are alright, but these pants are far too tight." CGT union leader Bernard Gargiolo said union leaders are upset they weren't consulted in choosing the uniforms. "The employees don't want to wear a uniform that was chosen unilaterally by [RTM's] management, without taking into account the reflections of our clothing committee," Gargiolo said.
Somewhat Useless Information
- An etiquette writer of the 1840’s advised, “Ladies may wipe their lips on the tablecloth, but not blow their noses on it.”
- Astronaut John Glenn ate the first meal in space when he ate pureed applesauce squeezed from a tube aboard Friendship 7 in 1962.
- Aunt Jemima pancake flour, invented in 1889, was the first ready-mix food to be sold commercially.
- Caffeine: there are 100 to 150 milligrams of caffeine in an eight-ounce cup of brewed coffee, 10 milligrams in a six-ounce cup of cocoa, 5 to 10 milligrams in one ounce of bittersweet chocolate, and 5 milligrams in one ounce of milk chocolate.
- California’s Frank Epperson invented the Popsicle in 1905 when he was 11-years-old.
- Capsaicin, which makes hot peppers “hot” to the human mouth, is best neutralized by casein, the main protein found in milk.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
17-24
International Whistlers Week
Cleaning For A Reason Week
Consumer Awareness Week
Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives In The Line of Duty Week
International Whistlers Week
Cleaning For A Reason Week
Consumer Awareness Week
Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives In The Line of Duty Week
Coin Week
Fibroid Awareness Week
National Karaoke Week
National Volunteer Week
National Pet ID Week
National Paperboard Packaging Week
National Playground Safety Week
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week
Fibroid Awareness Week
National Karaoke Week
National Volunteer Week
National Pet ID Week
National Paperboard Packaging Week
National Playground Safety Week
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week
Preservation Week-Libraries
Sky Awareness Week
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week
Safe Kids Week
Mariachi Week
Sky Awareness Week
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week
Safe Kids Week
Mariachi Week
Today Is
Kindergarten Day
National
Chocolate-covered Cashews Day
National High
Five Day
National Teach
Children to Save Day
Today’s Events through History
BOAC begins 1st passenger service with jets
(London-Rome route)…1952
Department of War establishes the office of
Superintendent of Indian Trade. This
position will be appointed by the
President. The job will entail the purchase of
goods for and from the Indians…1806
First Lady Lucy Hayes begins egg rolling
contest on White House lawn…1878
German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen,
known as "The Red Baron", is shot
down and killed over Vaux sur Somme
in France…1918
He Shima Okinawa conquered in 5 days, 5,000 die…1945
Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all
freedom of worship…1649
Svetlana Alliluyeva (Josef Stalin's daughter)
defects in NYC…1967
White Sox pitcher, Philip Humber, pitches the
21st MLB perfect game…2012
Today’s Birthdays
In their 80’s
Elizabeth, Alexandra Mary Windsor II, Queen of
England is 87
In their 60’s
Tony Danz , actor (Tony Banta-Taxi, Tony
Micelli-Who's the Boss) is 62
Iggy Pop, [James Osterberg], rocker (Zombie
Birdhouse) is 66
In their 30’s
Tony Romo, Cowboy’s QB is 33
Remembered
for being born today
John Muir, US, naturalist/discoverer (glaciers
in High Sierras) [1838-1914]
Edmund G "Pat" Brown,
(Gov-D-California) [1905-1996]
Anthony Quinn, Mexico, actor, Zorba the Greek,
Lawrence of Arabia) [1915-2001]
Daniel Melnick, producer, Get Smart [1932-2009]
Today’s Historical Obits
Mark Twain, [Samuel Clemens], auther
(Huckleberry Finn)…heart attack…1910…at 74
Charles Colson, Nixon adviser (Watergate)…brain
hemorrhage…2012…at 80
Francois "Doc" Duvalier, dictator of
Haiti…1971…at 64
John Maynard Keynes, English economist…heart
attack…1946…at 62
Gummo [Milton] Marx, US comic (Marx Brothers)…1977…at
84
"Red Baron", [Manfred von Richtofen]…shot
down in WW I…1918…at 25
Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, American actor and
musician…1999…at 94
Nina Simone, American singer and pianist…breast
cancer…2003…at 70
Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder,
oddsmaker/sportscaster (CBS)…heart attack…1996…at 76
Answer: Brain Teasers
The digits of the hand! (The order on the poem
is pinky, ring finger, middle finger, index or pointer finger, and thumb)
The pinky hits the quotation mark key on the keyboard when typing, and people often raise their pinky off the cup when drinking tea. The ring finger bears a wedding band when married. The middle finger is an obscene gesture when standing alone. You point with the index finger to make a selection, or use it to pull the trigger on a gun. The thumb can be used for thumb wrestling.
Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
The pinky hits the quotation mark key on the keyboard when typing, and people often raise their pinky off the cup when drinking tea. The ring finger bears a wedding band when married. The middle finger is an obscene gesture when standing alone. You point with the index finger to make a selection, or use it to pull the trigger on a gun. The thumb can be used for thumb wrestling.
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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